{"id":47292,"date":"2026-01-04T21:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47292"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:32:51","slug":"volley-and-tossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47292","title":{"rendered":"Volley and tossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_9701-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47294 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_9701-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Mainly worked on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47064\">volley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47253\">swing volley<\/a> this morning; then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">on my toss<\/a>, trying to turn my left hand inward after the ball is in the air. Not sure what it will do, but the tray is forever there.<\/p>\n<p>Some opinions: it&#8217;s an inefficient, pushing motion (like holding a tray) instead of a powerful, upward &#8220;throwing&#8221; motion with pronation, limiting spin, power, consistency, and placement control, and capping a player&#8217;s potential for advanced development by keeping the racket face open too early, preventing proper racket drop and internal shoulder rotation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; a few videos<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i9kRJ-KXXgg\">volleys<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ON8pd3C8gkc\">slow mo volleys<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/onfWGCpGkdA\">backhand swing volley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/ls3AStOCdKc?feature=share\">two serves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xuxOq9RcUkA\">tossing + tray<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainly worked on my volley and swing volley this morning; then on my toss, trying to turn my left hand inward after the ball is in the air. Not sure what it will do, but the tray is forever there. Some opinions: it&#8217;s an inefficient, pushing motion (like holding a tray) instead of a powerful, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}