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This kind of video is rethinking the TPI torso rotation test.

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So I just wanted to do this discussion for some of my coaches as well as some

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of my students

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who are kind of really into how the body moves, not just what the club is doing

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One of the one of the default tests that TPI is used is the torso and the pel

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vis disassociation

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test.

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And for those of you who aren't familiar, you wouldn't use the sticks.

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I'm just doing that to kind of highlight and create a visual.

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But if I had club across my shoulders, club across my chest, or club across my

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shoulders,

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club across my hips, the first test would be the ability to rotate your lower

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body without

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moving your upper body.

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And then the second test would be the ability to rotate your upper body without

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moving your

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lower body.

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And there's a number of different ways you could grade it and struggle with it.

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But what I demonstrated there was decent.

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I was able to move the lower body without moving the upper body and upper body

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without moving

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the lower body.

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Now, as I've really been digging more into the spine and the shoulder blade

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movement,

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it's got me rethinking the importance of especially the upper body or the torso

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rotation component

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to that.

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So this movement here of rotating the torso is actually mostly rotating my scap

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ula girdle

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or rotating my shoulder blades.

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And it's one of my beliefs that that's one of the power sources that causes

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people to

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have a whole host of problems.

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If I get up to the top of my swing and my upper body overtakes my lower body

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too quickly in

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the downswing, or my shoulder blade tends to go up and forward kind of like

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this, as

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opposed to getting up to the top of the swing and rotating more from the lower

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body, keeping

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the shoulders kind of back and using my spine and my core to bring my upper

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body into position.

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There I still have a little bit of closure compared to my shoulders to my hips,

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even

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if my spine is back to a fairly or my lower spine is back to a fairly neutral

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spot.

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So as I'm rethinking it, I think a better test would be kind of looking at an

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ascending

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level of rotation.

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So I'm okay with the first part where we're going to try to move our lower body

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without

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moving our upper body.

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But then now I'm going to try to move that higher up and I'm going to try and

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rotate

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my chest without moving my shoulders and my hips are going to move with my

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chest, but

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you can see this is very different than that and it's slightly different than

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this.

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I'm trying to move higher up in my spine and that takes a lot more kind of rib

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movement

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and shoulder blade disassociation and core activity.

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So I think that that's a little bit more valuable because that relates closer

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to what

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we're trying to do with the spine and the golf swing.

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So as we get up towards the top of the swing, we want to really disassociate

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the lower body

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and the core while using the shoulder blades to help get the arms more in front

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kind of

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into a delivery position more like this, where I'm spring loaded and ready to

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go into

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more of this negative torsion or extension combined with rotation and side bend

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as I'm

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going through.

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That's kind of the hallmark of the pivot that I think really differentiates the

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elite level

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golf swings from the amateur golf swing.

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The classic amateur golf swing is a little bit more of hit with the shoulders

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kind of

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on top in a steep way and the classic tour model would be more using the lower

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body and

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core and kind of letting the shoulder blades lag behind.

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So if you're doing the exercises or if you've gone through these tests and you

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think it's

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a great sign that you can move your shoulder blades independently but you're

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struggling

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with your lower body, that actually might be more of a warning sign and you

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should really

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work on getting your ribcage especially from about T6 or like the shoulder

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blade level

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down, really getting control of that area of the spine, that's where the engine

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is and

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that's what separates elite level spine movement from amateur level spine

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movement.