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This drill is feeling the unweighting with a pressure board.

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So this is going to be similar to the loading the glute from a centered pivot

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idea.

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This is where we learn to shift pressure without shifting weight.

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When we're working on iron contact, we can get into a lot of trouble if our

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upper body

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shifts too far off the ball.

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The tour average is with an iron, it's going to shift about one to two inches

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towards the

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target depending on the length of the iron.

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And then with the driver, it's pretty much staying still or going one to two

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inches away

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from the target.

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But I find that a lot of golfers tend to have more of an upper body sway where

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they're

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tending to shift their entire upper body over their trail foot in an attempt to

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shift weight.

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And this can cause thin contact, fat shots as well as if you stay on that back

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foot.

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It's very easy to have an outside in swing path.

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So a lot of issues that your common higher handicap golfer complains about.

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So I find that using something like the downshift board or the sheftic pressure

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board, I've

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got them both using them for slightly different situations.

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But they're both great at just providing a little bit more awareness of where

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my pressure

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is.

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So the first thing I have students do is just try to kind of march back and

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forth while

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staying centered over the middle of the pressure board.

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This is where I can start to feel shifting pressure without shifting weight.

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So I usually do this in front of a mirror so that they can see, and I'll just

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say try

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to keep your upper body as still as you can and just kind of shift more with

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your lower

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body dynamics rather than moving your whole upper body.

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Now the tricky part is I say, okay, I want, we're going to exaggerate a little

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bit.

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I want you to try to make a backswing where you stay over your front foot but

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pick up

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your front foot.

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And this usually gets a fun reaction the first couple times.

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But basically what we're going to try to do here is we're going to start over

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the front

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foot and then we're going to go up to the top of the swing and then we're just

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going

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to momentarily pick up that lead foot.

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Now you'll see I can't stay there forever without falling over, but when I pick

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up that foot

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momentarily, this gives me the feeling of unweighting and then I push that foot

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back down and when

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I push that foot back down, that will then help trigger my lower body movement

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during

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the downswing, all while keeping me a little bit more centered over the golf

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ball, helping

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me to control my upper body contribution to low point.

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So it is possible to hit golf balls this way.

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It can be a little bit awkward, especially depending on how much you twist and

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the timing

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of when you twist, sometimes the board will move.

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But it is a doable challenge.

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The other thing is if you're very sensitive to kind of height, you might have

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to use

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a mat that's about the same height.

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Otherwise you're going to have to bend over from the hips just slightly more

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than useful.

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So I kind of use it as a challenge like it's almost a downhill lie from my feet

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, but a

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flat lie for the golf ball.

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So I'm going to start with my weight on this front side and then without

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shifting my upper

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body back, I'm going to try and make a swing where I shift my pressure into

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that right

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foot without shifting my upper body.

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And from there, we'll just swing down.

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So again, you'll see some slight movement of the board, might have a little bit

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of rotational

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timing to work out, ideally if you get the pressure into the foot before you

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start to

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twist, it will move minimally, but it depends a little bit on what surface you

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're on.

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So we'll demonstrate that one more time.

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Again, it's a great little kind of weight awareness drill.

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If you don't have something like this, then you can always just take a board

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and place

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it on a towel.

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That gives you a little bit of this side to side awareness.

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It's not quite as stable as something like this and it doesn't have the grip

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tape, but

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it'll work in a pinch for helping you.

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If you tend to see a lot of upper body shift off the ball, I'd highly recommend

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doing something

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like this for increasing the quality of your feedback.

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So that one was a little bit better, kind of tying the lower body action better

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.

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But again, if you struggle with this way off the ball, getting more aware of

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where your

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pressure is versus where your weight is could be the magic sauce for helping

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you figure

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out how to stay more centered.

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One of the big components for helping you control low point with your irons.