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These videos caused me to hold serve:
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+...TF-8#kpvalbx=1
And another one featuring the same fellow, Tomaz Mencinger, in which he says, "Edge edge edge edge!" and in showing one how to throw has palm and ball facing right fence and then left fence-- a difference of about 135 degrees since front edge is going to start toward the net post.
So, I arrived at the courts seemingly overloaded with new serve ideas but with all of them focused on the basic of flow and therefore perhaps graspable at once.
Also came with two new forehands. One worked immediately, the other proved too fanciful probably ever to work although it led to something else perhaps more interesting.
The new forehand that works uses a long pencil-thin and rather linear loop that straightens arm and then assumes a double-bend as described in # 4363 .
The cochleates were already interesting as soft shots and maybe didn't need embellishment. Too fanciful: the notion that arm would bend in tandem with knees that also were bending.
But tennis ought to be fun, and a really fun shot to try is a Tom Okker imitation forehand with the hugest roundest loop possible behind you, a big mondo (flip) and a sinking of the huge hoop thus created into the ground. Arm stays straight, rolling to scrape the ball. If it's true from golf that overly bent knees catch the inside of an old bourbon cask, then good, the knees stopped all by themselves without further meddling by you and preserved fine balance. A shot to be used sparingly by me although I plan to keep it always in trim.
As for the cochleates (Nautilus shell spirals), the most interesting though least spectacular is the 243 described earlier-- the version of a Ziegenfuss in which the racket arm straightens and bends right up to the ball at which time one's bod gives it a nifty push.
To this I have added (and now accepted) a pair of variations. One a 243 in which the loop ends a foot-and-a-half before the ball thus starting weight transfer earlier, the other a 252 in which one gets the racket lower for extra scissoring with the addition of a bit of radial deviation which sounds like sociopathic perversion so must be good.
These videos caused me to hold serve:
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+...TF-8#kpvalbx=1
And another one featuring the same fellow, Tomaz Mencinger, in which he says, "Edge edge edge edge!" and in showing one how to throw has palm and ball facing right fence and then left fence-- a difference of about 135 degrees since front edge is going to start toward the net post.
So, I arrived at the courts seemingly overloaded with new serve ideas but with all of them focused on the basic of flow and therefore perhaps graspable at once.
Also came with two new forehands. One worked immediately, the other proved too fanciful probably ever to work although it led to something else perhaps more interesting.
The new forehand that works uses a long pencil-thin and rather linear loop that straightens arm and then assumes a double-bend as described in # 4363 .
The cochleates were already interesting as soft shots and maybe didn't need embellishment. Too fanciful: the notion that arm would bend in tandem with knees that also were bending.
But tennis ought to be fun, and a really fun shot to try is a Tom Okker imitation forehand with the hugest roundest loop possible behind you, a big mondo (flip) and a sinking of the huge hoop thus created into the ground. Arm stays straight, rolling to scrape the ball. If it's true from golf that overly bent knees catch the inside of an old bourbon cask, then good, the knees stopped all by themselves without further meddling by you and preserved fine balance. A shot to be used sparingly by me although I plan to keep it always in trim.
As for the cochleates (Nautilus shell spirals), the most interesting though least spectacular is the 243 described earlier-- the version of a Ziegenfuss in which the racket arm straightens and bends right up to the ball at which time one's bod gives it a nifty push.
To this I have added (and now accepted) a pair of variations. One a 243 in which the loop ends a foot-and-a-half before the ball thus starting weight transfer earlier, the other a 252 in which one gets the racket lower for extra scissoring with the addition of a bit of radial deviation which sounds like sociopathic perversion so must be good.
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