Impact Bag Outside Lead Foot

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This drill is impact bag outside of lead foot. So I'm not a huge fan of using

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the

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impact bag in the traditional way of kind of putting it there and just kind of

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smacking it for the sake of of feeling some shaft lean. But I do like to use it

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to stop the club to help your brain figure out what you might be doing in

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space. So well my impact bag has seen better days. We're going to use an object

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You could use a pillow. I'm going to use the impact bag to help uncover what

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might

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be going on down at impact. So I'm going to do this off grass, but you can do

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this

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on carpet. You can do this off mats. You can do this striking a ball or not

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striking a ball. I'm going to kind of identify where ball position would be. So

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somewhere right around here. And then I'm going to try to brush the ground

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roughly where that ball position would be. And then I'm going to try and strike

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the impact bag that is just outside my left foot. And my goal is to have my

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hands and the club head in line. So basically vertical. This is to help with

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golfers who have a tendency of getting low to high. You would say I would hit

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it

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very high up on the impact bag. And my hands would be well behind where the

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club

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is at that point after impact. The other option would be golfers who have a

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little bit more of a scoop and chicken wing. I would hit it high on the impact

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bag. I might not even hit the ground and my hands would definitely behind. So

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in

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order to accomplish the two goals of or actually the three goals, brushing the

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ground, striking it low on the impact bag with my hands even with the club head

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.

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I have to do a decent job of getting my hands in front. Maintaining that leg.

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Keeping my chest in a good merry-go-round position or getting my body into a

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good

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impact position. It kind of ties together a few things relating to both the

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pivot

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and the sequencing of the arms. For me, in order to do this correctly, it feels

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like I'm throwing my arms out in that direction such as the grip throws or or

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the single arm throws or any of those drills. But for you, by doing this, you

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may

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develop your own unique feel. All that's important is that you take that feel

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then we're going to try to apply it with a golf ball. So first, I'm going to do

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the

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trickier version which is just kind of a tap drill. I'm going to try and strike

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the ground and just tap the impact bag like I was doing right there. The goal

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this is not to make the impact bag topple over and make it go flying. If

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anything,

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I'm almost kind of decelerating into impact because of the limited amount of

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grip pressure. So basically, I don't want to feel like I'm really squeezing my

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my arms and tensing my shoulders. I'm going to feel more like they're getting

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pulled away by the weight of the club. And in order to do that, I'm going to be

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able to, I'm not using my body for the bracing and the power transfer the way

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that I would normally. So the club is actually going to be moving fairly slow

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when it strikes the impact bag. So now, again, I'm going to try and brush the

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ground and strike the impact bag low towards the bottom of the impact bag with

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my hands relatively even with the hand with the club head when I make contact.

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Once I have a feeling of that, I'm a big fan of baby steps. So now I'm just

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going to move the impact bag so that I won't make contact with it. And then I'm

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going to try and basically duplicate that same feel. Once I have a few of these

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little baby step drills, then I can move up into a little bit bigger. So then I

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might be able to move into more of a continuous nine to three. And then once

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I feel like I've accomplished the goal with my nine to three, I'm going to move

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up to my 10 to two and into full swings. And now, when I start to do it with a

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little bit more speed and body, I'm going to start to hit the ground hard

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enough

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that I probably take a divot where in the slow motion swings, it's very it's

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unlikely, even if I'm having a leading edge strike, unless the ground is really

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soft, I'm probably not going to take a divot. So this is great for golfers who

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have more of a scoop early release. And you struggle with more of the club head

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going low to high or bottoming out behind the golf ball. So if you have

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trouble taking divots or you're more of a picker of a golf ball, this is a

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great

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way to get a sense of the handle getting ahead of the club head down

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through impact. One of the key skills for striking the ball in the center of

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the

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club from having good sequencing, good body position and good shaft lean.