Foot Action 7-17

[O.B.Left]

I'm probably inspired by what I've read around here and elsewhere, but...

I think from having the weight more or less even distributed on both feet at address, with enough weight toward the heels for the player to be able to lift the toes, the backswing pivot loads pp#5, the inside of the heel on the back foot (~2/3), and pp#6, the inside ball and partially the big toe on the front foot (~1/3).

A line between these 2 pressure points corresponds pretty much to the amount of hip turn, and can be used for direction of the hip bumb/axis tilt for the hitter.

Through the downstroke the pressure shifts gradually until follow through to the opposites on each foot: pp#7, the inside ball and partially the big toe of the back foot (~1/3), and pp#8, the inside of the heel on the front foot (~2/3).

Again a line between these 2 pressure points corresponds more or less to the amount of hip turn (roll).

During the finish swivel going to the finish, the weight comes to rest even distributed on the front foot (~9/10) and on the toes of the back foot (~1/10).

Nice. With the front foot allowed to rise on the backswing, this would look sort of like the McDonald drills. One foot goes down, the other goes up and vice versa.

Never thought about the direction of the Hitter's hip slide as being along the line of the Angle of Approach AND a line drawn through the pressure points (#5,6) in the feet. Interesting. Of course pp5, 6 theory is like one day old having been named by Thom just yesterday.

The feet and hips are so connected. The penny drill fixes over activity at the foot end of things but maybe what we are really fixing is hip action or maybe knee action I guess? Is this right? The spinning out left foot is often a spinning out left hip? The rolling over (even worse) left foot is often a saggy left knee?

And like the pressure points in the hands when you lose contact with the pressure points in the feet, its all over? Balance, centered head, stability that is. I suppose zone 2 or 3 could save the shot but zone 1 is suspect having shaken its moorings. Low point is probably on the move.


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