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Wrist snaps just before the contact with the ball, James blake told me personnally...
The ball doesn't know what you do after you hit it. It doesn't even know what you do before. Only during.
Are there a couple slow motion videos of Pro players (one of them Federer) showing there are Zero wrist snaps!! There are wrist release after contact, but that's just what we all naturally do. We have to firm up the wrist right before and at contact, once the ball was hit, the player can relax, hence the wrist release and follow through.
This is footage of the greatest server of all time--Pete Sampras. No wrist snap, it is all pronation. You could use the cursor to the left of the video to slow it down. Be patient, the site is slow:
http://www.dono.com.cn/tujie/sampras01.htm
http://www.dono.com.cn/tujie/sampras02.htm
Here is a sie-by-side breakdown/analysis of Sampras and Krajicek:
http://www.cwtennis.com/virtual/theserve.html
Does snapping the pronation move NOT count as a wrist snap ?
The wrist is part of/attached to the forearm.
I doubt any serious player suggests a snap which involves folding the wrist palm to inner wrist. That would clearly create tremendous inconsistency.
But a conscious rapid acceleration of the pronation motion something like what Roddick does seems to me to be a snap.
yes there is snap other wise your serves would suck and look like a ****** doing an overhead flail with a bat
proof lies in youtube...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hnfAxF5a8aE
not the best vid but you can see he brings his wrist close towards body after contact