Knees, Shoulders, Slingshot
This progression is taking me ever closer to the down and up swing I've always wanted.
Down and up? Someone questioned me. Just get the racket down. Then swing it up.
Sorry, a golfer doesn't do that neither does Federer.
Most simply, the knees and shoulders sequence, in which hips rotate "marginally ahead of shoulders," to quote the precise words of baseball slugger Ted Williams, will take the racket downward in our Federian tennis stroke, down to the flip.
The implicit Roger Federer forehand philosophy, which I would argue created Nadal, Djokovic and anyone striving to hit "the ATP forehand" nowadays, edits off big circular backswings behind the shoulders line (think Jiggles Goerges), but still contains an inside-out component to be neglected at one's own peril.
Viewed from behind, solid part of swing starts on left side of slot. Flip occurs in middle of slot. Contact (residual shoulders rotation plus slingshot) occurs on right edge of slot.
This progression is taking me ever closer to the down and up swing I've always wanted.
Down and up? Someone questioned me. Just get the racket down. Then swing it up.
Sorry, a golfer doesn't do that neither does Federer.
Most simply, the knees and shoulders sequence, in which hips rotate "marginally ahead of shoulders," to quote the precise words of baseball slugger Ted Williams, will take the racket downward in our Federian tennis stroke, down to the flip.
The implicit Roger Federer forehand philosophy, which I would argue created Nadal, Djokovic and anyone striving to hit "the ATP forehand" nowadays, edits off big circular backswings behind the shoulders line (think Jiggles Goerges), but still contains an inside-out component to be neglected at one's own peril.
Viewed from behind, solid part of swing starts on left side of slot. Flip occurs in middle of slot. Contact (residual shoulders rotation plus slingshot) occurs on right edge of slot.
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