This was excellent. I'm a senior player that started playing again a short time ago. The suggestion to relax and let the body do most of the work is a formula on how to avoid injury. I can't wait for this quarantine to end and put your lesson into practice. Saludos de Chile.
I am a badminton coach and I often use the term whip to explain how to relax the body to send out power through the legs, hips, upper body and arm. This way of teaching is just right. Exercise on one focus area at a time and repeat this without the ball. You are a great coach.
I have to admit this was a good video. The last part about the lag is a lot harder to accomplish than he and the guys on the ATP make it seem. If it was so easy everyone on the WTA would do it. But they do not (but should). If you are at a tennis academy or hope to play D1 tennis you better do it because your competition and opponents will be doing it. They will hit the ball harder than you and with less effort. You will get more tired than they will. But my students definitely got blowback from high school coaches and other teachers who do not know how to lag. Just like when I taught rotation and open stance 20 years ago, area teachers still teaching closed stance classic strokes would say this rotation stuff was garbage. I still see teachers teaching closed stance classic strokes. There is a huge market for mediocracy.
You are not the only one to pay for a human ball machine. Teaching pros should watch more tennis videos like this one then share these tips and methods to their paying students.
Hi Robert, you're soooo right mate. Since I started searching training videos, one alone would have saved me a lot of money. One by a Rick Macci (putting your right foot parallel to the baseline while using its arch to hold the 45° oriented left foot heel as ready position to serve), it changed my cursed till then serve.
Kevin is awesome! He put the progressions into easily reproducible steps for beginners and veterans alike. The devil is in the details which he illustrates succinctly!
This is a very good lesson on using the kinetic chain to generate power. And it has simple action steps to help people. Why the heck would people down vote it?
This is the best coaching to me. I have tried many times to tap the dog head but not so good hitting but after this video, I finally understand the reason why. So this lesson is highly recommended by me to all my friends to view “ many, many, many “ times then go back to court to try to hit no matte4 forehand or the backhand. Thank you, Kevin Coach !!
Im so shocked and impress, the first few seconds I was totally able to relate and I think I found my way to a better forehand, tysm; not like any other tennis channel too
This must be the best teaching tennis video i have ever seen. Thank you so much for giving it to us. Wish you the best and bring more tennis to the world.
I wish we had a coach here like you, my son is 9 and the number three ranked player in the country. we watch your videos and practice. If he had a coach like you he'd really excel. thank you for your videos.
Such a great teacher as well as coach . I know lots of people who pay good money for very poor quality coaching while totally unaware of what is available free on videos like this one . A video like this should be essential viewing for young players who sadly often develop poor technique which is so difficult to undo later .
A key thing that totally loosened up my strokes was a comment made to me during a lesson once….he said regarding a particular baseline forehand, “That’s the first stroke you’ve really TRUSTED today. Best shot of the day.” 💥🤯 Totally changed my understanding of what being tight meant. I trusted my form and most importantly, my timing to deliver the shot I intended to make-
new player here (3 weeks) ...i've been watching a lot of vids trying to learn and i'd like to say I really enjoy your explanations and the way you teach a skill :)
Excellent instructions! Now I realize that beside a late preparation, everything show in this video are mistakes that I have had in my tennis play for years… thank you for such great teaching!
So many useful tips, but what I got most out of this was tempo... Just like in golf if you tense your muscles feeling like you have to muscle up to hit the ball hard, it absolutely works against you. I really appreciated finding this and subscribed. Well done.
I repeatedly watched the video 3 times and followed the progression at home every time. I’ll come back again. But I know what drill I’ll do next time I’m on tennis court. Thanks!
So glad i bump into your video, this is so easy to follow and understand, i been curious to know how come my modern forehand does not give me the relax and power i need, can't wait to bring this to court over this weekend.
