welcome in this video we're going to be doing a tennis lesson and
it's going to be so good even though it's a million degrees out here we're
gonna have a great time and we're gonna you might learn something so stay tuned
okay here we go come on remember you got clinic now this is no joke
remember Jenea last time we learned we're gonna come from the top okay so I want you to start
here and then drop the racket down okay better and then just finish it off up on top okay good
go again
now one little Quirk that you have is when you finish you stay here a little too long
now I don't generally mind that if you're holding your finish but in your case you
you're holding it too long and this turns out to be a ready position so remember when you
finish here I don't mind you're holding a little bit but then come back down
before you're ready position okay ready position is down here and remember the forehand comes the
first thing you do is you turn and you put the strings towards the side let me see that one time
here's a ready position ball comes you're going to turn turn your whole body and now
the strings out to the side and then you drop the racket back there and you swing from there
good good come down come down you see how you're staying up there you like you're staying
up here too long bring the racket back down okay good and finish it off down with the racket good
good nice work we're advancing now in the in the progressions so before you were completely
open now we're turned this way so that means you have to rotate into the contact so you start like
this but you end up like facing forward okay all right start right here and come
go again open up a little more
okay what I want is this when you're done I want the elbow pointing forward your elbow
pointing straight forward okay okay and then hold that position just first for a second come on
hold oh again
hold clean come again hold okay strings towards me
you can put this hand a little higher here like this hold it here like that okay
hold now we're talking hold I like saying hold sorry it's absolutely crazy what's happening
right now never seen anything like it this is close to how a forehand is perfectly struck
look at this it couldn't be any cleaner than it is now absolutely fabulous
all right you're getting confidence now see how you swinging a little faster a couple more
what do you think fun right yeah yeah look at this absolutely insane let's slide back to the
Baseline okay it's going to be tough for you to remember this when you go to your clinic tomorrow
so don't be like don't get frustrated that you can't do this okay okay it's gonna take some
time for your body to remember these movements okay but what you should focus on is finding
the right grip and getting the right preparation okay and then just see what happens you're not
going to get it right every time and try to get it correct as many times as possible and that
way you you get to build the positive muscle memory but don't go to your clinic tomorrow
with the expectation that you're going to play amazing and it's every forehand is going to go in
it probably won't but you just have to take this uh step by step and and think long term
but you're doing great thank you thank you all right here we go now from the Baseline same thing
it's okay I like you pointing the strings towards me here because it it actually sets the wrist in a
different position slide down with the Pinky Okay angle the handle that is key right here I want you
to remember that forever and always don't death grip the racket okay a little bit looser okay
all right and now from here you're going to do your stroke but this setup right here is crucial
that you start like this because you start wrong you're going to
be wrong in different areas of the forehand so starting correctly is key
and then finish it and remember we said we're going to hold this hold okay
very good question right now at your level it should be going right down the center you
see the biggest target there is is the middle of the court right there that's where you should be
directing the ball okay right down the center and want to make sure that it goes right down
the center and not right to the corner that is another fantastic question so that is aiming
okay so you are learning at this stage of the game already how to aim intuitively okay so
basically what aiming is in tennis is the angle of your racket face at the moment of contact
okay so obviously if you keep the racket completely parallel to the Baseline at contact
the ball is going to go straight okay okay I could put my racket in here and we can use my
my grip as an arrow okay so if you hit the ball like this you see it's going this way now over
the length of the court this angle does not have to be that big the difference of the angles does not
have to be big because over the length on the of the court this will translate into the ball
going to the left or going to the right a big difference so if you exaggerate and go like this
that ball is going to go on a side fence that'd be too much so it's a slight change in the angle of
the racket face now here's a fascinating thing the way I build aiming or directional control
intuitively I teach my beginners to go right down the center with the racket face that's parallel
to the Baseline we started doing that from day one okay so you already know how to go down the center
okay even though you don't realize it but then as you get better I'm going to start doing something
really sneaky I'm going to start positioning myself in different areas on the court you're
going to start going towards me and then naturally you're going to develop this small change in the
angle of the racket face completely intuitively okay two years from now you're gonna be like I
don't even know how to aim but I know how to aim perfectly like I don't know how it works
mechanically speaking but I don't know how to do it okay that's how it should be done okay because
you start playing around with trying to aim that's a that's a recipe for disaster if you try to aim
because then you're going to slow down in here and you're going to try to literally aim with
the racket face and you're going to ruin your forehand are you so careful now what happened
I'm trying to get it right down the middle exactly you're literally aiming don't do that okay because
before when you weren't worried about aiming everything was going like straight down the center
and now you're worried about aiming all of a sudden what'd you do you slow down
this area in order to have directional control and you destroyed your acceleration
the ball didn't even make it over the net do you understand I understand don't worry
about aiming okay okay just continue go right down the center don't think about it
very clean forehand hold it a little bit longer
you're going to force me to start saying hold again hold again hold okay good come on
hold okay I'll stop saying it now let's see if it works no that was a slap shot don't I know
you're getting more confidence like your balls are going in and you gaining more trust you're
starting to slap the ball and go go fast don't okay still continue to go slow you want that
ball to go right down the middle slowly at first we got to build the power very gradually okay
hold very nice and again this is great Janae this is absolutely fantastic
very nice that was my favorite forehand so far that was very crisp all right now we're gonna
get you on the run a little bit okay so you're gonna do the same thing and move a little bit
not bad Janae come again
I like it a lot nice that was a tough feed but what a forehand wow
Janae these foreheads are so clean fantastic job okay that one you went sideways to the
ball though too much you feel it it felt weird right so remember sequencing of movements is
this forehand comes you go turn like this and now you go set up and then you initiate your
stroke so the Turning is first the setup is second the actual throw stroke is third
wow what a clean forehand
wow Janae what do you think great great good right yeah yeah really good sound it looks
good and it sounds good I like that beautiful forehand okay best one so far beautiful job
Jenea this was the best session we had so far your forehand is improving tremendously
you're doing a great job how does it feel really good really good yeah how's that new racket do
you like it yeah is my outfit okay what about the I know that's super important but how about
the way it plays it feels good your arm feels okay yeah man nothing nothing hurts okay good
beautiful job okay we're gonna keep working hard have fun in your clinic okay thank you