My man, you just keep dropping heat on us! We’re in lockdown again here in Los Angeles, but your videos make me confident that I’ll be even better when the courts open up again!
3:50-4:11 a very critical tip about 1-hand backhand! I don’t appreciate how important it is until I started practicing against a wall and finding myself pushing / muscling the ball all the time.
Sir, regarding one handed backhand timing, it really worked for me. It's awesome. Since last 3 months I'm struggling with it. Your just one tip has changed my game to a very confident extent
I like your teaching videos! Even though i have been teaching tennis for 30 plus years i can always learn something. i like the way you present your information and by using a beginner whose mistakes are very common. And most important getting results!!
I love your videos Nikola! I try to apply them every time I play tennis. I just started a few months ago, but I have found this channel and I think this is the one that has helped me the most. Thank u! Have you done a video with a left handed person? Being left handed is harder for me to find videos with good techniques.
Very nice stuff. I would add 2 things to think about on maximizing the swing of stroke, either BH or FH. You really covered it however in different words. How I think if it is: 1. Using the force of gravity to help the swing. The take back, the loop, and especially the racket head drop towards ground take advantage of gravity to drive the racket head butt at the ball. 2. Using the law of continuous momentum. The motion of swing starts, and continues uninterrupted and smoothly in one looping flow. An object in motion once put in motion, in this case the racket head, tends to stay in motion.
It is very unusual to see coaches teaching one handed backhand theses days.I had seen many junior grups, all levels working with coaches and I couldn't see a one coach giving tips how to hit one handed backhand. In junior or senior.turnaments you have to be really lucky to find one player useing one handed backhand..It is such a beautiful shot but somehow people dont want learn it..
Parabéns Nick! Eu bato o backhand de uma mão e tenho muita dificuldade de encontrar o tempo da bola e a sua explicação me ajudou a entender muitas coisas. Obrigado
Hi, great tip -- it really helped me with the timing (I started to feel the rhythm ;-) ) of baseline strokes, thanks! If you could record a tip with a timing of topspin 2HBH running to the shorter (about service line) balls. This seems so complicated coordination and kills me in the matches... :-(
I love your videos, and realize that adding too much information into one lesson can be confusing. But while emphasizing staying in the high take back position until you you are ready to start the stroke is indeed critical, to get the "feel" of the shot, one has to have the feel of the big body muscles initiating the shot as well. As the racquet is raised high, there should be a pronounced shoulder tilt so that the hitting shoulder is down and the non-hitting shoulder is up. The body assumes a C shape when viewed from the side, with the upper body tilted forward. By necessity the hips and center of the body go back further than the upper body to counter balance the weight of the upper body. (At the same time there is a coiling of the shoulders and hips backwards.) The initiation of the swing of course starts with the racquet drop, but simultaneously the player feels their hips slide forward as the C shape is reversed. The feel is that of the lead hip being pushed out into the court. (And an uncoiling of the shoulders and hips also occurs.) The big body movements power the shot, and only by coordinating the big body movements with the arm movements will the player "feel" the shot is being done correctly. Shadow swinging incorporating the big body movements with the racquet drop ought to result in feeling a real power, and a pretty loud "swish" of the racquet as it whips forward. One is now ready to take the new shot onto the court to hit some dropped balls, as trying to hit incoming balls will prove discouraging to most. Next, as one does start with hitting incoming balls, the emphasis at first must be to stick with the new stroke until the timing becomes second nature. (It is all too easy to revert back to a former stroke, as it will take time to develop the timing on the new more powerful stroke with increased racquet speed. But stick with it!)
I have two questions: How do you hit a heavy topspin bounce with a one-handed backhand. Is the key in the unit turn? If I step back to hit the ball when it's coming down it puts me in horrible court position. On the flipside if I try to take the ball early it's much harder to time and I still make mistakes. I can generally hit a pretty solid one handed backhand when the ball is in a reasonable strike range. I have a decent slice but it doesn't really work with on heavy balls that are quite high (shoulder or above my head). I'm 5'9" so I don't have a lot of heigh advantage for heavy ball on the backhand. My second question, sort of unrelated to this video is why who should use an extended length racket 27.5 and do you think its a smart thing to consider for shorter players as they generally have increased swing weight or is it better to stick with a normal length racket that is possibly lighter and more maneuverable to generate greater swing speed to compensate for the lighter swing weight? Any feedback so greatly appreciated. I love your concise and helpful videos. I've learned so many useful things that are helping me improve.
