oh babolat aero love it yeah you always use this racket or i start with this one yeah
i like this one so how long have you been playing all together um
probably four months four months but you said you played before right
and then you stopped it was like three almost three and a half months before
five years ago five years ago it's been a month that i came back now have i given you a rating yet
uh not really i talked to the coach there yeah and then i was going to play and then he said to play
4.0 4.0 he said wow okay when i played back then i played when i started
3.5 3.5 yeah okay well you definitely have the body of a of a 7.0 i know that i need a lot of
i need to work i need okay we'll take a look let me take a look okay so hit back to me
what i really like about your forehand is that you have a really nice finish and really nice
contact you have natural you put a lot of spin on there well what's lacking a little bit is
range of motion in the back and acceleration so the first you know five minutes we're playing
if you imagine me hitting here you stand right behind me your racket when you take it
back and you go through your um whole like loop and all that and your racket goes down and it
starts going forward the racket never really ends up going back it stays here and it goes forward
so there's a range of motion problem you're not getting as much range of motion as i for example
because when i accelerate from my loop when i drop my racket down and i go here my racket
ends up going here backwards so like i'll show you from this angle my racket ends up
going like that i slowed it down a little bit so you can see it it goes here yours goes here
and this is kind of a big thing because fundamentally you won't see you will not
see a high level player that goes here with the racket and the racket needs to go at least
to here this is the minimum amount the racket needs to go when it goes forward
so the racket can accelerate properly it's just not going to be able to accelerate from
here to here now what you talked about before now i'm seeing the way you hold the racket
the most important thing when it comes to how tight or loose the racket is held it's
not necessarily what grip pressure you put on the racket that part should be natural but if
you're holding the racket like this with all the fingers together and the the knuckles parallel
to the way the grip is going this is not good because it's going to make the wrist too rigid
so you got to do is separate the middle finger from the index finger you got to leave a gap there
so now look your knuckles now see how they're they're going
on an angle toward in relation to the grip that's why i always i do i was watching the players
and i was trying to because yeah i didn't know yeah i've been holding like don't go like that
so i have to practice then yes so here another thing when you have this separation of the index
finger and the middle finger this thumb will settle on the middle finger in here
let me see there you go and don't be afraid to even go more of an angle
even more angle here like that so the pinky is towards the bottom there you go we have this
problem of the racket being too rigid back there and it's not going too far back enough
because you got to realize that the hand has to be positioned like this so the wrist can move
in different positions throughout the stroke if you hold it like this the wrist will be too rigid
so it's not yeah so again a lot of people like they think relax is the only
solution to that it's actually not so much because i want my players to hold the racket
naturally not too tight not too loose however you how you cannot hold it like this because this will
restrict the movements of the wrist and now whats most likely happening it's not so much the fact
that you have a small backswing but the wrist is more restricted here and it doesn't it can't
go back here and i was i used to hold like really hard yeah so it's funny because i didn't know that
i don't even know if it can hit like this let's try it it's completely different wrist
position now the wrist will move a lot more in the back good that's that's way better
go again finish finish it all the way up you like it yeah it's it feels different right yeah
it's better now you have a semi-western grip right there or eastern grip yeah this one yeah
that's fine the grip is fine but just remind yourself again the pinky has to be on the edge
here look and i'll take a picture of your hand so you have it you can keep it on your
phone just to check see pinky is on the edge index is spread from the middle finger and the
knuckles are an angle you see the angle right here yeah this is no good well it was hitting like oh
yeah that's why the racquet wasn't going it wasn't that's why the racquet wasn't
lagging properly like they say it was not going back here it was just stuck here on this side
because the wrist was locked and i always watching the guys like the players serve and i see them
holding like this yes you have to hold it like that for all your strokes okay the only stroke
that you don't hold like that is a one-handed backhand we don't have to worry about that
a backhand slice every single stroke that you're gonna hit you're gonna hit like that
much better come again
better come again
nice one yes beautiful job
go again
better like two do you like it oh yeah because now i can feel my wrist look kind of loose you
know well you're gonna not necessarily know exactly where the racquet is pointed here
that part happens too fast but you will feel that there's more movement it's gonna feel a
little bit different and i don't feel like because before i used to feel my my wrist and everything
well it's going to hurt actually no i know and if your wrists feel like you see the problem is that
the movement the most protected position for the wrist is an extended position so when you go like
this that's a pretty that's like when you do push-ups it's a pretended protected position
the weakest position for for a wrist is like is a is a flex position or even worse like these ulnar
deviation radial deviation those are weak positions you will hit those positions when
you play tennis but not that often the most common position the wrist will be in is a is
extended position okay so when your wrist is like this unfortunately when your fingers are locked
here the wrist cannot extend just try it out try to extend your wrist with the fingers locked
and i try to extend your wrist with the finger spread see how much higher it goes so when we hit
these areas here if i had my my hand locked with the fingers together and i tried to go here it
hurts it hurts like crazy i can only go to about right here if i go past here i can feel it already
because i probably have to move the wrist not only in extended position but also
upwards a little bit so with here is absolutely no pain whatsoever see how natural this is
so you can just it just moves there by itself from the acceleration
here we go do it again it's all right put the thumb though the thumb on the middle finger here
right here like this like this put it right here like that okay there you go
that's it come all the way around nice one yes good here we go best one so far
way better man look at that racket moving in the air look at that racket moving it's so much better
beautiful job one more time come on
this is really an amazing improvement because when we started today
literally you'll see it on the tape your racket was going to about right here
now it's going here do you see how much more pace you get there for sure but it's only pace
but it's also the way the stroke looks it looks more smooth more continuous it feels better
if i guarantee you it's more effortless for you it feels much better but even just the
wrist like yeah it feels like now i have that extension that i didn't have this is fantastic
and this fixed everything now it's correct back here now we do need to still change is
the amount of rotation you get on the back end of the stroke but you're doing a great job man
we'll keep going okay okay nice work i saw the video right here no you with the shamir like
he doesn't know how he did listen don't do this tap i get very angry you do with the strings only