The 4 Power Sources on the Modern Forehand 

The Four Power Sources on the Serve 👉 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J47_Kzpowgw.html

"With great power comes great responsibility."

These are THE best tennis instruction videos on RU-vid! Thank you for making these. I wish I lived in Florida (or wherever you are) so I could take lessons from you.

I am a beginner and your videos helped me a lot becoming a better player, your videos are very informative and amazing. Thx

I did try this forehand swing . It is totally level. I was hitting smoking down the line with more power faster racket speed and when it ground the balls skit over pass baseline. I used do the old tradition forehand with top spin it safe but it not doing much damage against faster player. But this just give me little gain time advantage for the hitting to other side of net. Once it master the power now you can start picking target to go for. Even little 90 lbs boy can hit that with power. I saw him did so. I was shocked how much power on those forehand. Many thanks coach.

Thank you, Nick, you are the first coach who explained it clearly to me! You have a great tennis eye and we have all benefited from your pointers. Can you please comment on the swing path as in swinging in to out on a 45 degree angle. Thanks

Control first and then slowly build up power. Great advice, thank you. (It’s hard to do because it’s fun to take a big cut!)

I changed my forehand because I was used to play with the Wilson profiles and my shots were very flat and believe it not most of my shots went in and I miss more shots using top spin, but I am able to hit a lot of different shots with top spin. Great job on the video my friend. I live in Florida and maybe one day I can meet you in person for some lessons. Thank you coach

Love the last part where you describe with great control you get more confidence and power comes along! Absolutely true for all the shots, I think.

Powerfully explained--with control!

I love that you are talking about Blake. I liked watching him more than anyone when he was competing. Such a great player.

6:12 emphasis on non dominant arm really starting the swing. I used non dom arm as a lever during core and Dom arm separation after watching a video of myself with a dormant non dom arm.

Great breakdown of each momentum Nick, the explanation about the incoming ball losing power once it bounces the ball will definitely help me a lot so I can perceive the timing of the ball better.

So true about hitting better strokes when somebody is hitting at you hard with pace. My shots all feel rubbish when I play people who hit softly.

Très bien. Des détails instructifs. Awesome. Thanks

Your video is so to the point and I am seeing improvements just in 1 week. Thanks

You are a wonderful coach😃

Thank you for this lesson 👍

Great piece of advice Nick. Thank you.

Thank you for another great video, hitting hard is so tempting, but often a poor choice, my mental reminders are: Place > Pace Spot > Hot

Great video again Nick 👍

Real solid lecture, better than others.

It's been a few months since I've played tennis, so now I gotta binge a bunch of your videos before I play next week. lol

Liking and sharing. As usual solid video. So helpful!

XLNT intuitive, as always, excellent lesson!!!

Hi Nick. Can you do a video about shaping the ball? I believe there's a little bit of racket catching and then pushing the ball especially when hitting the outside of the ball for a good topspin stroke and not just striking/hitting the ball. Many naysayers argue that the amount of time on the racket at contact prevents one from doing that. Can you shed light on the subject. Thanks.

Great video as usual!

Very Informative and great video. I was wondering if you could do a video covering elbow pain in tennis.

Work on control first. Yes! Thank you.

Nik, you forgot Del Potro. Way better than the most of the guys you mentioned

Hey, what about Juan Martín Del Potro’s forehand? Best ever...

Hello, I see you're using the Slinger ball machine. Can you recommend it?

Hi Nick, hast meinen "Lieblings-Striker" aller Vorhände vergessen, die gute Peitsche von Del Potro ;-) Lehrst Du Deinen Schülern eigentlich steifes Handgelenk (alte Schule, so hab ich es beigebracht bekommen in den 80´ern) oder abklappendes Handgelenk, denn dadurch lässt sich zusätzliche Speed generieren (ist aber auch schwieriger wg. Kontrolle) ?

Love it. Would you be willing to do a video on the control aspect on the forehand?

