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How to Properly Push with Your Lead Foot in the Swing

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Understand the correct pushing motion with your lead foot for better balance.
  • Feel how pushing with your legs can enhance your arm extension during the swing.
  • Recognize the importance of proper lower body mechanics for more powerful shots.

In this video, you'll learn how to effectively push off the inside of your lead foot to enhance your swing mechanics. This crucial movement helps trigger your body's natural release, leading to improved shots on the course.

Video Transcript
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This video is how to push with the inside of your lead foot.

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So I frequently talk about pushing with that lead foot.

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It should be one of the movements that helps trigger the release.

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So instead of a conscious, I get to delivery position and then extend my arms.

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What will happen is I'm getting towards delivery position and I start pushing

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with my legs

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and that helps my arms extend.

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When I say pushing with my legs, I'm specifically talking that lead foot

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because my body has

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already shifted and my pelvis is more towards my lead foot than it is towards

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my trail foot.

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Well, I know that when I say push, I know what I mean, but it might not be

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completely clear.

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So I want to help you understand if you're or where you're pushing is going to

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be more

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on kind of the inside of the foot and it's going to be pushing the ground away

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from you

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kind of like so.

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So I use the example because I played a lot of tennis and basketball.

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If I was playing basketball and I had a defender who was coming across this way

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and then working

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back that way, I would kind of shift and then I would push back something like

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so.

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So I would be shifting and then I would push this.

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So the harder that I am driving that way, the more that I'm going to have to

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really

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push in order to get going this way.

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Well, that helps me with my proper lower body mechanics because if I get my

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body too far

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over here, there's no way I'm going to be able to shift.

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I have to take actually an extra step.

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So when I'm pushing, it's kind of a little bit more like this.

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So the golfers in the past have called it a firm left side tiger when he was

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working

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with Bush.

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We'll talk about snapping that leg.

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I don't like the thought of snapping that leg, but pushing through the inside

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of the foot

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as if I was trying to almost change directions and go back this way to trigger

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the rotation

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forward is a great way to feel this lower body initiating the release.

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So I'll demonstrate one.

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And you can see basically after I've shifted to here, I'm pushing through that

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00:02:07.260 --> 00:02:07.840
inside of

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00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:11.760
the leg as I'm doing the wipe, the finishing the motorcycle and all those good

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arm mechanics

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00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:13.920
that you're practicing.

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00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:17.360
But it all gets triggered from the lower body up.

49
00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:22.480
So if you're having trouble with some of your shallowing pieces and getting the

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timing

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of the Zora loops or the timing of this blend of release to transition by using

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proper push

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with that lead leg, sometimes it can help you overcome that barriers and have

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it all

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kind of click.

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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

How to Properly Push with Your Lead Foot in the Swing

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Understand the correct pushing motion with your lead foot for better balance.
  • Feel how pushing with your legs can enhance your arm extension during the swing.
  • Recognize the importance of proper lower body mechanics for more powerful shots.

In this video, you'll learn how to effectively push off the inside of your lead foot to enhance your swing mechanics. This crucial movement helps trigger your body's natural release, leading to improved shots on the course.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.760
This video is how to push with the inside of your lead foot.

2
00:00:04.760 --> 00:00:08.680
So I frequently talk about pushing with that lead foot.

3
00:00:08.680 --> 00:00:12.720
It should be one of the movements that helps trigger the release.

4
00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:17.880
So instead of a conscious, I get to delivery position and then extend my arms.

5
00:00:17.880 --> 00:00:21.000
What will happen is I'm getting towards delivery position and I start pushing

6
00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:22.200
with my legs

7
00:00:22.200 --> 00:00:25.040
and that helps my arms extend.

8
00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:28.340
When I say pushing with my legs, I'm specifically talking that lead foot

9
00:00:28.340 --> 00:00:29.280
because my body has

10
00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:33.680
already shifted and my pelvis is more towards my lead foot than it is towards

11
00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:35.200
my trail foot.

12
00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:40.130
Well, I know that when I say push, I know what I mean, but it might not be

13
00:00:40.130 --> 00:00:41.480
completely clear.

14
00:00:41.480 --> 00:00:46.570
So I want to help you understand if you're or where you're pushing is going to

15
00:00:46.570 --> 00:00:47.100
be more

16
00:00:47.100 --> 00:00:51.110
on kind of the inside of the foot and it's going to be pushing the ground away

17
00:00:51.110 --> 00:00:51.560
from you

18
00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:53.240
kind of like so.

19
00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:57.720
So I use the example because I played a lot of tennis and basketball.

20
00:00:57.720 --> 00:01:01.130
If I was playing basketball and I had a defender who was coming across this way

21
00:01:01.130 --> 00:01:01.960
and then working

22
00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:06.610
back that way, I would kind of shift and then I would push back something like

23
00:01:06.610 --> 00:01:06.960
so.

24
00:01:06.960 --> 00:01:10.160
So I would be shifting and then I would push this.

25
00:01:10.160 --> 00:01:15.250
So the harder that I am driving that way, the more that I'm going to have to

26
00:01:15.250 --> 00:01:15.800
really

27
00:01:15.800 --> 00:01:18.120
push in order to get going this way.

28
00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:22.790
Well, that helps me with my proper lower body mechanics because if I get my

29
00:01:22.790 --> 00:01:23.560
body too far

30
00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.560
over here, there's no way I'm going to be able to shift.

31
00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:27.640
I have to take actually an extra step.

32
00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:31.360
So when I'm pushing, it's kind of a little bit more like this.

33
00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:36.890
So the golfers in the past have called it a firm left side tiger when he was

34
00:01:36.890 --> 00:01:37.600
working

35
00:01:37.600 --> 00:01:38.600
with Bush.

36
00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:39.880
We'll talk about snapping that leg.

37
00:01:39.880 --> 00:01:43.980
I don't like the thought of snapping that leg, but pushing through the inside

38
00:01:43.980 --> 00:01:44.560
of the foot

39
00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:49.650
as if I was trying to almost change directions and go back this way to trigger

40
00:01:49.650 --> 00:01:50.600
the rotation

41
00:01:50.600 --> 00:01:56.200
forward is a great way to feel this lower body initiating the release.

42
00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:03.220
So I'll demonstrate one.

43
00:02:03.220 --> 00:02:07.260
And you can see basically after I've shifted to here, I'm pushing through that

44
00:02:07.260 --> 00:02:07.840
inside of

45
00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:11.760
the leg as I'm doing the wipe, the finishing the motorcycle and all those good

46
00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:12.800
arm mechanics

47
00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:13.920
that you're practicing.

48
00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:17.360
But it all gets triggered from the lower body up.

49
00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:22.480
So if you're having trouble with some of your shallowing pieces and getting the

50
00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:23.080
timing

51
00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:28.210
of the Zora loops or the timing of this blend of release to transition by using

52
00:02:28.210 --> 00:02:29.160
proper push

53
00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:32.940
with that lead leg, sometimes it can help you overcome that barriers and have

54
00:02:32.940 --> 00:02:33.320
it all

55
00:02:33.320 --> 00:02:33.920
kind of click.

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