[KevCarter]

no worries...I tried it for a while and had a couple great rounds, but for some reason I was getting ahead of the ball at impact and smothering or pushing everything.

I went into my back leg at the start of the BS, then made the lateral move toward the target in the later part of my BS. But before I knew it, my head & upper body were in front of the ball.

Im enjoying success now just using a basic (12-1,12-2?) drive load pattern a la Brian Gay, so I have shelved VJ's move for now. Doing a LOT of DS waggles per Lynn in Alignment Golf, feeling the pull...I do have a quesiton on drive loading that Im about to post in the hitters forum.

IMHO, and I hope someone corrects me if I am wrong...

MacDonald drill #2, while keeping some pressure on the left foot, and you are very close to the action of both Lynn and VJ... I am a very big fan of VJs book as well.

If I don't keep pressure on my left foot, I can't get left through impact... I can try to get this fat, inflexible body to Hula-Hula all I want, but if I don't keep pressure on that left foot all I can do under the gun is spin around my right leg. Death move.

Another opinion, if you look at the principles of pressure on the left foot in S&T, TROLIO, and YODA, they are very similar. Centered Pivot, no matter how you get er done...

Kevin