Modernize Your Tennis Forehand - Without Crazy Grip Changes !
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2022
- Do you want more power and topspin on your tennis forehand?
You need to use the elements of the "modern" tennis forehand correctly - use your hips and legs a ton more to load properly and create energy that way.
Throw out old cues like "stay sideways" or "racket down and back".
Watch these other videos on the tennis forehand:
Flat vs topspin grip: • What is the difference...
Ash Barty's forehand: • Ash Barty Tennis Foreh...
Carlos Alcaraz's forehand: • The Carlos Alcaraz Ten...
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Subscribe to my RUclips Channel Meike Babel Tennis for world-class instructions from the former WTA #27 and 19 times Grand Slam competitor.
My “Mindfulness for Tennis Players” Online Course:
www.meikebabel.com/mindfulnes...
Get your tennis strokes analyzed: www.meikebabel.com/stroke-ana... to book your analysis!
These are the companies I trust and work with:
APE SPORTSWEAR FOR SPF LIGHT-WEIGHT, BREATHABLE GEAR:
www.ape-us.com/
For 15% off your order, use this code: MEIKE15APE
TOPSPIN PRO - LEARN HOW TO HIT TOPSPIN ANYWHERE!
topspinpro.com/ref/meike/
SWINGVISION APP - GET STATS ON YOUR GAME LIKE THE PROS!
For 30 days FREE trial AND $20 off the annual fee, use this link:
swing.tennis/r/meiketennis
SPINSHOT BALLMACHINES:
For FREE ball machine cover, use
spinshotsports.com/discount/M...
ADV TENNIS and FITNESS GEAR:
For 10% off use ADVMEIKE at www.advtennis.pro/
YONEX:
www.yonex.com/us/
THE NEW YONEX EZONE 98 and 100 LAUNCH ON JANUARY 15, 2022
FOLLOW ME
Instagram: meikebabel...
Facebook: / coachmeikebabel
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@meikebabelten...
Website: www.meikebabel.com/ (Sign up for my newsletter!) 
Спорт
Best demo/explanation between yesterday and today FH by far. Thanks Meike...my fave coach on YT
Great to hear! Feel free to recommend my channel to your tennis friends!
Awesome video. I learned to play in the mid 80s. I played many years with the classic forehand strokes like you demonstrated. Eleven years ago I started to watch videos on how to teach tennis to my two young sons. I gradually made the changes to the modern forehand strokes. I can relate to your video. Thank you.
That is awesome to hear. I'm going to be curious what we'll see in another 10-15 years!
Excellent and clear explanation. Thank you!
Great as always
Thank you again for making videos for us mere mortals. :)
Excellant explaination especially for us older players trying learn the "NEW" modern forehand!
I can’t tell you how relevant and useful this is to me, thank you
Awesome! I'm glad to hear it!
Thank you!
Gud explanation... really fond of your videos...like to know about tension in gutting the string
So helpful!. Might be the best explanation of the leg and hip motion I’ve heard. Thanks!
Thank you! Feel free to recommend my channel to your tennis friends!
This is an awesome video, a lot of helpful information on forehand
Thank you! Feel free to recommend my channel to your tennis friends!
Snow :), this is commitment.
Love the enthusiasm for tennis in this video . You re a great coach I can tell :)
Glad you enjoy it! And thank you for your kind words. Tennis playing and teaching is indeed my passion :-)
Great video, really helpful tips!
Glad it was helpful!
Congratulations !! 6000 plus subscribers MEIKE ❤️
Thank you!
Meike this is great for me. I’m 50 and started with wood racquet as a kid..I’ve been trying to thoughtfully bring in modern elements but I have to say there is continuing value of the old school strokes. I feel such relaxation from extending out and stretching it takes on a holistic nature. But yes, getting that topspin is great, I’m personally copying Agassi specifically for me….
-Dinosaur Bob 🤣
Right on! I'm always a big fan of picking and choosing what works from anything that is different/ new. We all have different characteristics that will allow us (or don't) to use new things in individual ways.
Hi Meikle, I've learned and improved a lot from your coaching videos, Thank you very much. I enjoy your tennis coaching. By the way, I like Ezone racquet too, I played a few brands racquets, Ezone is my favourite racquet.
That is one amazing forehand stroke...great work MB.
