Three Most Common Forehand Mistakes & Bonus (TENFITMEN - Episode 178) 

Fantastic explanation to the most common problems for FH hitting, thank you so much!!

Great advice Tenfitmen! The power position (with elbow pointing to the back slightly past the hip) just before or at the bounce is so key for me. Thank you 🙏🏻!!!

Like the way you structure your lessons. The re-cap at the end is really helpful. Great teaching!

Great lesson, checkpoints I can easily keep an eye on!! Thank you!!

Very helpful! Being a while to enjoy your lessons

Very good and useful explanation. Thanks!

great video. really good confirmation of a couple of lessons i had.

Very helpful video thanks for sharing!!!

Thank you, Brother, well done. This is very helpful for me.

Fantastic lesson! Keep it up!

Great lesson!! Thank you

After watching this video, I subscribed immediately, such professional tips, thank you so much!

Very instrutive. Thanks.

This video alone deserves a billion views. Beautiful coaching and correct assessment of what most of us get wrong. Thank you coach!! ❤

Thanks. I can use these helpful right away.

What a stunning video!!! It's the one shot I have never truly mastered. The best video I have ever seen for helping improve ones forehand!!! Truly well done!! Fantastic video.

Nice lesson. Thanks for sharing your knwoledges

Ótima aula. Obrigado

Wow. These are excellent tips and straight to the points. I know amount tip one with the non-dominant arm and tip two with getting into the power position before the ball bounces so we don’t get rushed with the forward swing. I have been recently emphasizing these two points with my two children, 8 and 12. It’s good to hear from a professional like this gentleman to reinforce my understanding. I didn’t realize about tip 3 with the racquet drop. I assume the racquet drop was more for lower balls but I can see the difference in racquet head acceleration when he was demonstrating tip #3.

Thanks, the shoulder drop made so much sence.

Bravo majstore, odlicne forehand fore i fazoni :) Hvala!

Ottima Lezione! Grande!

Congratulations.. very nice advices!

Muito bem!!🙌🙌🙌 Excelentes observações e super didático nas orientações 👏👏👏🤝🤝🤝

Very Helpful!

Great lesson !

There are helpful tips. It is suitable for people with good basic techniques. When I use the Nextgen technique forehand, I clearly feel that it creates good force and has high stability. And the force of the blow is generated from the whole body. It is suitable for a racket that is heavy enough and creates an interesting ball feel. Thanks for teaching.

Thank you for the tips

Excellent!!!! Very clear explanation ✨✨✨👌🏼

Great forehand video lesson. I’ve done all 3 mistakes featured. This really will help going forward.

Nice video. Thank you

good stuff! your forehand looks awesome!

Great explanation, thank you!

Excellent.

I am disabled and 99% of my bad shots are because of footwork. So I went to the dollar store and got mini cones and I have been practicing moving my feet and using my legs the correct way. The drills I do has helped me get my timing back. I also practice accuracy, and control and I use mini cones to practice both accuracy and control! Great video coach thank you.

Very nice!!!

Great video, thanks! One thing you might include is to use the proper grip for maximum control and power, which is the semi-western grip (like you are using). I see most of the club players (3.5-4.0) still use the eastern forehand.

Fixing mistake 1 added so much power to my forehand. Thank you

Very helpful

Spot on. All of these minor details were intended to prevent my son from developing incorrect muscle memories. He didn't listen, so he has to go through the much more difficult process of unlearning incorrect techniques. He struggles with dropping the racket too much and swinging under the ball, which causes it to fly way too high at the other side's fence. Or is it a question of timing. How to correct that?.

Thanks you Coach

Always helpful thank you

Excellent! Thank you Coach Milan.

what a great video to show up on my feed, I'm making all 3 mistakes, thank you!

とても参考になりました。ありがとうございました。

Very clear and Well done.

These are very helpful. I am guilty with the non dominant hand when I’m prepping too early. Thank you.

The best advance vidio about forejand :)

This is helpful and will improve my forehand, thanks

good show reminder of the drop :)

I want to say thanks! Your insight about not using the non-dominant arm improved my forehand massively. I practiced a lot on improving my forehand, but without a noticeable degree of success, I just felt I was walking in the place. But after I started to implement your recommendation, to take the left arm back and then use it to help my body coil and to initiate the kinetic chain, I feel a so much better forehand now, timing-wise, accuracy-wise, and power-wise. Before then I had been taught to point toward the ball with my left hand, and in retrospect, this was totally not suitable for me, since it caused my left side of the body to be kind of numb and to not initiate and participate the coiling motion properly before contacting the ball. I think you are a coach and a RU-vid instructor in the top level, in the levels of Tomas from Feel Tennis, and the other guy from Intuitive Tennis do not remember his name. Just keep going and I'm sure you will succeed with this type of content, I can clearly see you have a high body movement intelligence, you can break down motions of the body, stances, and techniques, and you have your own unique perspective, since in contrast to other coaches you really understand how things work. Best, Ido.

Great advice 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great, master

The best coach on RU-vid 🤩🤩🤩

Great stuff, thank you!!! Would be great also to get to know about common backhand mistakes...

Nice tips. I definitely do a couple of those things wrong!

