For all those who suffer from tennis elbow, I pass on an observation...
Tennis elbow is when the inside of the elbow joint is hurting. Golfers' elbow is when the outside of the joint is unhappy.
I watch a disc golf video on how to throw a side arm shot. It's the same motion if you were to skip a stone. But the important point is that the elbow leads the forearm. And the forearm leads the wrist/hand. At the moment of truth, the wrist joint snaps across generating a lot of the speed.
I tend to look for universal solutions and the leading elbow shows up in the golf swing with the trailing arm, and disc golf, and I thought I'd try it with my pickleball shots.
I do have tennis elbow and there are shots in PB that really hurt. Sorry, I can't tell you what they are, you might be tempted to abuse me.
I tried to lead with the elbow on forehands and of course, that means the serve. I found that I was getting all the power and accuracy I was used to, plus I could feel that the elbow joint was not being stressed at all. It felt good.
This also is part of the backhand stroke. I was not very good at implementing that, but I think it has a lot of promise.
If you are hurting with the various elbows pains, you might try this modification to your stroke.
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