Vijay Serve: Who Cares If It Works?
I mean, "What Does It Matter Whom It's Named After, If It Works?"
Applying my own simultaneity idea to my gimpy-legged serve, I remain tall as I sway forward on the toss and then use “threshing heels” as central structure of the stroke.
The first part of the thresh combines bowing out of the front hip with backward rotation of same and a raising of front heel on its toes. How about bending elbow (which is far back) to desired palm down pose at the same time?
The second part of the thresh combines forward hips rotation and forward belly rotation and triceptic extension and upper arm rotation—and everything else that comprises vigorous throw from beginning to end.
The simultaneity design supposes that player attains mystical kinetic chain benefit when firing everything at same time to let larger muscle groups naturally overpower (i.e., pre-load) the smaller groups for timed release.
The palm down machinations of Vic Braden thus come back into play with a vengeance to create a new recipe. Leg injury may be necessary for a stubbornly obtuse player to finally absorb the wisdom of coaches who have always told him that vertical leg thrust, educationally speaking, screws up a serve before it helps it.
Rotordedness, to my mind, is part of the equation too. One wants, ideally, upper arm to twist the racket straight down to counter leg thrust up.
But when leeway for this isn’t available in the rotor compartment, one must invent. One may ask, what vector is opposite to the force created by hips and gut in what is basically a whirligig serve?
And what is a whirligig anyway? It is, according to my favorite unreliable source for all information, Wikipedia, “a kinetic garden ornament” that can even be “designed to transmit sound and vibration into the ground to repel burrowing rodents...”
Of course it also might, as in the infinitely sad South American movie, “The Green Wall,” attract a 10-foot bushmaster.
Anyway, how successful can a player be in changing horizontal force of a whirligig into upward racket head path?
That’s difficult but not impossible.
As has recently been pointed out, I’ve changed my serve much too much throughout my tennis career. (But always for a reason, I would assert. A tall person with a weak serve makes no sense.)
Chuffed by huge success both in re-conceiving Rosewallian slice and in alternating ATP Forehands with McEnroe imitation forehands, I think that the people eager to steer everybody away from the intricacy of stroke mechanics are making a chronic mistake.
The players who fail to discover the best stroke mechanics for themselves, before or after professional instruction, usually haven’t given this effort enough of a chance.
As Rick Macci has suggested for people who might be “in the zip code” of The ATP Forehand, they may only need a judicious tweak or two to suddenly make everything work.
And how, I ask, does such a tweak occur? Through science, intuition, fooling around, informal conversation, professional instruction, self-feeding, bangboard, ball machine, simple hitting, recreational matches, tournament matches?...any and all.
If there weren’t rain outside today, I’d try a down together up together serve with upper arm parallel to court like a yardarm toward rear fence. With racket tip pointed down as if stirring a sauce in a look like Vijay Amritraj.
The simultaneity of horizontal whirligig throw will then, if I’m lucky, use up the looseness of upper arm twist I have instilled with just enough play left to send pre-loading tip somewhat down.
As in Beethoven: "Fate shall not drag me entirely down."
I mean, "What Does It Matter Whom It's Named After, If It Works?"
Applying my own simultaneity idea to my gimpy-legged serve, I remain tall as I sway forward on the toss and then use “threshing heels” as central structure of the stroke.
The first part of the thresh combines bowing out of the front hip with backward rotation of same and a raising of front heel on its toes. How about bending elbow (which is far back) to desired palm down pose at the same time?
The second part of the thresh combines forward hips rotation and forward belly rotation and triceptic extension and upper arm rotation—and everything else that comprises vigorous throw from beginning to end.
The simultaneity design supposes that player attains mystical kinetic chain benefit when firing everything at same time to let larger muscle groups naturally overpower (i.e., pre-load) the smaller groups for timed release.
The palm down machinations of Vic Braden thus come back into play with a vengeance to create a new recipe. Leg injury may be necessary for a stubbornly obtuse player to finally absorb the wisdom of coaches who have always told him that vertical leg thrust, educationally speaking, screws up a serve before it helps it.
Rotordedness, to my mind, is part of the equation too. One wants, ideally, upper arm to twist the racket straight down to counter leg thrust up.
But when leeway for this isn’t available in the rotor compartment, one must invent. One may ask, what vector is opposite to the force created by hips and gut in what is basically a whirligig serve?
And what is a whirligig anyway? It is, according to my favorite unreliable source for all information, Wikipedia, “a kinetic garden ornament” that can even be “designed to transmit sound and vibration into the ground to repel burrowing rodents...”
Of course it also might, as in the infinitely sad South American movie, “The Green Wall,” attract a 10-foot bushmaster.
Anyway, how successful can a player be in changing horizontal force of a whirligig into upward racket head path?
That’s difficult but not impossible.
As has recently been pointed out, I’ve changed my serve much too much throughout my tennis career. (But always for a reason, I would assert. A tall person with a weak serve makes no sense.)
Chuffed by huge success both in re-conceiving Rosewallian slice and in alternating ATP Forehands with McEnroe imitation forehands, I think that the people eager to steer everybody away from the intricacy of stroke mechanics are making a chronic mistake.
The players who fail to discover the best stroke mechanics for themselves, before or after professional instruction, usually haven’t given this effort enough of a chance.
As Rick Macci has suggested for people who might be “in the zip code” of The ATP Forehand, they may only need a judicious tweak or two to suddenly make everything work.
And how, I ask, does such a tweak occur? Through science, intuition, fooling around, informal conversation, professional instruction, self-feeding, bangboard, ball machine, simple hitting, recreational matches, tournament matches?...any and all.
If there weren’t rain outside today, I’d try a down together up together serve with upper arm parallel to court like a yardarm toward rear fence. With racket tip pointed down as if stirring a sauce in a look like Vijay Amritraj.
The simultaneity of horizontal whirligig throw will then, if I’m lucky, use up the looseness of upper arm twist I have instilled with just enough play left to send pre-loading tip somewhat down.
As in Beethoven: "Fate shall not drag me entirely down."
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