Another great lesson! So on both the forehand and the backhand the stroke initiates at the same time, when the ball bounces, but in both cases the torso rotation begins a bit later? On the forehand the torso begins to rotate as the racket begins to drop, whereas on the backhand it begins to rotate after the racket has dropped?
Hi Nick. I have only just started playing tennis in the last month or so. One thing I am finding hard is judging where to position my self before hitting the ball. I find sometimes I position too far away so I am stretching to hit the ball or too close so I feel cramped up when swinging. Is this a common problem? And is there an easy way of solving this or am I just over thinking it? Any advice would be great from you or anyone else in the comment section! Thanks, and love your content! Sam
Thanks for the video. I wonder if your advice about waiting until the ball bounces before dropping hour racquet is a general rule of thumb. Stokes hit to you could be slow (e.g. 30 mph) or fast (e.g. 90 mph), could bounce mid court or deep. So wouldn’t you need to wait to after the ball bounces to racquet drop on a slow mid court ball and racquet drop before the ball bounces on a blistering shot that bounces just inside the baseline?
your videos are wonderful and helpful. Can you help with this query: Which grip should a right hander should hold for rerun of serve? I am right handed and double handed backend. So i am confused how should i prepare my grip before return of serve? Thank you once again! Cheers!
@Intuitive Tennis Niko - bi li mogao snimiti jedan video gdje igraš bekend jednom rukom protiv Milana ili Bucke ili Šamira. Could you please try to record a video where you play a 1HBH match vs. Milan or Emma or Shamir?
im in korea, and leaning tennis paying monthly...but nothing compares to your lesson. im leaning here on youtube and apply it with real lesson. without your lesson, it would just be hitting meaningless balls....thanks a lot
Great video but one question. Does this timing apply for hiting on the rise? Personally I always started my swing early so that I would have the timing of bounce hit. I would appreciate your view
Absolutely right, and as tennis evolves and even better players emerge, you won't be regarded as a neigh sayer, even though you give them credit where credit is due, but you absolutely lose extra velocity by not doing the racket lag. There is consistency sure, but that's not to say you can't get that consistency even with racket lag, ala the joker.
great video! just curious, between one handed and two handed backhand, is there much of a difference in how close the ball is from the body during contact? like would a player with a two handed backhand hit/contact the ball closer to the body than a player with a one handed backhand?
I have a question concerning Borg's two-handed backhand. As we know all know, his left hand abandoned the grip after ball contact. Does this mean, that his right hand was the dominant hand? It is often said, that the left hand is the dominant hand of a two-handed backhand.
I have been practicing tennis for 2 years. I have a 2h backhand, because my instructor taught it to me from the beginning. He insists on top spin on fore and backhand hits. I am having a hard time with top spin BH shots, I feel like it's taking away all the power and accuracy from my shots. Another instructor taught me a powerful and flat 2h BH, while I was on holiday in another country, and it worked great. Then I returned to my previous instructor and he keeps insisting on teaching me the BH shot with top spin . I changed it and it's crappier than before. As for me, I am not even sure if the 2H backhand is the right BH technique for me. Maybe I should try the 1H BH technique? Someone says it's a better way of hitting the ball because it makes the BH slice more accessible. At this point I am confused. Should I work harder to master 2H BH technique or should I experiment with all available options before.
Why do I always feel that with the topspin forehand I can always compensate by adjusting face angle if I mistime the forward-swing, but with topspin (one)-backhand I cannot? :-(
Very good analysis, however I believe Serena and Venus "get away with" their backhand technique due to their superior stature(s), but their backhand strokes are robotic and lack versatility. If the contact is not at medium height (i.e in the perfect strike zone), they struggle. I'd like to see them deal with Steffi Graf's low, skipping slice or a heavy, high topspin ball like Rafa delivers.
This is just simply untrue. Serena and Venus have damn near some of these most textbook strokes and are extremely versatile. They can literally do anything with their backhand. Venus is 6’1, who is hitting spin outside of her strike zone? Serena has winning records over everyone, and that includes players with heavy spin. To say they struggle is a serious reach. Serena dealt with Steffi’s slice just fine seeing as how their h2h was tied and all three sets. Venus was behind 3-2, so clearly they could deal with it.
@3:57 ... AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! _due to (apocalyptic or apoplectic?) change in volume_ I'm just sayin'... 7:31 Got me again! (made me spill my piping hot coffee, guess where?
P.S. I'm loving the graphics in this video, i.e. the arrows and the circled ball at the bounce. I think in terms of pictures (if I think at all), so this really works for me (and other unfortunates like me). Thank you!
