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If you want to hit HEAVY groundstrokes on the tennis court but can't seem to get it right, we're going to show you how! You’re about to see real life examples of what a heavy forehand or backhand is and isn’t, plus I’ll show you special drills that you can do right now to hit a heavier ball yourself and win more matches.
0:00 Hit Heavy!
0:23 What is Heavy?
1:42 Hard VS. Heavy
3:25 Racquet Head Speed
5:47 DEL POTRO
7:24 NADAL
9:06 Drills to Hit Heavy
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@kaykayy3603 3 года назад

Great Video ✌

@ChristineSutherland 3 года назад

Brilliant, thanks Ian.

@benoit5227 3 года назад

Thank very much, this is very helpful !

@circularsnow4u866 3 года назад

Thank you!! Something I definitely need to practice more

@shaunshah8530 3 года назад

Thanks Ian so much for making this video

@emike5789 3 года назад

Amazing, Im improving a lot with your lessons

@augustblood6810 3 года назад

Brilliant lesson, I love it.

@online9191 3 года назад

Ian is always the best! Good video.

@hattieucoi91 3 года назад

Looking forward to see double matches on your court and match analyzed videos! Thank you for making great videos of tennis lesson!

@saeedm 3 года назад

This is amazing content, really an eye opener for an amateur like me.

@salamorakotojoelinandrasan5317 Год назад

Awesome tips

@bcellable 3 года назад

Ian. Love the technicality of this explanation. Thank you for not " dumbing down" the portrayal of hitting heavy. It is much appreciated.

@brandonseibert2647 2 года назад

Brilliant tutorials 👏

@willecutlip 3 года назад

Thanks for the "stay relaxed" pointer!! Lightbulb moment for me!

@wilbertmcintosh8811 3 года назад

Lovely analysis

@aaronlennon3592 3 года назад

Great job Ian, really. Thank you

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

My pleasure!

@olafsrensen9578 6 месяцев назад

Orsom great toppic and great explanaion.

@MarkSansait 3 года назад

Whoa, @essentialtennis - are you feeling ok? The only analysis point you did was me ACTUALLY winning the point. Also thanks for the amazing content. I normally do feel like I can drive my backhand flatter than my forehand - so thats actually a good set up for my singles game you just analyzed! 🤗🤗🤗 Also, I had Taco Bell for breakfast today.

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

😆🙏

@K4R3N 3 года назад

Mark, it was that $10 you spotted him yesterday

@melfox215 3 года назад

As a LeBron fan, I was thinking Taco Bell is reserved for Taco Tuesday;)

@boarini2003 3 года назад

I now eat Taco Bell before matches

@lovinglife3675 Год назад

Ian , your ability to deliver explanation is first class ! clear & concise … thx a million mate 👍 Regards 🙏

@mauricecatayan3406 Месяц назад

It's important to note that internal shoulder rotation and forearm pronation thru contact cause the swing path to steepen near contact. Focusing just on ISR and pronation results in a very steep swing path that yields a shot with very little pace.

@GrungePopRecords Год назад

Excellent!

@EssentialTennis Год назад

😎

@nicolasvela9460 3 года назад

More matches please Ian

@olafsrensen9578 3 года назад

super great video ! Great progression for heavyness . Many of my students wants to hit hard( mostly juniors( and forget therefor don"t want to do the heavy ball). Theres also a great atvantage doing topspin,that you can creat angeshots much easier. anyway than"ks a lot.Olaf Copenhagen Denmark

@Tofy_Toon Год назад

I love your chanel

@BowWowProductionsLTD 3 года назад

Wow, Ian! A fabulous lesson, explanation and drill based on a basic tennis term that in my experience is normally used a lot but never fully explained. You deserve a lot of credit for this video. Well done indeed. Tony Costa (Tennis Wales (Uk) Ambassador.)

@sonnyyombo2230 2 года назад

This is brilliant. Thank You.

