Hitting, swinging and weight shift question

[BerntR]

Since long, I've been mixing swinging and hitting. Probably since I started at golf in 1990. I am now at a stage where I basically think I know and feel the difference between the strokes. But I am still not capable of deliberately choosing one over the other (with success) for the next full stroke. Today I tried - without a ball - to do som minor variations regarding weightshift in the down stroke. Here's what I felt:

* An early weight shift back to the front foot seemed good for hitting (against a firm front foot). When I did the same with a swing - all lag pressure disappeared because the hip turn came to late.

*A "late" weight shift that follows the down swing seemed good for maintaining lag pressure in the swing and seemed to prevent
clubhead throwing & outside-in. Doing the same in a hit seemed to promote an outside- in power lacking slicing kind of stroke.

* The two types of weight shift seemed to correspond with en early/later timing of the hip turn - the former felt good for swinging while the other felt good for hitting.

* In summary, it was like "swing around the back foot/hip and hit around the front foot/hip"

Am I touching something basic here, or is this just a "WOOD" (works only one day)?

Best regards,

Bernt