Great video again. I have an issue with my gameplay, whenever I play really good tennis, in video, it doesn't look good at all... The stance and movement across the court... It looks like I'm not in the game. Do you have tips for recreational tennis players to enhance movement and what should we avoid and should be doing on the court that can helps us in our game. Maybe a video on stance and movement like the pros and what common mistakes at recreational level. If you already have a video on that, could you please guide me to it? Thx a million.

Great video Nik. Should there be an actual twisting feeling in your obliques when it comes to rotational momentum?

I try to focus on control.However, sometimes I just can’t help smashing short balls very hard to hit a winner, and they go long. So frustrating...

Nic, there's one key aspect in power generation I was thought, it's called "Explosive Breathing" and I have found that I can use it to generate power in my Tennis. Let's say you have good technique and you are consistently hitting hard and accurately but want that sudden burst of power, I do this, I "contiously" (not continously) inhale deeply before I strike and as I strike the ball I exhale rapidly, "emptying my lungs of air" as I strike the ball while maintaining my technique, I have found that this is really, really, really explosive and is how sudden winners are struck in a rally, it makes my your shot 20 to 30% more powerful than usual thereby forcing my opponent to suddenly have to scramble unto the defensive. Actually a lot of athletes do this in a lot of sports and in tennis, it's known as the "grunt", realise that when you grunt louder than normal, you hit harder 😉, I'm not saying you "have" to grunt, I can do this without grunting, I learned this in rock-climbing when I'm reaching for a position I normally won't get to, it's called "Dyno" short for "Dynamic", it's quite intuitive in some but I took it one step farther and contiously incorporate this explosive breathing method into my strokes and now I can, at will totally change the pace of any shot dramatically at any time. I'm sure there's a lesson in Tennis for this but I have never ever seen it covered.

not mentioning Del Po for greatest forehands ??

Power without Control is Nothing - that sentence was made for tennis 🎾

Anyone else pause at 2:40 to check out James Blake’s incredible forehand return of serve 🔥 🔥. Wow 😮!

Is semi western a good grip for power?

One question to you, Coach: I'm a double-handed player. Do you reckon I'm fatally unable to overpower single-handed players in terms of forehand?

Don’t you have a clip of Blake’s shot?

Talking about forehand power, please don't forget JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO.

Hi nick I have huge problem at my slice serve and placement at my serve (all serves)

Can you do the same for the next gen forehand? appreciate it

Tzar Nikola II had power but no control over masses...

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Forgot to mention Andre Rublev!

You get 80% more power if you grunt louder.

Mainly gobbledygook, Nick. Power depends on two things - horizontal speed of racket at point of contact (ignoring racket weight and string tension), and speed of ball coming the other way. You mention a couple of random things that help to increase racket head speed... But there is no systematic analysis of things that increase racket head speed. Like wrist flexion. If you take another look at the fastest forehand, you'll see house important the wrist flexion is. And it's really hard to see how "vertical momentum" increases horizontal racket head speed...

I don't like the position of the elbow in this video. I think it is much to close to the body. I have seen many videos of the forehands of the world class players, and nobody plays like this.

Racket lag is not proper.. first learn urself from A good coach

Wondering how you can teach anyone with such a poor technique you have. Wrist lag potential is not used at all, hands are extremely tight. This is a little rough, sorry.

Chicken wing forehand

Here's that James Blake forehand mentioned in the email: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CZ7XFgryL-U.html

Thank you so much for giving me all of these GREAT tips for free !!

The vertical momentum thing works for me

I like how you break down the power sources. These guys don't seem to use horizontal rotational momentum, or, if they do, they aren't turning their feet too much. Was wondering if you could take a look at 3:40 of their video and let me know what you think? Are they missing the 4th power source, or just substituting? Trying different ways of hitting and would appreciate a quick response. Don't want to hit the ball wrong and injure myself or anything. Thank you, kindly: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0GihwEy9esg.html

Personally think PETE's forehand was bigger and scarier than any of the big 3's, but the big 3's are all more precise, consistent, and shaped.