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Not enough is written and filmed and spoken nowadays on the subject of whirligig serves in which the leg drive is late and only amounts to several inches and the server never leaves the court. He may go to prison if his name is Roscoe Tanner but does that mean these serves should be discredited?
Reverse the speed gears hypothesized in # 1208 . Shoulders won't go fast then slow. They'll go slow then fast then slow.
Perform figure 8's where racket drops then you accelerate it (down) then you lift the upswing by leaning slightly backward as you toss. This first drop and acceleration and rise is a roller coaster. Yeah, hips go out toward net. Try to hear the whir of the cart's wheels against the tracks. SLOW, WHOOOSH, PUT-PUT-PUT ALMOST TO A STOP.
Now you start a new loop, smaller, with gravity drop again. Very little happens just then other than arm starting to bend more together from its right-angled position so this is a good time to relax. In fact, relaxing is essential. The racket starts to fall parallel to one's shoulders with complete ease.
Now you double-rotate the racket, but deliberately, not fast. "Double-rotate" means that the torso slowly rotates but so too, simultaneously, does the upper arm, turning inside out and getting racket tip to the right edge of the body as low as possible.
Precisely at the end of this action, which might otherwise be described as scapular retraction, the two legs can drive upward a few inches to stretch the elastic of your slingshot just a bit more.
Now torso and slingshot fire.
Since the best serves are kick serves and I'm always in rotorded mode (no cartwheel, thanks), I want to keep nose and chin up, i.e., head still.
Well, I wouldn't want to be upright or uptight since I'm a child of the sixties. The head could move sideways at last instant to get out of the way of the vertical swing-- what would the harm be in that?
Sideways but not forward!
Not enough is written and filmed and spoken nowadays on the subject of whirligig serves in which the leg drive is late and only amounts to several inches and the server never leaves the court. He may go to prison if his name is Roscoe Tanner but does that mean these serves should be discredited?
Reverse the speed gears hypothesized in # 1208 . Shoulders won't go fast then slow. They'll go slow then fast then slow.
Perform figure 8's where racket drops then you accelerate it (down) then you lift the upswing by leaning slightly backward as you toss. This first drop and acceleration and rise is a roller coaster. Yeah, hips go out toward net. Try to hear the whir of the cart's wheels against the tracks. SLOW, WHOOOSH, PUT-PUT-PUT ALMOST TO A STOP.
Now you start a new loop, smaller, with gravity drop again. Very little happens just then other than arm starting to bend more together from its right-angled position so this is a good time to relax. In fact, relaxing is essential. The racket starts to fall parallel to one's shoulders with complete ease.
Now you double-rotate the racket, but deliberately, not fast. "Double-rotate" means that the torso slowly rotates but so too, simultaneously, does the upper arm, turning inside out and getting racket tip to the right edge of the body as low as possible.
Precisely at the end of this action, which might otherwise be described as scapular retraction, the two legs can drive upward a few inches to stretch the elastic of your slingshot just a bit more.
Now torso and slingshot fire.
Since the best serves are kick serves and I'm always in rotorded mode (no cartwheel, thanks), I want to keep nose and chin up, i.e., head still.
Well, I wouldn't want to be upright or uptight since I'm a child of the sixties. The head could move sideways at last instant to get out of the way of the vertical swing-- what would the harm be in that?
Sideways but not forward!
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