A New Finger Fulcrum In Serves
Racket can lie in yoke of forefinger and thumb all the way from address in the serve. Address would be pointing racket and raising it with both arms a little to initiate rhythm for a gravity drop.
Racket handle can in fact maintain contact with the hand in four places throughout address, fall and wind-up.
They are 1) ring finger 2) middle finger 3) base pad of the index finger 4) yoke of index finger and thumb with pinky to stay off of the racket altogether.
During Totka's Hammer regardless of what the very good thing that Naomi Totka herself does, is, the racket slips off of pad at base of the index finger for purchase at a different part of the yoke as middle two fingers pry out.
During the wrist and fingers' blend coming off of the ball the handle returns to its first contact point on index finger's base while remaining settled in yoke.
This means that clench is performed by two fingers only-- middle and ring.
But a far greater force than any offered by the two fingers is superimposed along the same line by the natural brake that occurs when arm gets straight and can't detach itself from rest of body although it tries.
What, according to this continuing dialectic, is the direction of the forcible hammering action that tries to detach one's arm?
I've read instructors' descriptions that placed it directly overhead as exemplified by the image of hammering a nail into some ceiling.
Not far enough back, say I, preferring to target a full moon on a diagonal behind me.
Isn't that where toss is going to be anyway if I arch it over my head while keeping it lined up with right net post?
Racket can lie in yoke of forefinger and thumb all the way from address in the serve. Address would be pointing racket and raising it with both arms a little to initiate rhythm for a gravity drop.
Racket handle can in fact maintain contact with the hand in four places throughout address, fall and wind-up.
They are 1) ring finger 2) middle finger 3) base pad of the index finger 4) yoke of index finger and thumb with pinky to stay off of the racket altogether.
During Totka's Hammer regardless of what the very good thing that Naomi Totka herself does, is, the racket slips off of pad at base of the index finger for purchase at a different part of the yoke as middle two fingers pry out.
During the wrist and fingers' blend coming off of the ball the handle returns to its first contact point on index finger's base while remaining settled in yoke.
This means that clench is performed by two fingers only-- middle and ring.
But a far greater force than any offered by the two fingers is superimposed along the same line by the natural brake that occurs when arm gets straight and can't detach itself from rest of body although it tries.
What, according to this continuing dialectic, is the direction of the forcible hammering action that tries to detach one's arm?
I've read instructors' descriptions that placed it directly overhead as exemplified by the image of hammering a nail into some ceiling.
Not far enough back, say I, preferring to target a full moon on a diagonal behind me.
Isn't that where toss is going to be anyway if I arch it over my head while keeping it lined up with right net post?
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