Cut the Wire Type Release
Pulling the knob expands the zone in which you hit through the ball.-- Craig Monroe
This precept applies to tennis as well as baseball, but, pulling the knob to shrink-wrap the sharpest turn to make it coincide for longest with one's contact point certainly is counter-intuitive.
Coincides then while it goes the fastest.
This discussion for me right now is both about topspin backhands and Federfores, where the spearing also qualifies as "pulling the knob."
A one hand topspin backhand of any kind is really two hand one hand only with different places where the two hands separate.
For 1htsbh to short tee, the backhand that interests me most right now, one can do the sit and hit described in # 2175 and then build tension while spearing from rear thigh to front thigh.
Cue possibility then becomes good if one has the diagonal thumb behind racket that I have come with pain to advise.
Vic Braden used to use a magic marker to draw an X on the ball of the thumb and tell people to swing the X toward the target.
If in trying to employ cut the wire technology however you build tension between hands while spearing the small amount from rear to front thigh, you may want to keep spearing more after the sudden hand separation. You will want to do this especially if you have the idea in mind of pulling on the butt ring.
Don't do it. That is a mistake. Press with thumb in a circular swing pattern instead while guide hand holds the tip back, i.e., creates the spear.
You try to swing while you actually spear. While the two hands fight each other. You build turning (swinging) tension. Release of the racket then springs the strings around through the ball.
Tennis strokes are best learned from feel over logic, and the feel of this scheme will have to be bizarre. You will stub the racket out of the opposite hand.
So there is tension-- wonderful. Completely relax however or nothing will work.
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Upon further reflection, pulling knob toward ball though not by the butt rim seems best prescription for one's Federfore as well.
On backhand side one has the use of two hands to build up some future racket head speed. On forehand side, one can do a one-handed mondo for the same purpose.
One only has to think of mondo or flip as three elements: sudden wrist layback, sudden winding back of forearm and protracted effort to make something go straight that would rather swing around.
Call the suddenness part of the effort at protraction followed by a "cut the wire" type release.
An implication of this at least for me is no more loose motion from the shoulder at this point. Extra turn of the shoulder compared to classic method, not looseness at the shoulder, makes the spear stay straight for a long time and get out front.
Pulling the knob expands the zone in which you hit through the ball.-- Craig Monroe
This precept applies to tennis as well as baseball, but, pulling the knob to shrink-wrap the sharpest turn to make it coincide for longest with one's contact point certainly is counter-intuitive.
Coincides then while it goes the fastest.
This discussion for me right now is both about topspin backhands and Federfores, where the spearing also qualifies as "pulling the knob."
A one hand topspin backhand of any kind is really two hand one hand only with different places where the two hands separate.
For 1htsbh to short tee, the backhand that interests me most right now, one can do the sit and hit described in # 2175 and then build tension while spearing from rear thigh to front thigh.
Cue possibility then becomes good if one has the diagonal thumb behind racket that I have come with pain to advise.
Vic Braden used to use a magic marker to draw an X on the ball of the thumb and tell people to swing the X toward the target.
If in trying to employ cut the wire technology however you build tension between hands while spearing the small amount from rear to front thigh, you may want to keep spearing more after the sudden hand separation. You will want to do this especially if you have the idea in mind of pulling on the butt ring.
Don't do it. That is a mistake. Press with thumb in a circular swing pattern instead while guide hand holds the tip back, i.e., creates the spear.
You try to swing while you actually spear. While the two hands fight each other. You build turning (swinging) tension. Release of the racket then springs the strings around through the ball.
Tennis strokes are best learned from feel over logic, and the feel of this scheme will have to be bizarre. You will stub the racket out of the opposite hand.
So there is tension-- wonderful. Completely relax however or nothing will work.
*************************************
Upon further reflection, pulling knob toward ball though not by the butt rim seems best prescription for one's Federfore as well.
On backhand side one has the use of two hands to build up some future racket head speed. On forehand side, one can do a one-handed mondo for the same purpose.
One only has to think of mondo or flip as three elements: sudden wrist layback, sudden winding back of forearm and protracted effort to make something go straight that would rather swing around.
Call the suddenness part of the effort at protraction followed by a "cut the wire" type release.
An implication of this at least for me is no more loose motion from the shoulder at this point. Extra turn of the shoulder compared to classic method, not looseness at the shoulder, makes the spear stay straight for a long time and get out front.
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