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3 Tips to Rip the Low Backhand
1. Bend your back knee
2. Tilt your torso
3. Extend with the hands
Master those, and your low backhand will finally work the way you want it to. Read more about adjusting to low balls on our website:
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2. Tilt your torso
3. Extend with the hands
Master those, and your low backhand will finally work the way you want it to. Read more about adjusting to low balls on our website:
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Swing OUT on the Forehand
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The first vector on the forehand is out, not towards the ball. This is what allows explosive horizontal shoulder adduction through contact, but it's something that's missing from many players' swings. Read more about it here: faulttoleranttennis.com/the-topspin-swing-path-out-up-and-through/
Shoulder Adduction Will Transform Your Forehand Contact
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Horizontal shoulder adduction is the final major link in the forehand kinetic chain, when the pectoral humeral angle closes, and the pecs drive the racket through contact. Want more? Read about improving ball-striking on our website: faulttoleranttennis.com/1-habit-for-perfect-ball-striking/
Retired WTA Pro Still Ripping Backhands
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Alexa Glatch (35) is a current coach and former player. The #1 habit you can use to improve your ball striking is the weighted shadow swing. Read more about it here: faulttoleranttennis.com/1-habit-for-perfect-ball-striking/
Single Foot Forehand Practice - Raw Footage
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Alexa and I practice probing the forehand on one foot.
The Magic of Single-Foot Forehand Training
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Training your forehand on one foot helps you improve your probing and weight transfer extremely quickly. For higher level players looking to further drive adaptation, I highly recommend spending some of your practice time doing it. Read more about the balance secrets behind successful tennis here: faulttoleranttennis.com/balance-secrets-in-tennis/ This drill is appropriate for athletes who are ...
4 Tips for the Two-Handed Backhand
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1. Transfer your weight towards your target. 2. Probe the ball into the right spot. 3. Attack the ball at chest height whenever possible. 4. Extend through the hitting zone.
Shoulder Adduction Unlocks the Tennis Forehand
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Horizontal shoulder adduction is the key to hitting a simple, effective, fault tolerant forehand. Design your swing such that you can adduct your shoulder, and have that adduction move the racket back-to-front through contact. Read about Jannik Sinner's forehand on our website: faulttoleranttennis.com/accelerate-late-like-jannik-sinner/
Fault Tolerance In Action
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An example from Rome 2024 where Stephanos Tsitsipas's fault tolerant forehand wins him a point.
it's so helpful bro please do one for the 2 handed backhand
This has really helped me improve my forehand. Thank you. Some more videos on the forehand would be much appreciated.
Awesome! I watched all the 9 minutes abd it was always interesting and useful. Can't wait to try it.
I'm not sure if I understand - I'm getting away from the video that forehand primarily comes from shoulder/arm? And I should focus on my shoulder movement? That feels very unnatural to me, and feels like trying to "arm" the forehand, rather than relaxing it and let it naturally swing as a result of my weight transfer. I always thought the wt transfer from legs goes first, and the arm follow. I thought the one-leg forehand idea was very insightful to show the role of legs and weigh, but this shoulder adduction idea isn't' clicking for me.
This confusion makes sense. What we're showing in this video is the END of the swing. The *contact zone* is primarily created and aimed with the upper body, specifically with the strong muscles of the chest, not the weaker muscles of the arm itself. The muscle group that's doing it is the pectoral muscles on your hitting side, which is a very strong muscle group, on par with the legs and abs, especially in men. Again, this video is explaining the end of the swing. You'll need the upstream links too - the things you described like feeling the ground through your back foot and transferring your weight, and of course engagement of your abdominals to torque your torso around. In order to have a truly explosive forehand, you need to connect the early links to this shoulder adduction motion at the end. We can train it all separately (which we'll get into in a forehand course we're making later this year), but here's a preview: 1. Shoulder adduction - pressing exercises, and for tennis, weighted swings 2. Abdominal rotation - Russian twist like exercises, loaded with weight 3. Weight transfer - single leg hopping patters, like hopping a few times to your right, landing on your load foot, then pressing forward off that landing. In order to hit the forehand well, you need all three of these major links to be strong and coordinated. This video was about the first one, just because so many people can't feel it, and it can transform your contact almost overnight.
awsome!! need to remember...
❤ now i know how to hit better fh. Thanks coach
Can you make the same video on the two handed backhand???
