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The lead foot can cause a number of different pivot problems. One common source of these problems comes from not having a strong contact with the lead big toe. The lead big toe should anchor the foot to help the lead hip work better. A good way to train, and reinforce the feel, is by using a band underneath your big toe. Anchor the band with the first metatarsal (big toe joint) with the band pulling toward the target line. Then perform 9 to 3 swings while feeling the foot retaining the hold on the band until follow-through position.
Tags: Poor Contact, Early Extension, Release, Drill, Advanced
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This drill is a firm left foot. So we're
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going to talk about the left foot as it relates
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to your bracing pattern and basically getting into a
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really solid foundation or
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solid firm left foot to get your
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pelvis on top of it. So when you
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go into your finished position, there's a strong connection between what's happening
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in the foot and what's happening at the hip if I'm doing a really good
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lower body pivot action, you'll see
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the big toe actually stays down as
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long as it can and if it comes up
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it's coming up while it's being pulled from
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the arch. It's not pulling it's not kind of rolling
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up and kind of spinning like this. I
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don't want to have a really stiff foot where it's
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just kind of pivoting like this. I want to have the foot going into an
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arch.
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As I'm rotating through so as
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I'm rotating over that left side.
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My foot is kind of gripping against the ground.
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That helps prevent either dropping too
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far into the hip that can cause some low Point
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issues or going too much into the toes because I'm
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I'm not arching. I'm I'm actually shifting into the
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golf ball like this. So this allows me
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to get my pelvis the right amount towards the
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heel.
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but over that front foot
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now a good homework exercise.
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I'm gonna try it as a drill but I think is actually gonna be pretty hard but a
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good homework exercise is practicing
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going into your Merry-Go-Round or
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practicing going into your finished position with a cord or
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a band underneath that big toe. So I'm
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going to this is as close as I have here. I've got
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a little bit of a band here and now
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I'm gonna pull it so that I've got some tension and I'm gonna place it
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underneath the big toe. So it's right under
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that joint where that index or
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that joint right there of the big toe the first
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metatarsal.
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So now I'm going to
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try and get ball position into a normal position there
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and you will see if I go
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if I go past there then oftentimes
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that foot comes up. So I mostly do this
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in nine to threes trying to feel really solid and go
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as far as I can but it really depends on how
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good of a hip flexibility you have. Ideally you
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can keep it longer into
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the follow through but really as long as it's pretty stable even into
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a footpath impact you'll be
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doing fine like golfers like John ROM who have some food
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issues you'll see it come up and then there are
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some golfers who aren't very good at this that you'll see kind of
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roll out into the outside of the heel, but they have figured out how to
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maintain that pelvis relationship to the foot without having a
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really solid foot. But I think if you master this move,
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it really helps clean up consistency of low point
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and and helps with your overall bracing pattern.
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Okay. So now we're going to do a little nine to three and
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This can be depending on the height of your
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band. That'll be a little bit better depending on
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the thickness of your band. I prefer those flat ones.
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This will be a little bit precarious because
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I might potentially Catch the
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band if I have a really long flat spot
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on this shot.
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So I'm gonna focus on doing a little bit more
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of just a nine to three.
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And I'm going to feel like I've turned into it. And right
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now I can feel compared to my normal swing. I really feel
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that foot grabbing in order to to keep that cord, but
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I could still feel my hip and my glute kind of
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turning through or working into that firm left side.
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So I can combo that with any any other backswing
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or release style
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thoughts. This one ball position might be a Touchback.
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Yep.
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So lost that one just a little
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bit. Let's try one more. Let's go
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a little bit bigger.
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Kind of like that that's about as far as hard as
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I would go through. I almost lost the cord, but I could feel it gripping. So now
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if I was to remove the
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band
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And put the shoe back on so I don't feel like I'm hitting a downhill
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eye anymore. Now, I'm
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gonna feel like I can grip the foot inside the
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shoe and it should help the overall
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look and stability of my pelvis. All right,
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so I'll take a practice when you're two just to feel the
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low point because like I said when you only have one shoe on you're gonna feel like
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you're on a downhill lie, so now this should feel a little
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bit better.
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And that feels remember I don't I
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want to see the foot coming slightly off the
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ground but it's getting pulled wall. My foot is pushing
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in the shoe. So that one felt very stable pelvis
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felt really good. That would be a feel
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that I'd want to groove in to help with my overall stability of that lead leg
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embracing pattern. So if you tend to have either a
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foot that where you go into your toes and
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kind of spin,
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Or if you get too much on to kind of the outside and
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into the heel kind of more of a movement like
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that then start working on getting that foot to
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grip against the ground using this feeling of a
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little bit more of a firm Lead Foot. Okay firm
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foot.
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Really good there.