[Clay Huestis]

Mr. Bucket,

Good topic...so good that VJ Trolio wrote an entire book about it!

What do you think about his ideas on the pivot, namely that the role of the pivot is to get the body's center of gravity over the left leg (and in front of the ball), and then to unwind? The closer the mass is to the axis of rotation, the easier it is to rotate. Of course the forward hips and the stationary head create secondary axis tilt that allows the right shoulder to come down on plane as well, which seems to me to be another very important job for the pivot to do.

Isn't MORAD quite into the idea of the COG getting on to the left side, and the power is generated mainly from body rotation? Of course they skin that cat a bit differently than Mr. Trolio.

From my personal experimentation with his ideas and others I have studied, the important jobs for the pivot are:
1. Get the weight LEFT in preparation for or during the downswing.
2. Allow the right shoulder to get downplane
3. Allow the body to rotate as fast as posible and thus transfer that rotation to the power package

Another question for you...does the pivot stop on its own (i.e. runs out of gas), or should we be doing something conscious to slam on the brakes and transfer the momentum further down the kinetic chain?

I know you have been doing a lot of thinking and studying about this topic so I am curious to see what you think!