Thank you!
Thanks coach for the great video!!!
Glad you liked it! Feel free to recommend my channel to your tennis friends
Amazing. Thank you
Thank you so much
another great video! many thanks.
My pleasure!
Really insightful and useful tips 👍🙏🎾
Thank you as always for your support!
Amazingly explained! 👍😀
Glad you think so! Feel free to recommend my channel to your tennis friends!
Revealing... Thank you 👍
You bet
Love your teaching.
Thank you!
very good explanation. thx
Thank you!
6:33 like what you said about palm out and 9:17 about the hips and angular momentum as opposed to linear. awesome stuff
Thank you! Feel free to recommend my channel to your tennis friends!
Thank you, very good tips and excelent video! Hugs
You're welcome. Feel free to recommend my channel to your tennis friends!
Thank you :)
Will try it out once my TFCC recovers
Let me know how it goes then!
I started playing tennis in 2006 but unfortunately my trainer was from a different time. I spent 3 years learning a continental forehand and then got really confused when I changed trainers. But at least I have good slice and volley game because of it 😅 wish I had seen this video 10 years ago I would have found confidence I my game much sooner.
Nice tips and video
Thank yoU!
It took me 18 months of solid work to make this my default technique, and every now and then the "old" shot makes a comeback. I'm 53 and there is no way my old forehand could live with young players hitting a lot of top spin.
It does take a while before it becomes automatic. But it's the sign of a smart player when you're learning to adapt new realities.
👏 👏 👏
Great video !! 🙌🏼
Sehr Schön
Dankeschön :-)
I'd love to see some drills and stretch routines for coiling and loading like this.
nice. thanks.
Most welcome
Great video Meike!
Please can you do the similar video for double backhand.
Somehow, it is easier to be cramped and stiff at the backhand side (without power and spin)
Great suggestion! I'll put it on my list of videos to do!
A good hip rotation requires a good knee bend. You can do a good hip rotation on the forehand with an open, square or even a closed stance. The difference is that with the open stance, you need a good knee bend to position your hips in the backswing (but hip rotation during the swing comes naturally). With the closed stance, preparation of the hips is easy but you need a good knee bend to rotate your hips through the stroke and follow-through.
Pros need heavy topspin to bring the ball down, but most recreational players are never going to hit any harder than pros hit in the 1970s. And in the 1970s, Ken Rosewall kept his vert firm backhand from flying long even when hitting with underspin -- he simply did not aim so high. Yes, topspin gives you more margin over the net, but a flat swing gives your timing more margin for error when it comes to making clean contact -- and clean contact is necessary for consistency and control of both direction and height. No amount of topspin can compensate for a mis-hit.
Even if an intermediate puts a lot of power and spin on the ball, without control to move the opponent left and right, deep and short to create an opening for a winner -- a pusher will simply keep rebounding the heaviest balls back until his frustrated opponent mis-hits the ball and errs.
Of course, a player who can repeatedly make clean contact when brushing up on the ball with fast racket head speed will have the advantage. But that timing that takes a bit more talent -- and frequent practice to keep the strokes in tune.
Toller Kanal. Super Infos.
Dankeschön!
Awesome video from korea , the level of tennis is so low in korea right now a lot of coaches must learn modern tennis in korea. As a club player, your video provides spectacular perspective thank you.
Thanks for your kind words. Feel free to recommend my channel to your tennis friends.
Thanks, very clear, very helpful. Is there a danger of hip injury with this?
Unless you force anything I wouldn't think so .
Thank you so much for your great content :)
A quick question here! I have a Topspinpro but noticing that it has 75-degree angle screen panels. Do you think that this angle is right to the modern forehand? What´s your opinion and/or suggestion about this? Warm regards
Every ball is different and I think those blades are great to help with the concept of getting the racket head under the ball. I often use it without the panels to work on adjusting to different types of balls that I still want to hit with topspin though.
Great video. I've often wondered why teaching a neutral and closed stance was pushed by teaching pros but condemned the semiopen and open stance. Even Bill Tilden has a video from 1930 teaching closed stance but he himself primarily used open stances. In the 1925 Wimbledon ladies final, Suzanne Lenglen used open stances and a reverse finish just like Nadal dose today I challenge everyone to go watch old matches from the 1920s until now and you will find that the semiopen and open stances were used on the forehand side well over 90% of the time. On the backhand its about 70% closed and 30% open stance.
