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Spin and more spin.
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Spin and more spin.
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The axis of topspin is parallel to the ground and left to right (perpendicular to the flight of the ball). The axis of backspin is the same axis as topspin but the ball spins the opposite way.
The axis of one sidespin is vertical. The axis goes from the top of the ball to the bottom of the ball. The spin is on the side.
The axis of the other sidespin is parallel to the ground and parallel to the flight of the ball. So the axis passes through the very front and the very back of the ball.
See that video I posted that shows the 4 theoretical axes of spin.
Next subject: If you are hitting topspin and you are taking the ball early, a little in front of you, you should naturally--without thinking about, without consideration for what kind of spin you are trying to create or what part of the ball to try to contact--if you take the ball early and your racket is in a neutral position, you should/would contact the outside of the ball and therefore generate some side with your top.
So, if you are learning from someone who tells you you should contact the ball early, they may also be teaching you to contact the side and get some side top.
But where a beginner should contact the ball and what kind of spin they "should" try and generate, I guess that would go down to teaching philosophy.
And my opinion is, any teaching philosophy that is too rigid and has come to conclusions before the person learning is in front of the person with the philosophy will tend to go a little wrong since we are all so unique and have such different needs as we learn.
But I definitely know a coach who teaches brand new beginners third ball attack vs backspin, contacting the outside of the ball, playing aggressive on all strokes, drive loop rather than brush, and he has gotten more than one player to 2600+. So, sometimes different things work.
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The axis of one sidespin is vertical. The axis goes from the top of the ball to the bottom of the ball. The spin is on the side.
The axis of the other sidespin is parallel to the ground and parallel to the flight of the ball. So the axis passes through the very front and the very back of the ball.
See that video I posted that shows the 4 theoretical axes of spin.
Next subject: If you are hitting topspin and you are taking the ball early, a little in front of you, you should naturally--without thinking about, without consideration for what kind of spin you are trying to create or what part of the ball to try to contact--if you take the ball early and your racket is in a neutral position, you should/would contact the outside of the ball and therefore generate some side with your top.
So, if you are learning from someone who tells you you should contact the ball early, they may also be teaching you to contact the side and get some side top.
But where a beginner should contact the ball and what kind of spin they "should" try and generate, I guess that would go down to teaching philosophy.
And my opinion is, any teaching philosophy that is too rigid and has come to conclusions before the person learning is in front of the person with the philosophy will tend to go a little wrong since we are all so unique and have such different needs as we learn.
But I definitely know a coach who teaches brand new beginners third ball attack vs backspin, contacting the outside of the ball, playing aggressive on all strokes, drive loop rather than brush, and he has gotten more than one player to 2600+. So, sometimes different things work.
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