[12 piece bucket]

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?

At this point . . . this is what my golf game is ALL ABOUT.

But for everyone's benefit . . . What is the body's center of gravity?

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.
Good thought but another question is WHEN does the right shoulder come down? Right away? Late? Does it have anything to do with the Plane Angle the club is complying to? Do you tilt and spin? Or just tilt?

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.
There are from what I have seen 3 deals . . .

1. Move away and a back left
2. Turn shoulders steep and STAY left and go MORE left.
3. Keep the head steady, shoulders flat, and go left

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.
This is what Bucket tries to do.
2. Allow the right shoulder to get downplane
The quest is when? And how much?

3. Allow the body to rotate as fast as posible and thus transfer that rotation to the power package
Another good component . . . When is fast?

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?
Define 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!

I'm still working on what I think . . . but I think I'm getting closer to thinking what I think when I think what I think at least when I think about what I think.

Good work . . . I sort of answered and sort of didn't . . . not to dodge . . . because some of this crap I don't know yet.