Is Federer’s wrist a little extended during the take back? (Probably insignificant even if it is ). Although it seems to straighten later in the forward swing.
Thanks. So it’s neutral wrist all the way. Makes perfect sense.
By the way as far as I know although it looks like it’s a little bent back pic 1 is actually considered anatomically neutral although the pic 2 position looks more straight. Interesting detail.
Simon from top tennis training but he said that while talking about Bh slice. Not sure about topspin Bh drive.
Really like this.
Dimitrov grip is close to conti, which makes him do what he does
I see that when the racket is dropping or at the beginning of the forward swing it sort of forces the wrist to flex a little but I don’t think it ever goes beyond neutral.
For blocking shots like ROS or redirecting DTL I try for a very compact, more rigid grip/wrist.
If you are flexing that means you are using your front chest to generate pace, that also means you might be having a tendency to chest press or something which is not hurting you in the short term but it will not give you spin, pace nor control in your OHBH.
I think you could have a very good 1HBH with some practice and coaching, your stroke looks great for 2 weeks in!
Couple of things I noticed:
Keep your left hand back more through/after the shot, you're slightly over-rotating through the shot IMO. Over-rotation can cause inconsistency/inaccuracy. YMMV. Watch slow-motion of Gasquet, Dimitrov, Fed, etc - they keep their left hand much further back than you. Wawrinka is the closest to your follow-through, but even he isn't quite so rotated on most of his shots.
The video is a little blurry so I can't tell for sure, but looks like you may be contacting the ball with your elbow still bent? Watch your video again to see what I mean. Bent elbow on take-back is OK, but it should completely straighten out by contact. Note the straight arm at contact from some of the best 1HBH of all time:
Great, thanks. Jeremy’s channel was awesome but sadly he stopped posting videos a while ago.
There are a lot of different muscle surrounding your arm front and back side. A lot of them connect to your chest or back or top shoulder. What happened when you try to extend your arm backwards is that there are two main muscle helping you to do so.
Based on my understand of my body (of course I also google muscle groups so I have a general sense of where muscles are laid out), when I try different things and this is the optimal feel and approach.
I feel like your point is complicated by wrong/missing knowledge of human anatomy.
Reason for this thread was my tendency to flex the wrist naturally and seeing every pro player have an extended wrist (at least neutral).
I guess Blackwell and Cole think you are a novice. I was gonna go with intermediate.
A modified grip. Index knuckle on bevel 2, heel pad on bevel 1. Because of the heel pad position it still feels like a good Bh grip to me.
Why not you at least try what I said and see if it worked for you. A lot of time channel your inner Chas Tennis moment will not work. You have to undersatnd and control your body properly. Otherwise you will forever having a flex wrist for OHBH.
I would try if I understood what you said.
If it’s not the gained momentum of the racket head created by your free swinging that hits the ball, then it’s more of a push instead of swing. That’s my interpretation of what you said. And makes sense to me.
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I am thinking how to rephrase what I said.I would try if I understood what you said.
