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It's a bit gratifying to see things evolving as they are in tennis instruction. I played and taught golf for a number of years and long ago developed a teaching style organized around the principles of pure throwing mechanics. I thought the same principles applied to tennis, and I argued that point to friends back in the early 1980s -- i.e., that players really ought to be throwing their racquets into the ball in the forehand stroke. Finally, I see that with understandable and predictable modifications directed to the implement employed in the game of tennis (read: a racquet), players have naturally gravitated to nearly pure throwing mechanics (really evident, for instance, in Federer's forehand). Arguably the principles apply to backhands as well, but we're not accustomed to "throwing" balls with a backhand kind of motion, so the mechanical analogy is less compelling.
In any event, your website has been invaluable in doing in-depth analysis of stroke mechanics. I hope you get suitable recognition from the tennis community.
-- Craig
In any event, your website has been invaluable in doing in-depth analysis of stroke mechanics. I hope you get suitable recognition from the tennis community.
-- Craig