2:16 - Explanation 4:32 - Best illustration 6:27 - Master it to make more balls 7:11 - Shoulder adduction in non-ideal situations
I've been waiting for you to make a youtube channel been reading your writeups on the website. Very pleasantly surprised to see your video pops up on my tube. Good luck
I think its a isometric angle of shoulder and a pronation of the forarm
thanks for this very interesting video, I was wondering, in the case you want the full power, how do you deal with the trunc uncoiling, do you contract the abs ?
how are you achieving this "out" vector? Is it from elbow extension while rotating? Also, is this a different way of describing swinging from the inside-out?
I am suprised to say, this video is just what I needed. I must have allowed myself to get bogged down, while trying to improve my technique. Watched this yesterday and played some of my best tennis for ages this morning, just thinking about the contact point and swinging smoothly. Will be going through the other videos on your channel shortly. Thank you.
Hi, wondering if there is any way to do a zoom lesson or if I could send you video for paid feedback on my forehand?
Yeah, we do offer this. Reach out to me at johnny@faulttoleranttennis.com.
Is there an analogous “essential contact” motion on the one-handed backhand?
There is. I'm still working on the best way to communicate it. I think Richard Gasquet is the best to watch if you want to see what absolutely perfect understanding of OHBH contact looks like.
Thanks! I look forward to the video once you’re ready to teach it.
Great video,👏I tried from base line and I was able to get good top spin and kept ball low. One question coach about short mid court balls. When I do the same, I get a loopy spin often goes long or out sideways in alley. Fine from base line, but any changes and suggestion for shot net net balls to keep them in?
Great question. You'll want to use a shallower low -to-high slant when you're inside the court. For example, your elbow might routinely end up above your shoulder when you're hitting from behind the baseline, but when striking an approach shot, your elbow ends up at about chest height. It'll depend on your exact mechanics, but the basic answer is: swing straighter back-to-front, and less low-to-high, when you're inside the court and attacking.
How do you know if you’re mastering it? Thank you
Yes! You are “my kind’a coach”. I am all about the technical side of tennis, love the content!
Your video demonstrating internal & external rotation provided a new progression to adjust, improve & strengthen my forehand swing! Same progression appears identical to my serve swing! Thx
I’ve never taken a forehand lesson from a guy standing in the woods, wearing jeans, and who doesn’t have a tennis racquet. But there’s a first for everything 😂
Shoulder adduction is the contact - thank you!
Great video, i subscribed immediately. I loved how you explained it!, I know not everyone understands this way, but its nice to have this perspective! I will watch more of your videos, thanks.
The best content! Thanks a lot!
This is how Nick Kyrgios plays most of the time. Single leg slap city 👌
Very true! Casper Ruud also plays off one foot much of the time, often totally deloading his off foot as he prepares.
With Thiem's former forehand preparation.
Jennifer Brady?
I like how rublev probes… he makes this crazy claw with his hand at the end of his straight and sideways non hitting arm and then exhales with bweeahhhh. I think that extended non hitting arm also relates to your hopping on one leg drill.
I’ve been trying to figure this out for the last 3 months! Thank you so much!!! My problems started when I successfully got a coach to teach me how to shorten my swing, and I managed… but then I lost the ability to hit the top of the ball and keep it down. I will now warm up every time with those small motions you showed us. 🎉
With no racket in the hand, all will be mere play of words.
I made a follow-up with the racket. Here you go! ruclips.net/video/5KdScDKxVSI/видео.html
Yes, I would be happy to watch a follow up video with a racquet in hand.
Amazing content and spot on. Keep it up. 🎉
Solidddd
Great video. I’m subscribed. Seems like the first step is to figure out my personal motion and where my hand/wrist is and the angle they are at in the optimal impact zone. The second step is to adjust the racquet angle (which means adjust my grip) to get the strings in the right position. Step three is then focus on the shoulder adduction. But it has to be in that order. Is that right?
Not quite. The first step is to adduct your shoulder - use your chest to push your hand forward the way I showed in the video. Then, you hold your racket, and use a grip such that, when you press your hand forward in the way that feels most natural for you, your strings are slightly closed to the court. After that, you make sure you're acutely aware of where, in front of you, the ball needs to be to make the swing work. Those are the fundamentals, and then you practice, practice, practice.
Subscribed! Question about the forehand, I read the accelerate late like Sinner article, trying to figure out what I need to do now to hit a bigger forehand. ruclips.net/video/yOmb8QOMHZ0/видео.html I'm the one in blue. I am trying to see what can I do better? Accelerate starting at contact by trying to fire the hips and only when they are square to net then try to accelerate the upper body? I can feel the hips fire but then I don't know how to feel firing the upper part faster. Suggestions?
