In Praise of the First Subtle Distinction Among Serves
I refuse to keep things simple. There are enough people trying to do that in tennis already, and not one of them is playing at Wimbledon.
There are two basic ways to serve, although the espouser of one will seldom recognize the validity much less the existence of the other:
1) Leg drive is early
2) Leg drive is late
To his credit, the owner of this website once recommended that a person do the one or the other but not both-- although he might or might not agree with the way I have indexed them.
The first group includes nearly all the elite players we have seen on the tour except maybe for Roscoe Tanner and a few other alleged freaks.
Among recreational players, the two categories seem evenly split. The simplest version of way 2) occurs in the two bucket drill, where a lab rat student, with one leg in one bucket, other in the other, turns to and fro, with spaghetti arm folding up in response to the change of direction before extending again.
I wish to pursue my interest in both methods, lifetime.
As a rotorded server, i.e., one of the numerous servers in the world with tight shoulder rotors, I believe what one high level instructor told me about this: "There are compensations," he said.
What they were, of course, he wouldn't say without a fee, and besides, I don't like to give away my soul; also, one retains information better if one figures it out by oneself although this isn't always possible.
Any idea at all to get the racket lower is good, in my view, and every idea within the two categories is valid until disproved.
Why restrict oneself to one of the two kinds of serve when a lower racket drop might be possible in the other?
I refuse to keep things simple. There are enough people trying to do that in tennis already, and not one of them is playing at Wimbledon.
There are two basic ways to serve, although the espouser of one will seldom recognize the validity much less the existence of the other:
1) Leg drive is early
2) Leg drive is late
To his credit, the owner of this website once recommended that a person do the one or the other but not both-- although he might or might not agree with the way I have indexed them.
The first group includes nearly all the elite players we have seen on the tour except maybe for Roscoe Tanner and a few other alleged freaks.
Among recreational players, the two categories seem evenly split. The simplest version of way 2) occurs in the two bucket drill, where a lab rat student, with one leg in one bucket, other in the other, turns to and fro, with spaghetti arm folding up in response to the change of direction before extending again.
I wish to pursue my interest in both methods, lifetime.
As a rotorded server, i.e., one of the numerous servers in the world with tight shoulder rotors, I believe what one high level instructor told me about this: "There are compensations," he said.
What they were, of course, he wouldn't say without a fee, and besides, I don't like to give away my soul; also, one retains information better if one figures it out by oneself although this isn't always possible.
Any idea at all to get the racket lower is good, in my view, and every idea within the two categories is valid until disproved.
Why restrict oneself to one of the two kinds of serve when a lower racket drop might be possible in the other?
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