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This drill is pre-setting spine rotation.

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So the pre-setting drills are to help you feel

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what things are gonna be like at impact

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when they're different from what they might be at setup.

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So this drill I commonly use for golfers

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who look at it from the down the line video

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and basically their body isn't very open.

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So when I'm hitting a golf ball,

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if my body isn't very open,

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it looks a little bit more like this

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where my hips are facing the camera

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and you can't really see any lower body rotation,

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then essentially at impact my hips

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and my chest are pointing in the same direction.

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So if I'm gonna get my hips open

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and still have my shoulders facing the golf ball,

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then my spine isn't going to be somewhat rotated

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to the right.

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So what we're gonna do in this drill

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is we're gonna preset that right spine rotation.

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So I've got one club across or club across my shoulders

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and the stick across my hips.

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And basically what I'm gonna do

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is I'm gonna preset my spine position and impact.

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So I'm going to rotate my upper body to the right

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and then I'm going to side bend my upper body

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to the right just like this.

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So now I'm kind of in this,

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what feels almost like a locked position.

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Now I'm gonna flex from the hips.

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I didn't bend from the spine.

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I flexed from the hips.

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And now I'm going to turn my hips

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keeping this same angle between my upper body

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and my lower body.

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I'm gonna turn my hips until my shoulders

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are basically parallel to the target.

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So if I broke this down, my hips are open,

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my chest is a little less open,

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my shoulders are facing the golf ball.

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But as a whole, my spine is rotated

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to the right kind of like this.

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If you are not used to seeing your lower body open at impact,

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then that means that your hips and your shoulders

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would be very close to even with each other.

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This commonly happens from golfers

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who get really active with their arms,

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either from really pulling with the left shoulder

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or really throwing and going into internal rotation

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with the trail shoulder.

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So if I have more of a power source

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where I'm kind of doing this,

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you'll see that my brain would reflexively stop my pelvis

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to make the arm pull a little bit stronger,

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whether it's coming from the left arm or the right arm.

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So in order to get this right spine rotation feel,

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I have to feel like I'm using more of my hips and my core

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in order to bring the club down to impact.

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So now in just like most of the pre-setting drills,

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we're going to hit some nine to threes

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with this preset position.

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So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to rotate to the right,

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side bend to the right, flex from the hips.

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And now from here, I'm just going to turn my hips

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to bring the club through.

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And hopefully I still have a little bit of right rotation.

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If I do it on a very short shot,

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then I can actually keep the exact same right rotation

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and pretty much stop at impact.

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So I'm going to stand up, rotate my upper body

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to the right, side bend to the right, flex from the hips.

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And now from here, I'm just going to turn my hips

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just like so.

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And I did very little with my arms.

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And you can see that my shoulders are still

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to the right of where my pelvis is.

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It's not, it hasn't totally caught up just like that.

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So if you struggle with getting your hips open,

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this is one of the common kind of aha drills

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where many golfers get the experience

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of basically having the hips more open

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than the upper body for the first time

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when you really highlight how your body

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is going to be rotated to the right.

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Some golfers feel like this is,

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I'm hitting the ball more at the side of my body

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instead of front of it.

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Some people just feel like the club

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is getting left behind me for a long time.

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There's lots of common descriptions for this,

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but ultimately it's just getting used

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to my spine being rotated to the right

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somewhere in the 15 degree range.

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That's pretty much the tour average

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of where the chest would be compared to the pelvis

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and the shoulders would be close to square.

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But typically, especially with the longer clubs,

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you're going to see the chest more rotated to the right

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than the pelvis is a great drill for feeling that.

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