If you are focusing on twisting and turning, meaning you only focused on waist/hips you are not using the lower body to control the upper body. The motion is still more from the upper body. To know the difference is to practice. When using the lower body more, your legs will get tired in the beginning and with the opposite-using the hips/waist, the work or tiredness will be felt more in the upper body.
This is also what is meant with having strong legs in traditional martial arts. This is the reason people hold stances, such as the horse stance, it is to be open the sinews of the legs. Increasing this flexibility of the sinews, allows one to be able to absorb and release explosive power. Nonetheless, on more internal level, by regulating this physicality. This enables the mind to settle more into the ground as you relax your centre of gravity.
The video below shows the difference between using the feet to drive the hips/waist as supposed to using the hips/waist only:
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