Look it up for yourself... all of these used open stances primarily on the forehand: Suzanne Lenglen, Helen Wills, jack Cramer, Bill Tilden, Maureen Conley and the list goes on and on...
I remember being called lazy or slow by my coaches when I used semi open and open stances. I just couldn't get there and still generate enough power on the ball with a closed stance.
Having started tennis late in 1985 and being influenced by the strokes of John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors I have found it quite hard to adjust to the modern game although in the seniors game I notice that McEnroe/ Connors have not really changed much of their style? Do they feel there is any benefit to do so ?………..wondered how they would fair today and would they be forced to change. Notice they use modern rackets.
If they were younger now they would adapt for sure. Some of the "old guys" play on the senior tour and I would assume they don't feel the urge to change anything bc it would mean major practice and work.
Good suggestions. How does your grip affect contact point? And lastly your racket could use a new overgrip, just saying.
Grip does affect the contact point big time. And yes, duly noted :-)
Semi-western grip works best for this type of forehand.
Mieke do you use an eastern grip?
I'm in between an Eastern and semi-Western
Meike where are you filming? Snow on the ground but you're in light clothing. Looks fun.
I’m guessing Gates Tennis Center in Denver, CO. We can play in the dead of winter at 60º one day, and 8” of snow the next day!
That is correct, I'm in Denver at Gates. We had 45 with sun on Sunday (which makes it feel like 55 somewhere else bc of our altitude) and then yesterday the temp dropped from 45 to 25 within my 90 minute lesson!
I’d like more on the exact specifics of “rolling over ball”, “windshield wiper”, “waving good bye”. You are saying this is achieved with no purposeful effort from the hand. You are saying one does nothing except relax the hand and swing. Is this true? I hope it is because I am ruining my fingers by “gripping and ripping”.
Is that snow? 😳
Yes, we have pretty big temperature swings in the spring. One day it snows and then a day later it;s 60 degrees.
your video sounds like a good intro but the real modern forehand still do a lot different things. I would recommend your video to any rec players below 5.0.
That's exactly who my target audience is - hence the explanations that way.
@@MeikeBabelTennis great!!
It seems silly but I imagine I’m throwing punches to keep my hips engaged.
Not silly at all. Try punching something without getting your hips and legs into it and poof, no power. Engage your legs and hips and boom, you get pop on it!
Hi meike, l didn't know that you were a german.
Yes, born and raised but moved to US 20 years ago.
She it's Very good
Don't get me wrong this is good stuff but loading this much has got to be too hard if you have any type of Right hip issue such as FAI or arthritis.
Yes, if you have physical limitations it's gonna be hard.
We need women made tennis content. They have a different vision and way to explain things.
That's why I actually decided to start my channel :-)
She was an elite player that is a woman.
0:08 nobody except maybe in the 1950's plays like that anymore....
Aaaaaand that's why I made the video bc yes, they're still people out there hitting their forehands like that. Indeed, I have 2 of them in lessons.
I met a high schooler who was doing the straight take back for years… (I sent her videos of the modern forehand and has since changed it)…. Her high school coach (probably of that era) taught her that way,; it’s probably easier to teach kids. And I do see adult rec players not of that era doing straight take back as well.
@@MeikeBabelTennis hummmm they are 80 years old or so then??!
That's how I was taught in the late 70s/early 80s. That's how my older kids were taught at a lesson in the 2000s. "Airplane, pancake, flashlight" were that coach's cue words.
@@guimov1984 In our tennis clubs we still have many active players close to 90 years old and one just turned 90 a few months ago. Yes, most of the seniors play flat forehand and backhand slice.
Too much repetition gets boaring. In its place you should have given some demo shots from various angles and in slow motion. What you see, you remember and learn more. Just a feedback from a keen viewer. 👍
I’ll keep it in mind for next videos
Often, a child will pick up a racket someone left lying flat on the ground and come up with a natural semi-western grip. Toss them a ball and they start whanging away in open stance. We should refine and enhance the body's natural inclinations, not fight against them.
I'm ok with semi-western. Not ok with full western bc it has too many weaknesses. There are exceptions but those exceptions are world class players