if you give me some
what kind of well what kind of music do you do like i do electronics oh you do wow okay
go again
okay on the forehand you sometimes are a little bit too
early no you're actually too late so you're making contact with this side of the body behind
so you have to do is open up a little bit earlier so when you make contact this side
gets gets ahead right so when you are preparing you have to open up your body a little bit earlier
here try it out i'm going to feed you some easy ones and you
hit it anywhere hit anywhere you want doesn't matter but just open up a little bit sooner now
like you want to be able to make contact more in front so you're waiting you're
waiting here too long like this and then you go forward i want you to actually start going
start rotating prior to going forward with the racket so you have to open up early
it's still it's still a little too far back see you have that loop on your take back
and when that racket starts to come down over here it starts to come down and it's
about to go forward that's when you have to start opening up on the bottom portion
of your racket drop when the racket is about to turn and go forward that's when you start
opening up like this and what that's going to do is when you are going forward towards the ball
here the butt cap is pointing towards the ball you're already somewhat open
towards the ball so you have to do it start opening in this area right here now sooner
okay also this will only work with the right timing so you can't take the racket back too early
because when the racket is sitting back here and then you're waiting to go forward and then you'll
simultaneously rotate and go forward so you have to wait to take the racket back usually until the
ball is bounced on your side of the court so you wait longer here and the entire thing is
going to be sequenced differently wait watch this you wait here wait it bounces and then you go so
if you take your racket back too early it can affect and not only your timing in a negative
way but also but also the way the rotation works okay so you wait much longer wait and now go
better here we go wait for it wait and go good wait go open up a little bit more even come again
wait for it open see there you got stuck back here again okay you don't want to get stuck back here
and wait you want that part of the forehand to be continuous and the only way to do that is by
waiting here in this area so that once you go back once you start dropping it's continuous and so you
have to wait longer to initiate the movement of the racquet there you go best forehand you hit
so far do it again that one you got stuck a little bit back there back up a little bit and again wait
better does it make sense what i'm saying yeah i get it like it's just you want this part to
be continuous so i need to wait a little bit you have to wait a little bit longer now while you're
waiting like you can move and set up the ball and keep your eyes on the ball but the actual stroke
it needs to be continuous it needs to be fluid and it will accelerate much faster that way it
accelerate like going from slow to fast rather than like starting from back here and being fast
right off the bat it'll look jerky and hectic if you accelerate like from a zero to a hundred
accelerating slow to fast will make your stroke look smooth no i get it again
open up a little bit sooner when that racket is about to come forward
you've got to be open already
don't come into the ball like that you back up
okay good remember when that racket is about to go forward you start opening up okay
now yes much better better
good better
good work
nice
go again
okay let's try to rally a little bit could go back and forth with me
yeah it's okay it's okay no problem
good
good make all forehands even from the backhand side all forehands
get up up up
good open up more you're too late on that one open up early
open up sooner now go again good good get up get up
nice and good job I'll
looking better come on
so your forehand is consistent this goes in a lot but it lacks a little bit of power
i mean it goes pretty quick but it can go a lot faster and the way the way you set up like you
don't load your body well enough everything is kind of close to you even your hands when
you're setting up your left hand is close to the body the racket is close to your body your
stance is very narrow and you're pretty upright like when you get ready to hit your forehand
what i'd like you to do is number one get a little bit more space between your hands
and your upper body so your left hand a little bit extended your right hand a
little bit extended like this create some space here that's number one also at the
same time create a little bit more space between your legs a wider base of more of a foundation
okay because you're more likely when you're narrow and when you're close like this to lose balance
as you swing your racket they'll spin you in a circle like that
in order to transfer the body weight better have a little bit wider base a bigger foundation and
have your hands a little bit further away from your core in addition to that when you load you
can slightly lean towards this side like bend your upper body down a little bit like this what
that will do as you go into your swing you'll naturally straighten the body and you get a
little bit of a vertical lift which will help your racket to go up stretch your hands out towards me
like that okay and also lean forward a little bit like that get wider base get your feet further
