Body Alignment
Strokes
Tim Challener Asked 8 years ago
When preparing to receive and incoming ball should your body point to the incoming ball or intended direction to hit the ball?
Alois Rosario Answered 8 years ago
Hi Tim,
The body will face towards the ball all the time so as it comes in and also as it goes away. This is a general direction.
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D K Posted 8 years ago
So that means that when my opponent sends the ball (righthander-righthander) from his wide forehand to my backhand and I want to send it to his backhand corner,I must turn during the stroke?
You will do that naturally as the ball is travelling.
D K Posted 8 years ago
Hm?
Then it seems that I do something bad because when I am doing a flat stroke,I need to "petrify" my body in Receiving direction,whereas during spinny strokes I usually petrify my body in deflecting direction.