Posted by: john (ajjdad@hotmail.com) on Tue Jun 10 08:24:03 2008

Maybe some might think I'm over simplifying here but, here go's anyway.
Since the swing begins from the ground up,weight transfer, to load, does it not make sense, that at the initiation of the swing,it HAS to begin from where it started, the front side?
As I've said before, Jack stated that one shouldn't THINK hips,it's kind of a by product of swing initiation.That is in my mind, a vitally important point.
I work with 7-12 year olds. And ,what really stands out to me, is that when they don't begin the swing with some form of a weight transfer, the swing is flat footed, with no power and, certainly no hip rotation. But, when there is a transfer of weight to the load, the hips have no place left to go, but in the opposite direction of where they initially went to. But, again, they don't have to think hips.
To me, the way the body is made, since the front hip is obviously much farther in front of the hands at load,when the swing is launched, the hips have no other physical choice but to fire first?
One mans observation.