Small Surgery on One's Mondo
Seems like everybody has a mondo or "flip" in their forehand nowadays-- very fashionable but how useful is it? Could it be too mechanical or harsh? Would you, reader, play better tennis if you didn't have it? Or if you modified it? Just wonderin'.
Three of the five iterations in # 2698 put forearm roll with initial backswing, thus cutting mondo in half. This change creates a small loop that ends with hand laying back from wrist in a downward direction.
But one can reverse the two halves of the mondo while bisecting it too, i.e., open wrist gradually as part of the backswing, which leaves forearm roll to complete a small loop.
I'm trying these new shots both ways while remaining open to the temptation of a huge overhand loop like Novak Djokovic's once in a long while for comic, I mean serious relief as in Pope Francis replacing Donald Trump at center of the public eye.
Seems like everybody has a mondo or "flip" in their forehand nowadays-- very fashionable but how useful is it? Could it be too mechanical or harsh? Would you, reader, play better tennis if you didn't have it? Or if you modified it? Just wonderin'.
Three of the five iterations in # 2698 put forearm roll with initial backswing, thus cutting mondo in half. This change creates a small loop that ends with hand laying back from wrist in a downward direction.
But one can reverse the two halves of the mondo while bisecting it too, i.e., open wrist gradually as part of the backswing, which leaves forearm roll to complete a small loop.
I'm trying these new shots both ways while remaining open to the temptation of a huge overhand loop like Novak Djokovic's once in a long while for comic, I mean serious relief as in Pope Francis replacing Donald Trump at center of the public eye.
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