punch your volleys,...

[Raul_SJ]

lol, if you came here hell bent on correcting me,.. welcome

I always pooh pooh’ed this tip. wtf does that mean, it looks/feels nothing like a punch, and I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the heavy bag, and boxing.

was reading lavers book, and reading his description of volleys, and he says the same thing, “punch your volley”... except he goes a bit more into the context,... basically just saying, meet the flight of ball head on (Ie don’t chop across or too steep an angle). so the flight of the ball was like a tube, and a cross section of the tube was a flat plane at contact, you want to match your volley swing to the shape of the tube, and “punch” through that flat-plane-cross-section with the strings.

anywho i found this to be an interesting find, and now validates for me that “punching the volley” makes sense as a tip (though the accompanying context is wordy!!)

Don't really understand what Rod is saying about the cross section of the tube.
… Maybe he means maintaining consistent racquet face angle through the contact point.

 

[Deleted member 23235]

Don't really understand what Rod is saying about the cross section of the tube.
… Maybe he means maintaining consistent racquet face angle through the contact point.

think of the contact as a 2d piece of paper... you want to "punch" through the paper.

 

[mntlblok]

Her advice didn't appear to be based on Chris' level; it was that bio-mechanically that particular FH volley is difficult to hit for anyone.

"You would think that [keeping the same grip] is pretty efficient but for those tight FH body volleys, you'll never get it [your racquet] into the right place."

Another option is to catch it behind you when it jams you near the right armpit. With a wrist that can't "lay back", I have to hit a lot of my forehand volleys that way. It sucks.

 

[heninfan99]

lol, if you came here hell bent on correcting me,.. welcome

I always pooh pooh’ed this tip. wtf does that mean, it looks/feels nothing like a punch, and I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the heavy bag, and boxing.

was reading lavers book, and reading his description of volleys, and he says the same thing, “punch your volley”... except he goes a bit more into the context,... basically just saying, meet the flight of ball head on (Ie don’t chop across or too steep an angle). so the flight of the ball was like a tube, and a cross section of the tube was a flat plane at contact, you want to match your volley swing to the shape of the tube, and “punch” through that flat-plane-cross-section with the strings.

anywho i found this to be an interesting find, and now validates for me that “punching the volley” makes sense as a tip (though the accompanying context is wordy!!)





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I like the punch analogy, karate strike.

 

[S&V-not_dead_yet]

Another option is to catch it behind you when it jams you near the right armpit. With a wrist that can't "lay back", I have to hit a lot of my forehand volleys that way. It sucks.

Definitely not optimal but, if you can't do it any other way, preferable to missing the volley!