Wheelchair Tennis Practice | Alfie Hewett & Stephane Houdet 2021 Melbourne Summer Series (4K 60FPS)
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- Court level view of these ever so awe-inspiring athletes Alfie Hewett (Great Britain) and Stephane Houdet (France) practicing ahead of the 2021 Wheelchair Tennis Summer Series in Melbourne!
I hope this can inspire or help someone out there who can better understand the techniques of wheelchair tennis...
What stands out to me is that they use a "pronated" backhand with a semi-western to eastern grip and wrist below the grip. Its incredible to watch how much power they can generate on the backhand with what looks like a flick of the wrist, often making contact above their head!
For those of you unaware, 2 bounces are allowed in wheelchair tennis.
As most of you know from personal experience, tennis is one of the most difficult sports to learn, requiring lots of technique and repeition. Sometimes techniques seem counter intuitive such as standing side-on during the serve or holding a continental grip on the serve, requiring pronation to make contact square-on with the ball... As you can see, wheelchair tennis requires much more technical abilities!
On the serve they use an abbreviated motion and use the momentum of their torso to rotate the chair into the serve, gaining power from the ground.
The incredible upper body strength and muscular endurance required to even play a single lengthy point is very significant. They have wide and nimble carbon fibre wheelchairs.
Much respect and appreciation to all these athletes.
0:00 Hewett
2:12 Houdet
4:14 Serves
5:46 Thanks for watching!
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Massive respect to these guys. This looks extremely exhausting
That 360 volley at the net was probably the coolest thing I've seen ALLLLL Year! 🤟🤯
These guys are great athletes 👍
This is ama zing!! Watching Hewett hunt down balls is SO cool, mu st take incredibe upper body strength and endurance for those long rallies
I appreciate your comment 😁 It's unbelievably entertaining to watch and also super physical. Lots of strength needed for sure!
Notable moments:
0:00 - Gorgeous BH
1:01 - Killer BH Slice
1:32 - Great rally and winner
2:00 - Fancy net skills
2:32 - FH winner
3:09 - Amazing defensive slice
4:54 - Powerful serve
We often forget about the work that goes on behind the camera , we comment on how the guys did etc but never take the time to say Nice work to the creator .
@@BushBuggin Thanks mate, I appreciate that lots. When the effort behind the camera is done right, it should go un-noticed in one way but appreciated in another.
I'm no expert photographer or editor but put lots of effort learning so I can make these videos so thanks for noticing.
@@LiamApilado L1 t12 and I play with the camera as well your very welcome .
First, let me just give you a *MASSIVE THANK YOU* for posting this, Liam. I'm always looking for close-up video to study their technique and this is SIMPLY AWESOME footage, thank you-thank you-thank you!!! 😁
It's kind of funny to hear (okay, read) you guys talking about this, I guess I never thought about able-bodied people wondering what the heck we're doing out there, I just figured - beyond the usual courtside double-takes - you normal people didn't give much of a &$%# about WC tennis. Cool, I'm glad you guys are interested/befuddled, heh-heh.
I was wondering who was hitting with Alfie (as I neglected to actually _READ_ the title 🤓 D'OH!) and once I saw the gloves I was like, "Oh, it's Stephane!". I was _wondering_ who could actually keep up with Hewett and there you have it! I always offer Houdet as justification for wearing gloves when I play as he's a former World #1 and multiple Paralympic gold+silver medalist.
While im aware of the possibility that it might be slightly irritating for you guys to read comments that appear to be mere platitudes,it really demands that a comment be made - You guys really fu****g Rock ! - I played last night and i'm pretty sure i had some kind of heart attack..felt a great desire to lie face flat on the lovely all-weather surface and let my twitching body let the other players know of my distress.We are all in some sense lying in the gutter,but some of us are looking at the stars as Oscar Wilde once said..i know you guys
see the stars !
AMAZING!
Those guys have a better one hand backhand than I do
This is awesome
WONDERFUL! Respect from Japan!
_Was going to leave this exhaustive (exhausting?) message for Buggin, but reconsidered (out of sympathy) and thought I'd make it public for anyone interested in the number of, and angle (camber) of, their wheels. Here 'tis_
They are usually 20 degrees of camber, despite a UK study that says there is no additional advantage to anything more than 18 degrees. Most guys/gals prefer to go the extra couple degrees just to be safe as it's a tradeoff between turning ability (higher camber) and straightaway speed (lower camber). and raw speed just isn't as important as maneuverability in WC tennis.
And stable, you say? There are 5 to 6 wheels on a tennis wheelchair: two, usually 26-inch, main or "drive" wheels, two (3-5") front casters, and a 5th (or 6th) "anti-tip" caster(s) in the back. They are all adjusted to virtually the same height so you can't roll on anything but a very smooth and even surface, such as a tennis court, otherwise you will get VERY STUCK, literally spinning your wheels. They're also near-impossible to roll or tip, but these guys being as reckless as they are, you _will_ see it on occasion. See (below) Gustavo Fernandez's spectacular volley from the turf at Wimbledon for a case in point!
(ruclips.net/video/R_87EQpnK9U/видео.html).
Oh, one last thing. (Finally! 😫) You mention tire wear, specifically that camber is hard on the sidewalls. FYI, they do make tires that have an angled rolling surface that matches your camber, so that even if your wheels are angled at X degrees, it rolls flat along "where the rubber meets the road". But I'd say that most players go with a more normal tire design and just have them rotated when the wear gets severe on one side. The pros, though, probably go through tires like a racecar pit crew! Crazy game, ours.
P.S. - If you ever see a WC guy at your local tennis courts, go up and offer to hit with them. We love to hit with our stand-up brethren and you'll get to see some truly bizarre tennis strokes up close and personal. And don't go easy on us! 😁 Thanks for your interest, see you out there...
Thank you for your informative comment!
I used to have a chair with six degree camber those must be as a 20 degree that’s nuts stable , I had people ask all the time “are they bent on purpose “ lol hard on the side walls,.
These guys are incredible. Truly inspirational with crazy skill. Now when will manufacturers have proper batteries so that we can have mechanized wheel chairs? We can then really see what these guys can really do, but one thing is for sure though, the addition of their chair manipulation is an incredible skill on its own.
Thank you Liam for this video. If it wasn't for you, I would have never seen WCTennis.
Cheers!
That is an excellent idea, motorised wheelchairs will allow players to use so much less energy on manuvering around the court and increase the quality of hitting!
Maybe some element of control such as shifting weight like on those hoverboards/segways will help.
Thanks for watching and im glad you enjoyed
@@LiamApilado Loved it! Looking forward to more! All the best!
@@-Munditimum- Thank you, a special video is in the making 🎾 All the best to you too
@@LiamApilado Cheers!
0:52
I have a question: if you hit a forehand out wide, should you turn inward (the way of your stroke) or the other way?
By turn do you mean their body? It depends if they are on the stretch it will be difficult to turn whereas if they have time to position themselves, they would turn into the shot (inwards) to get more power
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What's the point of a total paraplegic competing in wheelchair tennis? It's completely unfair. One guy (lombar lesions, parcial lesions and amputees) can move is lombar spine the other can't (tetra and torso paraplegics), I don't have balance completely unfair.
@Radoslav Bobek But there's not a dorsal paraplegic category, they're not the same as amputees, amputees are able body persons, paraplegic not. I fall over my belly, I must have one hand on the wheelchair all the times, a amputee can move is body in the wheelchair.