[Yoda]

I am confused about what type of hip action a Hitter should have.

Firstly, I have been told on this board to not slide the hips but rather to turn them. Basically use a standard hip turn.

Then I came across a post by Yoda today that seems to suggest otherwise. He seems to be saying there is a definite slide down the delivery line.

The Standard Hip Turn includes a Weight Shift, and this can be accomplished only with a Hip Slide.

I recommend focusing on the Weight Shifts -- to the Right Foot and then to the Left Foot -- and not on the Hip Motion. Why? Because focusing on sliding makes it way too easy to get into an exaggerated 'pushing out' of the Hips, first to the right and then to the left. Exactly what is being illustrated, by the way, in the Slide Hip Turn photos.

The 3rd edition offered this solution to the Hip Turn/Slide conundrum:

Sharp Turn.

Slide. [My note: Parallel to the Square Plane Line and with the Hips still Turned.]

Swing!

Take Hogan's advice on the Downstroke Hip Turn in Five Lessons: "There must be enough lateral motion to move the weight to the left foot."

The Hitter using as the Delivery Line the Baseline of the Inclined Plane (the true Geometric Plane Line per 2-J-3) senses the Hip Motion as parallel to this Square Plane Line. However, Hitters using the Angle of Approach procedure (beyond -- way beyond -- the scope of this post) would sense the Hip Motion as parallel to that "Inside-Out" Line.