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Nice post Buck. Bernt, I too find that faulty address alignments can ruin an otherwise good motion. Too much bend in the knees and waist being my bad habit. I love the glossaries definition of the Pivot.......dont have my book with me or I'd write it all out....... I now view the main job of the pivot in terms of alignments is to get the right arm on plane at impact.

In my opinion the knees are not in the business of lowering anything but rather serve as anchors and/or shock absorbers. The correct amount of knee bend, for me anyways, being the amount just before the hips are lowered towards to the ground. Just a little bend. The bend at the waist on the hand lowers the left shoulder and the primary lever down to the ball. With a level left wrist and the right arm on plane to me it sort of feels like a lowering of the primary lever to a hovered, relaxed , hanging position. As if the Power Package was in a sort of homeostatic state.

But this is just me though. Some might say otherwise, that a truly relaxed and hanging Power Package would have the left wrist fully uncocked. But for me, given my tendency towards too much bend in the knees and waist and a low set of hands with some tension at the #3 angle, it seems to be a good notion. Didnt Hogan have a thing where he relaxed his wrists and let the hands droop like he was firing a pistol into the ground as part of his address procedure?