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This drill is the lead foot back step.

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So this is a drill to help get the lower body working correctly, especially the

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front leg

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or the lead leg.

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So this is also, I had a question of, from William on the site, he was asking

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about pushing

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up versus pushing back.

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So I figured I'd do a video to kind of tie it together, and I use this drill

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somewhat

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frequently.

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Here's how I explain it.

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If we had, I'm just going to hold the club here, and I wanted to rotate it this

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way.

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I could either pull up from this side, or I could push down from this side.

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Now if I put this on the ground, and I try to get rotation towards the target,

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I could

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either pull on this side, or I could push on this side.

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Basically, to rotate my lower body, I could either push this foot backward,

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which would

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cause this side to spin, or I could push that leg forward.

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I could push the ground away from me that way, almost like I was running

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backwards or taking

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a step backwards.

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So it pushes kind of back like this, and it happens fairly early.

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So the two golfers that tend to need a little bit more of this are golfers who

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have a lot

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of a slide, or even if it's not much of a slide, if it just kind of, there's no

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straightening

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leg, it's just a bent kickstand, and I'm just using my arms, kind of throwing

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them through

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like that, as opposed to if I were to actually feel like I pushed away this way

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, like I was

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stepping backward, then what would happen is that leg would straighten as those

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arms

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straighten, and it would help shallow out or clean up the bottom of the swing a

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little

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bit.

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So the actual drill is a back step, and I use the image of running backward,

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but this foot's

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going to stay planted.

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So if I ran backward like this, I'm actually going to open up and kind of

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finish facing

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the target.

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An example where you can see the upper limit of this would be Kyle Berkshire,

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where when

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he is really swinging all out, he actually does step back and he will finish

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facing the

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target more like this, rather than keeping that foot planted.

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In order to come back this way, I'm going to feel like I have to push against

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the ground,

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like I was pushing away this way, but as I'm doing that with that left leg,

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this right

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side is coming around or coming through.

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So as this feeling of the left leg getting out of the way, going back, or the

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right side

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going through.

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I remember early in Tiger's career, he used to talk about a feeling of snapping

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the lead

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leg.

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I think this was kind of his way of feeling that proper lead foot push.

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So now, you can either preset it by putting most of your weight onto the front

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foot, or

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you can do it dynamically.

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If you preset it, then basically from right around here, once you get your arms

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pretty

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much your left arm parallel, we're going to feel like we do a little bit of a

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back step

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with a little bit of a hop.

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And we're doing that back step to try to exaggerate the movement, especially,

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this is especially

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important if you are really arm dominant.

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You will feel like you can't step and still hit the golf ball.

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This helps you overcome that barrier.

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Now if we're going to do it more dynamically, we're going to have a little bit

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of a load,

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and then as soon as we get into that side, then we're going to push out of it.

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So my arms are going to have to be pretty patient because I'm going to have

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time to

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have a little bit of a shift push.

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So here we go, more of a shift push.

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Didn't make the full step on that one.

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Kind of forgot what I was doing.

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Here we'll do one more.

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So we're up, shift, step back.

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Now if you have a hard time making contact, this can also help you with getting

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some of

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that side bend, similar to the side bend through the ground idea.

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Once you have a clear feeling of this leg pushing back, then you can try and

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just recreate

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that same feel without actually having a big step.

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So just have a feeling of that leg going backward as that right side comes

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through.

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That will help you if you're, again, struggling with too much of a slide or too

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much of kind

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of a buckle of that lower body on the way through.

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So real quick full demo, we're going to do full back step, kind of like that.

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So you'll see these are mostly in the nine to three or ten to two zone.

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Now we're going to do back step with a little bit more shift, so that's pretty

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good.

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Now we're going to do back step, but without actually stepping.

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So back step, and now we're going to do it out of more of a full swing, which

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just forces

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me to wait a little bit longer, but this usually feels kind of the most

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comfortable.

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Ready back step, good.

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So that lower body back step kind of helping to trigger the release.

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One of the ways to clean up some of your sloppy lower body mechanics.