Just 1 thing there Nick you say wrong. Isn't the left hand a dominent hand when you as a righty play 2handed backhand ?? You call left hand non-dominent hand but I think you are wrong!?
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Forehand Timing 👉 th-cam.com/video/AAIc7Li2WbA/w-d-xo.html
Im beginner and your video make me good everytime i watch it and i apply it helps a lot when i'm playing with some friends thank you so much...
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My man, you just keep dropping heat on us! We’re in lockdown again here in Los Angeles, but your videos make me confident that I’ll be even better when the courts open up again!
🙏🙏
3:50-4:11 a very critical tip about 1-hand backhand! I don’t appreciate how important it is until I started practicing against a wall and finding myself pushing / muscling the ball all the time.
This is truly a masterclass on the backhand timing
Sinner's backhand is gorgeous also. Textbook
Sir, regarding one handed backhand timing, it really worked for me. It's awesome. Since last 3 months I'm struggling with it. Your just one tip has changed my game to a very confident extent
I like your teaching videos! Even though i have been teaching tennis for 30 plus years i can always learn something. i like the way you present your information and by using a beginner whose mistakes are very common. And most important getting results!!
Coach, these lessons are by far the easiest to digest and apply. Very much appreciated.
One more great video. Here, from Brazil, I always follow your instructions. Keep posting and teaching us!
Great tip, Nick! Should be teached in every first tennis lessons, but I never heard anyone explaining this. Thank you!
Been searching for this since 1 day and here it comes.
Really helped since im still learning tennis and I tried to do backhand and im either late or early
I love your videos Nikola! I try to apply them every time I play tennis. I just started a few months ago, but I have found this channel and I think this is the one that has helped me the most. Thank u!
Have you done a video with a left handed person? Being left handed is harder for me to find videos with good techniques.
I will do a lefty lesson
Thank you this info is great, this answer a lot of my own questions about my own backhand issues,
Amazing video, actually making a point on every single argument! Keep it up Nick!
Excellent explanation !!! Simple, easy to understand and even easier to execute. Thanks again Nick.
Every time I learn from you, I get really good at this keep this up bro
Very nice stuff. I would add 2 things to think about on maximizing the swing of stroke, either BH or FH. You really covered it however in different words.
How I think if it is: 1. Using the force of gravity to help the swing. The take back, the loop, and especially the racket head drop towards ground take advantage of gravity to drive the racket head butt at the ball.
2. Using the law of continuous momentum. The motion of swing starts, and continues uninterrupted and smoothly in one looping flow. An object in motion once put in motion, in this case the racket head, tends to stay in motion.
Nick, you are my favorite coach on youtube - to the point information for my level of play...clear to understand and easy to apply. Good stuff!
Thank you Joe
It is very unusual to see coaches teaching one handed backhand theses days.I had seen many junior grups, all levels working with coaches and I couldn't see a one coach giving tips how to hit one handed backhand. In junior or senior.turnaments you have to be really lucky to find one player useing one handed backhand..It is such a beautiful shot but somehow people dont want learn it..
Parabéns Nick! Eu bato o backhand de uma mão e tenho muita dificuldade de encontrar o tempo da bola e a sua explicação me ajudou a entender muitas coisas. Obrigado
Amazing videos ! Just met you channel yesterday and almost i had seen all the videos hahaha
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Hi, great tip -- it really helped me with the timing (I started to feel the rhythm ;-) ) of baseline strokes, thanks! If you could record a tip with a timing of topspin 2HBH running to the shorter (about service line) balls. This seems so complicated coordination and kills me in the matches... :-(
I love your videos, and realize that adding too much information into one lesson can be confusing.
But while emphasizing staying in the high take back position until you you are ready to start the stroke is indeed critical, to get the "feel" of the shot, one has to have the feel of the big body muscles initiating the shot as well.
As the racquet is raised high, there should be a pronounced shoulder tilt so that the hitting shoulder is down and the non-hitting shoulder is up. The body assumes a C shape when viewed from the side, with the upper body tilted forward. By necessity the hips and center of the body go back further than the upper body to counter balance the weight of the upper body. (At the same time there is a coiling of the shoulders and hips backwards.)
The initiation of the swing of course starts with the racquet drop, but simultaneously the player feels their hips slide forward as the C shape is reversed. The feel is that of the lead hip being pushed out into the court. (And an uncoiling of the shoulders and hips also occurs.)
