Golden Retriever
Hall of Fame
Some say it should be up to down, some say it should be up, down and up again. Which is correct? If it is up, down and up again, wouldn't it make the ball float?
What is the grip?
So an “up-again / banana-style / high-low-high” slice backhand it is! Sorry, but I’ll just keep on teaching a good old fashioned “chopping / hacker / into-the-net / short” Federer style . . . if I summarized correctly.
Any issue people might have with a straight high-to-low slice BH has a lot more to do with a lack of proper instruction in the style than it does inherent problems with the swing path.
MG
high to low and then a little high again if you're slicing a low ball, but if its high ball, then its just high to low.
federer is trying to get extreme bite on the ball that is why he gooe for extreme high to low but look at where he finishes extrreme high.So an “up-again / banana-style / high-low-high” slice backhand it is! Sorry, but I’ll just keep on teaching a good old fashioned “chopping / hacker / into-the-net / short” Federer style . . . if I summarized correctly.
Any issue people might have with a straight high-to-low slice BH has a lot more to do with a lack of proper instruction in the style than it does inherent problems with the swing path.
MG
wtf is up-down-up, and how do you swing out to in?? -__-
You just swing up to down, coming down across the ball..
Impossible to swing "out to in", and why would you go "up-down-up".. it is essentially the same as down-up because you only make contact with the ball once.
I'm still trying to picture this in my head..
high to low and then a little high again if you're slicing a low ball, but if its high ball, then its just high to low.
there is no ending in the clips it ends on the down but doesnt show the up(high)
more classic example of slice
Djokovic proved me right. Watch his follow-through.
Wrong.
Mountain Ghost is correct. The ball is not affected by the lifting of the arm after the ball is on its way over the net. So, it is not necessary for the execution of the slice.
Rather, the player, any player, is getting into his/her ready position...arms come up and together...to get ready for the next shot.
Nobody is stopping their swing.OK, you are driving a car at speed 140 km per hour. All of a sudden an animal comes right in front of you. You apply sudden breaks but the car does not stop there, it keeps on skidding, why? Momentum?
Similarly, if you stop your swing halfway through the process of stopping has occurred as you strike the ball. Get the point?
Even on ground strokes though the ball has already left your strings but you continue follow-throughing because you do not like to stop your momentum.
Wrong.
Mountain Ghost is correct. The ball is not affected by the lifting of the arm after the ball is on its way over the net. So, it is not necessary for the execution of the slice.
Rather, the player, any player, is getting into his/her ready position...arms come up and together...to get ready for the next shot.
If the follow-thru is abbreviated, abruptly stopped or altered in some other way, the roots of those follow-thru changes will actually happen during & prior to impact.