James is a wonderful taped video instructor. Every time I'm confused he answers with a clarifying demonstration. It's almost as if he's in the room with me. Thanks, James, and Gregg and Florian.
I think this is critical to adding power to the forehand. You can now add the mass of the torso to the momentum of the swing not just the mass of the arm. This translates into more control. I think of this as the same thing as pointing at the ball on an overhead.
Im learning to hold my racquet in my no dominate hand in ready position while having a grip pressure of virtually nothing. The benefits im finding are getting good coil, easy grip chances and less overall tension as i dont apply pressure to the grip until the last second.
James - Great instruction from a great instructor ! Really clear explanation and illustration of the correct forehand technique. I was originally taught to turn and point at the incoming ball with my non dominant arm which did turn the shoulders but reduced the overall power dynamic. Great instruction and correction as to why and how the forehand power is generated. Thanks so much !
Outstanding, thank you, i have been trying to create a proper spacing to the ball for my forehand, this video provides excellent queues to learn it. Very well explained. TY James you made it easy to understand.
Agree with Peter: James is a great tennis instructor. All his instructions are very accurate and detailed. OTI has a tremendous team of instructors and when James joined Gregg and Nadim I was wondering if he manages to be on the same level with these renowned tennis instructors. James has definitely accomplished it: congrats!
James, TY for another extremely informative video! It was very helpful to understand the benefits of the non dominant hand as I am trying to use the torso rotation even in point play. I have been working on the inside out swing path, seen stepping when hitting, swing low to high, bend the legs and finish up over the shoulder. Your video had all that. I don’t use the open stance but it’s high time I did. Keep them coming as your videos really help me!!
You missed a few James If they take the racquet back with their non-dominant hand, it stops the player from throwing the racquet back only using the hitting hand/arm Taking back with hip and shoulder turn is much faster Taking back with hip and shoulder turn is much faster WHILST not losing control of the racquet, which is what happens when the incoming ball speeds up, and they throw the racquet back faster thinking this will be a successful solution to the faster incoming ball Taking back with hip and shoulder turn assists in de-emphasising using only the hitting hand/arm for power generation It also assists players to moderate their take back length as well Using the non-dominant hand for the racquet take back has been in my experience a much easier precursor to teaching a higher level forehand. My comment is probably not helping as now nobody understands what is going on 😈
James is a wonderful taped video instructor. Every time I'm confused he answers with a clarifying demonstration. It's almost as if he's in the room with me. Thanks, James, and Gregg and Florian.
I think this is critical to adding power to the forehand. You can now add the mass of the torso to the momentum of the swing not just the mass of the arm. This translates into more control. I think of this as the same thing as pointing at the ball on an overhead.
Im learning to hold my racquet in my no dominate hand in ready position while having a grip pressure of virtually nothing. The benefits im finding are getting good coil, easy grip chances and less overall tension as i dont apply pressure to the grip until the last second.
James - Great instruction from a great instructor ! Really clear explanation and illustration of the correct forehand technique. I was originally taught to turn and point at the incoming ball with my non dominant arm which did turn the shoulders but reduced the overall power dynamic. Great instruction and correction as to why and how the forehand power is generated. Thanks so much !
Outstanding, thank you, i have been trying to create a proper spacing to the ball for my forehand, this video provides excellent queues to learn it. Very well explained. TY James you made it easy to understand.
Agree with Peter: James is a great tennis instructor.
All his instructions are very accurate and detailed.
OTI has a tremendous team of instructors and when James joined Gregg and Nadim I was wondering if he manages to be on the same level with these renowned tennis instructors.
James has definitely accomplished it: congrats!
Thanks for the lesson of taking the non hitting/dominant arm along with the dominant arm..
Thanks once again with regards
Great demonstration, you really did make a lot of power without forcing it with your arm.
So simple!! Very well explained. I have always been pointing my left hand forward so now I know how to correct that.
IT WILL SURELY HELP ME LOT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Great Video to help refine exactly where the non dominant arm is supposed to be.
James, TY for another extremely informative video! It was very helpful to understand the benefits of the non dominant hand as I am trying to use the torso rotation even in point play. I have been working on the inside out swing path, seen stepping when hitting, swing low to high, bend the legs and finish up over the shoulder. Your video had all that. I don’t use the open stance but it’s high time I did. Keep them coming as your videos really help me!!
Great forehand video by James. Thank you...
Fab video. On one handed backhand would be also great.
You missed a few James
If they take the racquet back with their non-dominant hand, it stops the player from throwing the racquet back only using the hitting hand/arm
Taking back with hip and shoulder turn is much faster
Taking back with hip and shoulder turn is much faster WHILST not losing control of the racquet, which is what happens when the incoming ball speeds up, and they throw the racquet back faster thinking this will be a successful solution to the faster incoming ball
Taking back with hip and shoulder turn assists in de-emphasising using only the hitting hand/arm for power generation
It also assists players to moderate their take back length as well
Using the non-dominant hand for the racquet take back has been in my experience a much easier precursor to teaching a higher level forehand.
My comment is probably not helping as now nobody understands what is going on 😈
Very good thanks
excellent presentation!!!
thank you for the kind words! :)
this is great for stepping into the ball, but i think most players would want to be in open stance to hit if they had a choice
Too good !
looks good, except today's game there is no step forward and there is no down and up, and there is no finishing above the shoulder.
Nic super bro