Do you use wrist lag and snap

Do you use wrist lag and snap?!

  • yes

    Votes: 9 81.8%
  • no

    Votes: 2 18.2%

  • Total voters
    11

Smecz

Professional
What do you think about wrist lag and snap?!

I use it myself, and if I do everything correctly, I can feel the difference between the normal way of hitting and wrist lag and snap.

Thanks to this technique you can give nice spins and flat strikes are much better.


Do you use wrist lag and snap?!
 

jz000

Semi-Pro
Yeah but it feels more like a soft pulling motion on contact. Snap sounds too jerky of a movement.
Sometimes I use more arm/elbow
 

Thiemster

Rookie
When there is time, all that happens. When I am rushed, i don't know what I do, some hacky stuff to get the ball over.
 

coolvinny

Rookie
I never think about it but when I watch my forehand and serve videos I can clearly see that it happens (on the serve I guess it’s more like lag, not so much snap…). But I’m never thinking about it.
 

Smecz

Professional
Yeah but it feels more like a soft pulling motion on contact. Snap sounds too jerky of a movement.
Sometimes I use more arm/elbow
I see,generally the more I bend my wrist back, the better it works out.

This way of hitting the balls reminds me of archery, maybe that's why it works and gives power to the shot!
 

Bagumbawalla

Talk Tennis Guru
Sometimes I like to think of myself as a planet and the racket head like a comet
or meteor that becomes involved with my gravity.

The basic rule-of-thumb is Newtonian physics- matter at rest tends to stay at rest
unless acted upon by some outside force. The racket head in the basic "take-back"
position resist the arms forward pulling force causing the wrist to "lag" against this resistance-
until the racket head builds up sufficient speed.

In the old days players tended to maximize that linear/forward motion for control and there was
very little forward wrist "snap" after impact.

Now days many players try to maximize speed and spin- and timing becomes an issue.
Rather than follow through in that straightforward manner (like a meteor bypassing the Earth),
they pull the racket into a closer, "circular orbit" causing the wrist a bit more forward play- but
I don't care for the image of "snapping". I think of "snapping" being more of a forced/muscled motion,
and the more natural wrist action I am trying to describe as simply having greater speed/impact and spin
at the moment of impact.
 

ballmachineguy

Hall of Fame
There is no such thing as snap. Research shows good players impede the forward release of the wrist from the forces of the swing. As for lag that happens naturally not mechanically.
Yeah, you get wrist lag if you slap someone in the face. Of course your wrist releases also, but there’s no real need to put topspin on a cheek.
 
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