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Your feet should be resisting turning/spinning. You feel those torques/pressures attempting to move/spin your feet out from the movement/momentum of your body winding up. You need to maintain that pressure inside all the way up your posture, not tipping you over/out of balance in any direction. You should always be in control of your weight/balance and ready to move it quickly in the direction you intend.Maybe I am not shifting my weight properly, because I am trying to do the counterclockwise turn, that those golf videos are showing?
Plantar flexion/instep leveraging everything forward through ankle, knee and hip.What do you feel in your rear leg when shifting weight, is it just pushing forward from toe, or you trying to resist something? I know it is hard to put it in words, but what should I be thinking with my rear leg? Maybe this could help me.
In an x-step or hop I think of it like catching a wave with the squat then stride and ride. You have to catch the wave/weight first and then ride it. You can't paddle out too far ahead of the wave or wait too long to paddle. Most of your weight is the water and organs inside you(about 80% of your weight), they can move around separate from your skeleton. When you move/accelerate forward, your weight actually lags and loads back against your rear side, your water and organs get squished back like you do accelerating inside a race car. This is why you need to brace or firm up your rear side and move with rhythm, and also on the front side coming through.
The front side brace is almost like breaking/stopping the race car, but instead turning it and speeding up as a re-direction/clearing back to counterweight the throw and allow the momentum to sling through like a catapult or trebuchet. Think Batmobile turning at full speed via grappling hook to light pole, the centrifugal force/acceleration experienced during that turn is massive. The cars chasing fly by and spin out as there is no brace to turn against. The front foot is the grappling hook, and your knee/hip extend behind the grappling hook like the rope to turn/clear the car/body back. If the rope is not taut behind the grapple/ahead of the turn, it will snap, or jerk, or stop instead of turning the vehicle smoothly.