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This is the trail leg push drill to help understand how the trail leg or the right leg

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for right handers pushes through the ground to help with the lateral hip bump during

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transition. So if you remember from the concept video during transition we are going to shift

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our weight from close to the right foot into the left foot. The main thing is by impact we want

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to make sure that we've got most of our weight into the left leg. So pushing through that right

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leg can help create both speed and this proper what we call axis tilt. So one of the hard

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things about the golf swing is because we are planted to the ground we don't get a lot of

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movement through the feet or I should say a lot of amateurs don't get a lot of movement through

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the feet. So sometimes it's easier to feel what the legs should do when they get disconnected

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from the ground. So I've got a couple objects here that we're going to use to help

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feel what the leg does. But essentially if I'm going to do it towards you, when I push through this leg

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this foot if it was not connected to the ground is going to rotate slightly outwards and back

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behind me like so. That's part of the reason why skaters or hockey players end up being pretty

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good golfers is because they're used to doing this movement in order to propel themselves.

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So you can take either a frisbee or one of these furniture movers that you can get a home depot

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or if you want the fancy version of the valve slides and you can place it under your foot

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and you can practice sliding it back away and sort of out to the side back about 30 degrees

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and letting that foot rotate out. So it'll be kind of like this. Okay so I've got my golf bag there

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to stop it just in case it goes too far but it would be if I angled like so it would be

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a push like that. Now if you don't have or if you want to get a little bit more resistance

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you can use a medicine ball because it'll take a little bit more force for me to slide this out of

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the way. If you're going to use the medicine ball I'm going to put my leg kind of on the inside

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edge just like so and then I'm going to push away just like so. Now that looks very goofy as far

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as it would relate to the golf swing going like so but if I do that same movement and my foot

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doesn't move it will actually propel my hip into a rotation this way. So in my sense it will push

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the lateral movement will push my hip to the side and the opening up of the foot will help push

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my hips this way. So this is a great drill for you if you're struggling with getting enough of the

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lateral movement of the lower body in transition. This drill will help you kind of find

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to and what the trail leg is doing during that movement.