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Very helpful! I will put this on practice in my training tomorrow. Great tips. One suggestion: Get a lapel microphone that helps to filter the ambient noise and improve your sound. But it is great anyway, we can clearly understand.

very good tips, Do you have any tips to feel the racket drop more ?

Thanks for the vid Milan and great to see you back...all of your points were spot on but one thing you have is good footwork which all the pros have and most of the amateur players do not.Maybe an extra refresher vid on footwork to add to this for point 4.Have a great day.😊

thank you

What is your opinion on the hitting arm extension at the point of impact? Federer’s arm is almost straight with negligible elbow bend when he makes contact. He keeps enough distance between his body and the ball to allow that. Should we try that or keep some amount of bend in the elbow?

Bravo..thanksss

I like the racquet drop advice. I'm always taking the racquet straight back so I will give this a go. Thanks for the great advice. Helloha from Australia!!!

Thanks a lot... very very useful comment!!!

Nice that you adopted the Advanced Tennis Swivel to slot entry, so now just use is with a semi open for better results. Your balance is pulled out by your neutral stance here. I think you should mention that you learned this from Advanced Tennis Foundation and give the org credit.

Thanks I need to improve my timing so this video helped.

Thanks.

Great 👏🏻👍🏻

wow pritty nice tipps thank you. i there a special drill for the timing issue (nr. 2) ? :D

Very helpful tips ! by the way when will you practice with pro tennis player agains ? I loved those videos !

You're good !

Have to switch to pickleball due to injuries. This all helps using drop setve; basically a forehand stroke. Thanks🙏

Good job 👏

From my experience the most common mistake in tennis is to learn from a guy who uses a basket full of balls teaching baseline strokes. I spent tens of years trying to learn from this kinda coaches, and I still made a mistake within 4-5 strokes playing a real game. Then I finally met an old man who played at Wimbledon back in the closed era (and I saw that real pro visiting him to listen his opinion). He didn't proclame all this "like pro" BS, he just started to teach me from the scratch, like I was 4 y.o. boy, and one ball was quite enough to fall off like autumn leaves after 15 mins session. He explained that the most common mistakes in tennis are not in my arms or legs, they are always right in between my ears. In 2-3 months I was able to run 150-200 strokes rallies and not on comfortable balls against professional sparring but keeping the ball against partner of my level (we trained in pair). Dude, the mistakes you consider here are real, but they also are far secondary, and people will reproduce them every time in "too late" circumstances, does not matter how much you taking about them. The root cause of any mistake is always a lack of concentration even for pro players, but I never seen RU-vid guru saying: guys, the secret of Federer (Djokovic/Alcaraz/etc) skill on the end of their noses, forget their arms and feet, first of all look how they track the ball with their noses concentrating all the attention on it.

Love Milan!!!

Christian did you do s as ny video eta is on how to prevent passing shots?

Muito bom!

Great video! (My opinion!!)

best video for forehand

Good morning!! May I do some observations about this video?

Are there helpful timing fix drills?

Good video. So much confusion about the first tip for rec players. If you coil that much with hand close to racquet most players will be late and jammed. Why coaches actually recommend the pointing to ball. Higher levels it’s no issue. I like having arm parallel to baseline with arm and racquet separation and then point to the ball as you swing to stay more closed. Eventually I want to do as you suggested for more coil and power but it’s difficult for the common player. Can you give tips for achieving this. In particular spacing since arm in my opinion wouldn’t be able to track the ball as easily. Thanks

4:10 haha 😂 “looks like amateur player”. This is exactly correct. Looks like an amateur player kind of like me. Thanks for helping me achieve greatness coach!!!

Very Helpful! what string is he using in his Blade?

Left arm straight forward is good for beginners to prevent being late.

This court is in shanghai gubei?

Дякую

Tennis for me is all about the footwork and then setting up to hit the ball that’s what I struggle with

I could kinda tell/guess this was filmed in China somewhere :D Which city are you in, maybe I could go check out and sign up for some lessons?

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Have never watched your videos so that was a pretty good video and I can certainly relate to all those three and bonus mistakes!! Well illustrated. One thing which I would suggest and I hope you will take it in the kindest way possible: try not to use the word " right " as you used it very often at the end of sentences and can be quite distracting for making presentations or speaking to your audience. We call such words filler words. Would really want to learn more about the forehand like the different stances, do you push your body forward after hitting the ball, what about the footwork after hitting the ball etc?? Just some humble suggestions like you had asked. Thank you once again for this video. Much appreciated. 🤟

Stable core is very important

I am guilty of all three. For the first (non dominant arm) my takeaway is to use my non dominant shoulder to “point” at the ball and then uncoil through impact. So the focus would be on the movement of the shoulder rather than the hand Is this Correct?

Anyone know what string he uses?

What is the purpose of Racket drop

Thank balance is so crucial Novak is the master

You play blade 98? Or blade pro? You add weight?

One thing I would say for the first point - left arm in front - is it's a bit dependent on forehand style. Traditional WTA while the arm comes around a bit they tend to end up with the airplane wings with one arm almost straight out in front and the racket arm out behind them (e.g. Halep), ATP does not. I guess that's a difference in physiology showing,

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