The big body movements power the shot, and only by coordinating the big body movements with the arm movements will the player "feel" the shot is being done correctly.
Shadow swinging incorporating the big body movements with the racquet drop ought to result in feeling a real power, and a pretty loud "swish" of the racquet as it whips forward.
One is now ready to take the new shot onto the court to hit some dropped balls, as trying to hit incoming balls will prove discouraging to most.
Next, as one does start with hitting incoming balls, the emphasis at first must be to stick with the new stroke until the timing becomes second nature. (It is all too easy to revert back to a former stroke, as it will take time to develop the timing on the new more powerful stroke with increased racquet speed. But stick with it!)
Great video
Excellent content 👍.
Would love to see a specific video on the forehand internal rotation during the forward swing.
love u bro from Nepal
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Tennis God, could you give us some sacred decrees of backhand volley thx
Volleys 👉 th-cam.com/video/3Or7isgKeIc/w-d-xo.html
@@IntuitiveTennis Forgive my ignorance
Could you also post some matchplay videos in the future.
I got one coming in a few weeks...
Your videos are amazing!
I have two questions: How do you hit a heavy topspin bounce with a one-handed backhand. Is the key in the unit turn? If I step back to hit the ball when it's coming down it puts me in horrible court position. On the flipside if I try to take the ball early it's much harder to time and I still make mistakes. I can generally hit a pretty solid one handed backhand when the ball is in a reasonable strike range. I have a decent slice but it doesn't really work with on heavy balls that are quite high (shoulder or above my head). I'm 5'9" so I don't have a lot of heigh advantage for heavy ball on the backhand. My second question, sort of unrelated to this video is why who should use an extended length racket 27.5 and do you think its a smart thing to consider for shorter players as they generally have increased swing weight or is it better to stick with a normal length racket that is possibly lighter and more maneuverable to generate greater swing speed to compensate for the lighter swing weight? Any feedback so greatly appreciated. I love your concise and helpful videos. I've learned so many useful things that are helping me improve.
Interested in the response. FWIW, I always prefer taking balls early than going back. I like the hard life.
High backhand 👉th-cam.com/video/LrquoUhcqTg/w-d-xo.html
Long Racquet 👉 th-cam.com/video/Kk5b4FmFKe0/w-d-xo.html
Another great lesson! So on both the forehand and the backhand the stroke initiates at the same time, when the ball bounces, but in both cases the torso rotation begins a bit later? On the forehand the torso begins to rotate as the racket begins to drop, whereas on the backhand it begins to rotate after the racket has dropped?
Absolutely. Rotation on BH 👉 th-cam.com/video/N4D9HNumgQo/w-d-xo.html
Hi Nick.
I have only just started playing tennis in the last month or so. One thing I am finding hard is judging where to position my self before hitting the ball. I find sometimes I position too far away so I am stretching to hit the ball or too close so I feel cramped up when swinging. Is this a common problem? And is there an easy way of solving this or am I just over thinking it? Any advice would be great from you or anyone else in the comment section!
Thanks, and love your content!
Sam
Thanks Sam, try this video th-cam.com/video/i4DnhbW93Tw/w-d-xo.html
@@IntuitiveTennis
Brilliant, I’ll check it out thank you 👍
Thanks for the video. I wonder if your advice about waiting until the ball bounces before dropping hour racquet is a general rule of thumb. Stokes hit to you could be slow (e.g. 30 mph) or fast (e.g. 90 mph), could bounce mid court or deep. So wouldn’t you need to wait to after the ball bounces to racquet drop on a slow mid court ball and racquet drop before the ball bounces on a blistering shot that bounces just inside the baseline?
your videos are wonderful and helpful.
Can you help with this query: Which grip should a right hander should hold for rerun of serve? I am right handed and double handed backend. So i am confused how should i prepare my grip before return of serve?
Thank you once again!
Cheers!
Thank you. Return grip 👉 th-cam.com/video/rbwtmCRRV5Y/w-d-xo.html
@@IntuitiveTennis Thank you, i saw the video. Simply awesome. You define tennis in a simple way.
Cheers my friend!
@Intuitive Tennis
Niko - bi li mogao snimiti jedan video gdje igraš bekend jednom rukom protiv Milana ili Bucke ili Šamira.
Could you please try to record a video where you play a 1HBH match vs. Milan or Emma or Shamir?
I will try
im in korea, and leaning tennis paying monthly...but nothing compares to your lesson. im leaning here on youtube and apply it with real lesson. without your lesson, it would just be hitting meaningless balls....thanks a lot
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Hi...
