Friday, February 22, 2008

Things to work on

Pushing

  • short pushing off the bounce
  • long fast push
  • forehand pushing
  • backhand side spin push right to left motion
  • forehand side spin push against forehand pendulum, hitting right side of ball

Looping

  • Improving consistency with crosscourt forehand from backhand side

  • looping down the line from backhand side (placement, placement, placement)

  • consistency with backhand loop

  • getting better at mid distance looping, but still need much more consistency, need to be better at moving forward to attack shorter blocks

  • keep working on backhand loop against topspin

Flipping

  • developing comfort with this shot

Serving Experiments

  • forehand tomahawk, elbow dominated motion vs. shoulder dominated

  • reverse pendulum poke motion vs wrist

  • forehand pendulum how many motions am I using now? 4? 5? 3?

  • pure backspin forehand pendulum

  • kicking topspin serve; hit the top of the ball

Service Receive

  • watch the racket not the ball
Still a lot of things to work on. There is some new stuff compared to the last list and I'm really still working on everything from that list.

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