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This drill is a firm left foot.

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So we're going to talk about the left foot as it relates to your bracing

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pattern and

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basically getting into a really solid foundation or solid firm left foot to get

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your pelvis

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on top of it.

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So when you go into your finished position, there's a strong connection between

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what's

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happening in the foot and what's happening at the hip.

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If I'm doing a really good lower body pivot action, you'll see the big toe

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actually stays

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down as long as it can.

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And if it comes up, it's coming up while it's being pulled from the arch.

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It's not pulling.

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It's not kind of rolling up and kind of spinning like this.

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I don't want to have a really stiff foot where it's just kind of pivoting like

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this.

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I want to have the foot going into an arch as I'm rotating through.

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So as I'm rotating over that left side, my foot is kind of gripping against the

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ground.

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That helps prevent either dropping too far into the hip.

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That can cause some low point issues or going too much into the toes because I

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'm not arching.

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I'm actually shifting into the golf ball like this.

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So this allows me to get my pelvis the right amount towards the heel, but over

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that front

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foot.

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Now a good homework exercise, I'm going to try it as a drill, but I think it's

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actually

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going to be pretty hard.

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But a good homework exercise is practicing going into your merry-go-round or

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practicing

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going into your finished position with a cord or a band underneath that big toe

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So I'm going to, this is as close as I have here, I've got a little bit of a

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band here.

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And now I'm going to pull it so that I've got some tension and I'm going to

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place it

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underneath the big toe.

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So it's right under that joint or that joint right there of the big toe, the

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first metatarsal.

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So now I'm going to try and get ball position into a normal position there.

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And you will see if I go, if I go past there, then oftentimes that foot comes

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up.

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So I mostly do this in nine to threes, trying to feel really solid and go as

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far as I can.

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But it really depends on how good of a hip flexibility you have.

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Ideally, you can keep it longer into the follow through, but really as long as

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it's pretty

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stable, even into a foot past impact, you'll be doing fine.

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Like golfers like John Rumm, who have some foot issues, you'll see it come up.

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And then there are some golfers who aren't very good at this, that you'll see

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kind of

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roll out into the outside of the heel, but they have figured out how to

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maintain that

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pelvis relationship to the foot without having a really solid foot.

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I think if you master this move, it really helps clean up consistency of low

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point and

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helps with your overall bracing pattern.

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Okay, so now we're going to do a little nine to three and this can be,

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depending on the

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height of your band, that'll be a little bit better.

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Depending on the thickness of your band, I prefer those flat ones.

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This will be a little bit precarious because I might potentially catch the band

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if I have

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a really long flat spot on this shot.

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So I'm going to focus on doing a little bit more of just a nine to three and I

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'm going

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to feel like I've turned into it and right now I can feel, compared to my

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normal swing,

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I really feel that foot grabbing in order to keep that cord, but I can still

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feel my

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hip and my glute kind of turning through or working into that firm left side.

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So I can combo that with any other backswing or release style thoughts.

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This one ball position might be a touch back.

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Yep.

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So lost that one just a little bit.

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Let's try one more, let's go a little bit bigger.

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Kind of like that.

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That's about as far as hard as I would go through.

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I almost lost the cord, but I could feel like gripping.

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So now, if I was to remove the band and put the shoe back on so I don't feel

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like I'm

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hitting a downhill lie anymore, now I'm going to feel like I can grip the foot

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inside the

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shoe and it should help the overall look and stability of my pelvis.

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All right.

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So we'll take a practice winger too just to feel the low point because like I

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said, when

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you only have one shoe on, you're going to feel like you're on a downhill lie.

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So now this should feel a little bit better and that feels, remember, I don't,

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I want

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to see the foot coming slightly off the ground, but it's getting pulled while

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my foot is pushing

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in the shoe.

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So that one felt very stable, pelvis felt really good.

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That would be a feel that I'd want to groove in to help with my overall

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stability of that

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lead leg embracing pattern.

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So if you tend to have either a foot that where you go into your toes and kind

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of spin, or

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if you get too much onto kind of the outside and into the heel, kind of more of

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a movement

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like that, then start working on getting that foot to grip against the ground

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using this

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feeling of a little bit more of a firm lead foot, okay, firm foot.

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Really good there.