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Hip thrust, elbow drop, right knee to 10 o'clock, drive PP # 1, drive PP # 3, roll your belly button, roll your back shoulder, goat humping, side arm frisbee throw, sidearm baseball throw, but the intentionality must be there! To paraphrase Lynn, 'you see the cup on the shelf (Impact Plane Line) and you reach for it (Delivery Path, Aim Point?)! Your body cooperates'! INTENTIONALITY and UNDERSTANDING.

Yup read the definition of Pivot in the glossary.

Hey have you heard of "crush the can"? I like it . Given the "body cooperates " hands to pivot , intentionality you mention above: in training (prior to ingraining) you could "crush the can " with your left leg and "side arm the frisbee", Right Arm Throw (Hitting). Once you get the left hip over the left shoe perfectly, which the crush the can move automates, its hard not to pivot. The body will "cooperate" to facilitate the on plane travel of the right forearm or hand path. Im not saying the Pivot isn't work , effort , action but most guys way over do it and/or do it off balance. Gotta get left first , then turn.

You tried the "stork drill"? Standing on your left leg with your right pulled way back, hitting balls at about 3/4 strength. Being left makes contact easy. You can dial down your excess pivot motion while doing this drill then take that new motion to your real shots. The pivot, Zone 1 , job 1, critical though it is , isn't as big or effortful as it appears to the eye or the camera. Its another of golfs illusions.