Got a question from Larry Jacobs, the nutrition and exercise guru. It’s a good one and I see it happen to a lot of folks. I saw a video that showed his right or back foot was straight, perpendicular to the aiming line. He had a nice flare on the left foot but he had the right foot pointed 90 degrees at the aiming line.

When I brought it up to him he said that just a hangover from all those years of doing it with the right foot perpendicular to the aiming line and even cocking his right knee inward.

I see that with that with a lot of players who take up the Peak Performance Golf Swing. They get the left foot flared but they don’t flare the right foot. It’s critical that you have them both flared because if one is flared and the other one isn’t the muscles, from the knee up into your thighs and up to your hips, are not equal on both sides, so you can’t have outward pressure with both knees. If the right knee is dead square or, God forbid, cocked inward, then the right knee cap can’t rotate at all, so you’re not going to have a good turn and load over and onto the right or back leg, where you’re going to get a little bit of sinking onto that leg. Remember, you should sink and go downward a little bit in terms of the right knee getting more flex in it. Just like when you slide into a golf cart, the springs accept your weight and they compress.

So if the foot is straight and the knee doesn’t have outward pressure, it reduces the chance of or gives you no chance of the knee cap rotating externally so you get a good load.

Really make sure that both knees are over the ankles and both feet are flared to have the proper setup. Remember, that is the trademark of the Peak Performance Golf Swing. Narrow feet, wide knees and the feet are flared with outward pressure on the knees so that we can maintain the stale and less moving foundation so that we can make that balanced, limited turn to be able to lift the arms.

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