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This drill is feeling forces with the bootleg force pedal.

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Mike Adams has a device called the force pedal.

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It does have a superior feel than say a half cut tennis ball.

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So I'm a big fan of kind of making some of my own training aids.

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This is a half cut tennis ball with some tissue paper to create a little bit

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more density

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and then just wrapped in duct tape.

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The issue with the just tennis ball is it's not kind of a uniform pressure and

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when you

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go to push into it, it doesn't increase as you're pushing into it.

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It's kind of hard first and then it's kind of floppy.

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So I found by filling the tennis ball either with a little bit of foam or

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tissue paper.

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Worst case scenario, you could just take some tissue paper and wrap it in duct

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tape.

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You don't even need the tennis ball.

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And you would have an object that's about 3/4 of an inch to an inch high that

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applies

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a little bit of resistance against you.

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So now what we're going to do is we're going to place it just underneath the

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cuboid which

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would be if I went down to my ankle, my ankle is right there, I'm going to come

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let's say

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about an inch forward or so just kind of like that or basically underneath

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where the laces

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start.

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So if you didn't have your shoe on, it's where that kind of the furthest bone

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sticks out towards

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the back of your foot kind of right about there.

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So I'm going to place this force pedal right underneath that bone there.

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And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take some swings and I'm going to

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push

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into that pedal kind of like so.

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So I'm going to feel like I lose a little bit of pressure and then I'm going to

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feel

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like I increase that pressure, I want to increase that pressure by the time my

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left

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arm is parallel to the ground.

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Once I get to that increased pressure, now I'm going to feel that pressure help

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me create

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some vertical force so my upper body or my lower body is going to push up and

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that's

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going to help whip the club down.

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The key thing here is it's more about the timing and the amount of the push

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rather than

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the absolute amount of the push.

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If I try to really push into the force pedal as much as I can, it's going to

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tend to occur

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too late.

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So the goal is this blend of getting a fast impulse of push but getting it

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early enough

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when my left arm is parallel to the ground.

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One thing you want to be careful here is you don't want to push into the ground

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with more

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of kind of excessive upper body tilt back.

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So I'm shifting into it but I'm also doing that left crunch that I talk about.

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That helps push down in the ground.

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If I go into right side bend too early, I can't feel quite as much compression

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in the tennis

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ball or in the force pedal.

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So this blends the feeling of the Jackson 5 and the left crunch of getting a

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little bit

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of shift, a little bit of drop and keeping my core engaged as I'm shifting my

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pressure.

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Okay, once I have a decent feel, I'm going to try to measure my distance okay

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and then

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I'm going to hit a couple feeling this increased pressure early in transition.

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Let's see how it goes.

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Kind of like that.

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Now I do find that it can kind of cause a little bit of disruption on the way

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through

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the ball but it does give a very strong feel of where I want to push in my foot

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and how

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much I'm pushing into that part of my foot.

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So now I'm going to try to recreate that same feel without it and my goal is to

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compare

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how it felt with and without and I would go back and forth doing that

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comparison game.

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Like I felt that that was just a little bit later.

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So now I'm going to take a quick practice swing to kind of get that feel.

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There we go.

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Got that practice swing feel and now recreate it with a wall.

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So that was pretty solid.

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That felt like it had a little smoother timing.

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That's going to help me feel this bouncy timing and getting the load into my

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lower body early

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enough to get that speed down into the club head down at impact.