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This drill is building awareness in the foot-to-ground contact.

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So, frequently I'll describe how you want to make sure that your weight does not roll

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to the outside of your foot, but I'm going to give you a simple little process to figure

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out where you want the pressures in that trail foot.

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Trail foot to really feel loaded at the top of the swing.

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To do this, you don't have to, but if you're trying to at home, I recommend doing this

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bare foot or at the very least in socks.

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And I'm going to roll up my pant leg so that you can see a little bit more what my

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ankle and my foot are doing.

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So, if I pretend that this is my foot, we're going to push the big toe into the ground.

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So this is going to push like that.

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We're going to push the inside heel into the ground.

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But then to make sure that the ankle is still in a good neutral position, we're going

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to push, and I'll show you how to find this, a bone called the cuboid into the ground as

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well.

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So I'm going to push these two and this one right there into the ground and that's

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going to provide this platform that we want to use when we feel loaded.

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So first I'm going to push big toe and the inside edge.

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So I'm going to push these two spots right here.

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If I turn this way, I'm pushing right under that first joint of the big toe and right

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side right under the inside edge of your heel.

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Now to find that other bone, on the outside edge, there's a, there's kind of a

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a bony point or little protuberance right here.

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I'm just going to come inside that about a fingers width.

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So right about there.

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So what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to push that inside, then I'm going to

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push that outside.

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So there's the inside and then to push this bone into the ground as well.

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I feel that I have to almost form a little bit of an arch and kind of twist my foot into

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the ground.

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Now with that feeling, I'm going to make some backswing moves, trying to feel that same

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concept.

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If you're not really foot aware or if you've been rolling for most of your golf and

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career, this is going to feel very restricted.

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You may feel tension in your knee.

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You may feel tension in your hip.

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But there's that good solid position.

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That gives me this platform that I then want to push off of.

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If I start to roll and I lose that inside edge of the, of the big toe, I'm not going

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to be able to really drive with that lower body.

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Instead, what all have to do is more of an upper body kind of fall movement to really pull

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on the club.

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So if you want to use your legs, if you want to use your lower body, get that good triangle

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of support underneath the foot, maintain it as you make your backswing and then use it to

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push off as you go into transition.

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So now you can take that triangle feeling and apply it with your golf shoe because it's

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going to feel a little bit different.

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Now that I'm basically wearing something that doesn't give me quite as much sensitivity

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as when I was barefoot.

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So I'm pushing in with that big toe inside edge and then I push with that lateral that

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gets that foot pretty much.

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Walked and then I can use that platform, use that brace to then have something to push off

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with as I do either 9 to 3.

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I would always start with 9 to 3, but as I do 9 to 3 swings or if I do my full swings,

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this is a great way to feel the proper pressure through the foot.

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I recommend training that anytime you're working on sway or anytime you're working

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on your backswing, pivot drills.