I've been working on the lag snap & release for sometime its not easy. kevin you break the kinetic chain down too its simplicity I wish I saw this five plus years ago when I first heard about the kinetic chain. Excellent video lesson. Thank you
This is probably the most useful info I've ever received from a forehand training. This helps to understand what I'm doing wrong when it falls apart and what I'm doing right when it's working. Thank you
Thanks for the clear explanation with demo Kevin, I can relate to all the mistakes I have been doing , keep up the good work, you have a knack of breaking down things and explaining nicely step by step
I used to work out with the team at Martin Methodist when I was in my late 40s - early 50s when you were there. Don't recall if I hit with you though. The M M teams were laden with overseas players so you had to have been very good to play on it. The guys said they appreciated my power especially when I told them my age and that I was mostly self taught. I did a session with Oscar Wagner in California around 2014, and he said the same thing. While working out with different teaching pros and other high level hitters including PTR, I have been told that I arm the ball a lot. I still maintain the power but now in my mid-late sixties, I need to start conserving more energy. Very good video about how the kinetic chain work. I do prefer the open stance though. As much as I try, I don't think I will ever be able to get that arm moving with the hip. Like they say: "it's hard to teach an old dawg new tricks". This video is going out with me tomorrow morning to the court. We'll see what happens. Lo🎾💪
I’ve always had a good forehand but it never looked like the pros and I had to generate a lot of the power and muscle through it which I never knew how to fix, this has massively helped my shot!
It’s kind of late to watch the video, but it’s still the best time for me to solve the problem. Now I know why Sometimes I didn’t get the power of my forehand. Beside this I also learned more from your other videos. I will recommend all my friends to learn your lessons. Thanks so much for your tips!
Man I'm glad to see you back! Essential tennis is awesome but I missed your channel! You And the coach from Tennis Haus are awesome and have helped my game tremendously! Thank you!
Great video!! Your explanations are easy to understand and to the point. Also, you explain it in a way that is helpful to the intermediate player. So often the explanations tend to be overcomplicated and not applicable to the average player. Not your videos =) Keep up the awesome job!
I wish someone had taught me in this step by step manner from day one. It really helps emphasize the hips and rotation and staying loose instead of trying to force wrist lag.
Hi Kevin It is a pleasure and I am happy to see you again. I miss your videos since you and Megan left Essential Tennis. Now that I know where you are, I will take advantage of your great tips.
Kev, great explanation, so many people fail to understand and apply the kinetic chain. I offen compare it with a boxing punch or a whip when trying to make a valid metaphore. I am happy to see you on your way of building the yt channel. You are a great coach. Only thing to adjust is the pace of your talking and presenting, I think it will be more imactful
Excellent 1 relax relax relsx relax 2 turn your hip on contact if the ball 3 hold the racket loose 4 I like taking tge ballmon the rise if I am going for a winner and not plsying the perfect rally ball I grew up on grass ist age off 7 I was taught to rekax hold the grip loose Turn the hip and bend it creates more power Excellent video one everyone should watch every day and oractice
@@TotalTennisDomination You clearly demonstrates the importance of body rotation in order to create effortless power. More video on the "science of hitting" would be welcomed.
Great video - very helpful, thanks so much. Perhaps one thing to add - borrowed from golf: if you hold the racquet with more of a finger grip than a palm grip (as it look like you do) it will be easier to release your wrist, as you will have more mobility (especially if you’re older).
Many of these type of tennis videos are totally useless but this one was simple and the instructor was excellent
He looks like one of the guys who used to be on a lot of Essential Tennis videos
@@gdeangelkick ahahaha
@@gdeangelkick He used to
I m 61 yrs old tennis player n i m giving players 1/2 my age problems on court yesterday. Life is quite good.😊
thanks, keep it up!
One of the best lessons I've ever seen to teach a player the mechanics of the tennis swing.
Thank you coach. Excellent explanation of the kinetic chain. I feel like I just got a $100 lesson's worth of info!
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You are an AMAZING coach! Clearest and best explanation of these concepts I’ve seen on TH-cam. Hope your channel blows up, you deserve it.
Something I have seen many times but great to have been reminded by someone who explains it so well thanks
Thanks Chris. Glad it could help!
This was excellent. I'm a senior player that started playing again a short time ago. The suggestion to relax and let the body do most of the work is a formula on how to avoid injury. I can't wait for this quarantine to end and put your lesson into practice.
Saludos de Chile.
