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Maybe I am visualizing a different meaning.
The shoulder rotation I do is both shoulders turn horizontal.
There is also an independent movement of my hitting shoulder if I stay loose.
The only internal rotation I have is on a BH shot... Mostly on the follow through of a banana flip or a longer stroker using more wrist.
When i tore my rotator cuff when I was mostly out of tt, I could not do any of those BH shots for months until I healed to 60%...
Der_, you are confusing internal and external rotation. But here is some more info for you.
You injured your shoulder doing something other than TT. Your shoulder injury was not good.
Your shoulder did not want to do those movements because it was injured.
But here goes:
On BH shots there is EXTERNAL rotation of the shoulder in the swing and the backswing requires internal rotation.
If you look at the video in the OP it actually shows internal rotation of the shoulder.
In a tennis FH there is a lot of internal rotation of the shoulder and they even let the elbow go above the hand in the stroke.
In a table tennis FH stroke, there is some but not nearly as much internal rotation of the shoulder. And there is no point in a TT FH where the elbow should go above the hand and racket. The elbow should always be below the hand in an FH stroke.
When your rotator cuff muscles were torn, any of the movements we are talking about would have hurt. That is because the head of your humerus was subluxating from the gleno-humeral joint. A healthy rotator cuff muscle keeps the gleno-humeral joint stable and tracking in the joint. When your external rotators are torn, the joint is easy to subluxate and dislocate. And both of those hurt.
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