What a pain! One handed backhand

Rosstour

G.O.A.T.
set up the hand high, pull the racket straight across to the right fence. contact more in front for a closed face... it's just a slower tempo to hit after the apex, manageable for slow foot speed like mine..

Not saying I can't do it lol

Just saying it's easier for me to hit them on the rise

Easier to hit 2HB on the rise too

Hitting right off the bounce allows you to use more of the ball's forward momentum (and your body's), can be a lot more abbreviated/blocky
 

StringSnapper

Hall of Fame
It’s very simple. All you need to do is change your mindset ie swing hand to the ball (green) instead of thinking about drop, low to high etc. The racket head will have to follow blue, unless you fight it not to happen.


Yes the green is the mental que you need, the blue is what happens.

Taking it back higher or not is more stylistic imo. Ie in that wawrinka video, it's his unit turn that is the reason it's higher (more just how he holds his grip), then he adjusts it to the balls contact height then swings slightly up, I.e. the green que.
 

10sbeast888

Hall of Fame
Is that supposed to be a praise or an insult to @Curious? To each in ballmanguy academy. :unsure::unsure::unsure:

all positive energy man...

C can make a great coach, since it took so long for him to figure these things out.

I am similar, mostly self tot, and all the past mistakes become valuable experiences when I work with my adult guys and juniors.

the orthodox coaches are likely more effective in working with kids and complete beginners, just cookie-cutter them.. dealing with adults with past experiences (aka bad habits) is a different matter.. having had the same bad habits, ironically, becomes an asset in teaching.
 

user92626

G.O.A.T.
Yes, here it is. Inertial tennis 2.0! Ok, no, let’s call it maybe inertial racket head drop in which there’s only a forward swing that also drops the racket head.


Do you think about the contact at all? For example, like, how you want the racket face to go through the ball? That kind of mental awareness?
 

ballmachineguy

Hall of Fame
Vaguely. Just the direction mainly. I should probably visualise the ball’s trajectory.
Do you ever write down these aha moments so you can compile them into a proper stroke or are you just gonna wake up in the morning and wonder why you own a bag full of shallow spaghetti strainers?
 

socallefty

G.O.A.T.
I should probably visualise the ball’s trajectory.
Depending on the serve (target, spin, pace) you are hitting, the ball will travel through a particular point over the net. It is good to look at or visualize the narrow square space around that spot that you want the ball to travel through while you are in your starting stance just before you start the toss motion. It makes the serve much more accurate. If you hit a T serve near the line, the square window might be in the other service box over the net as the ball will curve in - just aim for the ball to travel through the window over the net and you will be serving a lot of aces hitting your target spots.
 
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Curious

G.O.A.T.
Depending on the serve (target, spin, pace) you are hitting, it will travel through a particular point over the net. It is good to look at or visualize the narrow square space around that spot that you want the ball to travel through while you are in your starting stance just before you start the toss motion. It makes the serve much more accurate. If you hit a T serve near the line, the square window might be in the other service box over the net as the ball will curve in - just aim for the ball to ball to travel through the window over the net and you will be serving a lot of aces hitting your target spots.
I haven’t practiced that enough. I will. Thanks for reminding again. I’m mostly focusing on targets in the box.
 

user92626

G.O.A.T.
Hard to believe since so many fundamentals are missing. I do believe you are the worst kind of student as you think you can figure out things on your own better than your coaches even though their specialty is developing tennis players and your specialty is medicine. You are also attracted to esoteric things rather than foundational things. Many doctors are notoriously bad at learning other skills because they have a big ego and they are unconscious about how incompetent they are at the new skill they are trying to learn. If I had tried to teach you in a parallel universe, I’m pretty sure I would have ‘fired’ you as a student within two weeks and given a bad reference of you as a student to all the coaches I would talk to.
I linked back to read this entire post from John's quote for context. Wow...this isn't exactly a flattering post to @Curious o_O:)
 

10sbeast888

Hall of Fame
Well, he has a point, doesn’t he?

if we are only talking about this thread, in the context of not involving any local coaches, then no.

the internet coaches didn't see the flipping for 2 years.. that's not the student's fault.

Although I agree that using a good local coach is the fastest way to succeed.
 
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Curious

G.O.A.T.
if we are only talking about this thread, in the context of not involving any local coaches, then no.

the internet coaches didn't see the flipping for 2 years.. that's not the student's fault.

Although I agree that using a good local coach is the fastest way to succeed.
Flicking issue has actually been raised by quite a few members but the cause and solution was not given.
 

ppma

Professional
Vaguely. Just the direction mainly. I should probably visualise the ball’s trajectory.
I can.

The shadow fh swings send the ball to the moon.
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However, shadow swings and 1hbhs shots are mostly ok, most of them. You never had trouble hitting self hand fed balls, as far as I can recall.
 

10sbeast888

Hall of Fame
Flicking issue has actually been raised by quite a few members but the cause and solution was not given.

I see, still not the student's fault, coaches should have drills to fix.

and perhaps there was too much noise.... how would the student know which advice to take? again the reason to put a face behind the coaching.
 
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