The Ultimate Backhand Power Move
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2024
- Get more of your body involved and transfer weight at the right time!
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Would love to see a one handed backhand video from the same perspective, Tom.👍🙏
Love the analogy of throwing medicine ball
This totally makes sense
Would love to see a video where you talk about power generation on the jumping backhand (Nishikori, Djoko, Nalbandian, etc)
You have any videos of this?
position of the right foot could be more diagonal to the net imo to get the body mass potencial energy over the right foot into the ball. (take a look what the pros do.) Also end of swing is very low.
looks good though
Noted! Thanks!
Let me know what you think…
I had always thought of the two-hander as just like a lefty forehand. Thanks for setting me straight on this
Hey Tom, do you have any thoughts on how to efficiently find the correct grips mid point? I have a bad habit of twirling my racquet unnecessarily mid point and of being unable to find my grip more specifically on the backhand side.
I will hold my bottom right hand in semi western and have my left hand on the throat of the racquet but what’s tricky and kinda subtle is i will hold my left middle finger tip, ring finger tip and pinky tip on the side of the throat with my pointer finger tip a little bit above the right side of the bridge of the frame and left thumb curling a bit over to the top of the left side of the throat. It’s relatively easy to hit backhand slices because all i have to do is change my bottom hand to more or less continental by shifting my bottom hand from semi to the left. And if i do happen to be holding the left top hand lower on the throat of the racquet i will sometimes shift my bottom hand to the right which still works fine for me. It seems like it doesn’t matter as much which way i twirl my racquet with my bottom hand to find my backhand slice because i have more leeway in that i dont need to have a perfect continental grip. It’s still easy to hit my backhand slice if my grip is a bit more eastern.
My issue is trying to find my two handed backhand grip specifically with the top hand.
Right now if i were to drill hitting cross court backhands i would just keep both hands in my two handed backhand grip the entire time and would be able to be fairly consistent because i wouldn’t have to worry about changing grips. The issue is more midpoint in full court points where i have a hard time switching between grips.
When i change my bottom hand default ready position from a more semi westernish forehand to the backhand grip a lot of times it wont be perfectly continental and will be more of an eastern forehand grip but i can get away with that even if it’s a little bit more difficult to lay the wrists back and drop the racquet head. It’s just the top hand that seems like more of the issue.
Right now with the way I hold the racquet midpoint, If i were to slide my left hand straight down it wouldn’t be in my proper backhand grip which is on the edge between semi/eastern. I feel like the top hand needs to be in the perfect position or it will feel uncomfortable and if it’s too far eastern i tend to belt balls long bc i hit it so flat with my wrists not laid back properly/face too open. If i can’t find my top hand grip but end up with a more semi western i can get away with it a bit more because i get more topspin and feel like it’s easier to maneuver my left hand with that grip.
Does the direction you shift your bottom hand matter depending on what type of grip you use, for example if was a righty with a more western grip then i should just shift my bottom hand the right whereas if i had an eastern grip it would be a shift to the left? I just wonder if I’m twirling the racquet in a way that’s less efficient than it could be.
I’ve thought about maybe trying to just hold it with two hands all of the time like a return grip but I’m not sure.
This might be a weirdly specific question and I don’t know if you have an answer to this exact case but I was just wondering if you had any general thoughts on how to hold your racquet in the middle of the point and how to efficiently find your proper grip.
Thanks
Absolutely, Tom. Medecine ball, yes! Block, yes. Still too much sync for the time being of your arms with you body. Hope you'll mend this asap. For the fundamentals are here ))
I don’t know what this means
Good video! I completely understand transferring the weight from the back leg to the front while hitting -- but how come for high balls, I see a lot of pros just jump off their front leg to hit the shot?
Do you have any videos of this?
Little late here but it’s because they’re raising themselves up to still hit a shot in their strike zone. Sometimes they’re trying to take the ball really early to take time away from their opponent, usually with a very aggressive shot. Medvedev comes to mind in the latter scenario.