Your fundamentals look great! 1. Move your contact point right. It's too close to your body. Your brain still wants to swing straight at the ball, but that's not what we want. The first motion is exploding around, which sends the racket out, not forward, and then the racket goes back-to-front through contact. 2. Watch some pros from the side. Even though the swing is low-to-high, it's a very slight upward diagonal. The current swing path you're using should only be used on defense or lobs - it's too vertical. Drive the racket mostly forward, not up. (this will also naturally adjust itself as you move your contact point right) 3. Train your abs. I'll be releasing videos on this later, but work on your quick, explosive twist. The more explosively you can go from 90 degrees turned, to facing the net, the better your forehand will be.
@@FaultTolerantTennis wow thanks for the detailed reply. I’ll get working on spacing further away and use the abs to get the swing to go more out and away instead of being jammed. I’ve never thought about swinging out and around. My brain just wants to crush forehands and it’s become used to swinging the way I do now. Thank you, hopefully after the suggestions are implemented I can hit properly!
Look forward to trying that!
One thing I’m beginning to notice is…. At contact … the arm should set you up so that through contact your hitting HAND is positioned in the exact same configuration as it would be if you were catching the ball without a racquet. When I get to and maintain the Catching POSITION. GOOD THINGS HAPPEN. THOUGHTS?
If that works for you, awesome, but the racket is long, so you shouldn't literally be catching the ball, as far as spacing goes. As far as your palm orientation, that will depend on your grip.
This should be mandatory teaching before ever hitting a ball, or a system of drills before hitting in practice or a match!! You surpassed all the “great” teachers in ten minutes! Congrats! I am a 73yo 4.5
Nice explanation kuya
I’d love to see a video explaining the same stuff for the one handed backhand ie the swing characteristics. Sounds like arm aBduction and external shoulder rotation this time.
exactly. abduction, not adduction.
Is Nadal's forehand an outlier myth regarding the up vector?
Watch it from the side. It's not nearly as vertical as it seems, especially when he's moving into the shot (though is more vertical than most).
Looks like his backhand is more driven by the right hand than the left unlike other players whose back hand is basically a left handed forehand
Really interesting video. I think perhaps on my forehand I'm adducting and then swinging, which is leaking power and making the contact point less repeatable. Here's a 4sec video. Mind taking a look? ruclips.net/video/NR84cKgj77Q/видео.htmlsi=22Z0Coq-Y7_rXAR2
Just found your channel. You are saying some things that I have not heard anyone else in tennis say. And these things sound logical. I think your channel is going to take off.
Great content. Thanks for posting! Wondering if you could clarify - When exactly does the adduction happen in relation to contact with the ball? Is ball contact at the start of the adduction, midway through it, or towards the end?
Ideally, contact is not right at the beginning of your adduction, because then you don't get as much time for the chest to accelerate the racket. Too late, and you're now pulling sideways, rather than back-to-front. Typically, contact happens with a pectoral-humeral angle of 150-100 degrees. 90 is usually too late. Watch some slow motion footage of your favorite pros from the side to see the player to player variation in how much they use.
I would say it depends on how heavy their racket is and how heavy the incoming ball is. The less force you have to counteract, the more you can afford to contact the ball later in the adduction. Imagine you're playing with a feather or just your hand. You'd have to be adducting right at the start and the whole way through because you'd basically have to carry the ball entirely and throw it forward in order to get any speed back.
I don’t know any player who extended more his arm in the backhand as Borg.
Coach, would be possible to make an analysis of João Fonseca’s game? You will get a lot of Brazilians to your channel 😊 João won against several top 50 players, and Djokovic said he is the future of the game. He practices regularly against top 10 players, among others Alcaraz and Sinner (they want to study his game). Today he won against Popyrin in straight sets (former 38) on grass, although he is strong on clay (In Rio open he won against Fils in straight sets, first set 60.)
He is not moving his head much, which is quite unusual (we see this more in the forehand and one handed backhand: Federer!. This tells us a lot his talent.
There is a dude in a tennis club I played in the past who has an amazing forehand. I watched him in the warmup, playing in the box, standing almost frontal to the next, hitting this amazing effortlessly forehands, and I couldn’t tell why this forehand was great. Until I saw this video. He does exactly what you said. From the baseline he can hit a lot of winners as this would be the most natural thing in the world. In a club tournament he was a break down in the third set against me (I like to destroy my opponents with drop shots and lobs and so on), but he eventually won. Thanks for the video.
I subscribed immediately after watching this video, great explanation, thanks!
Would you say that a person with poor posture, one where the shoulders are more internally rotated at rest, would struggle with their ability to adduct as you show here?
So do you throw both hands forward on contact for extension I can never get it rite please help