Extend the shot or just rotate your forearm

[ruymendes]

Jonh,
In the final part of your article about Federer forehand, you proclamed that we should incorporated the extreme forearm rotation on certain circunstances, for example in passing shots, and whwn returning a high ball from the backcourt.
My daunt is: after seeing the forehand center, courtlevel side 1 clip of Federer forehand, I suppose that he quite didn´t extend the shot, but otherwise had applied just an extreme forehand rotation. Am I right? and if the answer is yes, do you recomend to hit the forehand with that same extreme forearm rotation?
I apologized in advance, if the answer of this question can be obtained just studying your articles, but I could not resist formulating this inquire.
P.S. When I had sucess applying this extreme rotation, I generate a lot of spin, and didn´t lost the pace.

[johnyandell]

Certainly Federer does it in every conceivable situation. And I believe what I said was that all players were free to experiment with it how they wished or found beneficial. What you are refering to is just my own application. Many times I find that players have major technical weaknesses but want to experiment with the most extreme and/or advanced elements.