[neil]

Do whatever works for you, but I am pretty sure this is a case of "not actually doing what you think you are doing".
when i skip the stone I think about getting my stone parallel to the water -via feedback from my hands. What I DON'T think about is my weight transfer to my front foot-my pivot ,but I still do it . I don't wait for my hand to get to "somewhere" and then turn on the hip power -I'd be playing catch up.Catch up doesn't work for me -once I have loaded the power package I want to store it for delivery, not lose half my load and fire whats left . Otherwise I could have saved some effort and made a smaller swing-and still started my downswing with my hips