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This drill is building awareness in the foot-to-ground contact, so frequently I

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'll describe how

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you want to make sure that your weight does not roll to the outside of your

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foot, but I'm

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going to give you a simple little process to figure out where you want the

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pressures in

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that trail foot to really feel loaded at the top of the swing.

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To do this, you don't have to, but if you're trying it at home I recommend

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doing this barefoot

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or at the very least in socks, and I'm going to roll up my pant leg so that you

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can see

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a little bit more of what my ankle and my foot are doing.

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So, if I pretend that this is my foot, we're going to push the big toe into the

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ground,

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so this is going to push like that, we're going to push the inside heel into

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the ground,

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but then to make sure that the ankle is still in a good neutral position, we're

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going to

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push, and I'll show you how to find this, a bone called the cuboid into the

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ground as

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well, so I'm going to push these two and this one right there into the ground,

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and that's

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going to provide this platform that we want to use when we feel loaded.

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So, first I'm going to push big toe and the inside edge, so I'm going to push

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these two

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spots right here, if I turn this way, I'm pushing right under that first joint

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of the

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big toe and right under the inside edge of your heel.

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Now, to find that other bone, on the outside edge, there's kind of a bony point

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or a little

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protuberance right here, I'm just going to come inside that about a finger's

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width, so

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right about there, so what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to push that

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inside, then

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I'm going to push that outside, so there's the inside, and then to push this

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bone into

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the ground as well, I feel that I have to almost form a little bit of an arch

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and kind

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of twist my foot into the ground.

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Now with that feeling, I'm going to make some backswing moves trying to feel

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that same contact.

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If you're not really foot aware or if you've been rolling for most of your golf

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ing career,

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this is going to feel very restricted, you may feel tension in your knee, you

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may feel

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tension in your hip, but there's that good solid position, that gives me this

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platform

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that I then want to push off of.

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If I start to roll and I lose that inside edge of the big toe, I'm not going to

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be able

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to really drive with that lower body, instead what I'll have to do is more of

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an upper body

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kind of fall movement to really pull on the club.

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So if you want to use your legs, if you want to use your lower body, get that

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good triangle

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of support underneath the foot, maintain it as you make your backswing, and

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then use it

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to push off as you go into transition.

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So now you can take that triangle feeling and apply it with your golf shoe,

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because it's

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going to feel a little bit different now that I'm basically wearing something

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that doesn't

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give me quite as much sensitivity as when I was barefoot.

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So I'm pushing in with that big toe inside edge, and then I push with that

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lateral, that

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gets that foot pretty much locked, and then I can use that platform, use that

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brace to

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then have something to push off with as I do either 9-3, I would always start

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with 9-3,

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but as I do 9-3 swings or if I do my full swings, this is a great way to feel

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the proper

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pressure through the foot, I recommend training that anytime you're working on

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sway or anytime

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you're working on your backswing pivot drills.