[Daryl]

Hey D. You are on fire these days. Glad you're back on board the good ship LBG.

This reminds me of the McDonald drills with a dash of Yoda's knee sauce. The feet working as you describe and the knees breaking straight ahead, not side to side. As if its the hip turning that pulls the knees to the side as opposed to a sideways knee action. Is this right? I get my pivot in trouble when I toss my left knee to the right during the backswing. With it merely being pulled to the right, the move in the other direction is greatly simplified. Sort a like Knee/ legs version of hands to pivot vs pivot to hands.

Ob

Thanks for the compliment. I know that Yoda is waiting in the wings and letting me go on this until I really put my foot in my mouth, which I do more often than I like.

Your Knees move a little side to side because of foot roll which aids in Hip rotation. Sliding the knees laterally and causing the foot to roll gets things jerky and makes no restrictions in knee lateral direction or amount of motion. If you have a pure bend at the Hips, the knees breaking straight ahead and back (Bending and Straightening the Leg) Lowers and Raises (Slants) the Hips and moves them front to back. Lateral knee motion resulting from Foot Roll adds in a little circular motion to the Hips.

From the Ground up.

Recipe: Add one cup of Heel-Toe motion and a half cup of Foot Roll. The result will be that the Right Hip will move Back, Up and slightly rotate.
Performing the drill with or without foot roll to see the difference isn’t much, but enough.