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Here is a nice video clip - presumably by VJ Trolio

He shows four variations of pelvic pivot action movements. He obviously favors the last one.

I think that many tour PGA golfers prefer the first one - the conventional pivot action where one loads over the right leg and where the head is positioned slightly behind the center of the stance. Hogan used that conventional pivot action for most of his career. Are you arguing that it's a totally unacceptable choice - from a personal, or TGM, perspective?

Jeff.

Jeff

Yes this is VJ Trolio.

If you are referring to the pivot I think you are then it is the one VJ prefaced by saying it was popular in the 1980's. I have worked hard to get it out of my swing as have others, Tiger Woods post 2001 for instance. Are we wrong to abandon this centering then? Why would we do this?

As I and others have repeatedly maintained Hogan did this for his driver swing and for a reason. An intentional foregoing of balance in return for a higher launch angle, a compensation, a compensated swing. There is nothing horribly wrong with a compensated procedure.........as long as you are good enough to pull it off and use it wisely, only when the rewards outway the risks etc. This is shotmaking. A management of the machine at address and dynamically, albeit at the expense of reliability, balance etc.


Are we going round in circles?

What do you hold as central to your swing? No pivot center, no axis of rotation, no balance! My and others field test results suggest you should revisit pivot center, axis of rotation. You may find what your swing is lacking. Far more important for you than a max'd out axis tilt. How much axis tilt does one need anyways? Not much. If this slight bump is impossible due to your back, which I doubt, why not go circle path. And leave this head back as form of axis tilt to the Zubacks and Hogans of the world.

If your head back as secondary tilt construct is based on your fused back then hear us out. Not me, us. Yoda, Henny, Bucket etc etc etc Are you trying to move the mountain closer to you? Why dont you try and move closer to it...........it aint moving.

ob