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Geek joke alert !! .. is it J2EE ?
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Geek joke alert !! .. is it J2EE ?
is it incorrect for me to read serves the way I do since I don't watch the stroke or the contact? is it important to do this? or is it okay that I just watch the ball, it's worked for me so far and I hate being deceived by motion of a person so that's why I learned to do this.
@ ttmonster
cork serves don't tend to give me much of an issue (at least the ones I've come against). I'm sure it's just because I haven't faced high level server's yet. But generally I wait a pretty damn long time until I make contact with the ball on a serve. For my backhand flick, my contact is pretty close to when the ball is going to make it's second bounce on my side. That's part of the reason why my flick isn't very powerful and also why it's pretty consistent.
Once I'm more comfortable with my opponents spin I'll do the flick earlier and not wait as long. But if they do something that I'm all of a sudden not able to deal with again I'll start waiting again.
Since I tend to wait so long, I have time to see that it's cork by the time it gets to the point where I should make my stroke. All cork serves I've faced are just topspin that start off looking like sidespin. If my opponent does sidespin a few times and I get the hang of it and start flipping it earlier off the bounce, and then they mix in a cork, I'll usually hit the edge of my raquet or have my timing off to where the ball goes into the net with my stroke being too early.
Okay. I have faced a real, capital letters, REAL, corkscrew serve. It looks like top/side. If you counter the spin the way you would with a regular top/side, the ball goes straight down because, that side of the ball is actually backspin and the other side of the ball is topspin. So, I am back to wondering what most people mean by corkscrew. But I know exactly what Michael Lander's corkscrew serve is like. And trying to receive it is not easy. It definitely messes with your instincts because the ball bounces like it is topspin and you touch where you think the outside of the ball is and where you think avoiding the spin is, and you are falling into the trap and facing the heaviest part of the spin.
On a real corkscrew serve, spin avoidance is on the very back of the ball.
Nah, Mike is an awesome guy. He wouldn't say the serve is good unless it was.
That being said, he showed me a corkscrew serve and was really happy that I "got it" and how "good" it is. And it is a pretty good serve. But, it looks like side top and usually.....it is. [emoji2] Whereas, his, when you respond to it as if it was side top, because it really looks like that, the ball goes straight down and you can feel how heavy it is. It feels like your racket has been hit with a golf ball filled with lead.
Someone the same level as Mike will read the spin and know how to return it. But the purpose of the serve is to set up the third ball. And he knows what to do with the returns.
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