High Left Ready Position Makes You Want to Tracycake the Opponent
Let's interview Maxim Gorkovich, a hayfield foreman of Count Leo Tolstoy.
"Maxim, is there anyone in your crew who doesn't use the down and up backswing?"
"Oh sure. Osip Oblomov. He reasons that his followthrough has already attained any height that he might want, so he simply circles his body with his scythe."
A whispering sickle is a single handed scythe, one reasons with a sigh. I know I denied something to this effect in earlier exchange with lobndropshot but really he was right, I wrong. His Finnish forebears' sickle-- the one that gave him his tennis forehand-- could be useful again if one were only willing to turn one's arm and one's shoulders perhaps at two different speeds.
Sequence though-- ridiculous! A retarded elementary school shop teacher came up with that harebrained notion and the whole tennis world-- naturally-- followed him down the primrose path including Roger Federer.
This is the corroded paradigm. Turn your shoulders first by keeping opposite hand on the throat. Then separate the hands. Oh sure. Why take one step when you can use two? Why do anything simple when you can anguish endlessly about just where or when to separate the hands?
In a single move, then, one can 1) smoothly point across with opposite hand, 2) smoothly swing the slightly bent arm around with racket head still higher than hand so that four scoops of barber pole striped maple taffy ice cream wouldn't fall out of a cone, 3) smoothly rotate the shoulders.
Time to shift to baseball.
Here's Steve's sidearm pitch:
Dunno. This Duck clearly uses down-and-up. You must admit, reader, he doesn't use an overhand loop like Federer or Lendl but does keep his mitts together for a time.
But he is a pitcher following his own time, not the time of an oncoming ball.
If instead of down-and-up one does go Tracycake, one can still get the sidearm whip. Coming from ground up core rotation. Just don't start the forward core stuff overly soon.
Get the foot down first.
Face it, this is a forehand fast beyond belief. And if you can control it, you are Ellsworth Vines, i.e., good enough.
But the next question is how to add topspin. Or as Steve asks, "What elements of the ATP 3 forehand do you detect?...Footwork? Body Rotation? Motion of the arm? Follow through?..."
My footwork isn't very good today but I've already discussed body rotation. As for motion of the arm, Ducky is cutting a long and broad swatch of hay. Followthrough? Out to side exactly like Chris Evert.
As for this Duck's wrist and forearm action, however, my eyes may not be good enough to see what he has done.
(Escher looks again. He sees flip/mondo. All I would say is remember to rotate frame the full 90 degrees before the followthrough is much underway. And don't do this when hitting the Ellsworth or Chrissie or Jimmie or Tracy or Buffy or Muffy.)
I see real signficance here. It all starts however with taking opposite hand off the racket much sooner than Roger Federer does.
Let's interview Maxim Gorkovich, a hayfield foreman of Count Leo Tolstoy.
"Maxim, is there anyone in your crew who doesn't use the down and up backswing?"
"Oh sure. Osip Oblomov. He reasons that his followthrough has already attained any height that he might want, so he simply circles his body with his scythe."
A whispering sickle is a single handed scythe, one reasons with a sigh. I know I denied something to this effect in earlier exchange with lobndropshot but really he was right, I wrong. His Finnish forebears' sickle-- the one that gave him his tennis forehand-- could be useful again if one were only willing to turn one's arm and one's shoulders perhaps at two different speeds.
Sequence though-- ridiculous! A retarded elementary school shop teacher came up with that harebrained notion and the whole tennis world-- naturally-- followed him down the primrose path including Roger Federer.
This is the corroded paradigm. Turn your shoulders first by keeping opposite hand on the throat. Then separate the hands. Oh sure. Why take one step when you can use two? Why do anything simple when you can anguish endlessly about just where or when to separate the hands?
In a single move, then, one can 1) smoothly point across with opposite hand, 2) smoothly swing the slightly bent arm around with racket head still higher than hand so that four scoops of barber pole striped maple taffy ice cream wouldn't fall out of a cone, 3) smoothly rotate the shoulders.
Time to shift to baseball.
Here's Steve's sidearm pitch:
Dunno. This Duck clearly uses down-and-up. You must admit, reader, he doesn't use an overhand loop like Federer or Lendl but does keep his mitts together for a time.
But he is a pitcher following his own time, not the time of an oncoming ball.
If instead of down-and-up one does go Tracycake, one can still get the sidearm whip. Coming from ground up core rotation. Just don't start the forward core stuff overly soon.
Get the foot down first.
Face it, this is a forehand fast beyond belief. And if you can control it, you are Ellsworth Vines, i.e., good enough.
But the next question is how to add topspin. Or as Steve asks, "What elements of the ATP 3 forehand do you detect?...Footwork? Body Rotation? Motion of the arm? Follow through?..."
My footwork isn't very good today but I've already discussed body rotation. As for motion of the arm, Ducky is cutting a long and broad swatch of hay. Followthrough? Out to side exactly like Chris Evert.
As for this Duck's wrist and forearm action, however, my eyes may not be good enough to see what he has done.
(Escher looks again. He sees flip/mondo. All I would say is remember to rotate frame the full 90 degrees before the followthrough is much underway. And don't do this when hitting the Ellsworth or Chrissie or Jimmie or Tracy or Buffy or Muffy.)
I see real signficance here. It all starts however with taking opposite hand off the racket much sooner than Roger Federer does.
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