JohnYandell
Hall of Fame
bhupaes,
If you read my detailed post above, think you'll see that I acknowledge--as does anyone who looks closely at video of good serves--that the wrist is moving on the upward swing. Whether it's conscious contraction is debatable and that's discussed in Brian's great post.
The whole point I want to make is about the "snap the wrist forward" (past neutral) teaching cue. And that is still commonly taught, talked about as the truth by commentators, and demonstrated in one minute tv clinics.
Doesn't happen and my personal opinion is that it usually does harm to try to break the wrist because it reduces or stops or eliminates the critical racket and arm rotation.
To say it one more time, I think it's about the positions in the motion. How you get to them though is something else. Theoretically the opposite of the truth could work for some people. But an accurate image of the motion itself is a good place to start. If the idea of breaking your wrist causes you to make the same arm positions as Roddick or any good server before and at and after contact--go for it! Not my experience though in filming a few hundred lower level players with problems in their serves.
If you read my detailed post above, think you'll see that I acknowledge--as does anyone who looks closely at video of good serves--that the wrist is moving on the upward swing. Whether it's conscious contraction is debatable and that's discussed in Brian's great post.
The whole point I want to make is about the "snap the wrist forward" (past neutral) teaching cue. And that is still commonly taught, talked about as the truth by commentators, and demonstrated in one minute tv clinics.
Doesn't happen and my personal opinion is that it usually does harm to try to break the wrist because it reduces or stops or eliminates the critical racket and arm rotation.
To say it one more time, I think it's about the positions in the motion. How you get to them though is something else. Theoretically the opposite of the truth could work for some people. But an accurate image of the motion itself is a good place to start. If the idea of breaking your wrist causes you to make the same arm positions as Roddick or any good server before and at and after contact--go for it! Not my experience though in filming a few hundred lower level players with problems in their serves.
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