What: Hit with less speed and/or spin.
How: use more spin and less drive; or, swing more slowly and get both less spin and less drive.
Why: you're either trying to make your shot easier [ie you're rallying with someone 2 levels below you] or you're in a position where hitting with a lot of speed/spin is not desirable [you're on the defense and just want to get it back into play or, oppositely, you're in complete control and don't need that much to hit a winner.
How does this relate to racket head speed?
Hey Cooper, I asked you in another thread about your credentials and you didn't respond.. Are you a teaching pro? Advanced player? Coach? Have you trained as a player?How is this confusing?
Go outside. Throw a ball against a wall as hard as you can. Now throw one not that hard. Congratulations! You've done it.
Now move to tennis court and repeat.
You have a huge looopy loop and i think your RHS speed would be considered slow.
There isn't much to take off, as you already are hitting at a controlled pace.
Hey Cooper, I asked you in another thread about your credentials and you didn't respond.. Are you a teaching pro? Advanced player? Coach? Have you trained as a player?
lol, funny pic,... but SC is pretty knowledgeable... however there are alot of other folks that pic applies to on ttw.
IMO it means to go slow enough where your technique is clean and complete.What does it mean to take "some off" your serve/ground strokes, how do you do it, and why do you do it?
Assuming you're directing that at @SinjinCooper, upon what are you basing your claim? I've found his advice to be quite good.
How is this confusing?
Go outside. Throw a ball against a wall as hard as you can. Now throw one not that hard. Congratulations! You've done it.
Now move to tennis court and repeat.
Assuming you're directing that at @SinjinCooper, upon what are you basing your claim? I've found his advice to be quite good.
A thread about the meaning of the phrase 'taking some off'? And then there's actually some debate as to what that means? Maybe we're all spending way too much time on these boards. It just doesn't have to be this Complicated.
At some point you have to dip into the ole commonsense and just leave it at that.
The ball bounced off the wall and hit me in the nose.
Now my nose hurts.
Bad advice.
Would not try again.
Did it just brush your nose slightly? Did you call it or wait for the ump?
What does it mean to take "some off" your serve/ground strokes, how do you do it, and why do you do it?
At some point you have to dip into the ole commonsense and just leave it at that.
How was this presented to you? Did someone mention taking speed off your swing or such?
Beautiful strokes mean a whole lot! It does not tell you everything but it tells a lot. The fact that there are some players with nice strokes who have trouble winning matches does not discount the many more who will crush you.Pushing wins! Beautiful strokes mean nothing.
The specific context was for second serves. I was hitting topspin first serves that were a bit deep. When I try and "take some off", I slow my swing. The serve goes in but it lands in the middle of/slightly past the middle of the services box. Is it simply because I slowed my swing too much? Should I have kept the swing the same and gone for more brush?
I phrased the question the way I did because I was curious what it meant to other people and how they addressed it; sometimes you get better answers when you don't leave out specifics. Basically the answers from @nytennisaddict and @S&V-not_dead_yet were what I was looking for.
Agreed, but it is interesting he won't answer him.
Yeah you sort of sense he has a touch of arrogance.
Have you seen a video of him hitting a tennis ball?
I have not.
The specific context was for second serves. I was hitting topspin first serves that were a bit deep. When I try and "take some off", I slow my swing. The serve goes in but it lands in the middle of/slightly past the middle of the services box. Is it simply because I slowed my swing too much? Should I have kept the swing the same and gone for more brush?