apart a little bit more like that okay that's a more of a powerful setup on your forehand slightly
leaning towards this side the hands further away and you load that way and let's just see what
happens okay okay go right through the middle i'm gonna drop feed the ball and just load it
like i just described load your body a little bit more powerfully
no no no wait wait that's basically your old forehand here let's start start you off in
a loaded position come right here so the hands a little bit further away from your core go ahead
hands a little bit further this way lean forward a little bit like that get your feet further apart
like that and just start the forehand like this and let's see what happens
good again good like this look you're just kind of like that
hands a little further away there you go
good much better and a wider base don't get your racket too far back right away keep your
racket over here so you want your stroke to be continuous so you start from here
and once the racket goes back it doesn't stop anymore like you don't want to take your racket
back early and wait here remember you go right there and this has to actually when you're
waiting and loading the hands you want to have to keep them closer together
and another one come on better that one was probably the best one so far i feel like
the body was involved a lot more now you don't have to go up with both hands like further you
don't want the racket to go way over your head you can keep the hands here and also when the
racket goes back the left hand doesn't have to go with the racket it can stay here the hands can
separate in other words okay good yes hardest forehand you hit today that was really good
nice let me feed you some from the other side good much better much stronger beautiful job
yes yes best one so far great job come on elise you got this
beautiful shot wow four more four more take a break come load
yes maybe the best one so far okay so those balls were definitely going harder yeah so again let me
repeat what you want to do this is what i call the v formation basically you don't want your body to
be straight when you're loading maybe when the ball is a little bit higher you can be a little
bit more straight but generally when the balls are between your waist and between your your rib
cage here you can load on the ball by leaning on it slightly and creating this look see how upper
body upper body is slightly down this leg is is bent and i got a wide base like you load like this
you know when you undo this you straighten your body you get a lot of power okay so just hands
further away from your body wider base and you're here instead of going like this and loading okay
load good wow wow so much harder than the beginning
come on go again bend down and go it's not just like sitting in a chair it's like bending down
a little bit leaning on the ball lean on the ball again wow so much faster this is insane go again
nice come on good get up try backhand and forehand Elise back it up
that's what i mean like when the ball gets higher you obviously can't lean on it you're
gonna be naturally more straight okay here we go it's so much faster
much better there's more body involvement for sure here we go
good wow
go again go wider Elise come on yes that's it come on load on that thing wow
way better so strong come on couple more good come on load very aggressively yes
yes and rip this thing come on stronger elise come on loaded come on load more aggressively
yes that's it beautiful job very strong shot nice fantastic good forehand you okay
take take a quick breather we'll do one more round last round okay like what we're trying
to do here does required like for you to have a little bit of time to set like when you
obviously when you're heading on the run you can't load the same way you'll have to hit it
while moving like that's hitting on the run but when there's a little bit of time for you to set
your body that's where you have to really like do this this is how you set you know so on the
run would be like this like literally running and hitting that's where you can't load that much like
this is hitting on the run and when there's time to set where you go here you can set here load
and then unload like that now this doesn't have to be off of this leg can be off of this leg as well
when you step up towards the ball you load like this too it doesn't matter whether it's here
or here wide base and then slightly leaning on the ball creating that v formation like this okay
come on we do a few more wow that's a winner right there strong forehand come again load it again
it's a winner load it powerfully wow that's so much faster than the beginning very good so like
you felt the pressure coming out of your arm right it feels like your body was helping the arm like
there's so much more momentum momentum that's what it is yes and the ball is going a lot faster yeah
it doesn't hurt my arms at all like it's not it doesn't change did you did you have like sometimes
did you ever have problems with your arms like tennis elbow or stuff like that no but i'm not
i'm not strong at all and you don't need to be super strong to play tennis because it's uh
it's all about momentum different type of momentum and using it to accelerate the racket properly and
then when you do when you do it right it feels like that as if the racket is going by itself
yeah like i don't i didn't feel like i was putting more in my arms exactly like they're
not gonna be sore that's exact that's the perfect that's the best way to play nice work very good