Outstanding video! I feel like I just got a free lesson. No joke. Would love to see more videos just like this one -- "full length" on court lessons focusing on a particular shot or technique.
As an adult player I have an old school stay-sideways slice which works well most of the time. I've tried the modern slice preparing the racket above the shoulder. It definitely produces a superior spin and flight but is trickier due to the steeper angle you swing down on. Something to work on though.
Good thoughts. Yes the higher prep and extreme wrap around the neck are difficult to learn. The shoulders tend to open up more on the modern slice too.
@@ChrisLewit This neck slice backswing of yours high down to low is good for playing defense slice it is reliable enough if you can always keep the ball going back deep and staying down low in the court. Because its no good if it loses its bite and falls high and short and weak in the court. which it sometimes can do. So I'm kinna iffy about relying on it all the time... But for the low difficult balls I do things a little different. I use a different slice with a low to high swing on the lower balls. And I use the following spins, Flat mixed with Topspin and Sidespin. I don't just slice with only sidespin or underspin.
@@ChrisLewit When it comes to those lower balls on the backhand. I use a mix of Flat with Topspin with Slice and that stops all the short weak sitter balls.. So I got rid of the sitter balls.
@@ChrisLewit Its not the normal swing drive where you swing out and around the ball and come over it with your racquet which we use that one for doing just the topspin But I use the push drive when I want to flatten out the ball more. I have racquet coiled up in the same high backswing position as doing the normal topspin backhand but instead of swinging over the ball I just extend out the arm into the ball and that unwinds the racquet brings the racquet drop all down and through and that uncoils the bottom of the racquet also right into the ball. I use the eastern grip for this (as I I use Roger's Backhand). So I use a racquet drop in this more flatter drive.
Is it because she is young that the racket looks more horizontal than vertical? Roger racket is almost vertical when he hits the ball, plus the position of the wrist is important, too.
@ChrisLewit this is the way I do it. I start with the high racket horizontal to the ground, as you said. My hand and wrist are almost 90 degrees, as when you accelerate a motorcycle. When I go down with the racket to hit the ball, the racket is almost vertical to the ground. More the arm speed, I use the waith of my body going forward. I'm an "old" player I started at the age of your young student with a wooden racket. Borg time.
@lucascapin6843 Just to clarify, you are referring to the angle of the wrist at impact. About 90 degrees? I can check the high speed video for you to confirm.
@ChrisLewit thank you for your reply. I made a mistake in my explanation. I keep the 90-degree angle from the beginning until the end with the racket vertical or a little open almost all the shot. I finish it forward with the racket open parallel to the ground.
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Outstanding video! I feel like I just got a free lesson. No joke. Would love to see more videos just like this one -- "full length" on court lessons focusing on a particular shot or technique.
Nice. Thanks for sharing. We will be doing more lesson videos for sure. Vamos!
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As an adult player I have an old school stay-sideways slice which works well most of the time. I've tried the modern slice preparing the racket above the shoulder. It definitely produces a superior spin and flight but is trickier due to the steeper angle you swing down on. Something to work on though.
Good thoughts. Yes the higher prep and extreme wrap around the neck are difficult to learn. The shoulders tend to open up more on the modern slice too.
@@ChrisLewit This neck slice backswing of yours high down to low is good for playing defense slice it is reliable enough if you can always keep the ball going back deep and staying down low in the court. Because its no good if it loses its bite and falls high and short and weak in the court. which it sometimes can do. So I'm kinna iffy about relying on it all the time...
But for the low difficult balls I do things a little different. I use a different slice with a low to high swing on the lower balls. And I use the following spins, Flat mixed with Topspin and Sidespin. I don't just slice with only sidespin or underspin.
@germanslice thanks. You can definitely prepare lower on low balls. You would not prepare around neck for low balls
@@ChrisLewit When it comes to those lower balls on the backhand. I use a mix of Flat with Topspin with Slice and that stops all the short weak sitter balls.. So I got rid of the sitter balls.
@@ChrisLewit Its not the normal swing drive where you swing out and around the ball and come over it with your racquet which we use that one for doing just the topspin But I use the push drive when I want to flatten out the ball more. I have racquet coiled up in the same high backswing position as doing the normal topspin backhand but instead of swinging over the ball I just extend out the arm into the ball and that unwinds the racquet brings the racquet drop all down and through and that uncoils the bottom of the racquet also right into the ball. I use the eastern grip for this (as I I
use Roger's Backhand).
So I use a racquet drop in this more flatter drive.
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Is it because she is young that the racket looks more horizontal than vertical? Roger racket is almost vertical when he hits the ball, plus the position of the wrist is important, too.
Thanks. Do you mean in the preparation phase? At impact the racquet is more horizontal/parallel to the ground.
@ChrisLewit this is the way I do it. I start with the high racket horizontal to the ground, as you said. My hand and wrist are almost 90 degrees, as when you accelerate a motorcycle. When I go down with the racket to hit the ball, the racket is almost vertical to the ground. More the arm speed, I use the waith of my body going forward. I'm an "old" player I started at the age of your young student with a wooden racket. Borg time.
@lucascapin6843 Just to clarify, you are referring to the angle of the wrist at impact. About 90 degrees? I can check the high speed video for you to confirm.
@lucascapin6843 Because at impact the racquet is not vertical. It he racquet is parallel to the ground at most impact points.
@ChrisLewit thank you for your reply. I made a mistake in my explanation. I keep the 90-degree angle from the beginning until the end with the racket vertical or a little open almost all the shot. I finish it forward with the racket open parallel to the ground.