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In last weeks article I stressed the necessity of employing body rotation to generate power on certain tennis strokes, the forehand, serve and the two handed backhand to be specific.

What is good for the goose isn’t always good for the gander, so let me stress to you that body rotation should be purposefully avoided on other shots.

Volleying (that means playing the ball prior to it bouncing and doesn’t mean hitting it back and forth over the net, that term is rallying) both the forehand and backhand demands a very quiet body through the hitting area, in an effort to reduce any possible inadvertent spin on the ball that might curve it away from your intended target.

The one handed backhand must be executed without rotating the front shoulder to face the net, in order to keep the ball from tailing wildly off the target line.

Those of you that use both the one and two hand backhand, depending on the shot you find necessary to make, must be clear to not mongrelize your techniques because staying sideways on a two hander and facing the net on the one hander will degrade your ability to main accuracy and to generate pace on your shots.

Remember the goose and the gander don’t necessarily thrive on the same things.