Modern Forehand Problems at the Recreational Level 

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One of the best tennis instructional videos I've seen to date! Big kudos on addressing the correct audience: the majority of recreational players! It does me no good to know how Federer or Djokovic hits the ball because I am no where near their physical state or ability. This helps me a lot more! Keep them coming!

I need to check the bushes at the local court, cus dude has apparently been seeing me trying to figure out a forehand.

Best explanation of wrist lag ever! So many try to emulate static body positions that are simply produced by changes in velocity.

Great video! I've been trying too hard to roll my racket over for topspin but as you pointed out it is over in milliseconds - so I just stopped thinking about rolling over the point of impact and just let the swing happen. It's improving slowly and it feels more natural now. Thanks!

The típ maintence position of wirst during the hit, that is what i needed. Thanks.

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Smart lesson! Intuitive is right. He reminds me of my former boss. He was from Southern Germany, very direct but open minded - boss but also a great teacher.

Is it just me or the "fake lag" is super hilarious😂 5:30

Great. Your other modern forehand lesson has transformed my game after playing once! feels so much better than the flat takeaway I had before.

Great vid thx! Started playing again after many yrs and trying to maater the new techniques, it is helpful to knkw that focus should still be on natural flow rather than trying to copy a visual image! 😁👍🏻

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amazing clarification on the typical forehand mistakes and myths! Thank u

Great info buddy , the last part is where my problem was, gets me, this is really good thanks

I love this video Cutting through the buzz words and giving us the advice we need. I also found the kinetic chain suggested video great. I'll continue to check this channel for further advice :)

I definitely let the ball (and subsequently, my dominant shoulder) get behind me. I also have a bad habit of "flicking" my wrist and it's actually caused quite a bit of "golfers elbow" for me. Thanks for the great video!

Best observations and advice I've seen on modern forehand 👍

Excellent video, I'm changed East to Semi-West and this information is very helpful. Greetings from Chile!! 🇨🇱

Thanks! Very good tip about the hitting shoulder being in front. Did not realize about this.

Another great video Nik. Thanks for all your effort and happy new year. I‘m an ITF senior 50+ player. Even if I‘m playing for more than 40 years I‘m trying to change my forehand more and more to a more modern one and as you explained it‘s first of all about the unit turn supported by the non dominant hand. Amazing video helps me to visualize the sequences of the forehand.👍💪🎾

wow this was incredible... this might be the best tutorial of all time

This video fixed all my forehand. Thaks a lot. The best i've seen

you are always well prepared and a good observer.. i love the way you teach and translate for us the professional tennis

Nick, you are truly brilliant at pointing out some critical items to help the recreational players! Another great video and discussion! 👍👊🏻

Excellent video! Intuitive tennis became my favorite place to learn some new technique!

I find this very helpful!

absolutely perfect explanation... has it all, thanks

Great breakdown and observations

Thank you very much on the informative video explaining the timing for separation of non hitting hand from the hitting hand,... for us as recreational players

One of the best morden forehand technique video

Great video. You are at the top of instructional techniques

Yet more great advice - Happy New Year Nick! Gordon

I have to say about the tons and tons of videos that I watched, this is the most accurate precise !!!! and really makes me understand what I am doing wrong. I realized that all the points and steps that you explain are exacly the same (although in a different manner explained and circumstances) that my tennis instructor says. I just battle between getting relaxed and hitting the ball letting my musclu memory and intuition doing the right things naturally and thinking too much rationally on the strokes, position, ball sight, coordination stance, swing etc etc and I think too much I become stiff and judgmental on myself and get depressed and play worse. So I think is may be just a matter on keep playin and mucle memorize all this CORRECTLY. Thank you much these videos are really praecious and very well done. Keep up the great work!

Playing tennis again after a 4 year break and I've been trying to force what I had been naturally doing back then. This video pointed out the exact weak areas of my forehand! I'll work on those and keep getting better. Thanks for the amazing video coach!

Woah...... thanks a lot Nick That last tip about wrist is exactly what I needed 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Best coach on the net ! I enjoy your detailed videos!

