Video of ball machine hitting 11-15-12

[JackB1]

Originally Posted by Timbo's hopeless slice

First, I would tend to leave your BH alone, looks fine. Bit mechanical, perhaps, and you could probably afford to hit it harder with that swing path, but basically fine.

I like the RHS on your FH but you seem to have a slightly low finish that seems to end up at waist height. I would suspect you have a tendency to drag FHs into the net more than going long when you are under pressure? Anyway, I would look for more knee bend (coiling) and a higher finish if you were my student. Also, your backswing on the FH is a bit, I dunno, 'abrupt'? A longer and more fluid swing would probably result from a more integrated kinetic chain, anyway.
(based on a video of a very tired guy, so meh..)

I would probably set the ball machine to a quicker feed rate, too, as it is almost impossbile to maintain any energy in your feet when you have to wait THAT long for the next ball!

*edit. These are small things, there is nothing fundamentally wrong at all!!!

thanks for the response Tim...My 2hbh was learned from scratch 2 years ago and it's still a "work in progress". It's getting better all the time and its solid enough now that nobody picks on it anymore.

I will try your f/h suggestions....higher finnish...longer and more fluid swingpath..more legs and coiling. The ball machine was being controlled by the store...it wasn't under my control. Next time I film I will speed things up and show more movement.


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[JackB1]

took some more video today. I set the ball machine faster and used a different angle. Again, comments and advice is welcome

http://youtu.be/nh7OwNmAQP4

[johndagolfer]

You're a lot less stiff. I still don't like your strokes because it's all upper body and arm.

I think if you incorporated more legs into your short you wouldn't have to "muscle" the ball and you would look more smooth.

I would use a little more body rotation on the forehand side as well.

[martini1]

Originally Posted by JackB1

took some more video today. I set the ball machine faster and used a different angle. Again, comments and advice is welcome

http://youtu.be/nh7OwNmAQP4

You need to show where the balls are landing. The most important part is to see the control and consistency. You got pretty clean contact and they sound solid, but can't tell if you are controlling the ball to land on target and can't tell if you got enough spin to keep them in.

[JackB1]

Originally Posted by johndagolfer

You're a lot less stiff. I still don't like your strokes because it's all upper body and arm.

I think if you incorporated more legs into your short you wouldn't have to "muscle" the ball and you would look more smooth.

I would use a little more body rotation on the forehand side as well.

I know I need to do that, but it feels unnatural to me. I need to work on using the lower body more....I think that will also help my balance.

[axel89]

great forehand

[JackB1]

Originally Posted by martini1

You need to show where the balls are landing. The most important part is to see the control and consistency. You got pretty clean contact and they sound solid, but can't tell if you are controlling the ball to land on target and can't tell if you got enough spin to keep them in.

sorry, but that was my only camera angle option on that day. I would say 90% of the balls were going into the back box (past the service line). I want to focus more on my footwork and technique now, instead of where the balls are landing. I don't have any problems keeping the ball deep in the court...my issues are everything else . I will do a video with the camera behind be as soon as possible.