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This drill is rope pivot poles.

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So what we're going to do here is we're going to use a rope to help create a

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little bit of

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force to help us with our pivot, especially blending into a good bracing

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position.

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So I've got a rope here and it's just wrapped around an object that you can tie

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it around

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the sofa. Or if you're doing it outside on the range, the second option is you

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take an

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alignment stick and you put it in the ground. Now I won't be able to pull as

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hard, but really

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the goal of this drill is not really to pull as hard as you can, but rather

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just to add

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a little bit of pull resistance to help kind of channel what the direction that

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you're going

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to be applying force to the club is going to feel like. So I'm going to bring

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this in front

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of us. So the main focus here, we're going to get so that we have some tension

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in it

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so that it would be kind of on a rough angle of the shaft lane. And then what

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we're going

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to do is quite simply we're going to pull one end of the rope like this, but I

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'm going

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to try to do it without using my arm. So without bending my arms, keeping my

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arms pretty straight,

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I'm going to feel like my right side opens up and my right shoulder pulls back

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as my left

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side goes down. And then this is the really important one on the way through. I

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'm going

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to feel like my left side pulls out of the way the left arm stays pretty

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straight and

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the right shoulder goes down. So in motion, it'll kind of look more like this

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and I can

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do it like a little bit more dynamically, kind of feeling almost like I'm

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getting a little

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bit explosive. But notice I'm doing it from the body. I'm not really pulling

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very hard

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with the arms. That's part of the goal of this drill is to feel like the arms

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are soft

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in just a continuation of this rope and that I'm rotating my body on an angle

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down towards

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the golf ball while staying fairly centered. That kind of blends the turns and

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tilt. And

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if I do it correctly, this will give me a feeling of using more of my core and

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less

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of my shoulder hurdles. So I really want to make sure that I'm not spinning my

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upper body

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on top of my lower body, but rather my lower body and my bottom ribs, let's say

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from about

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chest down, is controlling this motion. So I'll use this in concert with a

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couple other

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pivot drills to help people feel getting into a really good bracing position,

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where I'm

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here. And then I would drop it and basically bring the arms out. This is where

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I want to

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be, where I've got a little bit of side crunch. So I'm in a certain kind of

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spine angle. My

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legs and my core have lifted, but my upper body has stayed down. One question

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that frequently

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gets asked on the site is how can I have my lower body going up and my upper

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body staying

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down. That's if I'm kind of blending things through my spine correctly, then I

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won't

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just be standing up with my upper body, although lift will be happening more

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from my core and

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my legs. So once I've done this a few times, then I've got a feeling that I can

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kind of

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work with. I'm going to start with of course nine to threes. And basically,

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actually I

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might even just start with a pushball drill where I feel like, okay, there's my

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hands

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on the ropes. I'm going to basically do that motion, where I'm going to get

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into a good

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impact position. And now I'm just going to feel like I use my body. And that

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felt like

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the club, the ball really stuck to the club, because I wasn't using my, my arms

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to do

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the pushball. I was doing more of my, my legs and my core. But then I would

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progress

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it into nine to threes up to 10 to two and into full swings. The only trick is

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on a

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fuller swing. Like you can see right here, I'm a little bit limited. I wouldn't

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make

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it all the way up to the top of the swing. I would run out of rope room. So on

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a fuller

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swing, I have to have a little bit of a, of a loading or waiting. And then I

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would feel

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like the, the rope pull happens during that second half of the downswing. Okay,

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so we

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got that timing in that feel. Now we're going to see if we can apply it in a

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swing. Pretty

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good like that. So if you're struggling with either too much upper body

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dominance or too

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much lateral movement, too much up and down movement, this, this pivot drill

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using a rope

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can be really helpful for dialing in a little bit more dynamic center pivot.