Lob it or Toss it!
Published: 15 Feb 2005 - 08:55 by rippa rit
Updated: 26 Sep 2008 - 09:55
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The English language expressions sure trick us. They say toss a coin, so I can see it looking like lobbing a coin. They say toss your opponent, so I can see a bull throwing his rider high in the air. My Dad would say toss that stuff out it's haddit, so things would fly into the air. They say don't argue the toss, so I visualise another encounter. Want a tossed salad for lunch, so I see lettuce getting thrown up and down. Seriously, the word "toss" is a squash term, meaning "toss it over their head". The word lob seems to be a tennis term for hitting the ball high in the air. Then, we say I'll lob in to see you sometime. That sure is different! So, what am I getting at? When I hear either of these words lob, toss or float it means "get the ball high overhead to land in the court deep". A great shot, whatever the game happens to be.
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pretty smart debate... In my opinion we should keep 'Squash' terms here and leave the tennis ones to the other guys. Well, in all earnest, i always thought that 'toss' refers to the hit fropm the front part of the court, while 'lob' explains the stroke from the back court. Great shot remains the grat shot, but we should agree on the semantics ;-) and i vote for 'toss'! And I truly love the backhand toss, when i am close to the frontwall and the opponent expects me to drop ... then the ball flies high and tight ... to die in the back court nick... luckily ... such a brilliant shot ... toss ... not lob.
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any way you look at it - it must go high, and i mean high. the pakistani greats, jahingir and jansher were masters at it - incredible control in impossible situations which made them so hard to beat or should i say "hard to toss"
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