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[johnyandell]

Frew McMillian

[jimlosaltos]

Frew McMillian

Blast from the past.

Here's the two hander. From video description by Stuart Appleby, "
I interviewed 10-time Grand Slam winner, Frew McMillan, during the 2011 US Open. The 69-year-old's career titles included three Men's Doubles victories on the Centre Court at Wimbledon during a glittering tennis career. Since retiring from the sport in 1983, McMillan has become a respected tennis commentator with British Eurosport.

[johnyandell]

There he is...

[stotty]

John,

Would you say using the hesitation point is a good way to work on a serve where the leg drive is too early? Any other methods that you know to cure early leg drive? The conversation is always about late leg drive but early leg drive also a problem and not that easy to fix.

[johnyandell]

Yep that's what I would do...start from that position...Brian G. calls it probation...

[hybridfh]

John, I see in the article by Greg Ryan titled "Researching the Serve" there's a statement that "wrist flexion" contributes 30% of the serve power. I'm no coach, but I don't agree with that. I concur with others who say that the wrist is essentially passive from a flexion/extension perspective in the serve. In just swinging a racket around right now at various speeds from trophy through contact, including the ESR phase, I don't see any significant wrist flexion happening...maybe a few degrees at most and certainly not enough to contribute power. Your thoughts?

[johnyandell]

From the drop position the wrist moves up to neutral in 1/10th of a second. That's an old article but may be what Greg is talking about...I'm with you it's not some intentional active element.