Excellent video as always, Nick! Shortening the backswing, as you recommend, got me thinking about how to do so without losing any power. I remembered someone's RU-vid video which maintained that as you add an additional inch of height to your loop in the backswing, you gain something like 2 mph increased ball velocity. So I experimented in combining your recommendation along with an increase in my backswing loop. To keep my backswing shortened, I increased the vertical component of my backswing, keeping the horizontal component shortened. I found immediately that I actually GAINED a noticeable amount of ball speed rather than loosing any speed or simply maintaining the speed compared to my longer backswing and reduced loop. The extra power required me to concentrate more on achieving a good low-to-high trajectory on my forward swing or my strokes would land long. The key sensation for me was the feeling that I was raising the racquet on the backswing as much as I was taking it backward. I gauge that my loop is only as large as that created by raising my racquet hand to around shoulder height. Keeping my grip on the racquet handle loose insured that I got a good wrist lag as the transition to the forward swing started. I've got a singles match tomorrow so I'll see if the results in today's rallying hold up.

great video, very helpful, thanks

Very usefull!! Thank you!

Wooo 👌👌 perfect explanation actually I did all mistakes you mentioned I am trying to correct my forehand I hope next training get better forehand after watching this video Thanks 😊

Extremely helpful video. Thank you.

Right on point! Excellent exolained!

Very Sound advice. Thanks

Good video. Good advice. For rec players 3.5-4.5 even, it’s best to keep it simple. The pros do some funky things. That Kyrios forehand is strange. He slaps the ball very quickly. Not a good technique for amateur players.

Right explanation you are smart

My favorite vides! Great instructions for recs. I fixed a lot of problems with the help of these videos !

Very good explanation, thank you

As usual, another AMAZING video. Please create one for a two-handed backhand as well. Thank you!!!

Great content. I liked and subscribed

His analysis is always bang on!!

Brilliant tips for rec players - sure hope I can remember and execute

Extremely clear and helpful

One of the best forehand videos!

tnx. one of the few good teachers!!!

Awesome video dude. Top notch content like this demands that I sub!!!

thank you so much. this is very clearly explained. Recreational players need to understand the concept and the true way to create force towards the ball efficiently using the body, instead of arming he ball.

Great video, good explanations. I think there are some things you can learn/copy from watching pros and slow-mo videos (eg basic unit turn, supporting racquet with non-hitting hand etc) and things you can't (eg wrist-lag).

Awesome video Nick!

Thanks sir.. I was struggling after seeing fedrer FH. now I m clear that let the swing of reqet be natural. ...

Wow I am doing the swipe so much and I was wondering why I kept shanking/framing my shots. I hope this will help me hit cleaner shots.

Very nicely done.

Even your incorrect forehand demonstrations still looks good technically 👍🏻

Literally just points out all problems on my forehand, great video!

Excellent video!

very nice sir, straight arm and bend elbow very well demonstrated, you r great serving tennis..

Thank you, I always wondered whether a bent arm or straight arm was proper.

Big thanks sir

Brilliant!!! 👍💪🤗

Great video Nik 👍 and HNY my friend.

When I signed up for tennis lessons we have been trained the mechanics for months before we switched to drills. From age 7 I don't remember anybody had to come and correct executions of my shots.

Thank you a lot.

One of the best forehand advice for recreational players. Only if they listen.. lol

nice video, i love tennis

usefull!

great advice! I was seeing my self with the wrist and elbow problems

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Nik, great video as always. I' m a little confused on a conceptual level about what a unit turn is conventionally considered. I mean, is the unit turn that you showed in the video a full unit turn or you would reach the full unit turn with the non dominant hand already realised? I ask you this because I think that yours is the real unit turn and most of the pros perform both the unit turn and the first part of the backswing with the non dominant hand still on the throat of the racquet. As for me, I tend to release the racquet just before the way you showed, so that I can then extend the arm and be sure to be always in time; technically I complete the unit turn with the non dominant hand just realised and keep going with the backswing. Curious to know what you think about this

Thank you for sharing this video...Two questions...What causes the right elbow to chicken wing out away from body and with the modern forehand are we still using an inside to out swing path? Thanks!

Sound advice about the dreaded "wrist flick." Another reason not to do it: tendonitis. (I found out the hard way.)

"The wrist is passive." I like that. Also the fake "racket lag" tip is helpful.

7:20 I even manage to do some minor wrist damage with fake flick. I learned to stop doing this the hard way. We also call this "wiper motion"

Great breakdown. I feel like a Rec players run into problems when trying to force their techniques.

