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this drill is preset the single leg squat. So a lot of the foot stuff and

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ground force reaction stuff has revealed that much of the vertical comes from

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the

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lead side, much of the lateral comes from the trail side. We've got videos to

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kind

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of help feel both the lateral happening from more of the trail and I've got a

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couple of videos to help with the lead. But one of the classic drills that you

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can use that I'll show you how I prefer to do it, one of the drills for

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feeling the vertical of the left leg is kind of pre-setting that knee and hip

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flexion so that you have something to push off with. So the simple drill that

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a lot of instructors have used in the past is basically you're going to put one

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foot back. Now whether it's on the toe or on the foot I prefer the toe but if

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your balance isn't too great then you won't be able to put it quite as far

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back and you're gonna have to keep a little bit more pressure on the ball of

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foot. But then what we're gonna do is here's my normal kind of golf posture but

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you'll see if I go up to the top of the swing you can see that I load it

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dynamically in the downswing and get to about that amount of flex. All I'm

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going

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to do is I'm going to preset kind of that amount of flex and then what I'm

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going to do is I can experiment with the timing of when I'm going to straighten

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that leg and potentially the advanced version of this is I can focus on the

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timing of when I actually load that leg. So I get into my setup position and

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then

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I'm going to straighten that leg and extend my arms kind of like so. So that

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can become a hitting drill take my normal setup move this foot back preset that

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leg and then extend both the legs and the arms. Now there are three potential

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options as far as pushing through this leg. I had a great discussion with a guy

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named Mike with the one of the new force plate companies come out and I

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really liked the discussion he was talking about a couple different

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patterns that he sees and I hadn't thought about it that way but it might

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be helpful for some of you. So the three different ways that I can use this

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drill

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would be pre-setting so load it at my setup and then extend it on the

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downswing. I could load it in the backswing and then release it in the down

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swing

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or I could stay tall and then have a little bit more dynamic where I drop and

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then load. I don't worry too much about kind of contact and ball flight it's

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more

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about a feeling of kind of the timing of the leg push with the arm extension

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but

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you can try hitting golf balls in those three different timing mechanisms. So

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the easiest I'm going to get a little bit so if my normal is here I'm going to

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get a little bit further away. I'm going to preset that squat position of that

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lead leg and then I'm going to extend as my arms go into the release so I'm

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basically extending the arms extending the leg. The next one I'm going to

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dynamically try and load it during the backswing so leg is fairly straight I'm

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going to dynamically load it and then push and one's a little less

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comfortable for me but for some of you it'll be feeling great. Now the last one

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is the most comfortable for me in the full swing but in the drill it's a

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little challenging. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to quickly kind

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of

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as I'm changing direction I'm going to drop into it and then pop back out so I

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'm

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going to get the good. I'm getting the feeling, there it is, so I'm getting the

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feeling of basically loading it more during transition. So again a little bit

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further away than normal squat and then extend later and later. So you can play

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around with the timing of basically getting into that side and pushing

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through the vertical but pushing through the vertical can help create some of

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the

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rotation of the pelvis, can help coordinate the timing of the arms, really

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helps with the longer clubs. You wouldn't want to do this with your

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distance wedges but if you're struggling with especially you know the long

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irons, fairway woods, this can be really helpful in getting the lower body more

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active during the downswing during your release.