Curled Racket Serves
What you are willing to try must have intrinsic worth. That means the idea could be lousy; still, it's an idea. And not all pros and players give new ideas in tennis their proper due.
The idea under consideration is best expressed in a tennis tip from TennisTeacher.com :
"Imagine that you put your hand above your head, with the wrist bent inwards, looking at your palm as if protecting your head from the rain (with your index finger pointing to your left), then moving it slightly forward and mainly to the right (for a right-hander), and finishing with your index finger pointing to your right, with the wrist still bent inward.
"Another analogy would be pushing your hair forward and then to the right.
"What is remarkable is that the player accelerates the racket head more in the second serve than in the first serve, but across to the right rather than forward. And the more he accelerates the more spin he gets, the more the ball goes into the service court, and the more it jumps."
The most jump I've generated in this method occurred when I used a simple knees-back, knees-forward sequence to:
1) cock the wrist behind me, pre-loading the upper arm.
2) Released upper arm twist simultaneous with front leg thrust
3) Kept upper arm twisting hard as triceps exploded arm way out to right
4) Remembered the part about keeping grip looser even than on a first serve
5) Took it easy, going for harmonious rhythm without muscling anything too much even through triceptic firing clearly is pure muscular discharge
6) Adjusted toss, contact point and elbow level to ensure an upward racket path at impact
7) Used extreme backhand grip in addition to curling wrist inward at outset of serve
8) Payed with the HUBR/VUBR ratio for most effective upward RHS (HUBR equals "horizontal upper body rotation"; VUBR equals "vertical upper body rotation"; RHS equals "racket head speed").
Serving this way is NOT a lousy idea. I've witnessed these serves working: In some cases the hand almost grazes the head. A distinguished member of the Wake Forest University women's varsity, from Russia, appears to use this method on first and second. Me, I want it as an option for second only. Then again, I am a "rotorded" server, which doesn't imply anything about the human mind although some would disagree. "Rotorded" refers to inflexibility in rotors in the shoulder.
So, can a rotorded server incorporate this provocative idea from Oscar Wegner, which gives up a primary late instant contributor to racket head speed in the first serve studies by Brian Gordon, viz., wrist flexion? Will it work? I think so although best response is still sporadic and I haven't mastered it yet.
What you are willing to try must have intrinsic worth. That means the idea could be lousy; still, it's an idea. And not all pros and players give new ideas in tennis their proper due.
The idea under consideration is best expressed in a tennis tip from TennisTeacher.com :
"Imagine that you put your hand above your head, with the wrist bent inwards, looking at your palm as if protecting your head from the rain (with your index finger pointing to your left), then moving it slightly forward and mainly to the right (for a right-hander), and finishing with your index finger pointing to your right, with the wrist still bent inward.
"Another analogy would be pushing your hair forward and then to the right.
"What is remarkable is that the player accelerates the racket head more in the second serve than in the first serve, but across to the right rather than forward. And the more he accelerates the more spin he gets, the more the ball goes into the service court, and the more it jumps."
The most jump I've generated in this method occurred when I used a simple knees-back, knees-forward sequence to:
1) cock the wrist behind me, pre-loading the upper arm.
2) Released upper arm twist simultaneous with front leg thrust
3) Kept upper arm twisting hard as triceps exploded arm way out to right
4) Remembered the part about keeping grip looser even than on a first serve
5) Took it easy, going for harmonious rhythm without muscling anything too much even through triceptic firing clearly is pure muscular discharge
6) Adjusted toss, contact point and elbow level to ensure an upward racket path at impact
7) Used extreme backhand grip in addition to curling wrist inward at outset of serve
8) Payed with the HUBR/VUBR ratio for most effective upward RHS (HUBR equals "horizontal upper body rotation"; VUBR equals "vertical upper body rotation"; RHS equals "racket head speed").
Serving this way is NOT a lousy idea. I've witnessed these serves working: In some cases the hand almost grazes the head. A distinguished member of the Wake Forest University women's varsity, from Russia, appears to use this method on first and second. Me, I want it as an option for second only. Then again, I am a "rotorded" server, which doesn't imply anything about the human mind although some would disagree. "Rotorded" refers to inflexibility in rotors in the shoulder.
So, can a rotorded server incorporate this provocative idea from Oscar Wegner, which gives up a primary late instant contributor to racket head speed in the first serve studies by Brian Gordon, viz., wrist flexion? Will it work? I think so although best response is still sporadic and I haven't mastered it yet.
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