All Brush, No Weight
Engineer 2 does not like the previous post in which he feels that quality of spin has deteriorated through failure to get one's racket tip low enough.
To listen to engineer 2 we'll coil like a snake to side and down low with arm severely squeezed as if trying to go through the eye of a needle.
Now we pitch the hitting shoulder down as we do on all of our forehands. What's really different is that although hips rotate, they don't rotate hard or far, and the two feet remain flat (but not locked!) so that balance transfers easily from one to the other.
In a normal grounded forehand the rear heel now would come up to complete the angular push. In other words your hips would complete a second half of rotation. No, we've used all the hips we're going to: The shot with rod (forearm) finally pointed at the target rather than parallel to the net will be all flip and wipe.
But do we want that much sequence? Maybe the whole forward shot can happen within the gentle framework of balance transfer from outside to inside foot.
Then: Need a little more weight to get ball to target? Widen the stride. Less weight to bring ball down on target? Narrow (verb) the stride.
Engineer 2 does not like the previous post in which he feels that quality of spin has deteriorated through failure to get one's racket tip low enough.
To listen to engineer 2 we'll coil like a snake to side and down low with arm severely squeezed as if trying to go through the eye of a needle.
Now we pitch the hitting shoulder down as we do on all of our forehands. What's really different is that although hips rotate, they don't rotate hard or far, and the two feet remain flat (but not locked!) so that balance transfers easily from one to the other.
In a normal grounded forehand the rear heel now would come up to complete the angular push. In other words your hips would complete a second half of rotation. No, we've used all the hips we're going to: The shot with rod (forearm) finally pointed at the target rather than parallel to the net will be all flip and wipe.
But do we want that much sequence? Maybe the whole forward shot can happen within the gentle framework of balance transfer from outside to inside foot.
Then: Need a little more weight to get ball to target? Widen the stride. Less weight to bring ball down on target? Narrow (verb) the stride.
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