okay today's gonna be uh a good video we're gonna do a little
comparison for you to find out if the different
shoe what kind of difference that makes in your game
okay here is what we're going to do we're going to get this guy
going set that bad boy up okay so i hope you like this video by
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going to do is determine if what you put on your
feet makes a difference and if it does how
much of a difference does that make in your game now here's what we do
uh okay you guys know i wear the athlon's shoes
in pretty much every video i do i love the shoes okay
they have a certain technology built into them so
a lot of let's say the champion tour guys a lot of them are wearing it and
you see a lot of the long drive guys wearing these shoes okay today is not a
shoe like sales video however they do have a
certain technology in there that really helps your game and so we
want to talk about that and i'm going to show you numbers
okay and we're going to see if that technology really makes a difference
and how much of a difference does that make
make sense and i'm going to uh i'm going to hit balls barefoot
so i have nothing just me then i'm going to use a
shoe from another just another brand shoe i'm not going to reveal the brand
it doesn't it's not fair and it doesn't really
matter but it's it's just another shoe a normal
good top quality golf shoe out there okay and i'll give you those numbers and
because i don't want a bad mouth a shoe company they make good shoes they
just don't have the technology so i don't want to
you know it's not a bad-mouthing type of channel so we're not going to do that
and then we're going to put on the athlons and see if we get more
better performance better results and what happens when you have certain
technology in your shoe we'll discuss as we go make sense
all right let's do it okay here's what we're going to do
the first thing is going to be barefoot all right so i'm going to take
off my shoes here my tennis shoes
all right barefoot some people like to to go out there barefoot so we're gonna
we're gonna um showcase that and we're gonna hit eight irons because i
feel like that's a that's a good representation between
somewhere between let's say a mid iron and
a a wedge right so we're gonna see kind of some numbers
that are going to uh represent you know uh we're just going
to show you the numbers that we get club head speed ball speed spin rate
carry total on my smash factor the curve and uh
we'll give you like a nice dispersion of what those look like okay and then
we'll go to driver barefoot and then we'll switch to competitor shoe
same thing and then athlon's same thing as well
i'm going to hit um we're going to hit a lot of balls
i won't make you suffer through all of them and i'll give you the averages
as we go all right so uh here we go eight iron barefoot
we're using pro v1x balls so we're gonna stick with that here we go
so that's my eight iron barefoot let's just look at distance here
uh 151 was my last one it looks like 145 149 43 i mean
you see it right in there um and you get a good idea of
of what my barefoot numbers are here okay
so that's not bad i like that so uh let's put on competitor number one shoe
and we'll uh we'll see those numbers with the eight iron as well okay
okay pretty good i feel like my dispersion is a lot tighter here
with the shoes on and i do feel like
this
let's see just looking at it looks like my distances
are more consistently longer you know i got up to 160
for carry distance uh yeah just looking at the other ones
my longest was like 154 and here i got 151 160
48 so consistently longer and my dispersion
is a lot tighter so just by putting on shoes
obviously you would expect that to happen
but now what we're going to do is put on athlons and see if these numbers
increase because they claim all right their claim is you get closer
to the pin you have more stability which creates more clubhead speed
and more control so is it true you know what i'm saying like
we got to know these things you can't just
um you can't just say oh i believe everything you say
all right so we got the the athlon's shoe
all right here we go athlon's test now the technology in these things
is that um the sole and the insert if you get the right
insert that even adds to it but the sole technology is it's turning you in a
little bit so it's creating that stability so
you're not swaying off the ball so much that's what you don't want you
don't want to sway off the ball you want to stay connected so you can
get a good turn you're stable into your shot and you can drive off that back
foot and make good solid contact with that ball
and have a lot more control over your shots
by being connected to the ground a lot more
all right so here we go athlon's 8-iron 12 shots
okay so uh i certainly got more distance that is for sure my longest was 173.
so certainly i'm getting more distance what that
translates into is this if you're getting more distance
with less effort then what happens is you're going to be able to slow your
swing down and control it more so i certainly felt a difference uh
just being honest from when i put on the shoot of the first shoe
it was it took me a few swings to get used to even having shoes on and then
transitioning to athlons it took me a minute because
they definitely feel different than the other shoe
so it took me a little bit to get that feeling
before i was uh comfortable with swinging
because i didn't want to slow my swing down right
i felt like if i were going to do that um it wouldn't be fair but i didn't want
to speed it up either so if you just look at club head speed here
i'm at 85 86 87 the other shoe
i'm at 84 83 and then the first one i'm a little slower it's interesting
so you can see just on club head speed like putting that shoe on with an eight
iron got me an extra mile or an hour two
miles an hour difference that's why i went a little
bit farther so and that was without trying i'm not
trying to get more club head speed it's just happening
and so i could actually slow down and get the same
speed but when you slow down you can have more control so
now we're going to go to driver do the same thing
and just kind of look at our results and see what happens when we do that
barefoot and the other shoes were kind of similar to be honest
and then when i went to the athlons the technology it's just it's i'm able
to just have a much more firm base and i don't know if you could
tell or notice but on those last couple
swings i really try to shorten my swing up and
take a more controlled swing and it went
that's probably the last five swings i don't know if i achieved it but i really
felt like i was a little bit shorter 285 292 296 286
273 293 you know in total distance and those swing speeds
were 103 105 on a 5 105 like they were among the fastest swing speeds
with a more controlled swing and i felt like those last few shots
were a lot closer to center so does what you put on your feet matter
a lot of people think oh i just need a golf shoe
a golf shoe certainly helps but if you have the right
technology built into the shoe to help your performance
then you're gonna have a lot better performance and you're gonna be able to
maximize what you do so uh
what you do what you put on your feet as you can see
makes a difference there's a link in the description below if you want to check
out athlon's look at their website you have a discount code there if you
want to check them out but they are giving you an added benefit especially
as you get older you need more of that let's say security
that more of that support in your footwear to make it work
otherwise you're just uh you're losing something that you
shouldn't be losing and you go get that don't let people steal from you
you go steal from the course go get every
ounce of strokes you can get your grubby little hands on
and you will improve give them a check out
that's all i'm saying or uh make sure you're getting grounded some way shape
or form out there when you're playing golf don't throw
those strokes away hope this video was helpful sheds a
little light on what's happening out there
love you guys gonna go take four showers see you in the next video
all right we're gonna do the kyle brookshire
and see if we can't get something crazy
pretty good
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