Fingers Adjustment for ATP3FH
Thumb and middle finger can offer 90 degrees of pitch adjustment without discombobulating this swing.
In bangboard drill I noticed that the ball was departing on a lower trajectory than I would like.
The bangboard system I use includes two bounces to allow time for more thought.
In actual play, I often find that I want to close the racket an extra bit especially if the oncoming ball is loaded with topspin.
It’s easy to be romantic and say that finger method, starting from a 3.5 grip, affords any pitch adjustment one wants.
One might have a day like that, but more likely the finger rolls, after a period of customization, will produce a 45 degree per shot adjustment in different direction.
From the beginning since I added these silently received schemes to my musings I have urged that one can use shots with or without the finger roll, which occurs when it does occur at the top of a Federer type forehand loop (unlike Lendl, hand stays at level where it started).
Also, from the beginning, the finger rolls have offered rebellion against the very complicated method Roger Federer himself uses for mid-stroke adjustment of pitch.
Whatever that method is I have forgotten having moved on from imitation of it.
So, I was hitting the ball too low against a bangboard. So I tried hitting the shots with no more backward thumb down middle finger roll.
Ball still too low. So I shall push middle finger down thumb instead.
Now the shots should work while opening new possibilities for hitting wide to a right-hander’s backhand.
Will take this notion to bangboard today and play doubles tomorrow.
Thumb and middle finger can offer 90 degrees of pitch adjustment without discombobulating this swing.
In bangboard drill I noticed that the ball was departing on a lower trajectory than I would like.
The bangboard system I use includes two bounces to allow time for more thought.
In actual play, I often find that I want to close the racket an extra bit especially if the oncoming ball is loaded with topspin.
It’s easy to be romantic and say that finger method, starting from a 3.5 grip, affords any pitch adjustment one wants.
One might have a day like that, but more likely the finger rolls, after a period of customization, will produce a 45 degree per shot adjustment in different direction.
From the beginning since I added these silently received schemes to my musings I have urged that one can use shots with or without the finger roll, which occurs when it does occur at the top of a Federer type forehand loop (unlike Lendl, hand stays at level where it started).
Also, from the beginning, the finger rolls have offered rebellion against the very complicated method Roger Federer himself uses for mid-stroke adjustment of pitch.
Whatever that method is I have forgotten having moved on from imitation of it.
So, I was hitting the ball too low against a bangboard. So I tried hitting the shots with no more backward thumb down middle finger roll.
Ball still too low. So I shall push middle finger down thumb instead.
Now the shots should work while opening new possibilities for hitting wide to a right-hander’s backhand.
Will take this notion to bangboard today and play doubles tomorrow.
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