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This pivot drill is doorway slaps. So this pivot drill is designed to help you

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blend rotation and

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side bend. So it's kind of a dynamic version of like a shoulder plane or merry-

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go-round drill where

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you would put your the club across your shoulders and you're going to try and

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get more of the

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shoulder tilt. So it's emphasizing getting the shoulders pointing down in the

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general direction of

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the golf ball. It's going to be helpful for golfers who when they try to get

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side bend, try to do it

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too much with just a bump of the hips. And as you saw when I did that, there

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was no real change in

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the spine. So doorway slaps here, we're going to stand in a door or you could

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just use a hallway. But

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we you want something kind of that helps define the space for you a little bit

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better. Once you've

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done it a few times, then you don't really need the the actual framework. You

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could just do it out

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on the range. But what we're going to do is first version, it's kind of the we

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'll call it the easy

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version. I'm going to get down in my golf posture. And I'm going to position

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myself so that I'm in

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the middle of the doorway. And I'm going to put my hands up against the wall to

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my backside hip.

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And you'll see when I do this, the trail shoulder is higher than the lead. And

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then when I come

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through, I'm going to switch hands. So it's going to look kind of like this.

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And I can do it a little

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bit kind of dynamically or rhythmically, where there's a little bit of

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acceleration into the wall

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on both sides. So what you'll see is when I do this, I get into a really good

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natural position of

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getting side bend, but while also getting more rotation for the pelvis. So we

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've got kind of version

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one like like this. Now if I wanted to make it even more representative, I

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would actually switch my

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hand. So instead of being more like this, I would have my hands in this

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position. And then when I

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came through, I would have my hands in this position. So basically the top hand

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is going to be rotating

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so that the back of the hand is facing the wall instead of slapping it like

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this. So I'm slapping

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there, slapping there. And this can help you feel, like I said, this blend of

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rotation and side bend.

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Now the one caveat is if I'm staying really centered and stacked like this,

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this would be a little

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bit more of an iron based drill of the doorway slaps. If I wanted to do a

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driver base, I would

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kind of preset a little bit of a hip leg tilt like this. And so then when I hit

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it, I would hit

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higher into the follow through side and lower into the downswing side. So lower

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, higher, just like that

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would give us that natural 20 degree tilt that we try to do with the driver. So

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this can be a

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really good drill, like I said, for blending this feeling of rotating and side

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bending and feeling

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a little bit more of a crunch. Once I have that feel, now what I can do is I

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can do that doorway

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slap. This is good for kind of at home training. And now when I put my hands on

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there, I'm going to

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feel like, oh wow, I feel a lot more contraction or crunch on this side here,

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where normally I feel

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like I turn and my shoulders would be level. If I turn and my shoulders would

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be level, you could

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see what that would look like here would be more of kind of doing like this.

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And that would be more

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an upper body dominant pivot, where this doorway slap is going to give us with

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the side bend,

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we're going to get a little bit more hip and core or crunch dominant. So I

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highly recommend this as

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a little pivot drill. If you're working on your overall centerness of pivot and

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the blend of

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getting some side bend with your rotation and extension.