Continental grip, open stance

My continuing experiment in developmental physiology of the throw.  My experimental apparatus is the living room  wall, the racket and a fuzzy round.  My theory says that we stood up, threw a rock and begun  the stone age culture, which lasts to this day.

The throw is normally a forehand, does this mean we are unnatural at tracking for the backhand?

If the backhand is mostly culturally restricted, then the throw capability was mostly a brain change to specialize in hand eye coordination, the body was ready for the change, it needed brains.  In other words, do cats use a backhand move in  a fight?  No.  But chimps are quite good at climbing with both forehand and backhand grabs. We box forehand, but karate has plenty of backhand.  The hammer is mostly forehand, and so is the standard throw.

But the frisbee is done best with backhand, it needs that fling which you can get using wrist momentum, amplified, the pendulum effect.. The saw motion  has  back and forth,  bur the saw likely came way after the throw was mastered.  Was it frame or brains?

So, can we do a natural tennis backhand?

Yes, the short one armed backhand is like a scoop, and works for dribble drills on the living room wall.  Use continental, open stance so you are almost facing the 'net' with the backhand.  The swing is a natural scoop, and you re staring down on the racket face, with a good  viewing angle.  These are two and three foot taps, this is not tennis.  But the stance  gives up amazing accuracy as you are staring right at the impact point and can fire a wrist  motion  at the last way point of the ball's bounce trajectory.

I will work this idea on a real tennis wall for a few days.  But this is not quite what I was taught, so I go back to the pro videos, the coaches who know this stuff cold.  What do they really  mean about stance in  the one afm backhand.  It just seems to me, all stances and steps have one purpose, move he body such that the relative motion  of the eye and ball are orthogonal, the ball moving across the retina with constant focal point. Its motion  toward the eye is null, at that point.

That is how humans time the swing, and the body will con form, contort, stretch and do what is needed to keep the eye tracking to its null position.  Whatever the coaches say, the rule is, make a triangle from  the eye, the ball and the racket face.  That triangle should close equally similar energy ratios on all sides. There is  less of an oblique view of the impact point.  The racket, the ball and the tracking eye all meet at the null point, and relative to the eye, the wrist can make a very  in ute but  accurate adjustment to the racket face.  The player has the longsest viewing time to track the ball.