Quit Scrimping on Alternatives?
A famous tennis instructor said, "Serve one way or the other but not both."
This statement rather blew me away with its assurance that there are just two main ways to serve.
But I go with it here.
First challenge then: To distinguish "THE OTHER WAY" from the modern big league serve with which we're all more familiar. I ask too, "Would this OTHER WAY be preferable for someone over 50, particularly if he'd messed with partial versions of it earlier in his life?"
And, "What's the relative availability of helpful information for these basic kinds of serve?"
To my mind, alternative 2 starts with Vic Braden and continues with Jack Broudy, who tried to deepen Braden's figure eights by turning them into Moebius Strips.
In a primarily rotational serve, e.g., in which leg drive has been subordinated, Broudy wanted hips to rotate in a second dimension a bit downward or upward rather than on a purely horizontal plane.
How to do this easily and well has never until now become perfectly clear to me. Perhaps I would have understood sooner had I driven from Winston-Salem to Chapel Hill as Broudy wanted me to do. He was giving a demonstration of his ideas at the University of North Carolina.
Lessons in Latin Dance provide an easy answer. One leg bends as the other straightens. This gives a basic blueprint for a platform stance version of this serve. Eventually of course-- as in any complex athletic move in ANY sport-- subtle distinctions may blur or meld or somewhat overlap.
A famous tennis instructor said, "Serve one way or the other but not both."
This statement rather blew me away with its assurance that there are just two main ways to serve.
But I go with it here.
First challenge then: To distinguish "THE OTHER WAY" from the modern big league serve with which we're all more familiar. I ask too, "Would this OTHER WAY be preferable for someone over 50, particularly if he'd messed with partial versions of it earlier in his life?"
And, "What's the relative availability of helpful information for these basic kinds of serve?"
To my mind, alternative 2 starts with Vic Braden and continues with Jack Broudy, who tried to deepen Braden's figure eights by turning them into Moebius Strips.
In a primarily rotational serve, e.g., in which leg drive has been subordinated, Broudy wanted hips to rotate in a second dimension a bit downward or upward rather than on a purely horizontal plane.
How to do this easily and well has never until now become perfectly clear to me. Perhaps I would have understood sooner had I driven from Winston-Salem to Chapel Hill as Broudy wanted me to do. He was giving a demonstration of his ideas at the University of North Carolina.
Lessons in Latin Dance provide an easy answer. One leg bends as the other straightens. This gives a basic blueprint for a platform stance version of this serve. Eventually of course-- as in any complex athletic move in ANY sport-- subtle distinctions may blur or meld or somewhat overlap.
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