Shoulder pain when FH looping underspin

1. Not having enough hip/torso rotation, would cause my follow through to drag my shoulder across my body.

2. Reaching too far on the FH or playing stiff strokes near my body would cause my shoulder to extend or tense too much. This would be due to trying to hit the ball when out of position.

As far as attacking underspin, Ringer84, like you said, I would let the ball drift more off-center (towards my hitting hand) in the strike zone. However, I don't allow the ball to be closer to my body, just more off-center from where I would normally hit it. Regardless, thank you so much for the link! I really appreciate the multiple camera angles and how smooth the videos loop into each other.

If we take a look at the Primorac video linked above, we can see that Zoran strikes the ball before it would almost be above his right knee. I think this is the correct area to strike an underspin ball and what I tried to articulate in my original post, but please post if anyone disagrees with where the ball should be struck.

1. VERY Likely your Bio-Mechanics are not efficient. Fix that after you heal up.

2. VERY Likely you have a grade 1 tear. AND if you keep this up, you will likely get a grade two or completely tear it off to make the trifecta of a GRADE THREE tear.

A grade 2 tear is pretty serious stuff and this gets some people to a surgeon. (although if you address it effectively, you can avoid surgery to fix it) Grade 3 is surgery or you be maimed for life there.

Take it from BH-Man, who tore hiz rotator cuf nearly smooth off shoveling snow, getting cars un stuck from high center shoveling extended repeatedly, and pulling engine cords in -30F weather. and pushing cars out of drifts. Took me 2 months to stop re-injuring it every time I put on a shirt or put on pants.

What REALLY helped me was one of those FAR INFARED HEAT devices specialized for your shoulder. They send heat deep into tissue  and muscle. Tendons take forever to heal, since they do not get much blood flow at all. This increses blood flow and healing power to the injury as the body can do wonderful things to heal if we allow it. I did a bunch of dynamic stretching and strengthening exercises after it stopped killing me putting on pants first with only arm as resistance, then 1, then 2 then 5 lb weights. real important to use common sense and progression.

You should get going on healing your injury while it is much easier to so so NOW. A grade 1 tear can be fixed anywhere from a week or two to a month or two. Fix it now while it is much easier. It takes over a year to fully get it back after a grade 2 and sometimes you never get 100 percent from a grade two. Mine had only a few threads holding it together, I injured it late Jan and it got good enough in May to CAREFULLY start BH loop strokes without too much explosion. At the 6 month time frame, it was 60-70% healed and felt pretty good... enough to do matches without worrying too much, just was careful not to extend with power.

Nextlevel, sure! I can post a clip hopefully some time next week to examine today's gameplay against backspin once I get my USB back from my friend who records using his GoPro. I agree that visualizing it would be the most useful tool in examining what exactly is happening.

I'll try to post a video as soon as possible which should shed the most direct light to the flaws in my stroke. Perhaps your point will be more valid than I'm thinking on once we view the tape!

-edit- sorry, grey shirt is me.

Fair comment. I'm just not confident enough in my coaching abilities to guide him through this through words over the Internet.

My opinion is that he needs some work in a swivel chair, in order to properly learn how to transfer his lower body into the ball and relax his shoulder and upper arm.

And also to read this thread started by blahness.