[tongzilla]

Another big key that can be difficult is allowing rotation - the startup swivel - to happen.

Indeed Ed, I've been looking into this area of the stroke and I'd like to hear more.

Theoretically, the start up swivel (standard wrist action on backstroke) should occur quite early in the stroke (i.e. during stary up!). However, I have found that this requires some sort of manual muscular manipulation to turn your wrist. If you really let CF do everything, and just take the lagging clubhead back, you would find that the face stays quite square with the ball for some time. If would appear as if you are using single wrist action. But if your wrists stay supple and let the weight of the club and CF do its magic, it will swivel before you get to the top. So should we teach an early startup swivel? Hmm...