Let me explain to you the difference between falling back on the forehand and
pulling back. Okay. So when you fall back you're losing balance and are unable to
finish the stroke resulting in no control and usually what happens is
you're just gonna be very careful and moonball the ball back in play. So for
example if your feet are very narrow like this and you try to hit it hard and
while moving backwards you're gonna lose balance and fall back. Okay.
Or if you set up very closed stance like this now naturally as you're moving
backwards the weight is gonna be on your back foot and what's going to happen is
the front foot is gonna lift and you're literally falling back and there's no
way to hit the ball hard. You're gonna have to be very careful as you hit it.
The only way to hit the ball while moving backwards aggressively is to in a
ready position recognize that the ball it's coming very deep or hard and now
you make a slight turn and now your dominant leg is behind you keep moving
like this but you have to maintain the position where the back leg is behind
the front leg. This super important so that the the non-dominant leg can pull
back as you're executing the stroke
So this is the setup you need. The wider the better you want to have a strong
foundation. Now as you hit while moving backwards you can pull with this side
and this is gonna allow you to finish the shot. Does that make sense? Yeah.
Because if you don't do that you won't be able to. Wide base and now what's gonna
happen that that non-dominant leg is going to pull back. Now one mistake that
people do when they try to do this a movement is they end up spinning in a
circle. Now this is not gonna help you because this is gonna shorten the stroke
as well. So you can maintain the wide base as that non-dominant side is
pulling back. Watch. Like this. And you're going to do this when you're being
pushed back on your forehand.
So there you're falling back. Yeah. Because what's happening is you're
you're setting up like this like almost in a closed stance position. Now the weight
it's gonna be on your back leg because you are backing up on the ball right and
now naturally the front foot will lift like this and you're going to be
literally falling back and you can't control the shot.
So what you got to do when you when you make this type of defensive forehand you have
to separate the feet a little more and have the dominant leg on the outside and
behind the non-dominant leg like this and now when you execute the shot you can
pull back this way and this is going to accommodate your swing path you can have
the same type of forehand that you always have because this matches your
swing path. So you go a little bit wider apart the back leg is gonna be behind
okay so not like this it's gonna have to be like this and now as you're swinging
the non-dominant side can pull out of the way
so that you can finish the shot
because your momentum is dragging you backwards.
watch me yeah watch me I'm tracking this
ball I'm tracking this ball I'm going I'm going here this right here like if
you set up like this you're gonna be at you in a very bad position so you got to
be on the outside here okay and now naturally that non-dominant side is
gonna pull pull away.
ok feed me a couple. I want to show you what you're doing
and I'm gonna show you how to do it correctly okay so this right
here this is falling back okay that's what happens to you a lot on the
forehand so what you do to compensate that you kind of stay down like
this and you hit the ball very gently
all right so this is a compensation because you know if you fall back in hit
hard you're gonna miss so what I want you to do is this watch I'm gonna set up
behind here and I'm gonna pull back on this side and I don't lose my
shot look at the position I'm in at the end
I'm completely rotated and have a full finish I can hit the ball
aggressively while falling backwards. So this is what I called this is what I
call this pulling back and not falling back because you're not really losing
the shot. So this is the setup that you need and naturally as you come
around this foot will go on the other side but you have to maintain the width
of your feet on the outside with that front leg your dominant leg has to be on
the outside come on outside outside outside you're holding and not hitting
hard because you're not allowing the body to finish. You are going here and
then you're stopping the motion and the stroke is also stopping. So you're just
kind of moon balling the ball back. Rip the thing rip the ball allow the
body to get out of the way to pull. what You are being defensive so if
you want to be aggressive you got to do it this way
This is no good you this is also gonna reduce the range of motion so you got to
maintain the wide base watch me again yes I'm gonna go here I'm gonna go this
way so I maintain my wide base well I told you when you spin in a circle your
range of motion is much smaller and you won't be able to finish your stroke
properly so if I if I'm spinning around like this see how small this is I'll
come out of it much quicker then when I widen the base and now I can the the
purpose is to finish the stroke with the wide base it gives me more range of
motion here a bigger radius so that I can make a longer finish hold with this
side back here this way yes there you go and now you finishing like a pro now
you're finishing like a pro okay well I'll give you an easy feed here okay
there it is now do it on the run come on you gotta do it then you gotta do it in
the appropriate circumstance or it's gonna be fake come on
one don't massage the ball rip that thing
there you go and now you playing like a pro.