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This reel is feeling forces with the bootleg force pedal.

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Mike Adams has a device called the force pedal.

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It does have a superior feel than say a half cut tennis ball.

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So I'm a big fan of kind of making some of my own training aids.

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This is a half cut tennis ball with some tissue paper to create a little bit more density

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and then just wrapped in duct tape.

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The issue with the just tennis ball is it's not kind of a uniform pressure and when you go

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to push into it, it doesn't increase as you're pushing into it.

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It's kind of hard first and then it's kind of floppy.

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So I found by filling the tennis ball either with a little bit of foam or tissue paper.

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Worst case scenario, you could just take some tissue paper and wrap it in duct tape.

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You don't even need the tennis ball.

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You would have an object that's about three quarters of an inch to an inch high that applies

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a little bit of resistance against you.

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So now what we're going to do is we're going to place it just underneath the cuboid,

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which would be if I went down to my ankle, my ankle is right there, I'm going to come,

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let's say about an inch forward or so, just kind of like that, or basically underneath where

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the lace is start.

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So if you didn't have your shoe on, it's where that kind of the furthest bone sticks out

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towards the back of your foot kind of right about there.

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So I'm going to place this force pedal right underneath that bone there.

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And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take some swings and I'm going to push into

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that pedal kind of like so.

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So I'm going to feel like I lose a little bit of pressure and then I'm going to feel like

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I increase that pressure.

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I want to increase that pressure by the time my left arm is parallel to the ground.

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Once I get to that increased pressure, now I'm going to feel that pressure,

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help me create some vertical force.

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So my upper body or my lower body is going to push up and that's going to help whip the club down.

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The key thing here is it's more about the timing in the amount of the push,

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rather than the absolute amount of the push.

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If I try to really push into the force pedal as much as I can, it's going to tend to occur

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too late.

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So the goal is this blend of getting a fast impulse of push, but getting it early enough when

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my left arm is parallel to the ground.

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One thing you want to be careful here is you don't want to push into the ground with more

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kind of excessive upper body tilt back.

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So I'm shifting into it, but I'm also doing that left crunch that I talk about.

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That helps push down in the ground.

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If I go into right side bend too early, I can't feel quite as much compression in the

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tennis ball or in the force pedal.

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So this blends the feeling of the Jackson 5 and the left crunch of getting a little bit of shift,

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a little bit of drop and keeping my core engaged as I'm shifting my pressure.

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Once I have a decent feel, I'm going to try to measure my distance okay, and then I'm going to hit

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a couple feeling this increased pressure early in transition.

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Let's see how it goes.

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Kind of like that.

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Now I do find that it can kind of cause a little bit of disruption on the way through the ball,

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but it does give a very strong feel of where I want to push in my foot.

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And how much I'm pushing into that part of my foot.

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So now I'm going to try to recreate that same feel without it.

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And my goal is to compare how it felt with and without.

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And then we go back and forth, doing that comparison game late.

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I felt that that was just a little bit later.

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So now I'm going to take a quick practice swing to kind of get that feel.

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There we go.

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Got that practice swing feel and now recreate it with a wall.

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So that was pretty solid.

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That felt like it had a little smoother timing.

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That's going to help me feel this bouncy timing and getting the load into my lower body early enough

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to get that speed down into the club head, down at impact.