all right anna let's warm up a little bit how long has it been since we've been training when was our
first first lesson was what do you think three months three months ago go on the service line
let's back up you're playing well
here we go forehand oh i love it look at that looping action so much better
go again nice
big fan of your backhand up up up go anna your backhand is good but we can do a couple of things
to make it even better and one thing that you do sometimes on your backhand is that you are kind
of bending the forearm and bending the wrist like this like this you're kind of muscling the ball
using the arms in isolation without anything else happening you see so what you you should do on the
backhand is lead with a dominant elbow as you're finishing so the dominant elbow leads the way and
you're going to continue to rotate until the elbow is pointing towards the back fence try it out
keep going even more there you go really yes right but you don't this front elbow not
so high because this is unnecessary you can keep it a little bit lower but you go all the way you
ever play golf i tried one time one time there's somebody in the comments that was claiming that
you were a golfer no he saw you play i'm gonna go yeah but anyway the reason why i bring up
golf is kind of similar to the drive with the way they finish in golf is kind of the same like this
so that's how you want to finish on the backhand like rotate as far as your body allows to
yeah like that rotate as far as you can go now what this is gonna do it's gonna make
the backhand more effortless it's gonna take a lot of pressure off your arms it's gonna give you more
power and it'll make it more consistent as well all right anna let's try to rotate a little bit
more on that backhand okay it's gonna help you out a lot it's going to make it easier see that elbow
the right elbow needs to go further you see how it's kind of stopping
right here like this it needs to continue going even further than that
meaning like this look just focus on my right elbow watch this you see where it's going
all the way back yours is kind of like here it's here it stops like this yeah i'll show
you one more time watch and i want you to really pay attention to my right elbow you
see it goes right here like that that's how you have to that's how you have to finish
better and again wow so nice that backhand excellent
very nice that works right it works really well you feel like the ball is going a little
bit faster i think so okay where did you hit yourself that low when i hit myself on the
backhand i get to about right here shoulder blade oh you're taller oh yeah maybe i have a
i have a long torso here try it again beautiful backhand nice come again so clean
okay one thing i don't like what i see now is this look
you're going here and you're kind of keeping this this arm straight here
you have to contract both arms on the two-handed backhand you know what i mean by contract
it's like lifting dumbbells you got to contract the arms see that's no good this is no good
bring him back and contract both arms contract pull this way watch you come here and you contract
you don't want to keep it straight there you go that's it it's going to help you
to accelerate and it's also going to help the swing path do it again there it is
wow look how much power you're getting now look at that okay now try a few on the run come nice one
wow that's so good okay a little bit early there wait longer yeah finish it all the way
okay now you don't want to spin in a circle like that because you'll lose balance super fast
and you reduce the radius of your stroke so you want to kind of be
a little bit wider base and then don't allow to spin around your
right leg like this watch you can come around like this this is okay but don't allow this to happen
that's all right come again and accelerate it's all right to accelerate accelerate freely
go ahead come on don't be scared hit that thing
all right one more thing we have to set on the backhand is the amount of turn so when you set
up you have to turn so that if you had a number on your back you want to show that to me okay
if you're wearing a jersey you want to show me the number on your back like this you want to make a
big shoulder turn i'm standing right in front of you kind of yeah but not that much not that much
oh watch this is the amount of turn that i want you to make now in addition to that you can also
bend the front shoulder down a little bit okay you can bend it down like that you see what i'm doing
this is the setup on the backhand and now when you accelerate this is going to straighten a little
bit okay but that's going to happen naturally as you hit it seems like the right shoulder is
a little down it is down yes it's a dip of the right shoulder and again down with the shoulder
good come on down with the shoulder that was maybe the best one you hit so far come all the way to
the middle no cheating please go again come on all the way to the middle and turn and rip this one
i want you to rip a couple of them okay rip it yeah that was all arms there you see yes so what
happens if you do a backhand where the arms are just moving in isolation meaning nothing else
is happening with the body you get no power and you might actually feel strain so this
is why you have to help the swing path with the torso okay you have to allow the body to rotate
it's kind of like still okay the rotation can't happen simultaneously with the stroke
because then you're just going to spin in a circle so there's a little bit of a delay
and the legs are going to come at the very end always any stroke in tennis the legs always rotate
at the very end if the legs are rotating together with the stroke you're going to look like this
yeah you don't want that so the legs come later it's it's it's from top down okay so you go
here rotate here first and now the legs come at the end you see the way this looks versus this
see this is too much all right look at this top first and then towards the bottom here
and here at the very end you allow this leg to come around
nice one come on that was so clean i love that backhand nice go hard on this one
so good anna so good nice job
oh maybe the best one you hit so far
okay a little bit more heat come on give me some heat
better i'll finish it off in style right here come on accelerate all the way to
the middle you know what you're not going to the middle anna i'm gonna have to get a cone this is a
punishment all right i'll put it right here you're very strict coach much better on and again come on
lift it all the way
better i like that and again come much better and again come on
this is so good keep going you're getting into a groove
there it is again you're back and around the cone
good oh that's so crisp right there but
i've been telling you to do that you're not listening to me here we go come on three more
don't push oh i want you to do two in a row without missing two in a row here we go come on
so clean and give me one more again anna this is unbelievable great job good backhands it's
registered definitely yeah you see now it's downloaded it's all downloaded and now it's all sinking in
beautifully and you're hitting the backhand much better all right give me a racket tap good job ana