good
nice get and here back up
Elise force yourself to finish every time okay every forehand
you finish as far as you can don't stop halfway
come on good
good
good backhand nice excellent get up get up come on good forehand
again nice forehand come backhand side go
get both elbows up on the backhand
good
nice work
okay you see that right elbow is killing you
yeah it's like being collapsed underneath the left side so you're just being yeah so the left
side is overwhelming the right side not every time but sometimes it's like it's like here
and this one's completely stuck here so you want to imagine leading the way with your right side
you go here to here you see that like the right side is leading the way
let's try a few more off an easy hand feed i'm going to feed it right there
and i want you to imagine finishing towards that corner with your right elbow
lead the way with the right side much better come back to the middle and again come on
okay more
okay hold on hold on here go ahead and do a do like do a finish let me see we go ahead and finish
okay but go sideways stand sideways finish more more this way more there you go
all the way there that's the correct finish watch me see this backhand there all the way
around like that naturally as you go that far this back leg would want to come forward and
you can allow it to come forward at the very end you can you can drag the back foot forward come on
okay but you're like so hectic and finishing so fast. I'm trying to spin. oh you trying to spin?
yeah no you don't need that don't think about you how are you making the spin
with the forearms you're just rolling over it don't do that because you don't make spin with
an isolated movement of of the forearms it just comes from a vertical swing path because if you
want to if you try to make spin by doing some kind of movement right at contact you're going to make
a jerky motion and it's going to abruptly be shortened that's why how do you create
what you have to do is visualize a vertical swing path and you have to visualize a high finish
so remember what we did earlier i had you um hit yourself in the back with the racquet
yeah that's the best way to make topspin you're just trying to go as high as you can here
and make a more vertical swing path because now you're not not thinking about what you're going
to do around the contact with your arms you think about the finish and it's going to give you the
maximum acceleration and maximum continuation and fluidity around the contact it's not going
to be so jerky and so hacked up around the contact it's going to be a more flowing stroke
and get more power and more control because when you try to make stuff happen here
you often will miss hit the ball you'll open the racket face you'll snap at the ball
it's just very inconsistent way of hitting so just think of going up high
see and that that ball right there has plenty of topspin right you didn't think about going
like this you just thought about the finish good i hope you're not trying to do it on your forehand
like trying to make spin with your forearm you're not right because on
the forehead it's even worse at least on the on the backhand you have two hands
but on the forehand because it's just one hand it's like if you try to roll and make
something like this happen it's like ruins the forehand okay let's try to go as high as
possible on the backhand high finish here we go not so fast take your time come on don't rush
okay better i like that you hear that sound you hit yourself in the back
say again come on good try come again all the way finish all the way up okay but that one you pushed
i want you to accelerate okay you push that one a little bit better way better
nice backhand so much cleaner take your time don't yeah don't rush i won't jinx
you but don't rush come on come good allow that back leg to come through
you know what i mean right back leg comes through all the way so you end up like this come on
good that was better you see you got a little more rotation there in there good much better backhand
nice come again good elise nice two more okay now one thing though like you don't want to come with
that back leg too early or simultaneously bring in the back leg and come forward it's going to spin
you in a circle at the very end of the stroke you bring that back leg around when the when you feel
like the follow through is going towards the end that's when that back leg comes through okay one more
all right not bad at all okay elise one more thing that we got to do on the on the
two handed backhand is your preparation when you set up for the backhand you're
like this you're basically a neutral position i actually would like you to show your back towards
the other side of the court you're actually going to be turned a little bit backwards but you have
to track the ball it's going to feel a little bit uncomfortable because you have to stick your chin
over your shoulder like this but you have to make the turn as big as possible because what that
will do as as you're going forward into the ball it'll give you a little bit more rotation into the
contact now you're all of a sudden using the torso more just like we did on your forehand so all you
got to do really is to set it up strong yeah hold that turn perfect and again
hold the turn come on okay remember the first thing we did though you got to finish up high
that's so good see now you're rotating into the contact so much better and again come on
good nice i like how you're bringing that back leg around all right back up a little bit going
to red i'm going to push you a little bit backwards okay going to red come again
again come on it's too early there hold the turn longer if you open up too early you'll
hit the ball like too early the strings will be like this and it'll go away to the right so you
have to hold this turn as long as possible you can wait until the ball is bounced on your side of the
court here we go come on hold the turn okay come again nice backhand very good good it's a little
bit late there come all the way in the middle and hold the turn rip very good nice again you tired
come on you got five more five more and you're done come one hold that turn you gotta work on
your timing come that one do you feel it here okay it's no good you see how you're
like this and the upper body bends this way it's no good it's a bad habit gotta get that elbow up
hit yourself in the back with the racket way better maybe the best backhand you hit today
come on two more nice one that's what i said in the beginning remember it's very
similar to a golf drive it's very similar biomechanics because on golf you finish
