A big part of the the lag and hitting the shot is using your legs to drive up now as you see
simon is driving up so his body is exploding into the shot but this happens with a relaxed arm so
the legs go up and drive the arm is loose and the shoulders turning to create that lag
and power but the power happens from that ground up now if i want to avoid that lag it would almost
be impossible unless i'm stiff so in this position if i'm driving with my legs i'm using that uncoil
face if i want to keep my racket and my hand level so i create no lag i now have to be very tight
with my grip and my hand if i'm relaxed this is going to happen naturally if you want to continue
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that free pdf right away but the contact is a really important part of the shot obviously this
decides where the ball goes and how hard the ball will fly off your strings so during contact you
want to make sure that you have you have enough leverage here behind the racket that now i can't
push back the hand as much you never want to be in an open hand here so the wrist is never open
like this because not only are you now going to struggle to go straight through contact because
the wrist is extended so now you're going to go across your body the ball is going to go all
over the place you're going to struggle with your contact it's going to be tough for you to maintain
a line so if you want to maintain a line going straight you need that wrist back and now i can
maintain this forehand going all the way through at the same time as being quite firm behind it
so the ball will not be able to push your wrist back if it's in a nice locked back position
so that contact point is very important to be in that in that position with your hand
now it doesn't matter if you're using the extended arm forehand or the bent arm forehand
but if styles you want to be making contact in front of your body if you make contact on side
of your body as alex has said the only thing supporting that racket now is your wrist and
eventually you'll end up injured and actually it's a lot easier to make a contact in front
by keeping the wrist back all of a sudden now that is a natural thing to happen and now the racquet
is back because with that wrist it's uncomfortable to hit it on the side now with the contact point
you want to feel that you have almost a triangle between both of your eyes and the racquet head
now if only one of your eyes so let's say this is your right eye if you're right handed if only your
uh right eye is working and seeing that point of contact you won't hit the ball as clean as
if you turn your head because you see the point of contact with both of your eyes equally as well
now if you see all the best players when they're making contact their head is actually very still
it's stationary so the body's moving their racket is moving so their shoulders are turning
their racket is moving but the head is still it's that motion of
this rather than this and you see players pull off shots this is when a coach would tell you
you're pulling off your shot is when you're you lift your head up too early and this can cause
severe problems with your stroke the ball will go everywhere you're going to find it tough
to get the the ball on target so make sure if you are one of those players that finds it tough
to get the ball on target make sure that you're keeping your head still
during contact it's a it's a major thing that a lot of players get wrong now you've made
contact hopefully out in front of your body you've kept your eyes on the point of contact
now it's all about that follow through and that finish now the different finishes like you have
with many players different techniques require different finishes now what kind of finishes can
we do so the first one and the most uh common one that you'll see with atp players is where they're
making contact and they follow across the chest so this across the chest finish is the most common
type of follow-through you'll see with players like feather and nadal djokovic and many others
now an easy way to achieve that is to use your left hand this is where your left arm because
you've coiled this way then when you're hitting and the hip face the left arm pulls back the
elbow goes back here and now my left arm is here where my hand can actually catch this racket and
some players catch the racket some players don't during matches when you have maximum acceleration
the catch is not so important when you're warming up and you're trying to get the feel for the ball
and you see with players like federer use this a lot he will catch that racquet simply to feel
that finish there and it will synchronize your body turn with the speed of your arm it's very
difficult to catch the racquet if you're just going with your arm but if you're going with
the whole body it's now becomes a lot easier to catch that racquet so if you want to get
a smoother stroke if you want to synchronize your body get better rhythm on your strokes
use that left hand to catch the racket but again it only works
if you're not trying to apply way too much spin and you're not going for maximum racket
acceleration and the faster the rack accelerates the more the finish will become over here
now when you want to go for a shorter angle or let's say your opponent has rushed you at the net
and you want to get the ball dipping into their feet this more extreme windshield wiper motion
will help you to get over the ball much quicker produce less power but produce that heavy topspin
so you're going from this point of contact really focusing on quickly closing your racket
over the top of the ball and then finishing down by your left oblique or your left hip
now someone like rafa sometimes uses the the lasso motion this is exactly the same concept
where you're accelerating the racket up as much as you can but in this in this situation he
actually accelerates it's so high up that now he doesn't even go across he goes over his shoulder
and then around and that's also an option usually on deeper balls if you've been caught
deep and you want to just get the ball up with a lot of topspin
the maximum topspin then the racket just follows upwards over your over your head
so depending on the kind of shot that you're trying to hit depends on the kind of finish
that you will do no matter what technique you have now if you want to hit a little bit flatter
and extend out more towards your target you can also use the above the shoulder finish and this
is more typical with all the players and players who have grown up with more of an eastern forehand
they'll make contact they'll extend the racket out and then they'll catch the racket over
their left shoulder like so because if you think about why those players have hit flatter right
if you go from here the difference between this position and this position the racket
only travels this far whereas players who get a lot of top topspin and they do this the racket
goes from here to here to here to here there's a lot more racket acceleration going on that the
racket path goes through a much bigger arch so when it's brushing up on the ball it has a lot
more speed on the ball therefore the ball rotates a lot faster and that's what creates spin so if
you are a player that hits quite flat you don't need to finish here you can just finish more here
you have it guys we hope you've enjoyed this video and learned something new
experiment with your forehand try the different swings try the different hitting points
try the different finishes and adapt it to the game style that you play
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