House arrest.
I am a badminton coach and I often use the term whip to explain how to relax the body to send out power through the legs, hips, upper body and arm. This way of teaching is just right. Exercise on one focus area at a time and repeat this without the ball. You are a great coach.
Great explanation, great demonstration and great presentation. No gadgets, no frills, sound biomechanics. SUPERB.
I've paid lots of money for lessons that were not as helpful as this free one.
I have to admit this was a good video. The last part about the lag is a lot harder to accomplish than he and the guys on the ATP make it seem. If it was so easy everyone on the WTA would do it. But they do not (but should). If you are at a tennis academy or hope to play D1 tennis you better do it because your competition and opponents will be doing it. They will hit the ball harder than you and with less effort. You will get more tired than they will. But my students definitely got blowback from high school coaches and other teachers who do not know how to lag. Just like when I taught rotation and open stance 20 years ago, area teachers still teaching closed stance classic strokes would say this rotation stuff was garbage. I still see teachers teaching closed stance classic strokes. There is a huge market for mediocracy.
You are not the only one to pay for a human ball machine. Teaching pros should watch more tennis videos like this one then share these tips and methods to their paying students.
@@imateapot51 Agree. These are the Vic Braden coaches still out there teaching the forehand from the wood racket area. They hate the word rotation! 😂
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Hi Robert, you're soooo right mate. Since I started searching training videos, one alone would have saved me a lot of money. One by a Rick Macci (putting your right foot parallel to the baseline while using its arch to hold the 45° oriented left foot heel as ready position to serve), it changed my cursed till then serve.
This is brilliant the way you showed how to learn the kinetic chain and specially the wrist lag that needs to have the stretch and release.
Thanks Kamal, So many coaches talk about it but I think at its core it doesn't have to be super complicated.
Been suffering golf elbow for years from playing tennis due to excessive wrist snap. Now I find the cure. Many thanks!
this is the best explanation and demonstration of how to incorporate the racket head into generating more effortless power
This is so simple and on the money. Thank you for the great lesson, Kevin!
Kevin is awesome! He put the progressions into easily reproducible steps for beginners and veterans alike. The devil is in the details which he illustrates succinctly!
So many things in common with golf swing! Really interesting.
similar to boxing, too
Big fan of TTD! Seriously, Kevin was able to fix a major piece to my forehand. Looking forward to many more videos!
Superb lesson, easy flowing stroke, generating good power.
I am a golfer and I started learning tennis. It is amazing how similar things are. You are explaining how to swing a golf club.
WoW easily one of the best coaches on TH-cam. His ability to break down the movements and articulate all the information is top notch. Thank You!!
This is a very good lesson on using the kinetic chain to generate power. And it has simple action steps to help people. Why the heck would people down vote it?
This is the best coaching to me. I have tried many times to tap the dog head but not so good hitting but after this video, I finally understand the reason why. So this lesson is highly recommended by me to all my friends to view “ many, many, many “ times then go back to court to try to hit no matte4 forehand or the backhand.
Thank you, Kevin Coach !!
Im so shocked and impress, the first few seconds I was totally able to relate and I think I found my way to a better forehand, tysm; not like any other tennis channel too
Best coach ive seen on TH-cam yet!..Keep it up...loving it!!
One of the best lessons I have seen in my life ... thanks ... I love to see how the cinetic chain, the biomechanics movements work.
5:01 I'm gonna try it out coz my forehand needs improvement! Very helpful Coach!
I've never subscribed and activated all notifications with such enthusiasm.
Man that you're EXTREMELY helpful.
Thank you so much.
finally understand and now on the rite path of improving my forehand.
This must be the best teaching tennis video i have ever seen. Thank you so much for giving it to us. Wish you the best and bring more tennis to the world.
New sub here. I remember you from essential tennis videos. Glad you have your own channel as well. Thanks for this video
This instructor is brilliant at explaining everything. Thank you!
You are an excellent coach Kevin
I have been teaching a long time. You are an excellent teacher. You have sold me. Keep up the awesome work!
I wish we had a coach here like you, my son is 9 and the number three ranked player in the country. we watch your videos and practice. If he had a coach like you he'd really excel. thank you for your videos.
