This drill is designed to enhance your foot-to-ground contact awareness. Learn the key steps to ensure your weight stays properly distributed and how to create a strong platform for the top of your swing. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned golfer, Tyler breaks down the process, demonstrating barefoot techniques and offering tips for applying the drill with golf shoes. Improve your backswing, maintain a solid foot triangle, and unlock the power of your lower body for a more controlled and powerful golf swing. Perfect for anyone working on sway or backswing pivot drills.
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This drill is building awareness in the foot to ground contact so frequently I’ll describe how you want to make sure that your weight does not roll to the outside of your foot but I’m going to give you a a simple little process to figure out um where you want the
Pressures in that trail foot Trail foot to really feel loaded at the top of the Swing to do this you don’t have to uh but if you’re trying at home I recommend doing this uh Barefoot or at the very least in socks and I’m going to roll up
My pant legs so that you can see a little bit more what my ankle and my foot are doing so if I pretend that this is my foot we’re going to push the big toe into the ground so this is going to push like that we’re going to push the
Inside heel into the ground but then to make sure that the ankle is still in a good neutral position we’re going to push um and I’ll show you how to find this a bone called the cuboid into the ground as well so I’m going to push
These two and this one right there into the ground and that’s going to provide this platform that we want to use when we feel loaded so first I’m going to push big toe and the Inside Edge so I’m going to push these two spots right here
If I turn this way I’m pushing right under that first joint of the big toe and right side right in under the uh inside a edge of your heel now to find that other bone on the outside edge there’s a there’s kind of a a bony point
Or a little pance right here I’m just going to come inside that about a fingers width so right about there so what I’m actually going to do is I’m going to push that inside then I’m going to push that outside so there’s the inside and then to push this bone into
The ground as well I feel that I have to almost form a little bit of an arch and kind of twist my foot into the ground now with that feeling I’m going to make some back swing moves trying to feel that same contact if you’re not really foot aware
Or if you’ve been rolling for most of your golfing career this is going to feel very very restricted you may feel tension in your knee you may feel tension in your hip but there’s that good solid position that gives me this platform that I then want to push off of if I
Start to roll and I lose that Inside Edge of the of the big toe I’m not going to be able to really drive with that lower body instead what I’ll have to do is more of an upper body kind of fall movement to really pull on the club so
If you want to use your legs if you want to use your lower body get that good triangle of support underneath the foot maintain it as you make your back swing and then use it to push off as you go into transition so now you can take that triangle
Feeling and apply it with your golf shoe because it’s going to feel a little bit different um now that I’m basically wearing something that doesn’t give me quite as much sensitivity as when I was barefoot so I’m pushing in with that big toe Inside Edge and then I push with
That lateral that gets that foot pretty much locked and then I can use that that platform use that brace to then have something to push off with as I do either 9 to three I would always start with 9 to3 but as I do 9 to three swings
Or if I do my full swings this is a great way to feel the proper pressure through the foot um I recommend uh training that anytime you’re working on sway or anytime you’re working on your back swing pivot drills