Can you do some videos on drills for cooperation?

great video -- if you would like an actual video of a rec player with every glitch you diagnose, i'm you man

Yes we have to go get some new things

Ooouuch! This hurts, man.. What was I thinkin' before? So many matches lost in vain.. Oh, well, I accept and adapt, let's go back to basics again, again, and again :)

Is the wrist flick also related to inner elbow pain? I am an andvanced player and I have a powerful forehand but I am afraid that I am doing this wrist flick to generate top spin. In fact, my forehand has tons of top spin and power, but also I note that I use too much energy along the movement and also after more intensive trainning sections I often get this pain in the inner portion of the elbow. Is it due to a possible wrist lag? I mean, is this possible wrist flick "dissipating" my energy and causing me pain in the elbow? Thank you for the instructive video btw!

I find this video interesting since I have no problems with a straight arm. This is probably due to the fact that I used to play handballl for 5 to 6 hours a day.

Thank you , this is excellent. I have a question what could cause tennis elbow?

Nik, this video is really useful. Please do a video on how to kill short balls. Saludos desde Argentina!!

Great video for the exception of not mentioning the arm/wrist must be totally loose and relaxed for proper wrist lag execution 😀

Can you comment on the racket face on contact? It is vertical and perpendicular to the floor or slightly close forward to get brush effect?

I believe that how straight ones arm is at contact is purely a function of what grip you use. The more ones grip goes toward Western the more bent the elbow must be to keep racket face perpendicular to the ground. Conversely the more towards Continental the straighter the arm. By observing how bent arm is at contact you can tell how extreme a players grip is. If you hold your racket out with a Straight arm and a Western grip the face of the racket will naturally be closed (facing the ground).

let it happened naturally... its great statement..

i thought people hit forehands with a bent arm because then they can quickly adjust to where the ball actually ends up in the strike path. Would you say to consitently hit the ball with a straight arm requires either perfect body positioning relating to the ball or leaning into/away from the ball with the body, which creates balance issues?

Hi there. Its possible to send a short movie about my forehand to check ? I spend a lot of time to improve my forehand as good as possible, but , still have some question about it that its correct or not ? heh

Great video, thanks. I have a question about bent arm and straight arm, what is the effect of the Bent or Straight arm on the position of the Contact point with the ball? Does the straight arm mean that I contact the ball more infront of me or more to the side of me or more of a diagonal of me? Thanks :).

Sir I am facing problems in forehand swing . Kindly tell me the drill for the same

I don't think the wrist lag is natural. I believe it is a very high level skill to completely relax the wrist (forearm muscles) which allows the racquet face and some of the handle to continue going backwards as you rotate your hips and hand holding racquet forward. Then the racquet face follows the laws of physics and rebounds back (free racquet speed), like an inverted pendulum. It is simply a very relaxed wrist and great timing. If it was natural and easy to achieve the WTA would be doing it and except for a few, they do not. A concern for young kids is the wrist lays back farther with the momentum of the racquet than one can lay the wrist back statically. An analogy would be bending over touching your toes to stretch your hamstring and someone pushes you down farther. What damage can this over stretching do to young growing kids? I see some 10 year old's lagging and is that going to be a problem? I am sure the USTA is looking into that (sarcasm). To learn to relax the wrist, use a 20-30 inch long 1/2 inch wood dowel and swing that rather than a racquet. A drill I used to do (pre covid) when teaching was have the kid stand in open stance with their right hip pressing against the net, and their right arm on the other side of the net and at least a foot clear. Then do an actual swing as if you are hitting the ball to the chair umpire. If you lagged the racquet face edge will clip the net and you will hear it. If you bring the racquet back and it stops for even a millisecond before rotating forward there will be little lag, and less acceleration forward. This is why timing is so important. I do not know of any players doing this before Federer. I have not taught a lesson since Covid. Today I went to hit against my ball machine at the local high school, they took the locks off just a month ago. A Korean woman asked if I would show her pointers. I went back to my car to get a mask and taught her for an hour then we both hit off the ball machine. I think if either of us had Covid we would have infected each other. There is no way to safely teach a beginner during these times.

a lot of teachers try to let the wrist do the work... If I may say so the flexion of the elbow seems to be initiated by the position tot the ball? To close tot the ball. i think. A straight arm creates more power. Or not?