Blake (et al),
I usually keep good control but this comes with a price and that is that sometimes my plant foot seems to be stuck to the pad and I torque my plant knee. I have tried to keep my plant leg bent more and that seems to help but it also makes it harder to feel when my center of gravity is in the right spot at the hit and I end up throwing on an unintended line. So, I think a bent plant leg is desirable for many reasons (you have said as much I believe in at least a few articles) but my question is how bent? In looking at the videos on your site here it is clear that the good players are not standing straight up at the hit and it looks to me like during the pull through, just before the hit, their center of gravity is just behind their plant foot (and moving forward obviously). Do I have this about right? The short of it is that I have been doing the x-step for about a year now and I still haven't added much distance to my drives. This is timing primarily I know but I am one of those "at the 360' plateau" players and I have thrown 390-400' but not consistently. I think I will try to make a video and post that because it is very difficult to convey via text.
Kurt Cantrell
