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This drill is screw into the ground.

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So this is a drill for golfers who have a hard time getting rotation out of the

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lower

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body.

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I do want to caution that this is not the best drill for golfers who are

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struggling

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with more of a hangback because this tends to focus more on the rotation and

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not enough

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of the Jackson 5 or the bump or the weight shift before the rotation.

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So I consider this kind of a compliment to more of the 360 jump.

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For golfers who have a hard time feeling in transition of a little bit more

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lowering with

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the rotation, this can be a good way to get a feeling especially in that front

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leg.

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So we're going to use a Frisbee or a furniture slider first to take away some

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friction before

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we then add more of a loaded version.

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So what we're going to try to do here, I've got the furniture slider or if you

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've got

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a Frisbee or even a paper plate can work, you're going to put it under your

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front foot.

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So for me, under my left foot, and then what I'm going to do is even without

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the golf

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club at first, all I'm going to try and do is I'm just trying to screw this

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foot into

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the ground.

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So I'm going to feel like I'm going to be pushing against the ground as I turn

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that foot

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towards the target.

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Like this, and I'll feel my pelvis lower as well as it drops down and I'll feel

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that

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in order to push in the ground, I have to have my hip in a good alignment with

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the foot.

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If I go too far here, I don't have a lot to push with.

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And if I'm way over this right foot, I don't have a lot to push with.

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So it helps me feel that alignment of the hip right on top of the ankle.

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So then what I really like to do is I'll then go to a spot of grass and

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actually try to

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get you or try to get my students to dig a hole by twisting the foot.

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I remember when I worked with a long drive guy in Denver, we would have to move

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the station

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about every five balls, this one practice session because he was just tearing

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into the ground

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so much.

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Okay, so now we've got this feeling and you'll see you can potentially hit some

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really easy

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shots, but because it doesn't have any friction, it's really easy to get out of

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hand or it's

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really easy to get into a dangerous position and kind of slide yourself out of

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alignment.

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But if I were to do this as kind of a pump feel where I'm spinning while

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pushing down

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into that leg, that would load into that kind of delivery position.

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And then from there, I would feel like I could come out of it.

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Now, like I said, because you don't have the friction, it's actually really

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hard to hit

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balls with it.

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But it's great for getting that initial feeling of the combination of down with

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twist.

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And it gives you a little bit of the feeling of the weight shift.

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So now we're going to try and we're going to do that delivery pump kind of

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focusing

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on that lead leg screwing into the ground or trying to dig a hole as it's

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twisting.

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So go up to the top of your swing.

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Now we're going to try and dig that hole while we're twisting a couple times.

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And then at the end of that pump, let it go.

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This can also, I've seen this work really well for helping golfers from the

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down the

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line video, getting more of their lower body open.

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Because as you're doing this, it's really hard to do it from the upper body.

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So if you're using the slider or especially if you're doing it against the

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ground, you

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can get a sense of doing it with just the lower body, especially if you have a

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club in

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your hand and you're monitoring this delivery position and not letting the

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upper body do

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it and bring the club out.

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If I'm just kind of twisting there, I feel a really good core, oblique and gl

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ute activity

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as I'm doing this exercise.

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So now I'm going to do that pump one more time.

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So up to the top of the swing, I'm going to screw into the ground, trying to

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get that

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lower body open once I have a feel.

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And I'm just going to let those arms release however I've been practicing.

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Now I'm going to try to work on the timing of it.

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So you'll notice when I'm doing this, my upper body is getting into this

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position.

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So as I'm screwing into the ground, I'm going to feel like my lower body gets

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into this

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position and then they're both going to release together.

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Some golfers who have trouble with the timing of this lower body will continue

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screwing into

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the ground all the way down to impact.

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So that would look more kind of like this where I was screwing all the way down

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into

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impact and I had to just throw my arms.

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Where if I do it with a little bit better timing, then I'm going to screw into

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the ground and

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then push up out of the ground as my release begins.

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So there's a sense of more of this one too versus just a one if I have more of

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this upper

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body dominant swing or more of a really rapid impulse which tends to prevent me

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from getting

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my lower body to work properly.

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So if you're struggling with your transition delivery position where either you

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are extending

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this leg and coming up right away, which is a company with more of an arm pull,

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this one

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can help or if you're sliding so far that you're past the foot and then left

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with just

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a throw, this one can help.

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So it's really good for a couple kind of lower body dysfunctions in transition.

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So now we'll try one with just kind of that screw feeling with the timing of

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the drop

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and then the push.

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Kind of like that.