I am Rahaman Khan, from India
Can you make one video for how to play and handle when ball bounces at Backhand way.
Great video but one question. Does this timing apply for hiting on the rise? Personally I always started my swing early so that I would have the timing of bounce hit. I would appreciate your view
Absolutely right, and as tennis evolves and even better players emerge, you won't be regarded as a neigh sayer, even though you give them credit where credit is due, but you absolutely lose extra velocity by not doing the racket lag. There is consistency sure, but that's not to say you can't get that consistency even with racket lag, ala the joker.
great video! just curious, between one handed and two handed backhand, is there much of a difference in how close the ball is from the body during contact? like would a player with a two handed backhand hit/contact the ball closer to the body than a player with a one handed backhand?
I have a question concerning Borg's two-handed backhand.
As we know all know, his left hand abandoned the grip after ball contact.
Does this mean, that his right hand was the dominant hand?
It is often said, that the left hand is the dominant hand of a two-handed backhand.
I get into that here 👉 th-cam.com/video/ELEfNZrg-qw/w-d-xo.html
@@IntuitiveTennis Thank you.
Very good
I have been practicing tennis for 2 years. I have a 2h backhand, because my instructor taught it to me from the beginning. He insists on top spin on fore and backhand hits. I am having a hard time with top spin BH shots, I feel like it's taking away all the power and accuracy from my shots. Another instructor taught me a powerful and flat 2h BH, while I was on holiday in another country, and it worked great. Then I returned to my previous instructor and he keeps insisting on teaching me the BH shot with top spin . I changed it and it's crappier than before. As for me, I am not even sure if the 2H backhand is the right BH technique for me. Maybe I should try the 1H BH technique? Someone says it's a better way of hitting the ball because it makes the BH slice more accessible. At this point I am confused. Should I work harder to master 2H BH technique or should I experiment with all available options before.
The two-handed backhand is naturally more flat even at the elite level th-cam.com/video/waHQG1sSYsI/w-d-xo.html
nice
How can timing be the same with deep (baseline) balls and and short (service line) balls?
Why do I always feel that with the topspin forehand I can always compensate by adjusting face angle if I mistime the forward-swing, but with topspin (one)-backhand I cannot? :-(
Good tip and nice new shoes from Santa (make?).
Nike Zoom Vapor X
I wish Björn Borg would have played a few more years!
what is the grip for 1 handed, my coach didnt explain it clearly
Eastern BH
Hi. What strings do you use in your racquet? Thank you.
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Very good analysis, however I believe Serena and Venus "get away with" their backhand technique due to their superior stature(s), but their backhand strokes are robotic and lack versatility. If the contact is not at medium height (i.e in the perfect strike zone), they struggle. I'd like to see them deal with Steffi Graf's low, skipping slice or a heavy, high topspin ball like Rafa delivers.
This is just simply untrue. Serena and Venus have damn near some of these most textbook strokes and are extremely versatile. They can literally do anything with their backhand. Venus is 6’1, who is hitting spin outside of her strike zone? Serena has winning records over everyone, and that includes players with heavy spin. To say they struggle is a serious reach. Serena dealt with Steffi’s slice just fine seeing as how their h2h was tied and all three sets. Venus was behind 3-2, so clearly they could deal with it.
@@JCole-fg3rr Thanks for your perspective.
@3:57 ... AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! _due to (apocalyptic or apoplectic?) change in volume_
I'm just sayin'... 7:31 Got me again! (made me spill my piping hot coffee, guess where?
P.S. I'm loving the graphics in this video, i.e. the arrows and the circled ball at the bounce. I think in terms of pictures (if I think at all), so this really works for me (and other unfortunates like me). Thank you!
Not sure what happened there. I’m always working on improving the audio
Don't let Serena see this ok😥🤣
4:11 2H BH
Not sure Serena or Venus’s backhands can get any better lol
5:08 6:07
What shoes are you wearing bro?
Zoom vapor X
Just 1 thing there Nick you say wrong. Isn't the left hand a dominent hand when you as a righty play 2handed backhand ?? You call left hand non-dominent hand but I think you are wrong!?
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Can you write the Arabic translation o the image??
Have you checked Michael Chang's backhand?
like
Justine Henin bh >> anyone in tennis EVER.
:)
Only one minute on one hand but 8 on two hands : why ?
Keep your racket closer to your body when turning. You are stressing your shoulder and decreasing flexibility. Be water, my friend
Tennis is one flow, start with ball feel on the front court, that's where intuition is built.