Mantra Division of Self-Cue: "Speed, Push, Crow"
"Crow" refers to bent arm scarecrow finish, not to crowing like a rooster. Read Bill Tilden on arrogance in tennis-- the best author ever on that subject. Do not be distracted by his sex life.
"Push" refers to ISR (internal shoulder rotation) once arm is straight. Combined with some netward push by the bod.
"Speed" refers to uninhibited and unopposed triceptic extension of the arm. It is speed without heft and takes strings to outside of ball.
Image chauvinists who think words hold an inferior place in tennis instruction too often fail to realize that A) words may either wallow in lugubrious detail or convey the lightning flash of a cohesive visual image-- perhaps convey it even better than drawing, photo or film and B) words can convey either lugubrious detail or dramatic cue such as a stage actor uses-- not the same at all.
The mantra "speed push crow," while sounding like the 123 of the overall serve proposed here is not the same.
First count in the overall proposal is simple rotation of the hips accompanied by a little drawing back of the elbow followed by simple rotation of the shoulders to take racket down on opposite side of bod, i.e., behind one's back.
"Crow" refers to bent arm scarecrow finish, not to crowing like a rooster. Read Bill Tilden on arrogance in tennis-- the best author ever on that subject. Do not be distracted by his sex life.
"Push" refers to ISR (internal shoulder rotation) once arm is straight. Combined with some netward push by the bod.
"Speed" refers to uninhibited and unopposed triceptic extension of the arm. It is speed without heft and takes strings to outside of ball.
Image chauvinists who think words hold an inferior place in tennis instruction too often fail to realize that A) words may either wallow in lugubrious detail or convey the lightning flash of a cohesive visual image-- perhaps convey it even better than drawing, photo or film and B) words can convey either lugubrious detail or dramatic cue such as a stage actor uses-- not the same at all.
The mantra "speed push crow," while sounding like the 123 of the overall serve proposed here is not the same.
First count in the overall proposal is simple rotation of the hips accompanied by a little drawing back of the elbow followed by simple rotation of the shoulders to take racket down on opposite side of bod, i.e., behind one's back.
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