@EssentialTennis 2 года назад

You’re very welcome!

@tonymarc8852 3 года назад

This is tennis teaching at the highest level, never explained before. This is for people who are really passionate about learning and understanding things that happen in the swing shot. Thank you very much for sharing.

@shadowyshutterbug 10 месяцев назад

this is a lesson for 3.0s or 3.5s not the highest level lol

@BackoftheLineTennis 3 года назад

Love the layout of the heavy ball. I don't think height is as much a factor for a heavy ball, but more than often people who hit heavy tend to use more net clearance on the shot. Definitely a discussion point that can go either way to me. Cheers.

@jayshahphotography 3 года назад

I really like your approach and how you use slow motion to drive the point home. Super helpful. One point also becomes quite clear from this SM clips is difference in contact point. For heavy spin, I think contact point needs to be much closer compared to flatter drive where contact point is much forward comparatively. By the way I thought you were a left hander!

@fonovx 2 года назад

Great video as always, Ian! Helps a lot. One open question : which stance do you recommend for (heavy) topspin forehand? Open or closed? Is both possible? I’m a relative beginner and am still using closed stance mainly, and want to know if I can start practicing this with my closed stance.

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

Here's our most viewed lesson on topspin if you're looking for more guidance: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZFX5O8YROeo.html Also be sure to grab your FREE access to Academy if you'd like my personal input on your game: www.essentialtennisacademy.com/ THANK YOU for watching this lesson, I hope it was a huge help!

@natpurdon9668 3 года назад

Excellent Lesson Ian! So descriptive and visual. I think it confuses most beginners when coaches say "brush the ball" at the outset. Only after you have been playing for a while and you get a feel for the racket when hitting the ball, the strokes and other top spin shots like kick serve...then "brushing" and the difference in sounds makes sense. Thanks very much for the content, really helps!

@thiswalkinglife 3 года назад

Thanks for these great tips - Who are the best exponents of these shots? Will they be in action at Australian Open starting Feb 8 2021?

@glennjohnston8749 3 года назад

I agree that spin and pace are two necessary ingredients for a heavy ball. I would suggest depth is also vital. A shot with pace and spin that lands closer to the service line is a whole lot easier to return than a ball with spin and pace that hits closer to the baseline.

@JohnSmith-ks5xw 8 месяцев назад

He said 'depth' at the beginning of the video.

@SimurghMyTube 3 месяца назад

Could you please share a full course to explain how to deal with heavy topspin, not especially high bouncing balls, but above all for the difficulty in keeping control of the ball we send back because the spinning ball effect makes us lose control and the ball goes into the scenery... It's the same feeling playing table tennis against an opponent who's mastered top spin...

@adamchopko35 3 года назад

Great video. For the heavy forehand, do recommend hitting off the back foot like Nadal does in the video? Nadal here lifts his front leg, has his weight all on this back foot, and his feet are falling backwards, whereas I've heard from past coaches to lean forward and transfer all my weight to the front foot like you do in the drill too with your back foot raised. Which is correct for the heavy forehand? If both or depends, when should I think about one weight shift + footwork vs. the other? Thanks!

@vijaymisra1833 3 года назад

One variable that you missed and will enhance the drive portion of the motion is stepping in to hit the ball. Balls hit without forward weight transfer player will be able to generate more spin and vice versa. As my coach taught weight behind the shot keeps the ball down.

@mattblvr1 3 года назад

Incredible how far in front Delpo hits that shot

@areewichainchai1743 2 года назад

Interesting in the machine of rolling basket keeping ball, where are you find it?

@homosapien5156 3 года назад

If we take the equation it follows that if two balls one with considerably more spin than the other have the same speed then the ball with more spin feels more heavy because it has more energy. Because it's the same speed but extra energy for spin makes it heavier

@melfox215 3 года назад

Another great explanation, Ian! I really like that kind of comparison of Del Potro's and Nadal's swing direction. What I would like to see, is a video like this for advanced players. I am thinking about the recoil or maybe the 'outswinging' of the strokes. On my own strokes, I observe to stop the movement actively verly early after hitting the ball to speed up being ready for the next shot. After watching some better players or even pros, they mostly do it differently as they are like never stopping their swing but always outswinging and continuing the movement as like one motion to hit the next ball.

