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[JanWaechli]

great article!
but to avoid injury please keep your back straith. you can only do this if you turn your shoulders enough, and bend at your hitting arms waist. if your other sides shoulder falls to much backwards, you will get injured! watch how strait the back of boris, federer, mc enroe(for us oldis) are. they bend sideways, not in to there back!

mahalo
jan

[uspta146749877]

Arching back

great article!
but to avoid injury please keep your back straith. you can only do this if you turn your shoulders enough, and bend at your hitting arms waist. if your other sides shoulder falls to much backwards, you will get injured! watch how strait the back of boris, federer, mc enroe(for us oldis) are. they bend sideways, not in to there back!

mahalo
jan

The question is:
which way do they arch in the article in the New Issue?
See for EXAMPLE the SECOND PICTURE/video clip of the article

[JanWaechli]

kick serve

good eye,... the second pic is the bad example..... just compare it to rodick, and then go to the court, and try both positons. you will feel the difference right away.

[JanWaechli]

kick serve

oh, and the last two pics are also good examples on how not, and how to do it.

[JanWaechli]

kick serve

why should you have to arc your back to put true topspin, or kick, on the ball!!
if we are talking about arcing sideways, with turned shoulders, ok. but not backwards! as a righty it is only a matter of brushing more of the left side of the ball upwards, and that is definitely also possible with arcing sideways. Why should the pros be able to kick serve if not? we should just simply start teaching our juniors to turn the shoulders as much as the pros. And yes, starting as soon as they are able to slice serve.

[uspta146749877]

Serve

why should you have to arc your back to put true topspin, or kick, on the ball!!
if we are talking about arcing sideways, with turned shoulders, ok. but not backwards! as a righty it is only a matter of brushing more of the left side of the ball upwards, and that is definitely also possible with arcing sideways. Why should the pros be able to kick serve if not? we should just simply start teaching our juniors to turn the shoulders as much as the pros. And yes, starting as soon as they are able to slice serve.

See as well

http://dps.usta.com/usta_master/usta/doc/content/doc_437_1400.pdf?6/2/2008%202:29:49%20PM