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This drill is pivot wall slides. So I would consider pivot wall slides to be an

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excellent

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at home kind of Tai Chi style pivot drill for working on blending the center

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ness of pivots

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with pressure shift, blending rotation with side bend. And all you need is

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either some

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wash gloss or hair. I have some furniture sliders. You could also use frisbees

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or you

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could even just do it with your hands kind of tracing the wall. So you'll see

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it has

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some similarities to some drills, but I think that the sliding mechanism kind

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of adds a

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little bit to it. So basically what we're going to do, and you'll be able to

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see from

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this behind the view, is I'm going to put my hands up against these sliders.

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And you

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can see there's not a lot of friction so they can slide pretty easily. Now I

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don't want

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to be leaning into the wall. I want to get into a good setup posture where if I

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pulled

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my hands off the wall, I wouldn't really fall or I wouldn't change my weight

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distribution.

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So I'm in this position here. And then basically what I'm going to do is I'm

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going to make

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a pivot type movement and my hands are going to rotate on the wall. So I've got

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it right

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here. So for a backswing, I'm going to bring my left shoulder down and my right

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shoulder

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up. And I'm going to rotate my pelvis and bring that right arm up and the left

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arm down.

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And then when I go into the follow through direction or through the downswing,

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I'm going

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to do the opposite right shoulder down, left shoulder up. And you'll see from

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this kind

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of down the line camera angle over there that it just looks like I'm rotating

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my body with

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my shoulders in a good tilt. Next I could kind of have my arms just follow and

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see if

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I can feel that same action. I often do this at the same time or I'll do this

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in a little

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circuit with the doorway slaps where I'm coming here. Now from this back camera

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view, I want

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you to notice a couple things. One, when I do this rotation, oftentimes I'll

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see a really

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obvious kind of lateral slide where there's not a whole lot of rotation. It's

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more of

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a bump or a slide of the hips. Or sometimes I'll see the upper body kind of

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translating

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like this. So make sure that your upper body kind of stays in line with your

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lower body

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and your belt is turning more level and your upper body is turning more on kind

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of a tilted

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angle or more of a vertical tilt like this. So this gives me a really good

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blend of this

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rotation side bend extension and then I can add like I did there little freezes

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or pauses.

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So this would be kind of getting me into this follow through position right

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before I let

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go where this would be getting me all the way up to the top of the swing kind

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of like

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that. So this is one of my favorite just global pivot drills. I think doorway

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slaps kind of

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adds a little bit more of a speed component to it where this one I do as more

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of a slow

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Tai Chi movement and it really emphasizes the stretch on the upper side and the

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contraction

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of the obliques and the ribs on the ball side. So you'll feel a really big lat

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stretch, really

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big stretch of the kind of restriction muscles for making a good pivot which

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blends this rotation

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and side bend. So I highly recommend that for a lot of different pivot drills

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but especially

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for golfers who tend to fall into flat shoulder plane or early extension or

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upper body sway

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or lower body slide. It really helps emphasize the staying centered but also

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blending this

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turning and tilting. So try that at home to help improve the quality of your

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pivot.