@ldeue4837 3 года назад

I think where the pro's truly gain their advantage is how well they can hit the ball in the right area. Many people in tennis don't think about the ball, and where you can hit it, they just think about TRYING to hit it. If you can learn little things, such as, taking a cross-court ball on the outside, or taking a high ball on the inside. You can increase the ways in which you can manipulate the ball. It's the same with grip strength, only I would say it's much more difficult to change up your grip strength at the right time, for the right shot.

@ldeue4837 3 года назад

Ian...I have been noticing how important shoulder tilt is to play this game at a high level, that in combination with where you actually hit ON the ball(outside, back middle etc.) I've been slowly trying to transfer this to my backhand but it's still foreign. I noticed I use shoulder tilt a lot on my forehand side, but it just happens...I don't actively think about it. I think this is something that is rarely if ever talked about by Tennis professionals.

@grimson 3 года назад

This is great, as always. The lines you drew on the screen really helped visualize the swing path, BUT I kinda wish you didn't start DelPo's so far behind impact, because it kind of misrepresented his swing path. His raqcuet is actually moving parallel to the ground for several feet before impact, and never at any point drops below the height of the ball. Which is kinda crazy! But he's otherwordly talented, and also, at 6'6" he's above the level of the net with almost every swing.

@DustyDingoPhotos 3 года назад

totally agree. The racquet path _to the point just beyond where the ball leaves contact with the racquet_ is horizontal. Following the path of the racquet so far beyond point of contact misrepresents the true racquet path, and in fact weakens the point you are otherwise demonstrating so well . . . with Nadal's there is virtually no difference as his follow-through follows the same line as in the approach to the ball pretty well exactly.

@durden1621 3 года назад

Hey Ian I really enjoy all your videos you have taught me so much in the last few months. All your content is very intelligent keep up the good work. That being said I have been waiting for a video just like this but the one element that was missing that I was looking so forward to hearing about is WHEN to execute heavy balls. I’m completely stumped on this. I watched Nadal destroy my idol Djocovich at Roland Garris this year and almost all of his shots were heavy top spin so I changed my swing completely and now I hit almost all heavy top spin and now I have almost forgotten how and when to drive the ball. If you can do a part ii explaining at what moments in a match should you hit “nadal” balls as opposed to “potro” balls would be amazing..... and what percentage of balls hit in a professional match would you say are “heavy” balls ? Thank u 🙏🏻

@josephhodge7114 3 года назад

use the high heavy ball to push your opponent off the court-these shots are difficult to handle and eventually they will give you a short ball. you can treat this an approach shot or angle it off for a winner (which you’ll want to drive a little more “potro” style). also try to attack your opponent’s backhand with the heavy ball, most people struggle against that shot. hope this helps!

@sabatinodimartino2164 3 года назад

It is always interesting your approach to tennis.

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

Oh ya? Was this different than you expected?

@sabatinodimartino2164 3 года назад

@@EssentialTennis I like you showed difference between the forehand of Nadal and the forehand of Del Potro. In all lessons teachers don't explain there is a lot of style in this shot.

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

Cool, glad it was helpful!

@nadielx87 3 года назад

Is the grip in this technique to get heavy topspin affect the ball trajectory? The eastern vs semi western vs western grip forehand? Because I use eastern grip which is more flat or less topspin than semi or western grip. Thank you.🙏

@kirbymunroe873 Год назад

Ian, did you mention grip, maybe I missed it. Was del Potro driving eastern, Rafa western and were you drop hitting semi-western?