Such a great teacher as well as coach . I know lots of people who pay good money for very poor quality coaching while totally unaware of what is available free on videos like this one . A video like this should be essential viewing for young players who sadly often develop poor technique which is so difficult to undo later .
A key thing that totally loosened up my strokes was a comment made to me during a lesson once….he said regarding a particular baseline forehand, “That’s the first stroke you’ve really TRUSTED today. Best shot of the day.” 💥🤯 Totally changed my understanding of what being tight meant. I trusted my form and most importantly, my timing to deliver the shot I intended to make-
Clear and clever. No one had helped me the way you did, mate. Thank you really.
this guy is a really good, love the way he teaches this stuff
new player here (3 weeks) ...i've been watching a lot of vids trying to learn and i'd like to say I really enjoy your explanations and the way you teach a skill :)
Best demonstration of the lag and snap I've seen ! Same Idea works on serve too.
Your break down of the technique is fantastic, I learned so much. Thank you!
Wish i knew this tip 30 years ago. Your tip truly worked and now that even my single backhand is less stressful.
I appreciate the work and all the videos ,you help me improve ,the details is so important to start from the beginning in this beautiful game.
Awesome coaching this. Some of the best on youtube
One of the Best Tennis Instructions I've ever Seen. Great coaching, explanation, and demonstration. Well Deserve. Thank You for Sharing this!
Welcome back bro doing your own videos again your step by step instructions are one of the best. It's good to see you again
One of the best videos with helpful drills to improve my forehand hands down.
Brilliant young man, excellent instructor!
Excellent instructions! Now I realize that beside a late preparation, everything show in this video are mistakes that I have had in my tennis play for years… thank you for such great teaching!
Outstanding - FREE - tennis lesson. Nice!
excellent lesson. So clear. I can't wait to try it. Who needs expensive tennis lessons. Thank you Coach.
I have seen many videos that explained using body to generate power but you explained it the best. Thanks Kevin G.
Glad it was helpful! I wanted it to be something that everyone can take action on.
So many useful tips, but what I got most out of this was tempo... Just like in golf if you tense your muscles feeling like you have to muscle up to hit the ball hard, it absolutely works against you. I really appreciated finding this and subscribed. Well done.
Brilliant stuff. Best forehand tennis instruction I ever had.
I repeatedly watched the video 3 times and followed the progression at home every time. I’ll come back again. But I know what drill I’ll do next time I’m on tennis court. Thanks!
So glad i bump into your video, this is so easy to follow and understand, i been curious to know how come my modern forehand does not give me the relax and power i need, can't wait to bring this to court over this weekend.
Congrats for the excellent demonstration.
I've been working on the lag snap & release for sometime its not easy. kevin you break the kinetic chain down too its simplicity I wish I saw this five plus years ago when I first heard about the kinetic chain. Excellent video lesson. Thank you
Thanks a lot!! It's a great video. Excellent instructor!
This is probably the most useful info I've ever received from a forehand training. This helps to understand what I'm doing wrong when it falls apart and what I'm doing right when it's working. Thank you
Excellent explanation. Watched other "names" and was very disappointed in their complicated explanations. You made it easy to understand. Thank you.
Thanks for the clear explanation with demo Kevin, I can relate to all the mistakes I have been doing , keep up the good work, you have a knack of breaking down things and explaining nicely step by step
I used to work out with the team at Martin Methodist when I was in my late 40s - early 50s when you were there. Don't recall if I hit with you though. The M M teams were laden with overseas players so you had to have been very good to play on it. The guys said they appreciated my power especially when I told them my age and that I was mostly self taught. I did a session with Oscar Wagner in California around 2014, and he said the same thing. While working out with different teaching pros and other high level hitters including PTR, I have been told that I arm the ball a lot. I still maintain the power but now in my mid-late sixties, I need to start conserving more energy. Very good video about how the kinetic chain work. I do prefer the open stance though. As much as I try, I don't think I will ever be able to get that arm moving with the hip. Like they say: "it's hard to teach an old dawg new tricks". This video is going out with me tomorrow morning to the court. We'll see what happens. Lo🎾💪
Best Coach on this tube! Thank you so much Kevin.
