So What Mistakes Have I Been Making Recently?
Craig B. Mello, Nobel Laureate in Medicine: "You're either wrong or you're partially right."
Partially right has been the idea that the racket backswings slightly down and up in a John McEnroe patterned forehand.
Wrong is the notion that this backswing is severely to the inside.
Saturnalian ring theory, creeping over from backhand, says to use backswing to create the separation you want.
Then, with arm pretty straight (but not completely) and wrist straight too but relaxed, not locked, you can cue the ball anywhere you want.
How? Through the application of Dry Bones Theory (kinetic chain)? If you insist. But how's this for interesting sequence: Shoulders, spiraling up hips beneath swinging shoulders, more shoulders?
Very different, that, from a forehand in which the shoulders are supposed to stop so that the arm will take off.
The arm does take off sometimes but then there are the lead elbow shots.
Perhaps we don't hear the expression "lead elbow" often enough. Or "arm taking a solo." Or "non-transfer of energy as you start the stroke with your arm all over again."
Think of making contact precisely when both shoulders and rising hips are in full crank.
But one can get bored with anything, especially if one is a dull person. Time then to stay down and Hoganize the swing.
Putting slight play in the arm and wrist equals three pinches of allspice. Think of identical backswing and foreswing. What would one get? Weak slice from golf.
Keep knees comfortably bent and send out twirling hips like Ben Hogan to modify the foregoing into an inside out swing.
Craig B. Mello, Nobel Laureate in Medicine: "You're either wrong or you're partially right."
Partially right has been the idea that the racket backswings slightly down and up in a John McEnroe patterned forehand.
Wrong is the notion that this backswing is severely to the inside.
Saturnalian ring theory, creeping over from backhand, says to use backswing to create the separation you want.
Then, with arm pretty straight (but not completely) and wrist straight too but relaxed, not locked, you can cue the ball anywhere you want.
How? Through the application of Dry Bones Theory (kinetic chain)? If you insist. But how's this for interesting sequence: Shoulders, spiraling up hips beneath swinging shoulders, more shoulders?
Very different, that, from a forehand in which the shoulders are supposed to stop so that the arm will take off.
The arm does take off sometimes but then there are the lead elbow shots.
Perhaps we don't hear the expression "lead elbow" often enough. Or "arm taking a solo." Or "non-transfer of energy as you start the stroke with your arm all over again."
Think of making contact precisely when both shoulders and rising hips are in full crank.
But one can get bored with anything, especially if one is a dull person. Time then to stay down and Hoganize the swing.
Putting slight play in the arm and wrist equals three pinches of allspice. Think of identical backswing and foreswing. What would one get? Weak slice from golf.
Keep knees comfortably bent and send out twirling hips like Ben Hogan to modify the foregoing into an inside out swing.
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