GCA Lead Coach Mike Malizia did this video about whether or not you must raise your lead heel or now not. Here, take a look:
The key here is that you don't decide to lift your heel or keep it down. Rather, it's your flexibility when you turn that causes your lead heel to lift. Lifting your heel isn't a decision you make; it's just a reaction you have. As Malizia says, the less flexible you are, the more your lead heel will lift. If you stay relaxed, your heel will just be pulled off the ground naturally and the sequencing will be correct.
And while your heel is pulled off the floor, you will get a totally herbal weight shift. To start down, you just let your lead heel settle backtrack onto the floor and -- as I said -- the sequencing may be correct.
But I disagree with Malizia on one factor. Just due to the fact you are bendy sufficient to maintain your lead heel at the floor does not imply you should. I'm flexible enough to maintain my heel at the ground... However after I do, my lead hip drops a piece and it modifications my backbone perspective from the way it was at deal with. Trust me, you have to make a compensation on the manner right down to accurate that! You do not want to make compensations if you can avoid it.
My advice is to just make your hip turn and let your lead heel raise if it wants. Depending on how flexible you are, it may only lift a little... or it may lift a lot. But don't try to make it do either one. Just let it happen naturally and you'll get a more consistent swing motion.
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