@drgualtieri 3 года назад

Hey Ian, is the video of Rafa inverted? Or he became right handed :-)

@rohitpratap4174 3 года назад

To enhance the heavy ball should one rotate less with the torso through the strike as per a drive ball? Or should one rotate as hard with the upper and round racket path?

@big9435 3 года назад

Is Eastern grip easier to hit a flatter forehand than semi-full western grip?

@jamesm6377 3 года назад

This is excellent. I would guess about 30 degrees for DP and 60 ish for Nadal where completely flat is 0. Using the angle is helpful for my mental model.

@jamesm6377 3 года назад

I know I do this reasonably well when I feed balls during the warmup (I can see a good shape) but lose it in play. I hit a lot flatter shot. Any tips?

@cam514 2 года назад

Wow, SUPER RARE footage of Rafa playing Righty 😉

@hansolsson3409 3 года назад

Ian, what grip do you use, eastern or.....? Thank you for the lesson.

@joseenryquenarvadez76 3 года назад

Western, mann.

@nicholastanzola488 3 года назад

You always read my mind I hit an extremely flat shot and was looking to hit with more heavy topspin for consistency

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

Awesome! Do these drills, I promise they'll help.

@andresf1984 3 года назад

Flat is not bad 😊

@jamesharvey7793 3 года назад

7:52 is Nadal playing right handed or is the camera flipped?

@LiMingHillman 3 года назад

Probably flipped to make it clearer for the greater amount of righties.

@TheMessageMan_ 3 года назад

Been watching this channel for about 2 months now and it has helped me win some matches! I'm at about intermediate level, started playing seriously a few months ago. The other day I was playing outside with some friends and it was around 35 degrees outside so the new balls we used bounced like they were totally dead. I'm not sure if there's even enough knowledge out there to do a video or if it just comes down to experience, but would love to see a video or hear some feedback on how to deal with the way balls tend to bounce depending on the weather!

@annem7917 3 года назад

I’ve also been playing outside exclusively during the pandemic. My rule of thumb is that above 50 (degrees Fahrenheit) the balls have a decent bounce, in the 40s, a lower bounce but still playable, but below 40 there are a lot more unplayable bounces, not good for match play and only marginal for practice.

@sportscastercanada 3 года назад

I tried below 40 with wet courts! Balls weighed about 2x as much and died fast after 1 bounce. But still great exercise nonetheless.

@anderschristianson4568 3 года назад

Question, is it possible for you to make a reverse video where you so how to do a power/winner type shot?

@ldeue4837 3 года назад

Flattening the ball out is all about penetration.....extension. And NOT using a vertical swingpath.

@ldeue4837 3 года назад

much easier to play that style if you are a bit taller.

@gordogordo1698 3 года назад

Ian, I think that you need to add a caveat in there to warn the players that they still need to extend toward the target instead of pulling off the shot in order to generate a truly heavy ball. BTW - I've always used the formula that Power (racket head speed) = Spin + Pace. Same concept but the definition won't give a physicist heartburn.

@josephhodge7114 3 года назад

100% agree

@user-fo6hg7dv7q 3 года назад

Yes. The "Power" you put into the shot translates to "Spin" and "Velocity"/"Pace". So it is somewhat confusing when Ian uses the term "Power" instead of "Velocity".

@atrem7942 3 года назад

I personally like to emphasise how a heavy ball gives you time and in the best scenario takes away time of your opponent. It is a very overlooked tactical aspects of the game. The time game.

@smashu2 3 года назад

very fancy ballport :)

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

It's made by PlayMate, love it!

@zack3531 3 года назад

I always felt a heavy shot was one that felt heavy on my racket literally. To me it’s always been somewhat of a balance of power and spin. Normally when I play someone much better all their shots feel heavy because the spin and power is just on a different level. That being said Maybe I’m just not at a level to be able to tell the difference! Great content though!

