I would like to gather some opinions on what defines a good stroke.
There are several posts about: X has the nicest stroke, budy hall strokes the ball so perfectly. What exactly defines this?
I'll start with what I think are the top 5 characteristics that defines it, but im only a B player, and i'm looking for more things to look at when analysing a good stroke.
1/ consistency : In my opinion the most important thing. No matter how crooked your arm is, how bad your chicken wing is, if u can play each shot, at each speed with the exact same technique, you will make balls.
2/ I have underestimated the power of folow true for years. I can't find a real scientific explenation why it is so important, but it just is. Just to be sure, i personally try to over-folow true. almost till the bridge is close to the joint. it just helps to learn the muscles to folow true. It feels like an eraser for imperfections. Its hard to do a bad stroke if you folow true.
3/ slow acceleration ieven after the impact, rather then fast initial accelration and constant speed till and after impact. Also here i can't really explain why. I always thought as long as the speed is the same at impact the ball will react the same way, but it just isn't like that. It feels like the contact with the cb and the tip is longer when accelerating and that it has a positive influence.
4/ elbow drop on the folow true. I try to never have my elbow dropped, but since ive been dropping it on folow trues, i get double the power then if i wouldnt. Only explenation is that by lowering the elbow the tip goes up, so u put more spin on the cb, but when dropping the elbow it looks like the cb just continues to folow true alot faster after impact. The short time where the cb stats in place before traveling forward again is reduced with elbow dropping. The stroke on folow true with elbow drop seems to give more room for the griphand to smoothly move forward.
5/ short backstroke movement. People who use long bridge and who draw there backarm WAY behing there back, seem to have more trouble with long shots. A shorter stroke seems to give better results.
There are several posts about: X has the nicest stroke, budy hall strokes the ball so perfectly. What exactly defines this?
I'll start with what I think are the top 5 characteristics that defines it, but im only a B player, and i'm looking for more things to look at when analysing a good stroke.
1/ consistency : In my opinion the most important thing. No matter how crooked your arm is, how bad your chicken wing is, if u can play each shot, at each speed with the exact same technique, you will make balls.
2/ I have underestimated the power of folow true for years. I can't find a real scientific explenation why it is so important, but it just is. Just to be sure, i personally try to over-folow true. almost till the bridge is close to the joint. it just helps to learn the muscles to folow true. It feels like an eraser for imperfections. Its hard to do a bad stroke if you folow true.
3/ slow acceleration ieven after the impact, rather then fast initial accelration and constant speed till and after impact. Also here i can't really explain why. I always thought as long as the speed is the same at impact the ball will react the same way, but it just isn't like that. It feels like the contact with the cb and the tip is longer when accelerating and that it has a positive influence.
4/ elbow drop on the folow true. I try to never have my elbow dropped, but since ive been dropping it on folow trues, i get double the power then if i wouldnt. Only explenation is that by lowering the elbow the tip goes up, so u put more spin on the cb, but when dropping the elbow it looks like the cb just continues to folow true alot faster after impact. The short time where the cb stats in place before traveling forward again is reduced with elbow dropping. The stroke on folow true with elbow drop seems to give more room for the griphand to smoothly move forward.
5/ short backstroke movement. People who use long bridge and who draw there backarm WAY behing there back, seem to have more trouble with long shots. A shorter stroke seems to give better results.
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