[12 piece bucket]

The drawings on page 75 of Five Lessons give this appearance.

In the face-on view, it appears that Hogan set up with a more pronounced angle to his right leg than the modern swingers who tend to set up with less angle and then allow the right/trail leg to move more toward vertical on the backswing.

There's a great picture in the book . . . and you can see this in the Hogan Collection DVD's too . . . that Hogan's Backfield (butt) is certainly in motion to the LEFT. This seems to be decidedly different in the swings after the wreck. He seems to create Axis Tilt on the Downstroke in the pre-wreck moves but after the wreck it seems to happen on the BACKSTROKE.

I test drove this move the other day . . . took the kids to the school park and busted some wedge shots at them while they were climbing the monkey bars. I took one kid out . . . hit the other one but not hard enough to knock him off.

For those of you that want to see what VJ has described in the book, if you have the Ben Hogan Collection (if you don't GET IT), go to the Swing Revealed 2 disc. At approximately the 1 minute 5 second mark they get at tight shot of Mr. Hogan's lower body. You can see the move.

One point that I liked about VJ's book was that Mr. Hogan was not really a "physical specimine". He was 5'7" and had NO LEGS after the wreck. He still managed to make that move on busted wheels. So it may not be as out of reach as people think it is . . . that is if you know what move to make.