It always happens to me, on my non racquet thigh, now they are all bruised. Anyone has the same occurances?
haha, thats because I hold the ends of the grip...if i hold higher...i might just hit something else.
This happens to me when i fail to pronate my forearm. Usually, this happens when I try to "muscle" the stroke rather than using the right technique. It seems easy enough to remember this but sometimes I just can't control the urge to crush the bird when your gifted with sitting duck (or is that goose).
Usually caused by no follow-through toward target This happens when you don't hit/follow-through toward the target. When you smash, it should feel like you're throwing the racket at your opponent (or throwing a baseball pitch)--this'll create a stroke motion that will make your racket and arm end up forward/away from your body, thus you should never hit your body. vip
Agree with Vip - dont drop your elbow in your follow through. Also, your non racket leg should drop back and your racket leg should go forward as you hit your smash.
example Reference to this picture is a good example - note the elbow not coming down too far, and also the non racket leg going back and the racket leg going forward - 'scissor kick' G
Out of curiousity, why do some people bend their legs when they jumpsmash, and some scissor jump? Are their any pros and cons?
And if you notice, Hafiz's left hand is blocking his right arm from going any further~! Just kidding...
I don't call the scissor-kicking one a jump smash. It's the same motion I do for clears and drops where the weight transfer causes the leg on the racquet side to come up as you follow through. Your body leaves the ground, of course, because you can't smash or clear with your feet planted but that doesn't make it a jump smash. With a jump smash, You can take off with one leg or two but once you get up in the air, your legs normally come up together and yes, many people will tuck their heels up near the butt and then point them down again on the follow-through.
scissor kick would be because they need to rotate their body to facing the front to run up to the center of the court to get ready for defence, i think
What if it's a really high jump (say 3 feet height increase)? Is the butt touching something natural or something learned? Whether it is or isn't I'm doing that.
If you notice how they play a smash, your racket hand won't go further down after smash, it is only your racket that continue to swing down because such powerful smash forces your racket to follow thru and this is done by pronation of your hand/arm (as illustated by Hafiz). If you also notice, his non-racket hand also play a role in the stroke. This is for balancing and also if execute correctly, will help to create more swing power to your racket hand. And if you also notice, about Hafiz's pictures, i think he is doing a reversed sliced smash, right?
I don't think it has that much to do with the height of the jump except inasmuch as you need a certain height to afford you the time to tuck and then extend your legs. I would say that it is natural because when you bend your body, you are trying to keep the fulcrum in your torso and if your chest and shoulders pivot back and then spring forward, you automatically do something to counteract the rotation. That doesn't make a lot of sense, I guess, since your body is in no danger of spinning forward. Perhaps someone else has thought through the physics involved here or in another thread. You can't actually push off anything when you're already in the air so you cock your body by arching your back and then you spring. It sounds so natural but the question is why it works. Perhaps in the act of throwing your arm forward, you send your shoulders or hips backward and the legs come forward to act as a counterweight.
