New Thought on the Federer Forehand
As recently as last year John McEnroe predicted that the Rogerhorn would soon wear down, an interesting if so far inaccurate idea.
The Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia, e.g., once were 45,000 feet tall and everyone knows this even if they fall in the 2000-4000 feet range right now.
And in Switzerland there are horns all over the place-- a Lauberhorn named after Lauber while yoked to the smaller Escherhorn named after Alfred Escher, engineer of the nineteenth century tunnel through the bottom of The Jungfrau.
Whether the Swiss eventually re-name one of their mountains the Rogerhorn, the Federhorn, the Federerhorn or something else, Roger's forehand will figure intimately in the honor.
So how does Roger's forehand compare with the officially edited version of it, which appears in the first of the three wireframe videos on the front page that currently opens this website?
More awkward really. The same closing of the racket face at top of the loop is more pronounced because of the way that he (Roger) and Hingis both lift up the racket tip near beginning of their windup.
The wireframe animation here based on 3D data of actual students of Brian Gordon represents a successful editing or simplification of what Roger does.
And one good simplification deserves another. So why not, reader, just turn your elbow up as part of your backswing?
You will have eliminated one entire step to close your racket face and that is huge.
Oh, you say you need a timing pause at top of your loop? Then use that time to float your strings upward or downward or leave them where they are.
As recently as last year John McEnroe predicted that the Rogerhorn would soon wear down, an interesting if so far inaccurate idea.
The Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia, e.g., once were 45,000 feet tall and everyone knows this even if they fall in the 2000-4000 feet range right now.
And in Switzerland there are horns all over the place-- a Lauberhorn named after Lauber while yoked to the smaller Escherhorn named after Alfred Escher, engineer of the nineteenth century tunnel through the bottom of The Jungfrau.
Whether the Swiss eventually re-name one of their mountains the Rogerhorn, the Federhorn, the Federerhorn or something else, Roger's forehand will figure intimately in the honor.
So how does Roger's forehand compare with the officially edited version of it, which appears in the first of the three wireframe videos on the front page that currently opens this website?
More awkward really. The same closing of the racket face at top of the loop is more pronounced because of the way that he (Roger) and Hingis both lift up the racket tip near beginning of their windup.
The wireframe animation here based on 3D data of actual students of Brian Gordon represents a successful editing or simplification of what Roger does.
And one good simplification deserves another. So why not, reader, just turn your elbow up as part of your backswing?
You will have eliminated one entire step to close your racket face and that is huge.
Oh, you say you need a timing pause at top of your loop? Then use that time to float your strings upward or downward or leave them where they are.
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