Idea: Rolling release vs stable release

I've worked a lot with my driver swing recently to be able to play on large courses and I've been able to eliminate my big slices.  I now have a consistent power fade to sometimes a slice.  But since I haven't been hitting irons I now have a big problem with my irons.  On the practice tee I can get them pretty consistent but on the course I can pull, fade, or even slice them now.  it's not very consistent.  Just saw a video about release types here.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53DaCUuj1Bo
They talk about roll and stable release.  After doing video analysis I think I'm doing a roll release.  This relies much more on timing.  When I look at Rory or other pros I think they are doing a stable release.  At least they are bowing their left wrist on the downswing and I'm not.  I think I was doing this but I stopped for some reason.  Will try this out tommorow at the range.

Shoulder to shoulder

Also the other day friend told me that I wasn't turning my shoulders.  This I always revert back to having a backswing with just my arms.  He said teacher told him to touch his chin to his shoulder on the backswing and then on the follow through.

Had last practice session before going on vacation for 3 weeks to Thailand.  This combined with keeping my head back and my swing is more correct than ever.  Ball was flying and contact was pure, irons and wedges.  A great way to leave on vacation with these good swing thoughts.  Will have to really try and remember this feeling.

Head back

Was working with a friend the other day and he held a club to the left side of my head.  It forced me to think about keeping my head back on the downswing.  This somehow helped to conserve my spine angle.  It felt like the club was swinging through more under my shoulders somehow.  Hard to describe but ball flight was much higher.  Have to try this again and check with video.  But feels more correct.

Hips

Got a new used R11 driver with a Fujikura blur 60 stiff shaft.  So I'm working extensively on my driver swing.  I just love some good sessions just swing, film, analyze, and repeat trying new things till the feeling is correct.  It's the fastest way that I've found to improve.  Otherwise I'm just hitting balls and I'm not sure if I'm reinforcing bad habits or not.  Well all the faults of my iron swings are accentuated with the driver.  So my usual standing up at impact was really noticeable.  I was also really trying to keep my right arm bent at impact.  I had correct several things.  One was my swing path.  It was still outside in so I had to really change it to inside out.  I also noticed from down the line that the pros right wrist sort of snapped after impact down the line.  Well mine just kept going through and didn't snap.  Well looking at the video I saw that my path was part of the problem being outside in.  So I hopefully corrected that.  That then corrected my systematic fade and slices.

Then with the driver I just had my usual standing up, butt in a impact.

I wasn't making progress so I had to do some real rethinking of what I was doing.  The feeling was completely wrong. Well I swung without a ball just too feel like what the position should be like.  I actually got into more correct positions.

So the next part was doing it with a ball.  I've gotten much better at this but it's still way off.  Well somehow I got to thinking about swinging with my hips.  For the first time really thinking about planting my right elbow on my right hip and then just rotating the hips.  Also really using my legs to push off and turn.  I hit a couple and with a slight tail wind the balls flew all the way to the far corner tree and fence.  It still doesn't look correct but they feeling is once again way different from where I started.

Coming in too steep

I looked at my swing and compared it to the pros (Rory, Tiger, etc) with the V1 Home program and with their irons they come in a lot more layed off and shallow than I am.  This program really helped me out since just looking at video is ok but your eyes play tricks on you so it's very helpful to draw lines to really see what's going on.  Also you can keep the lines in place and change videos so I'm comparing my angles directly to the pros.  So this is what I worked on today is coming in at a lower angle which meant for swing thoughts on backswing need to layoff more at the top.  Then on downswing drop the arms down and then turn through.
Before:

After:

This last video I compared to the pros and the downswing angle is looking much better.  I just need to keep turning the body towards the target.  My ass is also staying in place instead of pulling in.  Something I've been working on forever!! I lapsed a little till I thought about putting my right elbow into my right hip and pushing with my right hip to swing the club then things got better again.
This swing is complicated and fragile.  I don't know how I'm going to make it repeatable?
While doing this I also realized that my head didn't come up right before impact.  Well my head actually stayed in the exact same place but during the downswing it went down and toward the ball instead of staying in place.  So I tried keeping my head more level during my backswing and downswing and now my head stayed still at impact.
Here's the proof:

But for some reason I'm still hitting everything off the toe.  I was hoping that being less steep coming in would help this but I'm still struggling with it.  With my new Mizuno MP52s that makes for a lot of bad feedback in the hands.  I feel like I hit about 1 in 20 pure now.  Whereas before it was about 50% or even higher so something I still have to figure out.

Hands close to legs

Well my swing was doing great so on to the next piece which was the fact that my hands were so far  from my legs at impact.

This got me working on my backswing which was way to away and out in front of my body.  Here's the after.  I also realized that I wasn't turning my torso on the backswing it was all arms.  The new feeling is bringing the club back around me then lifting my arms.  It's a little dark but here's the after.

Swing don't hit made me finally have left side aligned at impact

I always read about swinging the club and not hitting the ball.  You're supposed to make pretend the ball isn't there and just swing the club and the ball just happens to get in the way.  Well that's actually a really hard thing to do because sub-consciously your body adjusts to hitting the ball.  That's why practice swings always look good and then when you hit a ball it's hard to reproduce.  Your body naturally corrects to hit the ball.  Well I had one of those break through moments that last about 10 or 20 balls where all of a sudden you try something new and then it works and then you almost can't do anything wrong.  All the balls are perfect.  You try to groove the feeling before it goes away and you forget what to do.  Well I had one of those moments recently while practicing.  For some reason I just turned my body on the backswing and then just turned my body back on the downswing.  I let my arms just really hang loose and I really tried to just let them be like spaghetti.  When I was swinging I felt like when I hit the ball my head was tilted sidewards and looking up to the sky.  So wasn't even looking at the ball at impact.  The balls were all of a sudden flying straight, far, and high.  I also felt a strange sensation in my lower back like for the first time ever I was actually using the gears in there.  My son filmed me.  To date this the best swing I've ever done.  Notice left side is aligned at impact.  Have never done that before and always wondered how to get in that position.

Here's the proof.