Adding Finesse to One's Personalized Version of Ziegenfuss
Once one realizes how much a Federfore consists of hurling a telephone pole from back to side fence, one may be ready, like me, to reconsider any possible and perhaps extremely useful opposite to this stroke.
The term "telephone pole" is not to be taken as literal since arms must always relax and remain pliable in tennis even when extended. Straight is still bent a little. But Roger Federer throws a huge unit back there, with windshield wiper in both directions the significant additive.
The second term "throws" refers to a whole constellation of exertion but more specifically here to what the extended left arm ignition does-- it fires left to start a body rotation that is much earlier than any of us ever learned or taught ourselves except maybe for Tom Okker.
Me, I don't want to use both hands on the racket to take the shoulders very far around in my initial move-- some yes and that's essential. But the real fun is in using left arm pointing across to do the bulk of the job, and early.
So, what's the opposite of all this? A closed Ziegenfuss in which there's no exigency about getting the shoulders around because you won't be using them for a long while. Nor will you "throw." You'll spring not swing. So take your time for the love of Pete.
Well, I couldn't love him too much when he was young since he didn't make me laugh enough, but he's gotten a whole lot better with age as has Ivan Lendl.
Back to the Ziegenfuss. Valerie Ziegenfuss equals arm first, body finishing it off. So why not invent a strange pair of pincers? Instead of pointing at right fence quickly, point at it slowly, taking body turn a bit at a time.
Fooey. You could be turning shoulders backward right up to the time that you reverse them forward, I wouldn't care. And why not just leave left arm where it is, relaxed? The body rotation will take it away just before converging right arm passes under it or collides with it.
Once one realizes how much a Federfore consists of hurling a telephone pole from back to side fence, one may be ready, like me, to reconsider any possible and perhaps extremely useful opposite to this stroke.
The term "telephone pole" is not to be taken as literal since arms must always relax and remain pliable in tennis even when extended. Straight is still bent a little. But Roger Federer throws a huge unit back there, with windshield wiper in both directions the significant additive.
The second term "throws" refers to a whole constellation of exertion but more specifically here to what the extended left arm ignition does-- it fires left to start a body rotation that is much earlier than any of us ever learned or taught ourselves except maybe for Tom Okker.
Me, I don't want to use both hands on the racket to take the shoulders very far around in my initial move-- some yes and that's essential. But the real fun is in using left arm pointing across to do the bulk of the job, and early.
So, what's the opposite of all this? A closed Ziegenfuss in which there's no exigency about getting the shoulders around because you won't be using them for a long while. Nor will you "throw." You'll spring not swing. So take your time for the love of Pete.
Well, I couldn't love him too much when he was young since he didn't make me laugh enough, but he's gotten a whole lot better with age as has Ivan Lendl.
Back to the Ziegenfuss. Valerie Ziegenfuss equals arm first, body finishing it off. So why not invent a strange pair of pincers? Instead of pointing at right fence quickly, point at it slowly, taking body turn a bit at a time.
Fooey. You could be turning shoulders backward right up to the time that you reverse them forward, I wouldn't care. And why not just leave left arm where it is, relaxed? The body rotation will take it away just before converging right arm passes under it or collides with it.
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