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This video is trail leg push first upper body fall.

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So I talk a lot about the lateral movement, whether it's three to six inches, but the lateral

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movement of the pelvis during transition for most full stock swings.

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Now I describe it a lot as a push of the lead foot, or sorry, a push of the trail foot

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kind of pushing away from the golf ball in that general direction with this little twisting.

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So whether it's the trail leg push or step drills, that kind of helps get the feeling

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of this push.

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Some golfers will describe it as a little bit more of a free fall where the upper body

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just kind of falls onto the left foot before it starts rotating.

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The truth is it's more of a perception for you than it is an actual mechanical thing.

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As long as there is a shift to this side, I'm going to be pushing through that trail

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leg.

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The general tendency that we're trying to avoid is we're trying to avoid just spinning

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from the top with both the upper body and the lower body like so.

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So by getting either a feeling of that body falling onto that front leg before the

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body rotates, we're a feeling of pushing the trail leg to get the upper body or the upper

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body and lower body over that front foot before it rotates.

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The important thing is to see that it's this shift of the pelvis, it's this interaction

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with the ground in the feet before the upper body starts spinning.

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Similar to a pitching or throwing motion, if some people will feel a big push off that trail

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leg before they fall or before they throw, others will feel just kind of a, almost like

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I'm falling forward and then I throw.

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They could relate to whether you're more connected to the ground or more connected to

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your hands appropriately, but it's important to kind of experiment with both.

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What can happen is some golfers who think push do more of an explosive almost early extension

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move because they have trouble feeling kind of that subtle push of the lower body so it

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becomes more of an overpowering move and kind of messes up the whole sequencing.

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So if you're working on kind of this trail leg push, experiment with feeling more of a fall

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into the lead leg.

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You'll see that it's virtually the same movement, it's just a different perception for a

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lot of golfers.

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So to experiment with the fall, what you'll do is you'll go up to the top of the swing,

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you can even raise that heel and then feel yourself fall into that left foot to start

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that move down.

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It's a sequencing move, it's a timing move and it doesn't really matter if I'm feeling

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that push that I just did there through the trail leg or if I feel like I just fall.

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The mechanics are the same, it's ultimately which one is going to connect more to your swing

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and your power sources.

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So if you're upper body dominant, you may feel better with more of just this fall move.

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If you're lower body dominant or sensitive, you may feel like you have to have a little bit more

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of that trail leg push, but know that it's but ultimately doing the same movement, getting

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that linear movement before you get that rotary, they do happen kind of very close together

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and almost simultaneously, but the feeling that a lot of golfers describe is having that

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linear move before you get rotationally.

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So if you're struggling with your transition and you're struggling with how your feet are

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interacting through the ground in transition, experiment with both a trail leg push, more of an

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active movement or an upper body fall or a pelvis fall into the front foot, more of what would

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feel like a passive movement, either one may open up the keys to your consistency in transition

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of the lower body.