Snow Day
Work for MORE TIME between the toss and the hit. To do that, 1) release higher and 2) at least toss the ball higher! The hands start down together, but that's the last time for a while that they'll move at the same speed. For, in the time it takes the racket to glide from separation to a point slightly behind right leg, the tossing arm, getting long, has gone down straight and retraced its path then straight up to release. Now both hands can go up together at the same speed. The body finishing its bow backward and the hitting arm bending toward a right angle briefly squeeze the two hands toward each other from opposite directions high above you.
Forehand 2 (Valerie Ziegenfuss off of Roger Federer type preparation): Just bend and unbend arm. I called this "a sidearm throw," I know, but slow it down and make it smooth. At beginning of the forward motion send the front hip out. The arm will be straightening and you'll have a huge amount of shoulders rotation available to chime in late and prolong extension. Arm then returns to body the same. This is the spring don't swing stroke where I want wrist mondoing backward during contact (very delayed!) and frankly, I think this will work better without a stupid windshield wiper attached to it.
Forehand 1 (Federfore): Instead of extending arm forward, extend it backward, then sweep it around in solid connection to the body. Mondo occurs as sweep starts. Wiper occurs on the ball.
Backhand, imitating John McEnroe, who almost seems to form a bubble out to the side between his arm and body on every drive: He and Arthur Ashe slung racket to the outside, then changed direction with their continental wrist. No wonder they had such arguments in Davis Cup. They both employed a similar use of wrist.
Hope I'm right about that bit of tennis history. Regardless, it's what I'm going to do, using both elbow gouge and blades clench before wrist changes direction of the whole stroke. I also want to experiment with blade clench in one direction from anchor of the trailing hand, like JM. And with prolonged bend in the arm only less of it than I've had.
Work for MORE TIME between the toss and the hit. To do that, 1) release higher and 2) at least toss the ball higher! The hands start down together, but that's the last time for a while that they'll move at the same speed. For, in the time it takes the racket to glide from separation to a point slightly behind right leg, the tossing arm, getting long, has gone down straight and retraced its path then straight up to release. Now both hands can go up together at the same speed. The body finishing its bow backward and the hitting arm bending toward a right angle briefly squeeze the two hands toward each other from opposite directions high above you.
Forehand 2 (Valerie Ziegenfuss off of Roger Federer type preparation): Just bend and unbend arm. I called this "a sidearm throw," I know, but slow it down and make it smooth. At beginning of the forward motion send the front hip out. The arm will be straightening and you'll have a huge amount of shoulders rotation available to chime in late and prolong extension. Arm then returns to body the same. This is the spring don't swing stroke where I want wrist mondoing backward during contact (very delayed!) and frankly, I think this will work better without a stupid windshield wiper attached to it.
Forehand 1 (Federfore): Instead of extending arm forward, extend it backward, then sweep it around in solid connection to the body. Mondo occurs as sweep starts. Wiper occurs on the ball.
Backhand, imitating John McEnroe, who almost seems to form a bubble out to the side between his arm and body on every drive: He and Arthur Ashe slung racket to the outside, then changed direction with their continental wrist. No wonder they had such arguments in Davis Cup. They both employed a similar use of wrist.
Hope I'm right about that bit of tennis history. Regardless, it's what I'm going to do, using both elbow gouge and blades clench before wrist changes direction of the whole stroke. I also want to experiment with blade clench in one direction from anchor of the trailing hand, like JM. And with prolonged bend in the arm only less of it than I've had.
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