Water Wheel
The water wheel image worked well in self-feed.
Will see if it works in competition tonight.
Much will depend on a good warmup hit with
another player if I can find him or her before the
round-robin begins.
The modern forehands I've examined mostly come
from square or beveled racket in the preparation.
This need not preclude coming to the ball with an
open face. But one does recall tennis writer John
M. Barnaby's prototypical description of someone
with many strokes most of which are in disrepair.
Before I eliminate something however I want to try
open face and closed face in the same set just for
the sake of expanding my knowledge. The initial hand
move for both is not much different. For open face the two
elbows rise to same level. For closed face the hitting
elbow rises higher than the other yet maintains constant
distance between both within same imaginary hoop.
It is one thing to react to what happens on a tennis court,
quite another to react or over or under react to some
conceptual image that may form some new and possibly
very exciting stroke design.
The higher elbow forms more fullness of water wheel,
it seems to me, with rounded fall on back of wheel along
with rounded rise that occurs on front of the wheel.
Such knowledge has immediate implication for essential
arm work on a one hand backhand as well.
The water wheel image worked well in self-feed.
Will see if it works in competition tonight.
Much will depend on a good warmup hit with
another player if I can find him or her before the
round-robin begins.
The modern forehands I've examined mostly come
from square or beveled racket in the preparation.
This need not preclude coming to the ball with an
open face. But one does recall tennis writer John
M. Barnaby's prototypical description of someone
with many strokes most of which are in disrepair.
Before I eliminate something however I want to try
open face and closed face in the same set just for
the sake of expanding my knowledge. The initial hand
move for both is not much different. For open face the two
elbows rise to same level. For closed face the hitting
elbow rises higher than the other yet maintains constant
distance between both within same imaginary hoop.
It is one thing to react to what happens on a tennis court,
quite another to react or over or under react to some
conceptual image that may form some new and possibly
very exciting stroke design.
The higher elbow forms more fullness of water wheel,
it seems to me, with rounded fall on back of wheel along
with rounded rise that occurs on front of the wheel.
Such knowledge has immediate implication for essential
arm work on a one hand backhand as well.
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