Ultimate Tennis Forehand Lesson - How To Hit A Forehand In Tennis
The forehand is the most important shot in tennis, after the serve and return. Download our FREE forehand guide here - www.top-tennis-training.com/f...
Around 75% of all winners on the ATP tour, are hit with a forehand.
Creating effortless power on your forehand comes down to a few key things, however, generating good racket head speed is at the forefront of them all.
In part one of this tennis lesson, coach Simon Konov of Top Tennis Training will show you five steps to generating crazy power on your tennis forehand.
Step One: Racket head speed. If you do everything correctly with your technique, but your racket travels through the contact point slowly on your forehand, you'll always struggle to create the kind of power that you really want on your tennis forehand. Forehand technique is very important, but too often players forget the fact that good forehand technique should help you achieve more racket head speed.
Step Two: Coiling the upper body at the start of the swing will store elastic energy in your core muscles, the trunk muscles responsible for rotation in the upper body. By coiling your upper body, you do two main things: it first initiates the swing, creates time, and stores energy in the major trunk muscles, energy which can then be released on the way forward.
Step Three: A good swing that helps you generate extra racket head speed and gives you enough distance to truly accelerate the racket head. If your forehand is very compact and you don't have much distance to swing the racket, achieving high levels of racket head speed becomes very difficult. However, if you use a circular loop, which is very common amongst the best tennis players in the world, it gives you the necessary distance you need to speed up the racket.
Step Four: Creating good racket lag before contact. When you study the best forehands in the world, you'll notice that all of them reach a very similar position just before contact. The racket head lags behind the hand and grip of the racket. This racket lag creates a lever over the oncoming ball and gives the player more power but also control on the shot.
Step Five: Using ground force to explode up, into the ball. By loading the legs on your tennis forehand, you're able to store explosive energy in your legs' major muscles, which includes the quads, hamstrings, glutes, and calf muscles. When you then unload and come up into the ball, you'll create a massive amount of ground force that helps kick start the entire kinetic chain and increases the racket head speed.
Part two of the ultimate tennis forehand lesson -
Tennis players around the world want to generate more topspin on their forehands but don't know how to do so. In this part of our forehand lesson, coach Simon will show you three different ways to create massive topspin on your tennis forehand. When we want more power on our tennis forehand, it's important to try to flatten out the shot and extend the racket and hand towards our target, so the swing path becomes a more linear one. When we want more topspin, however, the spin path changes to a more vertical one. Imagine the ball as a clock face, six o'clock at the bottom and twelve o'clock at the top, when we want to hit with more topspin on our forehands, we want to try to brush upwards on the ball going from six to twelve o'clock. This vertical swing path allows us to use a low to high racket path. Here are the three steps to getting more topspin on your forehand in tennis:
Step One - Using a low to high swing path which will allow you to brush upwards on the ball. 6-12 o'clock on the clock face. Step Two - Dropping the racket head below the contact point. Many players struggle with this step, they tend to bring the racket head on the same level as the ball and then brush up, so they only use 50% of their upwards potential. Try to feel the entire racket head has dropped below the contact point which will allow you to brush upwards fully during the contact zone. Step Three - Using the legs to drive upwards on the ball. When you want more topspin on your forehand, it's a good idea to use an open-stance forehand or a semi-open stance forehand. This will allow you to really load up on the outside leg which is the right leg for right-handed players, then push up off the ground creating good ground force which will result in a more explosive upwards motion with the racket.
Video Timeline:
00:00 - Forehand Power Lesson
18:08 - Forehand Topspin Lesson
28:28 - Building Your DREAM Forehand
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1 июн 2024
