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This drill is lead foot supination to fix the slide.

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So I've had a number of recent questions about sliding.

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So here's one other approach that I use which is going more at the foot and how

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it relates

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to the slide pattern.

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So the slide pattern is when your balance of lateral movement versus rotational

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movement

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is off and it's more towards this lateral movement.

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So you're overdoing the Jackson 5 movement or you're overdoing the lateral

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movement.

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As a rough guide, I'll use the center of the ankle or at the most extreme, the

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outside

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of the ankle compared to the center of the hip joint.

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So if you remember from finding your hips, your hip joint is roughly kind of

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fingers

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width in right around here.

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So if you were to bend right around there where you feel that bend, that's

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actually

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the hip joint.

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If this joint gets past the ankle, then what would happen is if I kept pushing

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through

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this leg, it would continue to push me forward.

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You can see as I get there, I'm starting to lose my balance.

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So if I slide past the foot, then I'll stop my lower body.

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I'll usually bend the knee to kind of create a new fixed point further ahead

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that I can

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resist against.

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And then I'll have nothing left with my body and I'll just flip the arms.

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So as a little guide, yes, at the top of the swing, my hip is way back here.

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So I have to bump it a little bit or slide it a little bit to get it more in

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line.

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But then the second half of the downswing is going to be primarily vertical and

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rotational.

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So I want to make sure that this hip isn't going out past the ankle.

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Well, one of the ways that I can improve that is by getting this initial bump

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to happen

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more by supinating the foot or basically rolling the foot out that way.

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That gets the pressure into the cuboid or the lateral aspect of the midfoot

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here.

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So it's going to roll out like that.

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Now if I do that from the top of the swing, that's going to bring my knee out

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over the

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toe, but without bringing the hip with it quite as much.

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So if I did the opposite, if I were to pronate, then the knee stays in.

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And if I bump, it's very easy for me to get my hip too far past the ankle.

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So remember, if you're one of these golfers who stay back on this side, then

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you need

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to feel more of the successive movement or you need to feel a lot more of the

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Jackson

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5.

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But for the subset of golfers, you get too much of this lateral movement,

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especially when

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the knee stays in like this, we're going to focus on the foot.

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The foot is going to have a big impact on moving the knee in this initial

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transition

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move.

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So now we're going to experiment going through this.

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So all I'm going to do is I'm going to do a few movements where I'm basically

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trying

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to roll to the outside of the foot while keeping that knee bent.

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And now I'm going to add just a little bit of pressure shift so that I'm not

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just totally

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over here, I'm actually shifting a little bit as I'm doing this.

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So that kind of gets the foot moving in the right direction.

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Now we're going to make that movement from 9 to 3, 10 to 2, and up towards full

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swing.

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So monitor yourself either with a mirror or with video to make sure that the

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knee is staying

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a little bit ahead of the hip and the hip is not going past the foot.

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So I've got a little just kind of spatial barrier here.

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So if I do this 9 to 3 and I get up to the top and in slow motion I was to sup

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inate that

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foot, I get that knee to hit this pool noodle before it then starts to straight

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en.

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So we're going to bring it back, supinate the foot and then straighten and you

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'll see

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I'm still finishing more up against this lead side.

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I'm over the ankle, I just don't want to be past the ankle.

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So this is to help clean up golfers who get too far past the ankle and it

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usually causes

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either a stall flip or too much of a hangback on the way through.

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So we'll do that again.

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We'll go up to a 9 to 3 kind of like that.

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So that one I did in more of a blended movement feeling like the foot rolled to

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the outside

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as the initial trigger.

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Now we'll do 10 to 2 and we'll see as I make a little bigger backswing, I might

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have to

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feel that this movement happens a little bit longer or more aggressively in

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order to get

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back to that same position because in making that longer backswing, I might

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have my knee

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coming in a little bit more as the hip rotates.

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So 10 to 2, we're going to go up.

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First movement before I really start rotating is shifting the foot onto the

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outside.

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And lastly, full swing.

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Now in the full swing version, it's going to feel probably a little bit more

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exaggerated.

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And what I often have to do with students who slide is you have to exaggerate

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the knee

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staying bent as the foot starts this downswing.

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And then once you get to delivery position and you kind of trigger the release,

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the

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knee straightens.

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The knee straightens to help trigger the release, not to trigger transition.

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So full swing now, we'll feel the knee is going to get out towards that pool

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noodle while

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the hip stays a little bit back compared to the ankle.

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Little thin there.

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Let's do one more little wrap through series.

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So 9 to 3, going to bring it up.

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Pretty good one there, exaggerate.

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So 10 to 2.

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That one was pretty good.

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I could feel that kind of rocking motion or leading with the lead knee.

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I remember a number of golfers like Davis Love talking about the lead knee

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starting the

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downswing.

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That's a good thought for golfers who tend to stay more on the inside of the

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foot.

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Just for fun, I'll demonstrate one of those.

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So if I was to pronate, if I was to have the knee come in this way, you'll see

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that I actually

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shifted too far forward that way and I had much of a more of a throw feel, less

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of this

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continued rotation through the ball.

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So now we'll do a 10 to 2 with a better foot action just so you can compare.

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And on that, you'll see that there's much more of a continued rotation through

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the ball.

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And now let's do one more full swing.

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Apply that movement into a little bit forward backswing.

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That was pretty good there.

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If you've tried a bunch of drills working on the hip and it's still not solved

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the slide,

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take a look at the foot.

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That might be the cause of your excessive lateral movement.