Everybody wants to hit the ball harder. I get asked many many questions about how
can I hit the ball harder? What do I need to do? Let me give you a couple of ideas.
In order to hit the ball harder the only way that you can achieve that is if
you're able to swing the racket head faster. The faster your racket head, the
faster the ball. If my racket is not going fast it doesn't matter how much
effort I put into the shot. The ball is not gonna go fast. The racket head has to
go very fast. So one easy way to check your racket head speed is simply swinging
without the ball and trying to make the racket swish. You want to make sure that
you're holding the the racket loosely. If you're pressing on the racket you're not
gonna be able to swing efficiently, so stay loose and try to use your whole
body to let the racket swing and listen to the racket
swish through the air. If you cannot hear the racket making any noise that means
you're really not swing in the right way. Make sure that you're able to swing and hear the racket
swishing through the air. So practice going as fast as you can moving the
racket, making as much noise as possible. Once you do a few repetitions of that,
then you want to try to just bounce the ball and try to swing it with the same
speed. One of the key aspects of accelerating the racket is when do you
accelerate the racket. A lot of players make the mistake to try to accelerate
the racket way too early so it's almost like those cartoons where the pitcher is
propelling their arm to to pitch. If I am accelerating my racket going backwards
it's going to be very difficult to accelerate going forwards. The timing of
the acceleration is key, so you want to go slow and then once you get close to
the ball you want to go really fast, So it's got to be slow, to fast .So when
you're practicing your shadow swing make sure that you are going slow back and
then once the racket drops and you're getting close to the contact point
that's where you're gonna go 100%. So you go slow to maximum, slow to maximum. A
good exercise is trying to catch a ball with maximum acceleration of your arm. So
the idea is I'm going to move my arm as fast as possible but I still want to
make sure that I can catch that ball. Normally if I try to do it, if I try to
accelerate too early my arm is going to be very, very fast at the time of I make
contact, and it's very likely that I will not be able to catch. But if I go slow
and wait till I'm closer to the ball and then go maximum speed, I should be able
to do it. So try this just drop the ball go slow and maximum. Drop the ball, slow
maximum. if you find that you're hitting the ball, that means you're accelerating
too early. Be relaxed anytime that you want to accelerate. You want to make sure
that you relaxed, so shadowing, swishing the ball as fast
as possible and making sure that you start accelerating at the last moment
is. going to help you not only swing faster but also with more control.
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