[KevCarter]

Clearing the right hip... if your hips don't turn just a little bit first, your educated hands will have a difficult time taking the club back on plane. They will want to fight with right hip that is blocking their path. Thinking X-Factor is NOT a good thing.

David Orr has a wonderful video called the Walrus and the Indian, or something to that effect. It shows how their must be equal parts of the tomahawk and the walrus, vertical and horizontal. To much of one and not enough of the other can be a nasty snare. The shoulders are only quiet at startup, then they must turn and go where the hands are directing them. Think about reaching up and behind you. Your hand knows where to go without concsious thought, and your shoulders follow, also without thinking about it.

Hips - a little pre-turn on the backstroke, combined with a little hula-hula to start the downstroke. This little bit of motion both ways clears a path for your hands to take over.

Kevin