what grip do you have you use an eastern grip yes but when i warm up i i did
wait what's your what's your regular forehand group oh it's semi ah
when you do mini tennis you do eastern i don't know why that's so funny
you really want to work on technique you can work on my serve too
yeah you don't like your serve no and you know why i have a hard time
how come so to teach people the serve i double fault what do you mean
wait a second what do you mean you teach people to serve and you double fault when i play doubles
all the time you play doubles with your students and you double fault why i think
i know like what are you doing in your second so you do kick or slice
kick when i was in college i had a hard injury on my nerve okay okay so i think i'm scared yeah
and i i'm not smooth anymore you're not smooth anymore are you maybe purposely slowing down
the serve to make it like easy for your students to return and that's why you're double faulting
exactly okay maybe we'll take a look later maybe take a look later but one thing about like your
forehand your backhand it's obviously good and you have good timing and you play well but one
thing that like even some elite players do is they take the racket back super early and they're stuck
in the take back position and you lose a lot of continuity a lot of momentum from that
so on your backhand like you take the racket back and the racket just kind of sits here for a second
like this now on the forehand it's very pronounced because you do have a long take
back like your racket goes behind the body and there's nothing necessarily wrong with
that but the problem is that you you go here and then there's a little bit of a pause here
so this part you do really fast but then you wait and then you go on the backhand
you take it here you wait
and then you go what you can try to do is going to help you a lot to get more continuity to weight
on the side and we can start with the forehand instead of going here so fast you wait here a
little bit longer and it doesn't matter how far back you take it this part will be more
continuous you'll come in and out of this part with more acceleration with more speed if you
if you wait on this side as opposed to taking it back super fast and waiting here so just put your
racket towards me you can turn right away go ahead and turn wait here and then just swing from there
do it again racket towards me you can turn right away and swing from there good better
okay do it again wait a little bit longer exaggerate the whole period exaggerate here
and then go see you're kind of like quick on the on the take back here slow down at this part
so sequence your acceleration so that like here you go slow slow slow and then you start speeding
up as the racket drops in this area you want to go if you want the stroke to look like smooth
and fluid the acceleration has to be sequenced slow to fast if you go fast here and you're stuck
there it's not going to look so smooth it's going to look a little bit hectic and it's going to look
rushed okay that makes sense okay so you wait here as long as you possibly can okay
better do it again wait longer there wait and now by wait you incorporate that into your turn so
the forehand comes you go here and now now you're already turned you're set up and the racket is
here and then you start the actual stroke when the racket goes back you start that very late
now wait there that was my favorite one so far that was really good do it again that was
beautiful nice forehand try it again what do you think it's good it's smooth it's smoother
right much better okay good so now let's try to rally a little bit all forehands
and you try to think about waiting longer here now that the ball's coming at you you can time
it so that you wait for the ball to bounce on your side to start initiating the forehand okay
what do you think you like it yeah you feel like it's more power that's the whole
idea because the swing develops more momentum so you're going to feel like more power but
most importantly you're just going to feel better because it's smoother more continuous
the stroke overall on the backhand is a little bit shorter than the forehand
so naturally it's going to be less fluid because it's shorter so you can probably get away with
what you're doing which is basically you know taking the racket straight down here
and taking it back fast there's even some like elite level players like serena and venus have
a tendency to do this but it's not optimal see the better thing to do would be to actually have
the racket up in this position have you ever tried that have the racket head slightly above
the handle okay and then you wait you take your racket back the same way you normally
do with the timing but instead of going down here like this you go here so now the racket won't
start from this position it's going to start from this position you get a little bit of
of a racket drop you gain it's not much of a difference it's a few percent
but it might give you a little bit more speed so up drop
yeah so instead of waiting like already down you wait with the racket head above your handle
what do you like about your forehand or your backhand back really since i started teaching
wait since you started teaching you start you like your backhand better i like my backhand better
how come that's so weird because for the forehand i can naturally play like i do
right like a spaniard so i put i used to play heavy heavy spin now you got to flatten it out
yes and i don't feel mine anymore you lost your forehead a little bit okay
don't go down right away don't go down don't go down see on top of everything else like
it looks a lot better when the racket is up because again just like the forehand there's
a little bit more continuity there's more flow in the stroke and it looks more hacked up if you
go down here and go forward so just wait here as long as you can come a little closer to me
there we go up wait oh again take a cross-court up wait a little bit higher i want the racket head to
be above the handle here we go up that was the best one so far do it again back up a little bit
up and down better one more time up okay you dropped a little bit early there um yeah
hold on one sec let me get some of these balls it looks a lot better all this all the stuff
that i'm showing you is gonna look a lot better much better it's gonna look uh more stylish
like i said it's because the reason why it looks more stylish because more fluid more continuous
the other way it's not bad by any means but it looks more hectic it looks more more hacked up
you know okay go cross court and try to stay up with the racket as long as possible good again
better come on up up up way better stay up with it
good again up with the racket that one it was the old backhand you went like this look go here stay
on this side okay racket above the handle racket head above the handle better one more
way better
it feels good right excuse me the only thing when i go up yeah i don't naturally go passing my wrist
i think you do i don't think you're see the thing is when you start like that that drop becomes more
intuitive in itself you don't feel it as much when you start down here you feel the drop you feel the
wrist because honestly when i hit my backhand i start like this and this happens completely
by itself i don't feel it at all because it's it's over much quicker and it's more natural
because the acceleration makes you come in and out of this very fast
and so you don't really feel what wrist positions you're getting right so what you're feeling now is
you're not feeling the wrist bending down because that's how you used to start on the backhand
better
see the crazy thing about tennis is like you hit a million balls and muscle memory kicks
in right away so this is something that you will have to think about every single time
you hit it backhand if you don't think about it the old backhand comes back
you know so in order for this to become like your new backhand you have to really like
think about it a lot so you can consciously do it because if you don't if you start the
rally and start getting in the groove and you start you stop thinking about it this
comes back right away because it came back towards the end there so so the next 10 15
balls i want you to think every time you hit a backhand you think this right here okay
way better that was beautiful right there
nice work thank you so much very good