Looks like you are trying to get your left foot xstep around in front your right foot and it gets in the way of your right foot stride. Try doing a little zig zag x-step so your left steps more to the right/east and your whole CoM moves a little same way, and then right steps a little left/west. Your right leg needs to push you slightly deeper east going into the x-step.
You know this but for my & lurker benefit:
It's bizarre to me how sometimes I "see" something in advanced form
after we get my body to do a version of it. I think I "understand" "throwing with my center" much better than before. And I also understand why other people have trouble seeing it.
GG is doing a dramatic and awesome version of SW's suggestion.
It was important for me to pay more attention to what happens to his center as soon as each foot starts making ground contact. My first step is becoming more similar to GG's going more East, which like him, is helping my body get closed off and set up torque in transition BEFORE hitting the ground again in the "prep step" (step before X-step). We also both hop/rise in the prep step to set up the "effortless" gravity part of the move.
Then in the "prep step" he ends up tossing his CoG back East a bit (well, actually it's quite a lot in different camera angle), which is also setting up counter torque in the whole move in that direction, which is also what is helping him load up that ridiculous backswing maneuver when his rear foot plants the X-step. That's part of why he gets soooo much space before he whips back through and out from his center - throwing the body back East. Conveniently since it also helps get me more confidence in the rear leg with its weird issue I'm relieved to run with it lmao.
I think I learned a little bit exploring with more hip hinge last week, but it's clearly time to move back in line with my anatomy again.
After rest days I'll try to do this move as tall and long as possible and get my legs more relaxed in transition and see what we get. It's going to be easier on my plant knee if I can get more Inside/less quaddy and just whip the entire move through more like GG's "zig zag," I think.
I do think there is probably a way to talk about this without the imaginary pink orb, but for me it helps me consolidate yet another thing. Plus, people end up getting their bodies and centers trapped so often that I don't think it's just about cute pink orbs floating in space.