@davspa6 Год назад

What if you have just the opposite problem? For whatever reason I have a heavy top spin ball all the time, but I have difficulty hitting it flat. I think maybe I must have patterned my swing off of Borg, not sure... There's a teaching pro that I occasionally hit with and he also says once in awhile that I have a heavy ball. And I've noticed when I missed the ball that my swing path is like Nadal's. I like the path of the heavy ball. It's very aesthetically pleasing, and it can put people on defense when I'm hitting it well. But sometimes I need to put the ball away and I can't really do it. So how can I learn to hit flat when necessary?

@arsports 3 года назад

What’s your string tension? It sounds quite low.

@pauldydyna5599 3 года назад

There is a similarity in baseball [If anyone cares]. You definitely feel the diff between a hard fastball/heavy fb or a hard slider/heavy slider. When your bat snaps into two pieces.

@warehouse13-motorsports 3 года назад

Teaching pro I hit with defines it as a Drive ball (with spin or flat foot over the net) and a heavy ball with height 4ft or more. Heavy ball needs to be aimed a foot before the baseline. A great rally drill is to have your pro call out what you're going to hit. Drive ball. Heavy ball.

@henningsS 3 года назад

Great video! Will you do a video about Nadal's buggy whip? Coaches always say not to do it as a standard forehand stroke, but nobody ever goes into why players shouldn't. In other words, why is it good for him, but not something you recommend to all players?

@dustyroot4708 3 года назад

I want to point out a well known observation: Nadal doesn't buggy whip a lot in his practice rallys. (I think the clip was taken from a practice match, which is different.) The cause of the buggy whip comes from hitting the ball a little late and trying to lift it over the net. You'll notice a lot of pros use the buggy whip when they're stretched out or rushed on their forehand side. To do this successfully, you have to hit around the outside of the ball with a lot of racquet head speed. This is not taught or encouraged because it goes against the fundamentals of tennis: prepare early, step into the ball, and follow through. Nadal is fascinating to watch because it almost appears that he's nervous in his matches and he hits the ball late (almost behind him), but it allows for his racquet to come around the outside of the ball. People have pointed out that a lot of times he's not even hitting the sweet spot of the strings on these types of shots. (Almost falling backwards too) Don't copy Nadal for his forehand form (He's a one of a kind), copy him for his incredible intensity and focus on every point.

@bmpjjaa 3 года назад

It's a bit too simplistic to say a heavy ball is a combination and a trade off between spin and drive. It's possible to have both. Federer hits with a lot of drive and spin. I've played with an ATP top 250 pro before. He was feeding me the ball and it traveled very slow through air (no pace). After the ball hit the ground, it kicked up and accelerated like crazy. That was a no pace, heavy ball. On the other hand, I hit a high top spin ball which slowly spins up to 170cm. Just imagine a moon baller's ball, the spin is good but that's not heavy. In my experience, a heavy ball is a ball that accelerates in pace after it hits the ground. By the time the ball bounces, you must be in the right spot to receive the ball and finished your preparation. It gives you a ton of pressure since your footwork must be on point. Hitting a heavy ball is more than just swinging low to high. It is also having the 1) strong body rotation, 2) body weight transfer into the ball, and 3) hitting the ball at the bottom of the racquet (tennisspeedresearch.blogspot.com/2011/05/roadmap-to-hall-of-fame-forehand-part-1.html).

@SJ-di5zu 3 года назад

Well yeah there is a way to get a lot of drive and spin. You just hit really hard. Watch Thiem or Nadal hit. They just use so much racket head speed that they can get both spin and pace at the same time.

@bmpjjaa 3 года назад

@@SJ-di5zu What i am saying is that It doesn't have to come as a trade off between drive and spin. Likewise, you can hit a lot of spin but it's not a heavy ball or you can have a heavy ball without pace. Look at federer's heavy ball: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QeubK9HwzW8.html

@findmuck7618 3 года назад

I have problem with my forehand which is that i feel like i cant control Very much where the Ball goes and also that i am not able to hit with a lot of power. Maybe the biggest problem is that i hit with a edge of a racket 9 out of 10 times And this causes me a lot of unforced errors. I have tried to focus on tracking the Ball but it does not help. I have many problems with my forehand and i need help and i would appreciate if you can share some tips to help me. Sorry for my bad english.