I’ve always had a good forehand but it never looked like the pros and I had to generate a lot of the power and muscle through it which I never knew how to fix, this has massively helped my shot!
Excellent explanation and drills to go along with it. Every coach and player out there should watch this.
Wow. Amazing teacher. Dude, you are good! Thank you!
Your content is SO good, thank you!!! You popped up a rec video on my home page!
It’s kind of late to watch the video, but it’s still the best time for me to solve the problem. Now I know why Sometimes I didn’t get the power of my forehand. Beside this I also learned more from your other videos. I will recommend all my friends to learn your lessons. Thanks so much for your tips!
Excellent instructions, to the point with drills for improvement, Kevin communicates directly and clearly without confusion, keep up the good work.
This is a great video that help beginner or intermediate, I highly recommend ppl to watch!
Great video. I will practice hip turn drill. Thanks you so much.
Man I'm glad to see you back! Essential tennis is awesome but I missed your channel!
You And the coach from Tennis Haus are awesome and have helped my game tremendously! Thank you!
Great video!! Your explanations are easy to understand and to the point. Also, you explain it in a way that is helpful to the intermediate player. So often the explanations tend to be overcomplicated and not applicable to the average player. Not your videos =) Keep up the awesome job!
Djokovic of explanation! Thank you!
This video is just great. Simply explained and shown. Thank you very much. I have to practice relaxation and body moving.
Kevin, you are the man!
Just fantastic lesson and slow motion video. Great job.
Beautifull sky above!!!!
I wish someone had taught me in this step by step manner from day one. It really helps emphasize the hips and rotation and staying loose instead of trying to force wrist lag.
Hi Kevin
It is a pleasure and I am happy to see you again.
I miss your videos since you and Megan left Essential Tennis.
Now that I know where you are, I will take advantage of your great tips.
Kev, great explanation, so many people fail to understand and apply the kinetic chain. I offen compare it with a boxing punch or a whip when trying to make a valid metaphore.
I am happy to see you on your way of building the yt channel. You are a great coach. Only thing to adjust is the pace of your talking and presenting, I think it will be more imactful
Thank you! I play tennis more than 20 years. But this lesson was very helpful!
Incredible session!!
Excellent
1 relax relax relsx relax
2 turn your hip on contact if the ball
3 hold the racket loose
4 I like taking tge ballmon the rise if I am going for a winner and not plsying the perfect rally ball
I grew up on grass ist age off 7
I was taught to rekax hold the grip loose
Turn the hip and bend it creates more power
Excellent video one everyone should watch every day and oractice
Thanks for the easy explanation. Well done. I tried this yesterday and was amazed!
Thanks for the help Kevin.
Great detailed explanation of the mechanics of the forehand and the source ofa powerful shot. Simply and thoroughly presented.
Awesome, glad it makes sense!
A black tennis coach. Good golly! Keep up the good work blood.
By seeing just for once I started playing awesome
I agree this lesson is 1000x better then paid by a pro in person
So pleased you've returned to TTD. Too many cooks (spoil the broth) in the other. Thank you.
Great video...EXELLENT👍👍👍👍The best instructions ever for teaching effortless and powerful forehand techniques
Great explanation Kevin. I will be watching for more videos
Excellent tuition. Thanks
Great instruction! Stepwise drill is highly helpful.
Great instruction, you show how easy it is to implement all components of the more powerful forehand Thanks
Your videos keep on getting better!
Thanks Jono! What's the thing that you liked the most about this video so I can keep it rolling?
@@TotalTennisDomination You clearly demonstrates the importance of body rotation in order to create effortless power. More video on the "science of hitting" would be welcomed.
Great video - very helpful, thanks so much.
Perhaps one thing to add - borrowed from golf: if you hold the racquet with more of a finger grip than a palm grip (as it look like you do) it will be easier to release your wrist, as you will have more mobility (especially if you’re older).
Thank you your classes so useful ❤
Your video are so clear and have a good to the point explanation, thankyou so much