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This pivot drill is the pivot chopstick, so we're going to take two alignment

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rods, we're

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going to take one of them and place it through our belt loops, and then the

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other one we're

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going to hold across the shoulders, and so this is a good drill that you can do

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at home.

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It's not quite as useful as a hitting drill because stuff gets in the way, but

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the pivot

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chopstick helps you work on the sequencing of rotation and side bend, so it's

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kind of

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a sneaky little quality drill that helps you avoid a few big pivot problems

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that we'll

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talk about as we go through it.

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So done correctly, if I got in this position and I just did the merry-go-round,

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I'm going

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to turn my lower body and my upper body is going to strike the stick, pointing

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roughly

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at the golf ball.

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So it looks pretty easy while I said that there's some sneaky things that this

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can help clean

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up, we'll talk through them.

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So a couple different pivot problems that people can have.

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One, if your upper body dominant, if you really turn that upper body, then what

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will happen

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is your upper body will get ahead of the lower body and it will typically be

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high, kind of

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like this, so it will never strike the bottom stick, and it will get ahead of

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it.

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When I do this correctly, if I exaggerate, you'll see that the lower body leads

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and then

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the upper body catches up as it reaches impact, giving me this really kind of

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audible click.

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The second thing that this really helps is when you're trying to get side bend,

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a lot

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of golfers get too much kind of unity and side bend, kind of like this, where

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the upper

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and the lower body are both side bending together and you get really behind it.

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Sometimes these golfers are really solid drivers of the golf ball, hit a nice

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little draw off

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the tee, but have contact problems with their irons, their fairway woods,

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sometimes even

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their wedges.

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So in that case, I'm having too much access till, I'm getting too much side

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bend from

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the pelvis and not enough just from the spine.

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So in that case, I need to feel like the hips are, while they're still getting

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forward

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because of that good kind of bracing or butt talk, they're more level.

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So the shoulders are on a bit of a flatter angle than the pelvis.

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I can get here and kind of exaggerate some of those where I'm trying to do a

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little side

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crunch when I'm down in that position to help raise that right hip.

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So again, I can turn lower body and then kind of try to really hit it.

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You can see this is similar to the beat the drum exercise with a little extra

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feedback

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here where instead of hitting an object, now I can hit this second stick.

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So now it becomes a problem when I'm going to try to add striking elements.

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So when I bring the club in play, it's very hard to put both hands across your

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shoulders

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and hold on to the golf club.

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So what I'll do is we'll demonstrate one or two where I hold on to the club

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with just

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one hand.

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And now if I get back into that position, you'll see I was close to striking

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the sticks, but

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there's a lot going on here.

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This is almost stimulus overload.

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Let's see if we can do one where we actually can't quite make contact.

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Maybe we'll try a left arm.

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You'll see why I like this as more of a at-home drill.

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You can really emphasize some of these body positions, especially if you're

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using a mirror.

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But let's see if we can do this lead arm only.

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So we're trying to get kind of into that pattern there.

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I don't whiff very often, but like I said, there is a lot going on in this

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drill.

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Let's stick this a little bit further out.

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Yeah, so as I've demonstrated before with this, it's very hard to do striking

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while you're

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holding the stick, even if you're pretty good at doing these one arm trills.

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So instead what I recommend is now we're going to keep the stick there just as

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a visual

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element.

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So if I did the latter one where I tend to kind of slide, get too much access

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to it,

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I will actually get blocked kind of by the stick.

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And if I just go with the upper body, the stick will be pointing way back there

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So I'm going to try and point the stick just slightly ahead or at the golf ball

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, not quite

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horizontal but a little bit down, but getting all the way pointing at the golf

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ball.

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So now I'm going to feel again like my shoulders kind of get into that same

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position I had

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with the stick.

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So I like doing that progression more than trying to do it as a single arm

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drill.

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I've got one student who likes doing it as a single arm drill, but I haven't

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had too many

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others who like it.

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So I usually recommend this progression.

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Do it at home where you're practicing actually making contact, getting a

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feeling of this core

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activation movement, and then do it as a nine to three with the stick.

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And then you can go through nine to three, 10 to two without the stick, just

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kind of using

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that feeling more of a core activation awareness, kind of feeling drill, rather

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than kind of

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a restriction drill where it's actually getting in the way.

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So try that to improve your core sequencing and getting a little bit better

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shoulder compared

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to hip relationship in your stock golf swing.

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So real quick.

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Got a good feeling of these pivot chopsticks, pretty solid there.

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Now let's go a little bigger, really solid there, got some good feels for the

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week.