BNP Indian Wells Tickets Available --- December 17th, 2009
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tossing arm --- March 9th, 2010
all 5 elements
1. ours — elbow inside
2. borg’s — watch band inside
3. pete’s thumb inside your hand
4. ours- make a inclined 4 with your hand
5. ours– bicep to check line
tossing arm --- March 8th, 2010
when the tossing arm comes down it is critical that it softly collapses onto the body -creating a hug effect– this keeps you in a thin line so your whole body can rotate in one motion– if the tossing arm pulls away it pulls your rotation though in segments and greatly effects your body balance
toes together --- March 7th, 2010
one of the ways we teach knee bending is to bring your feet and toes together before you bend– it is critical that the toes are together making a thin body line– if the back foot rotates ahead of the front foot you will lose much power– in many cases this is caused by chasing your toss– the body is to create a target for the toss– not have the body chase the toss– Venus has this problem– her back foot is all over the place
Land Running 2 --- March 6th, 2010
We see a lot of players trying to serve & volley as they play more and more doubles. Usually the mistakes produced on serve fall into two categories : 1 - they start running into the court before their service motion is fully completed, or 2 - they serve and watch where their serve lands, and then start running in to net.
No 1 will mess up your serve, and No 2 will have you scooping low returns off the court because you didn’t get near the service line.
The solution is to serve like you are going to stay back UNTIL you land - you must land running.
PS. Also see the healthy distance between Ram’s front foot and the baseline. I doubt if he ever foot faults. At the club level, the players who make a big deal about getting their front foot right up close to the line tend to foot fault under pressure.
front foot --- March 6th, 2010
the key to rotation is to open the front hip to allow the back hip to come through– the key to the front hip is to get the lead foot out of the way on a closed stanced– the key to this is to point the front foot more toward the net
high hand high head --- March 5th, 2010
on the backhand volley we want your hand and racquet up– if you must go down for a low shot you must bring your hand and racquet head up to over the net– bonus–watch the non hitting hand hold the racquet up during preparation