{"id":20,"date":"2004-04-22T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T23:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=20"},"modified":"2004-04-22T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T23:40:22","slug":"pretzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/pretzel\/","title":{"rendered":"pretzel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can tell if I&#8217;m hitting my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/strokes#forehand\">forehand<\/a> properly. If I&#8217;ve rotated throughout, when I catch my racket at the end of the stroke I punch myself in my nose with my right bicep. I kinda look like Reggie Jackson. He looked like a pretzel after he&#8217;d swung at a ball with a home run swing and completely missed it.<\/p>\n<p>The serve, by the way, is another armless stroke. Your trunk twist and knee bend give the racket it&#8217;s momentum. Look at Michelle Wie. She rockets the ball as far as many male pros. She could hardly do that without a lot of twisting and trunk strength.<\/p>\n<p><em>Practice Report<\/em>: hit against a wall for 45 minutes, practiced my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisdiary.com\/2004\/03\/strokes#serve\">serve<\/a> for a bag of balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can tell if I&#8217;m hitting my forehand properly. If I&#8217;ve rotated throughout, when I catch my racket at the end of the stroke I punch myself in my nose with my right bicep. I kinda look like Reggie Jackson. He looked like a pretzel after he&#8217;d swung at a ball with a home run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-mechanics","category-tennis-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}