I don't see where any of the statements above make sense with the proper
understanding of the terms.
What does height have to do with taking it early??
What does stance have to do with taking it late or hitting out front?
They also don't align well with Annacone's comment, where he used it correctly
about "on the rise" or "taking it early".....which has little to do with "hitting out
front."
Sureshs
If I told you I was currently coaching players ranked 7, 12 and 16 in the world and the number 1 male and female juniors in the world would that make me "proven"![]()
Sureshs - nobody said that coaches don't use the terms "taking it early" and "on the rise" to mean the same or similar. You said hitting out in front is the same as taking it early, which in coach parlance it isn't.
Actually you didn't prove me wrong - I made no reference to the phrase early at all and was merely pointing out that your understanding of the term "hitting late" is likely not how it would be used by a coach (hence your disagreement with 5263).
oh, and you brought up the hitting in front issue and confused it with taking the ball on the rise/early - which I had already explained to you earlier was not the same thing thing (as one can hit the ball on the drop and still make contact in front)!
I'm with you, it's relative to the plane of the body and the net. If it was just the plane of the body you could argue (like Sureshs is [I think?]) that every ball is hit in front, whilst this may be literally true, it is not what coaches mean in general.
When a coach references hitting out in front, he/she generally means that the contact is between the plane of the body and the net, as opposed to a late contact which would be behind the plane of the body.
Where did this term "defend the contact point" originate? I don't find it with a casual search on google and bing, except references to this forum and the article with the same title which OP seems to have posted on another site.
I've seen the term used in several instructional videos online from various instructors.
One day, we can make a film with all thecniques that are post here, we could laugh so much.
We need a tool to automatically convert speech to text in all videos and keep a copy online for search purposes. I am amazed that Youtube/Google has not done it yet.
so is this like in baseball were you want to hit an inside pitch more out front than an outside pitch?
Looks more like 12 years old.This is a 22 year old thread! For God's sake...