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[John Yandell]

What url are you looking at? After the Nabrug thing we closed off the Forum to visitors--so you need to be a subscriber to access any part of the site.

[don_budge]

Forum jump...

I am down at the bottom of the page in the Forum jump...selecting "Who's online" from the drop down under "Site areas".

[GeoffWilliams]

What day is the next issue coming online? Too bad about Fish. He looked injured. CAn't play if you can't run. He had the match, and let it get away. Now it's going to be another Joker/Nadal final.

[John Yandell]

db,
you know i never even looked at that--looks like 10 people in an internet cafe...i'll have our programmer check into it, but you should have to be a subscriber...
jy

[John Yandell]

gw,

as soon as i finish translating your article! seriously though in the midst and asap...

jy

[GeoffWilliams]

Thanks for replying so much. Please only go from the last version I sent a couple days ago. If I had this article when I first started playing, it would have meant a huge difference in my game/equipment, and development, more than any other article on equipment or string I have ever read.

[don_budge]

Who's online...or "The Tennisplayer Internet Cafe"

db,
you know i never even looked at that--looks like 10 people in an internet cafe...i'll have our programmer check into it, but you should have to be a subscriber...
jy

"Who's online" is actually a very interesting feature of the site. I often take a look to see who's online and see what they are reading. So many times I have seen that so and so is reading this post from an old thread...so I go to that post and start reading myself. It's fascinating to read interesting posts that have been written in the past and the quality of the discussions that ensued. Tennisplayer has quite a history...to say nothing of it's future!

Now I am even more curious as to who the "guests" are.

[John Yandell]

They could have signed up and created free passwords before we closed it off. Nabrug is lurking in there somewhere because I know he has read posts after being banned...

Glad you are perusing the old threads. There is a ton of great stuff.

[jryle1]

Hi John,

I'm a little confused about the pro racket drop...... I was re-reading that analysis you did for me on my serve last year and was having a look at some footage of Fed in the new archive and had a look at that video of the girl doing the windmill drill.

The big I'm confused about, is which direction does the tip of the elbow point, I know it sounds like a stupid question cause you can see it in the window but I can't get my head around it, where also should the racket face(strings) be pointing, towards the back fence? And the side edge should be roughly perpendicular to my torso yes but on the right hand side?

Thanks once again for all the help.

Jono.

[were]

forward swing

John, what is the driving force behind the forward swing? Is it body rotation or the lifting/pulling of the arm?

[John Yandell]

Jon,

Don't worry about where the elbow points. Try the windmill drill, let the elobw go up high, relax and let it drop. Don't worry either about where the racket is in relation to the back fence. Just try to get it to fall as far as possible--and yes along the right side of the body. The face of the strings should be perpendicular to plane of the torso.

[John Yandell]

Were:

I can't really answer that question. Of course you swing with your hand but if everything is set up right the torso is making it's contribution--as well as the legs, etc.

Brign Gordon might be able to break down the contributions of the segments, but for me it's about the positions. What you want to see is whether your stroke conforms to the key positions in the stroke models. I've gone over that in a lot of different ways in those forehand articles in Advanced Tennis.

[jryle1]

I have a very annoying question for you but I have to ask! When's the September edition going up because I cannot wait! My mouth is watering with the prospect of reading it!

[John Yandell]

Soon!

[bowt]

Hey just a question from your article on the absolute truth

Yet when we look at Djokovic we see that unlike any other top player he actually turns the racket face backwards until the strings are flush or parallel with the baseline. In doing so he goes further back and behind than either Federer or Nadal.

Compared to Roger, Novak's arm goes behind his body and his racket face turns backward.

Is this some unknown advantage - a technical advance that only he has developed? Or is it a liability that he overcomes in some other way? Or is it simply idiosyncratic and/or irrelevant?

could this be related to his grip being so strong?