How to increase racket speed?

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mike53

Professional
user92626 said:
How would one train to increase racket speed?
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Buy yourself 10 feet of surgical tubing. Tie one end to a chain link fence a little higher than your waist and tie the other end to either the neck of your racquet or the bottom of the hoop. Stand with your racquet in hand and tension on the tubing and practice swinging away from the fence with resistance on the racquet through the entire swing. Practice full strokes. Vary the angle a little bit so the resistance comes from slightly different angles as you swing from takeback to followthrough. Practice forehand and backhand. Tie the tubing to the fence at shoulder level for service and overheads. Swing as hard/fast as you can.
 
GeorgeLucas

GeorgeLucas

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SOME PEOPLE GOT it AND SOME PEOPLE DONT ALL RIGHT YOU KNOW YOU CANT PUNCH AS QUICKLY AS MUHAMMAD ALI AND YOU CANT SWING A RACQUET AS QUICKLY AS FEDERER ITS JUST MATHEMATICS
 
Bungalo Bill

Bungalo Bill

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AlpineCadet said:
BB, if you were anywhere in SoCal, I would definitely drive my way to find you. Thanks.
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Believe me, I am missing So. Cal! I love SD!!

If I am down there (which I need to get down there cause my family is there), I would hit with you for free. I will bring my basket of balls, and whatever you want to drill we will drill on. My playing days are well behind me but I play for fun and helping players.

Next year I will be down there.

Just be prepared to work and work hard if we get together.
 
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fruitytennis1

Professional
Bow down to BB for he is the tennis Masters Master. Action of (kissing the toes) Really BB you do help alot of people on this thread.
 
Slazenger07

Slazenger07

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[d]ragon;4170598 said:
Weight training to develop strong muscles, mainly fast twitch, would help . This would also help in injury prevention. My philosophy when working out is to do the reps quickly instead of slowly to build up these muscles. I'm not an expert of course but I think it makes sense

More importantly however are technique and flexibility. Technique plays a major role but I believe flexibility is a bit more important when trying to generate RHS (racquet head speed). While technique allows you to set up properly and utilize your body mechanics efficiently (providing a strong base, applying weight transfer), the flexibility of your body is abit more important for generation the most power. It creates elasticity in which allows the arm can whip through the shot. I think while skinny people don't have that a lot muscle mass, this increases the flexibility of their bodies and allows for a more slingshot/rubberband force on shots. I think doing dynamic stretches before playing and static stretches after really help improving the flexibility of your body
Don't get me wrong. Technique is very important and should be focused on just as importantly. Both complement each other.

Compare Federer's forehand with Murray's. No question both have tremendous technique. But it seems to me like Federer whips his racquet a lot faster through his shots than Murray does. I attribute this to the elasticity of his body.
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Hmmm feel I need to correct something youve said. When weight training you should perform reps slowly, this causes your muscles to work harder and keeps them under tension longer, which is what helps stimulate muscle growth.

There are exceptions, as always, but this is a general rule of muscle building.

Explosive reps would be an exception, and there is a time and place for them, but 95% of the time you should perform your reps slowly.
 
Slazenger07

Slazenger07

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Fast Twitch fibers arent best stimulated doing reps faster, theyre best stimulated in lower rep ranges ie 1-10. With slow twitch being best stimulated in the 12+ rep range.

Certain muscles as you probably know are comprised of more or less fast or slow twitch fibers.

Muscles like Biceps and Triceps are comprised almost entirely of Fast Twitch fibers, where as calves are composed of mostly slow twitch fibers in the soleus and mostly fast twitch in the gastrocnemius.
 
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SirSweetSpot

Banned
Somewhat akin to what was mentioned above regarding the surgical tubing. What you can also do is swing your racquet in a pool. This is a technique my baseball team used to do to increase batspeed by performing a large number of reps swinging the bat underwater. The resistance is conducive to improvement. Remember, you only get what you put in. Perhaps try swinging an old wooden racquet that you can purchase for a couple of bucks, and use it for underwater swinging.
 
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papa

Hall of Fame
Speaking of racquet head speed, I was watching a few former pros play a match tonight (Ivan Lendi, Jimmy Arias, Dave Macpherson (Bryan brothers coach, and a club pro. All in their mid to late 40's but still can drive the ball hard and pick off the angles - fun to watch.
 
Quikj

Quikj

Rookie
My pro would have me hit swinging volleys as a method of increasing racket head speed. It also helps with handling high balls.
 
AlpineCadet

AlpineCadet

Hall of Fame
Knowing the pivot point of your frame is definitely something you don't want to overlook. The 11.9oz Head Speed MP 16x19 is 27.2 inches long and definitely has a different pivot point than the 12.1oz i.Prestige MP pivot point, but I can get the same kick/spin on both frames once I've dialed into the rally. :shock:
 
salsainglesa

salsainglesa

Semi-Pro
the methd in the video is one of many ways of hitting the ball... by tucking the elbow you reduce the lenght of the lever and makes it easier to produce a more steep swing path, friendly topspin and then you can use all of your hitting power... that doesnt work for me... but it might, monfils is quite proeficient withthis technique... tsonga also comes to mind.
 
DavaiMarat

DavaiMarat

Professional
user92626 said:
That sounds like throwing the arm using hip and shoulde. I can understand relax and swing getting your body involved, but I'm not sure I can follow the advice in that clip.
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what it shows you if the core and legs generating all the racquet head momentum. The arm is lose like spaghetti and just the connection between your racquet head and your core muscles.

How do you think little 12-year old juniors hit the **** out the ball? They are using thier bigger muscles to drive the ball.

I'm not exactly sure why you cannot follow the advice in the clip but if you want to emphasize what you don't understand I can certainly try to help you.

Cheers,

Mike

Getting a mini-recorder for X-mas. I'll start doing videos to help folks the best I can.
 
leeroy85

leeroy85

Rookie
Try this mental exercise. Think in terms of RPS, revs per second. How are you going to get the ball to increase RPS. It will help to increase racket head speed.
 
crash1929

crash1929

Hall of Fame
BB-seems like that nice loose swing with big pop is elusive for me. I have to painfully remind myself to be loose. Then when I think too hard about it- I'm loose but not big pop loose. I like the ideas posted here so far.

I try to explain to people that there are degrees of looseness. From stiff to kinda loose (trying to hard) to that Zen like looseness where you get the big pop-a-rooni.

My goal is to always have that zen like relaxation and looseness on the court. seems simple enough but why is it so hard.
 
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