Tennis Tip: A More Balanced Forehand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2017
- Balance is really important for your shots especially for consistency!
Good balance has a lot to do with how you setup your feet before you hit the ball.
This has a big influence on your distance to the ball and also your weight transfer.
In this new video OTI Instructor Nadim Naser shows you one key element for more balance on your forehand shots.
This will help you with weight transfer as well and should result in more consistency and power! - กีฬา
Thanks Nadim, The small little transition steps are key for me in order to get set up for the balanced shot.
The baby steps are so needed to get in postion to make a clean shot!! Awesome illustration!!
Great video Nadim!
Thank you for giving me tip on elbow motion and positioning in serving!
Dude you’re a good coach. Your volley video really helped me.
Good explanation of how to set up on the line of the ball and coordinate the weight with the racket so you remain balanced from start to finish :-)
Makes sense. Thank you. Allows you to be dynamic , placing that front foot only when you're ready to hit the ball. I like your other video also about correcting the main flaws of the forehand swing by making the unit turn first and keeping a short back swing.
Great explanation I will share with my clients !
Just great !! Thank you !
Great video!
Good stuff !!
Very helpful. Tks.
Very helpful. So move by tracking then load, with unit turn, use the non hitting arm to create distance then explode into shot..... very very good video.
The swing out video is also good....
Thanks
Thank you, Sundar
I learned something here
This was very good advice. I learned something here. The moment you said align your outside leg with the incoming ball, I immediately saw my problem. Do you do the same alignment for the backhand ? Thank you.
good stuff
Good 👍
Nadim, Great video! Can you please explain what you mean by "line outside leg with incoming ball?" I would think there needs to be a good bit of gap between outside leg and incoming ball.
THanks!
Thank you Subbu. Yes, sure. There does in fact need to be a good distance to the ball once you load that outside leg. The point here is to move the legs early while tracking the ball and keep them active so that to STEP & LOAD with the outside foot last and only once you know that you are about to either step into the ball (neutral stance) or load and unload off of the outside leg (semi-open and open stance). Problem is that many players step with the "inside" foot too soon for the neutral stance causing their bodies to get stuck in relation to the contact point and/or not properly load the outside foot although they are stepping with it last (semi-open and open stance).
THanks, Nadim! THis is very clear..appreciate you taking the time
I like the emphasis on being balanced with weight on the outside leg but at my level we ladies come up too soon in the stroke and need to remember to have contact out front.
Do you still have a swing path inside out on return of serves and on high balls?
I dont understand what means align leg with the incomi'g ball. Align what , foot or knee ? To where ? The contact point or the ball moving or where we want the ball to go?
Can you semi open stance also?
How can I deal with the ball if it comes in chest level ??
I have never watched this but does it tell about putting one foot in the air when
yo hit it?
Please tell me i never watched even
if im listening
i dont get a single thing
Ahhhhh distance
oop im to distracted into it
by the way well done your doing really well
I never watched but All these tennis youtubers do greath examps
Great*
You keep saying align feet with the ball but you didnt tell whether you meant align with the path of the ball?
But why most of the Pro's loading with their outside legs pointing 45 degree or at the net post
Because that provides more built in torque--there is more separation between the upper body and the hips, which at most are turned 45 degrees from the net, and the upper body is turned 90 degrees or more. The built in tension will be released when the forward stroke starts, by firing the hips and standing up abruptly, followed by the upper body and then the arm. This works best with an open or semi open stance. With a neutral stance, the hips tend to be turned at 90 degrees as well, so there is no built in torque between hips and upper body, so the hips and upper body turn at the same time.
Interesting comments, Poida. Unfortunately, we will have to agree to disagree here. Teaching players to hit like the pros play is something most adult players cannot adopt right away; two of the most prevalent reasons being that bad habits have been formed due to lack of emphasis on proper stroke technique and movement, as well as formation of bad habits due to that; therefore, both need to be worked on first, on a fundamental basis, before you can teach the more advanced stances, strokes, grips, that deviate from the fundamentals. Sure, based on the grip one uses, the stances used may adjust slightly...the higher the level of play (which requires improved athleticism, leg strength, balance, swing path control, etc.) the more one can deviate; still, most players dealing with the points described in our videos have probably tried to hit like the pros too early without the fundamentals in place and therefore couldn't quite pull it off yet....once they are in place, sure let's move on to the next level. It works every time we do it on court.
Lastly, the neutral stance is still used, even at the pro level....depending on the position of the ball and player - although the Eastern girl is by far the least used grip at advanced levels, at any level at or below 4.0 it is still being used quite a bit...we see it every day; simply because the pace of the game is nowhere near that of the pro level YET...hence, ball doesn't bounce as high, doesn't penetrate the court as aggressively. Every player is different, and every player has different needs and thanks to the instruction methods OTI uses, they can all be addressed individually....whether you are a pro player, intermediate or beginner. In my book...."cookie cutter" teaching is to ask players players who don't have the correct fundamentals in place to set-up, swing and play like the pros, to attempt just that right from the beginning. Best to you.
That's great, because they seem to thrive when we use this approach.
Once again, thanks Nadim. Straight to playlist. Very rewarding to get an instant fix like this as my foot work has been all i.imgur.com/CbqMTl3.gif in the past.
Edited: that's two for two, man. Earned a subscription.
i like your video but if you step away it stops you coiling you need to step with your outside leg more at an angle to get that seperation angle with hips and shoulders.
Hi Ronnie. Thanks for your comment. I see your point. Ideally, the coil happens right when one reads the incoming ball...and does not wait with the coil until they stop out. The angle does have to adjust, yes; when we work on these progressions, the coil/unit turn needs to be in place and precedes the step in most cases; especially for this players who don't experience much coil to begin with. Thanks
its not about when it happens its about how to get the coiling affect,if you step to the side there is no coiling affect,as you cant separate shoulders from hips.
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