Re # 1080
Note how Amina's rear heel comes up before it turns in the figure eight exercises.
Then, when she actually serves, the front foot, flat until then, slightly leaves the ground and turns in mid-air.
Me, I'm holding the racket loosely at all times and with pinky off of the butt rim. I'm saying to myself, "You may be using gravity for your down and up, but, backward turn (a stretch actually) cannot be too slow or too long." In fact, I'm assigning the first half of this body turn to also facing the chest up at the sky. This can work well with toss, which can operate either in sequence or simultaneous with the forcing of the chest up at the sky.
With this new and early openness to the sky complete, the shoulders are then to wind back-- horizontally-- a short piece more.
Finally, I'm experimenting with stance more turned around than the conventional place, and with revival of a lower initial raising of the racket approximately to waist height.
The increased power this immediately produced on flat and slice serves I attribute to my rotordedness. If you don't have a big range of arm motion available to yourself, you should manufacture some. Its harder to counter body with perfect timing when your arm motion is minuscule.
For the out wide kick serve I have to remember to swing four times harder. Timing is everything, which means that, to swing harder, every single part of the serve has to go harder with no loss of proportion anywhere.
Note how Amina's rear heel comes up before it turns in the figure eight exercises.
Then, when she actually serves, the front foot, flat until then, slightly leaves the ground and turns in mid-air.
Me, I'm holding the racket loosely at all times and with pinky off of the butt rim. I'm saying to myself, "You may be using gravity for your down and up, but, backward turn (a stretch actually) cannot be too slow or too long." In fact, I'm assigning the first half of this body turn to also facing the chest up at the sky. This can work well with toss, which can operate either in sequence or simultaneous with the forcing of the chest up at the sky.
With this new and early openness to the sky complete, the shoulders are then to wind back-- horizontally-- a short piece more.
Finally, I'm experimenting with stance more turned around than the conventional place, and with revival of a lower initial raising of the racket approximately to waist height.
The increased power this immediately produced on flat and slice serves I attribute to my rotordedness. If you don't have a big range of arm motion available to yourself, you should manufacture some. Its harder to counter body with perfect timing when your arm motion is minuscule.
For the out wide kick serve I have to remember to swing four times harder. Timing is everything, which means that, to swing harder, every single part of the serve has to go harder with no loss of proportion anywhere.
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