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Also, if you notice, in the tennis stroke, the elbow actually crosses the midline of the body as the arm goes across.
In the footage of Koki and Harimoto the elbow is forward in front of the face and it is higher than the tennis followthrough. And it does not cross the midline.
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I can find footage of many top players where they do cross their midline. But you train not to. So that when there is a reason to go across, you still go across and UP rather than flat as most players do most of the time in tennis.
I didn't want to compare these loops to the tennis stroke, the differences are huge. I've just remember that people say that crossing the midline with your racket is bad. It's understandable why: it's harder to recover if you do. But it seems some players do this and train like this. I don't want to say that it's better,it's just an observation.