Aware Serves
More awareness is required than people will tell you. And if you are among the rotorded servers-- most people in the world-- then you need three times as much.
The question that has now arisen-- and I hope my readers won't find this too boring-- is, if, as you first take elbow up higher than a textbook serve dictates, should you still form a right angle in your arm in tandem with the body bend-- on the uptake?
Or, should you take the unique opportunity of such highness of elbow as an excuse to keep arm straight for very long ("barred" as geoffwilliams would say) in order to then form a thin Yosemite-type waterfall with a huge drop?
Me, I'll go with whichever works best after this Michigan rain.
And I know the body bend and controlled weight shift forward works with either option having done both a million times.
Less well known is how hand moving racket tip sideways (See Don's helpful comment on hand in Post # 720) can work best with either choice.
I see three movements of the hand combined in one, sort of like the mondo in a forehand.
They are: 1) straight hinging, 2) cockeyed hinging toward radius bone in forearm, 3) twist from forearm to take racket tip more to the outside.
1) and 3) are the same as for mondo but 2) is reversed. On a forehand the cockeyed hinging is toward the ulna bone, with everything turning toward the inside.
So, should hand motion be kept distinct from arm motions during the drop, be sequenced in other words? Or will everything blend in unconscious delight? Or is this more true of one option than the other?
More awareness is required than people will tell you. And if you are among the rotorded servers-- most people in the world-- then you need three times as much.
The question that has now arisen-- and I hope my readers won't find this too boring-- is, if, as you first take elbow up higher than a textbook serve dictates, should you still form a right angle in your arm in tandem with the body bend-- on the uptake?
Or, should you take the unique opportunity of such highness of elbow as an excuse to keep arm straight for very long ("barred" as geoffwilliams would say) in order to then form a thin Yosemite-type waterfall with a huge drop?
Me, I'll go with whichever works best after this Michigan rain.
And I know the body bend and controlled weight shift forward works with either option having done both a million times.
Less well known is how hand moving racket tip sideways (See Don's helpful comment on hand in Post # 720) can work best with either choice.
I see three movements of the hand combined in one, sort of like the mondo in a forehand.
They are: 1) straight hinging, 2) cockeyed hinging toward radius bone in forearm, 3) twist from forearm to take racket tip more to the outside.
1) and 3) are the same as for mondo but 2) is reversed. On a forehand the cockeyed hinging is toward the ulna bone, with everything turning toward the inside.
So, should hand motion be kept distinct from arm motions during the drop, be sequenced in other words? Or will everything blend in unconscious delight? Or is this more true of one option than the other?
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