[O.B.Left]

Check your Hip Action.

For me, Hip Action at top is a Slide left (weight shift, axis tilt, Hula Hula) with a delayed hip turn (a cleared right hip) and a centered head. I find that when I turn my hips before I slide my hips left, I can never get fully left. You can turn the hips quite freely with your weight over the back leg or you can turn them with the weight over the front leg but you cant turn them with the weight centered, very much anyways. I think some aspect of the "Fire and Fall Back" move is overly active hip spinning requiring the weight to be centered over one leg, in this regard the back leg. As if the Hips choose the closest leg to the center of gravity and then instruct the brain to shift back to it so they can turn, turn, turn over it. Pivot to hands. Overly active Hip Turning.

I now actively clear or turn my right hip out of the way in startup or before but thats about it for active hip turning. The rest just sort of happens, I cant stop it really. Assuming I slide left with a delayed hip turn. As a drill you can hit range balls with your weight entirely left, feet only slightly spread apart, the right foot on its toes and drawn way back (clearing the right hip). You'll find contact to be quite powerful and note the absence of active hip turn through the shot. The totally cleared right hip allowing a nice inside out Delivery Path.

I also find that I develop a bad habit of not getting fully left when hitting off of mats. An injury prevention thing perhaps, to take away some of the collision of club and astro turf, floor etc. As if I unconsciously take away some of the Down and thereby lose some of three dimensional impact geometry. If you're coming off of a winters worth of mat work, make sure your divots are as they should be. If not, go left young man and go all the way Down and Out on the plane ride towards Low Point.

As a side note Im fascinated by how TGM can ascribe a cause and effect relationship to our unconscious compensations.

Hope this helps. Some of this is just my personal experience not TGM, so apply the usual caveats and sign the disclaimer before applying.

ob