Federfores, You Stevedores
"Maybe Roger will throw you a used sweatband," my critics used to say. "And why do you want to imitate him anyway when there're so many other tour players to choose from? Why not James Blake?" Reader, if you don't know by now, you're never going to know, and I doubt that you and I will ever have very much to talk about.
People pretending to criticize the Gordon-Macci-Yandell opus now had better get a few things straight. First, if they think the slogging is worse than fiction, they need to read REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST by Marcel Proust or every volume of FINNEGAN'S WAKE by James Joyce.
Second, to criticize something, you need to talk about it, not just about your own brain or pizzle. But in this case, to read with either is a grave mistake. For this article-- the Gordon-Macci-Yandell-- requires that you read with your arm.
Will you have to change your grip to strong eastern to do this? Very possible unless you are constructed like Rafa Nadal. The authors themselves may disagree-- I hope so. Next issue: All the miserable misguided articles and posts we've had to read about how double-bend is better. It isn't.
But the authors picked Roger as their model long before last Sunday. And for small periods during the 15-year research, Roger didn't do well...for him. Perhaps we all need a simplicity check. His strokes and movement look best and are most functional of all the world's best tennis players.
Let's talk about forehand backswing now on the theory that considering a whole tennis, golf or rowing cycle at once is the best educational approach for most people.
Today I see something I didn't see yesterday, and I deem that a very normal process evident everywhere in life. Such a change has nothing to do with Gordon, Macci, Yandell or anyone else who probably stands between me and my best tennis.
Some videos I've seen lately don't portray racket tip pivoting up on elbow. Rather, both ends of the racket rise at the same speed. This happens after a unit turn of course. And next, the arm extends, which brings racket in toward the body and lines it up with the shoulders.
Golfers, to get this lined up feel, sometimes thread a pin behind their back through their elbows.
This is what I want for myself as I conduct drop and hit experiments today: A very solid connection between upper body and racket during the first part of the forward swing.
Then, as can't-be-delayed-enough-racket becomes perpendicular to baseline and net, the arm gets slingshotted forward on top of big body whirl which naturally will slow down a bit.
Did scapular retraction occur just before this to engender such an effective slingshot encrusted on the still ongoing broad arc whirl? I insist that it did.
"Maybe Roger will throw you a used sweatband," my critics used to say. "And why do you want to imitate him anyway when there're so many other tour players to choose from? Why not James Blake?" Reader, if you don't know by now, you're never going to know, and I doubt that you and I will ever have very much to talk about.
People pretending to criticize the Gordon-Macci-Yandell opus now had better get a few things straight. First, if they think the slogging is worse than fiction, they need to read REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST by Marcel Proust or every volume of FINNEGAN'S WAKE by James Joyce.
Second, to criticize something, you need to talk about it, not just about your own brain or pizzle. But in this case, to read with either is a grave mistake. For this article-- the Gordon-Macci-Yandell-- requires that you read with your arm.
Will you have to change your grip to strong eastern to do this? Very possible unless you are constructed like Rafa Nadal. The authors themselves may disagree-- I hope so. Next issue: All the miserable misguided articles and posts we've had to read about how double-bend is better. It isn't.
But the authors picked Roger as their model long before last Sunday. And for small periods during the 15-year research, Roger didn't do well...for him. Perhaps we all need a simplicity check. His strokes and movement look best and are most functional of all the world's best tennis players.
Let's talk about forehand backswing now on the theory that considering a whole tennis, golf or rowing cycle at once is the best educational approach for most people.
Today I see something I didn't see yesterday, and I deem that a very normal process evident everywhere in life. Such a change has nothing to do with Gordon, Macci, Yandell or anyone else who probably stands between me and my best tennis.
Some videos I've seen lately don't portray racket tip pivoting up on elbow. Rather, both ends of the racket rise at the same speed. This happens after a unit turn of course. And next, the arm extends, which brings racket in toward the body and lines it up with the shoulders.
Golfers, to get this lined up feel, sometimes thread a pin behind their back through their elbows.
This is what I want for myself as I conduct drop and hit experiments today: A very solid connection between upper body and racket during the first part of the forward swing.
Then, as can't-be-delayed-enough-racket becomes perpendicular to baseline and net, the arm gets slingshotted forward on top of big body whirl which naturally will slow down a bit.
Did scapular retraction occur just before this to engender such an effective slingshot encrusted on the still ongoing broad arc whirl? I insist that it did.
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