All for Feel and Feel for All. Feel for All and All for One, etc.
And if I see a great teacher I'll say so. Why wouldn't I when the school year is about to begin and I just re-discovered last year how much I love to teach.
The year is about to commence and I may be writing a book about a large proportion of Detroit schools (but want to take it slow-- could be a mistake?).
Whatever, the book won't interfere with the doing and I can't wait for the teaching to resume-- any day now. Whoever thought I'd feel like that? Not I.
Academic subjects however must not interfere with one's tennis. It all comes together in the teaching.
An old form of education is best in the view of Brent Abel-- apprenticeship.
But I'm not about to apprentice myself to him or Tomaz Mecinger or anyone else.
That doesn't stop me from doing my Abel, Mecinger, Van Horn, Brian Gordon and anyone else kicks. Or from Van Horn's supposition that front foot in a neutral stance forehand is the axis or pivot point.
It's serial monogamy, I guess, but in the meantime I don't see enough balls to put all the new ideas in effect-- am always getting avoided and "froze"-- more fakes and poaches become the antidote.
And a better use of the feet. Dance, baby, dance, bounce bounce. Observe Mecinger's vehemence on this point. If you stand there you're doing something other than tennis. (Mushroom?) The feet move always always always. Ready position is one thing, ready state another.
Now, personally, in this recently apprehended bowling exercise (you bowl tennis balls at the net): The arm is straight. This is my old waterwheel. To which I add Mencinger's universal stroke quality of centrifugation and lag. And now use the more spread forefinger on serves and forehands both although in different ways.
Forefinger finally points at the target on a serve.
Forefinger moves slightly BACKWARD to demonstrate forearm muscle elasticity in a basic forehand. How much I have wondered about this! Because no one explained it well enough for the everyman. They explained it in discussing Andre Agassi but always as something special and forbidden.
And forefinger spins the racket over wrapped thumb in the more topspun versions.
And if I see a great teacher I'll say so. Why wouldn't I when the school year is about to begin and I just re-discovered last year how much I love to teach.
The year is about to commence and I may be writing a book about a large proportion of Detroit schools (but want to take it slow-- could be a mistake?).
Whatever, the book won't interfere with the doing and I can't wait for the teaching to resume-- any day now. Whoever thought I'd feel like that? Not I.
Academic subjects however must not interfere with one's tennis. It all comes together in the teaching.
An old form of education is best in the view of Brent Abel-- apprenticeship.
But I'm not about to apprentice myself to him or Tomaz Mecinger or anyone else.
That doesn't stop me from doing my Abel, Mecinger, Van Horn, Brian Gordon and anyone else kicks. Or from Van Horn's supposition that front foot in a neutral stance forehand is the axis or pivot point.
It's serial monogamy, I guess, but in the meantime I don't see enough balls to put all the new ideas in effect-- am always getting avoided and "froze"-- more fakes and poaches become the antidote.
And a better use of the feet. Dance, baby, dance, bounce bounce. Observe Mecinger's vehemence on this point. If you stand there you're doing something other than tennis. (Mushroom?) The feet move always always always. Ready position is one thing, ready state another.
Now, personally, in this recently apprehended bowling exercise (you bowl tennis balls at the net): The arm is straight. This is my old waterwheel. To which I add Mencinger's universal stroke quality of centrifugation and lag. And now use the more spread forefinger on serves and forehands both although in different ways.
Forefinger finally points at the target on a serve.
Forefinger moves slightly BACKWARD to demonstrate forearm muscle elasticity in a basic forehand. How much I have wondered about this! Because no one explained it well enough for the everyman. They explained it in discussing Andre Agassi but always as something special and forbidden.
And forefinger spins the racket over wrapped thumb in the more topspun versions.
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