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This drill is touch knees to fix your slide.

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So the slide is one of those inconsistent patterns that comes when

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your body is getting too far forward past your front foot.

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If you maintained a good, uh,

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upper body on top of your lower body and you did this, you would fall over.

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So it's usually accompanied by a little bit too much tilt backward.

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If you did that, um,

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that can allow for some extra arm throw that can allow for like some saggy

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buckle. Um, all those things create some inconsistency and some timing. So, um,

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the slide is one of those lower body dominant patterns that a lot of juniors,

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um, and uh, and really active lower body players tend to struggle with. Well,

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one way that we can, uh,

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try to address it is by using the old classic image of kissing your knees

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or basically when you get into your follow through.

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If I slide that lead knee forward, then as it turns,

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you can see that the lead knee is still way ahead of that trail knee.

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If on the other hand, I imagine trying to get my,

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my trail knee to go past my lead knee,

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so my left knee is going to be coming backward as my right leg

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is going, uh, past it or forward,

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this often has a feeling of like the adductor squeeze or feeling like this left

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leg is pulling back as the right leg is pulling forward. And I'm,

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my inner thighs have a feeling of kind of almost grabbing towards each other,

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where oftentimes in the slide, um, especially during the release,

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you'll tend to have a little bit more of a feeling of the legs staying about the

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same length and just kind of like pivoting at the knees.

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So this is more of a release thought, um, because in transition you, uh,

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you want to have a little bit extra separating as you're rotating that lower

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body. But then during the release to prevent that late lateral movement,

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um, you want to have this feeling of kissing your knees.

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Oftentimes the slide is not an excessive movement early.

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Oftentimes golfers who slide are late and then they kind of slide

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through the ball as opposed to, um,

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turning or shifting early with the Jackson five and then basically

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bracing or turning through the ball. Um,

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so we're gonna start with just a classic kind of nine to three where we're gonna

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try,

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we're gonna monitor this finished position and we're gonna see if we can get

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the right knee, um,

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to pass or even kind of get onto this opposite side, um,

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of the left knee. Now,

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I should caution if you are one of these big hang backers where this leg is

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actually, uh, pointed back this way, um,

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and you tend to kind of really hit some, some nasty pulls and slices.

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This is not the drill for you.

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This is for golfers who get the knee and hip and kinda get way onto the outside

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of the ankle. Um, more like that. So we're gonna do a nine to three version,

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kind of check the finish,

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and we're gonna feel like our knees have Velcro and we're trying to get this

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lead knee to go past, uh, or sorry,

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the trail knee to go past that lead knee.

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So nine to three, trying to get that past, um,

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checking it out in finished position. This often is a good one to use, uh,

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kind of combination with like a, a, a trash can or, or chair.

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Um, kind of one of more of those slide visuals.

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So if I was to put one of those slide visuals in place to make sure that I'm not

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getting way to the outside of the ankle, um, let's get that set up.

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Now I can feel like I'm trying to get to this with the right knee,

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but keep that left knee back. If you do that

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and you find that you start getting really steep, um,

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then it likely means that your shoulders are coming too much over the top or

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your right shoulder is kind of getting thrown out towards the golf ball. Um,

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so this can be accompanied by a feeling of more of

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a shallow, um, arm motion or,

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or side bend movement or um, or shoulder blade movement.

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All those shallow movements can oftentimes,

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if you're prone to sliding when you're trying to get any more tilt or shoulder

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blade movement, you'll go into a slide pattern where the,

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the lead knee runs away from the trail knee like that. Um,

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as opposed to having this feeling of the pelvis rotating over that lead foot.

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Or if you do that, you'll get more into this kissing knee position.

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So if you've tried a bunch of feels and none of them are really clicking, uh,

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try this one for your slide of getting that right knee to kiss the outside of

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the left knee or touch the outside of the left knee. Um,

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that will help stabilize or,

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or work on your bracing pattern and get you out of that slide movement to the

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outside of that left heel.