What indicates you are 'back'? Where are you when you are 'back'?

There are several elements to being back. But the pivotal point....the spot you MUST BE....and is often bypassed due to poor mechanics and momentum is......

THE SCAP/SPINE JUNCTION.

I didn't say you had to pinch your scap. Some do. Some don't.

But the hip/leg has to turn through the RESISTING scap/spine junction. There is a 'lever' between the hip/leg assembly that pressure is applied to by the hip/leg. And the 'other end' of the lever applies the hip/leg pressure.....at the scap/spine junction.

If that pressure, created by the hip/leg assembly turning, applies pressure at the scap/spine junction.....WHILE THE SCAP RESISTS....YOU ARE BACK.

If you scap unloads.....you are not back.

Envision an "L" shape relationship between the scap and the torso....at the spine. As the hip/leg assembly turns the torso about the rear leg....the spine side of the scap/spine junction wants to turn. But the scap RESISTS that turning. It 'holds'. Or pinches. It wants to remain 'back'....as the torso is turned. There is a bend. As that happens, an "L" shape will form between the scap and the torso. It's very small....it's just an indication of the angle that is created between the scap and the torso. The line of your torso from the rear scap across the back to the other side of the torso forms one side of the "L". The rear scap itself forms the other side of the "L". It may not be a complete "L".....but the angle between the two will resemble an "L".

This is NOT A SCAP LOAD. A load unloads. The scap NEVER unloads until AFTER launch. The movement from the scap/spine joint/junction....happens long after the swing is launched. Therefore, it never unloads in terms of the swing itself. The forming of the "L" is a movement that creates BACK. It creates a corner.....around which.....the barrel is whipped.

No corner? No whip.