you finish the same way you do on a two-handed backhand last one
all right way better okay now let's try to rally back and
forth a little bit we'll test the backhand come on
all backhands only backhands go again come on all the way up good nice shot nice
okay the elbow got stuck on that one go up with both elbows
come on hit yourself in the back good one nice
good
come on hit yourself in the back elise come on good and more shoulder turn there come on again
another one one more time come
last one
okay a little bit more even it was good but you can do better see that corner look
there elbow towards the corner of the back fence come on
more
yes about a little bit more
a little bit more elise come on keep rotating
and last one right here come on make it perfect best one so far that was really good
okay one more thing on the backhand remember you had a hard time getting the grip so let me just
check one more time alternating between forehand and backhand and let's see if you can find the
correct grip all right we'll do forehand backhand and alternate you think about changing the grip
good backhand okay freeze it real quick check where you are hold on
you're still on eastern yeah you gotta go there
you have to be you have to do semi i mean continental grip with your right hand
on your backhand good backhand side come good check your grip check your grip check your
grip no i moved it back oh you moved it back to forehand okay all right come on good backhand come
good very clean forehand and backhand side okay make sure you finish more get the elbows up
good and backhand
okay how's your backhand feel now does it feel better much better it's good right much better
like i feel like your forehand is your cleanest shot that's your best shot yeah it used to be
the other way around is that right like your backhand used to be better forehand recently
are you hitting more forehands versus backhands when you play no that's kind of interesting but
the forehand and backhand are pretty clean but i feel more confident about my forehand now than i
do it's interesting right and the serve you said the serve you have trouble with the toss mostly
do you when you practice do you mostly like just hit with other people do you play points or uh
points and rallying or you take lessons too right you guys do serves a lot uh we try to okay let me
check out your serve real quick but you have gotten better i haven't seen you in what three years
holy moly that scared me okay slide over to the middle a little bit you're too far over a
little bit more this way it's yeah about a meter away this one we're this way right here is good
okay now turn sideways all right so the first problem is you are starting in the in the
racket drop right because i'm not good enough yet to yeah well the problem is that it's never going
to change you're going to build so much muscle memory starting from here it's going to be so
difficult to like retrain your body to not go here right away okay okay so we need to like go
at least here okay we'll take a step by step i'm not gonna like most people have like a whole back
swing where they go down here then they go up and then they go back uh we won't do that now but i
want you instead of going like in here like this i want you to go here and you have a forehand grip
you need a continental grip yes so same grip that you have on your backhand you have on your serve
hold on yeah hold on you're gonna you can start here start like this right here okay
you turn a little more turn a little more sideways and toss the ball up and hit it
that's actually not too bad most people have the ball go way off to the left
so that wasn't too bad come again okay hold on have the strings more towards the side fence
right here there you go okay nice and easy toss don't flick the ball up guide it up there let's
turn the strings towards me not forward towards me and also down a little bit there you go
hit it that's not bad at all now if you could throw it higher it would make it a lot easier
because you're like in here now like this like bent i want you to extend further right here throw
it as high as you can extend the arm into the contact turn the strings towards me there you go
okay that's not bad at all
all right now let's try to get a little bit more forward momentum so you throwing the ball like
behind you a little bit i like you to throw it slightly in front of you so you can make
contact you hold on to the racket hold on to the racket right now you're making contact
here getting like an accidental spin i'd like you to make contact more here okay slightly in front
all right so when you throw so it's a little bit more inside racket down and towards me
there you go not bad you feel like your body is re like leaning towards the ball that's okay
actually if you can give your get your back foot behind just a tad more you're slightly too open
here like get your back foot a little bit further behind like that it's perfect there you go good
best one so far you see already better than the like serving like with the racket in
the back scratch position already this is much better no right yes
ah there you go you got it in
that's not bad actually but i see i can tell there's a little bit of a discrepancy between
your forehand your backhand and your serve so i can tell you're serving that much so you
have to do more more serves because then you can play matches without a serve it's gonna be tough
to play matches it's not bad at all you're getting closer to getting it over come a couple more
elise you like that one okay better right keep going come on that was really good so you're
getting on you're getting on a rhythm now come keep going i need to build a muscle memory because
it feels weird it feels weird right and by the way you're not gonna like serve like this forever
you got three in a row by the way you're not gonna serve like this forever eventually i want
you to have more like continuity like you start down here you'll take it up
but you just right now when you were serving when you were starting you're just
going on the back scratch and so you have to go with a little bit of progressions for now
so you got you got like how many in a row but it's really good
wow so you're getting in a good rhythm now look at this this is great
okay you hit that really fast your last one match point
and that was a really nice serve all right good what do you mean it was out no no no no it was
way in inside the line all right here do one of these you know what this is what it's a it's a
racket tap here put your strings like this and just tap like that
yes
yes i'm the best