@mgmt4597 3 года назад

I think there is also an intangible aspect to the "heavy ball" that is more than just spin and pace. It is the feeling that the ball is sizzling through the air such that it almost hurts ur hand to block it. For instance, the shots (serves and forehand) that Pete Sampras hit were definitely "heavy" but they objectively may have less spin and pace than a Jack Sock forehand, which I think would feel less "heavy"

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

TOTALLY understand what you're saying, MGMT. Great observation.

@stlouisramsfan03 3 года назад

I totally agree!

@juliansanderson839 3 года назад

Sampras’s overall serve rpm was measured to be in the 2500 on average though. Not the highest, but with the ball moving almost three times as fast it had the same heavy feeling.

@rafaellozada2544 3 года назад

Is there a need to adjust the grip to go from heavy to power and viceversa or is swing path sufficient?

@thiaguinhu321123 3 года назад

You should never do that

@commondirtbagz7130 3 года назад

No it’s all about racket head speed and swing path.

@thomasmedeiros5722 2 года назад

From my experience coaching High School Tennis lots of young players try to hit like Nadal but end up being very inconsistent. When hit correctly this is a stroke that the excessive spin helps to go in and is challenging to hit back. However when the player has poor technique when they try to duplicate the “ Nadal” it can be very challenging to correct. I call it “ The all show and no go” forehand. They frequently frame the ball, flip the racquet head over in the air like they just don’t care. I usually use del Potro as my how to example on the forehand. I do like your lesson progression. It can be less complicated to teach a player from the ground up rather than rebuild poor technique that is already in their muscle memory.

@claudioprado389 3 года назад

Great tip Ian, but I miss your mates.

@alanarsht2604 3 года назад

please talk about the optimal grip

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rKCeA8u49uA.html

@FairwayJack 2 года назад

western grip for heavy ball ??

@EnricoRossignoli89 3 года назад

when I try to hit winners with a heavy ball it's always messy for me, I either have too much angle in the racquet and ends in the net or not enough spin and it goes at the end of the court; how can you "lock" that racquet angle??

@CurtDawg00 3 года назад

Ian put the same magic on himself as he did the Nadal vid. I thought at first he was working on his nitoryu.

@satwiksatat2176 3 года назад

Ian can play with both his hands right and left forehand strokes

@nikrolls 11 месяцев назад

Love how this was explained. You are a really good teacher, thanks for sharing your wisdom. Can’t wait to try this out on court!

@miketoni2017 3 года назад

I don’t agree with the definition of “heavy ball” here. I view a heavy shot as using the kinetic chain of the player to hit a powerful ground stroke as opposed to pure racket head speed which may or may not be heavy. Thus, a player could hit a heavy topspin drive (eg Nadal) or a heavy flat shot (e.g., Connors) or even a heavy slice (think Rosewall). I think the determining factor is whether a player fully uses his or her hips, shoulders and legs to hit groundies and serves. That is what creates a heavy ball.

@UchihaGege 3 года назад

I have a natural top spin shot in any angle but ilack that finishing powerfull shot :(

@cadethompson3617 3 года назад

how tall is Mark?

@arthurtodras5658 3 года назад

How did you get Nadal, who is a lefthander, to appear as though he is hitting like a righthander?

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

Magic! ✨

@petertakahashi 3 года назад

Lol

@Abe-Lau 3 года назад

reverse or mirror the image

@dennisbrowne2424 3 года назад

@@EssentialTennis Rafa magic!

@philrogers8525 3 года назад

Very strange for us Rafa fans to see him “magically” hit with his right hand ( true Rafa fans know that he is a righty for everything other than tennis).

@tpiano1165 3 года назад

Is nadal a righty in that thumbnail?

