yea look, Brett Lee does have a good action in all areas.
But I have tried his load up at hip area, and I found I lost a bit of pace because I wasnt whipping the arm around from my usual position. My bowling hand goes up to around my right ear during the load up and I find it gives me more momentum and more pace. Loading up at the hip felt too restricting.
And yea the load up or gather is where you position your body and the ball before you start the downswing. ie Brett Lee's is at his hip, Shane Bond's is behind his head etc.
And if you are side on, make sure you look through the window of your left arm. ie look over your left shoulder.
I am a midway bowler, so I am not side on and not front on, more at 45 degrees so I am looking inside the front arm, imagine parallel lines. and get someone to see where your shoulders and hips point. make sure theyre baically pointing in the same direction.
So if you're side on, your hips and shoulders should be facing down the pitch, if you're front on, they should be parallel to the crease.
And theres varying degrees of midway actions, the most common one is the parallel lines are facing the slips, so your hips and shoulders will be pointing towards the slips which is what mine do.
And on goughy's point, ive seen goughy's action and he rushes in unusually aggressively, at least from my experiences.
That doesnt work for a lot of people because it throws off rhythm, but it obviously works for him so everyones different.
I had a look at it again and noticed youre looking inside your front arm.
If your back foot is parallel to the crease, and you're looking inside the front arm, your spine is going to have a lot more stress put onto it.
joke
because I'm probably only bowling 105-110 KM. I think i've got a pretty week core, so we'll see how the core strength training helps