@jlook6070 3 года назад

That makes sense then. I need less spin and more power on my heavy floating balls.

@celestialserenity4251 3 года назад

Lots of comments about right-handed Nadal, and no comments about right-handed Ian?! As a leftie, I would ask about Ian this time :)

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

😆 Both are secret!

@henrytoussant9385 3 года назад

Not so sure about this low to high swing path business to get a heavy topspin shot. I think it may have more to do with ISR/pronation over the contact window since that will make the racquet path suddenly rise if hit out in front of you. Take a look at the hihh level player in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OugsiTMK4rc.html Look for example at the FHs at 3:37, 3:53, 4:09, 4:33, 6:27. Almost flat swing paths approaching the ball, yet he still gets heavy looping ball over the net.

@allanchu2883 3 года назад

Did you shoot Nadal in reverse? It wasn’t exactly the same as Del Potro. He was shot with him being right handed as oppose to Nadal was shot being right handed but Nedal is left handed.

@joemcten Год назад

I see Rafa appears to be a hitting right handed forehand, did you reverse the image?

@joemcten Год назад

looks that way

@SJ-di5zu 3 года назад

When you understand this concept, you understand just how much of a freak of nature Nadal is. I’ve seen this guy hit 100 mph forehands off his back foot without flattening his shot out at all. Just hitting a spin shot at 100 mph. And when he does decide to flatten his forehand out? Oh man.

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

Massive, massive racquet head speed!! 😳

@georgebasham2279 3 года назад

And his forearm is the size of my thigh LOL

@yvonnemurphy7506 3 года назад

@@georgebasham2279 🤣🤣 ow. quit it.

@homosapien5156 3 года назад

Super scientific 🤣

@Bensway7 3 года назад

better hit hard shots, 1. Create lag, sooner you learn it better. 2. Have understanding that power doesnt come from your hand but from full body motion. 3. Know that faster you hit contact point changes too, you need hit different spot with strings. 4. Right grip, change as much as needed, practice grips till it becomes natural, but grip is one of biggest tricks for hitting hard. 5.You have to be precise with connecting strings and ball, if you gonna misshit in my opinion better dont hit it at all sometimes. 6. You need extra muscles, lowest aspect but still if you not a bit muscled up its gonna be pretty much impossible. 7. Once again precision i wanna say does matter, for example you can hit perfect precision but shot so powerfull, string maybe little off, and you miss your shot, you must realise that its not your fault, so imagine what if you dont even have that precision as hard hitter, these tips are not for you then. 8. Maybe try using every finger differently when choosing gripsso you know this finger might give you some spin, this finger might give you some power. you can even test it just while holding racquet what happens to a racquet if you use your finger and only that finger what it does for that swing.

@andrescarro8200 3 года назад

Can I please be featured in a match video? Lol

@genkafioofficial9653 3 года назад

Very scientific ....lol you are creating a meme with this catch phrase

@sportscastercanada 3 года назад

How ‘heavy’ are green shirt’s ground strokes? 😆

@-Munditimum- 3 года назад

Essential Tennis: Diamond Content every single time, every single video. If players took only a small portion of their interest in tennis and dedicated it to watching these videos, instead of playing out there, performing the same motions over and over, they would transform their game. I would argue that even though strategy is important, learning to hit the ball properly and as you wish it to be placed on the opponent's side, is arguably more important for players at least up the 4.0 level.

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

Really appreciate your kind words of support, Menditimum!

@EssentialTennis 3 года назад

We dedicate this to you, Munditimum! www.essentialtennis.com/diamond.jpg

@-Munditimum- 3 года назад

@@EssentialTennis Wow, the honor was/is mine! Thanks!!! :)

@yvonnemurphy7506 3 года назад

@@-Munditimum- congrats! that's so cool

@-Munditimum- 3 года назад

@@yvonnemurphy7506 Thanks Yvonne! :) .... Ian and his team are just a bunch of awesome guys.