Create Massive Forehand Topspin (Tennis Tips For More Control)

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Create Massive Forehand Topspin (Tennis Tips For More Control)
1. Circular swing path
2. Close face below contact height
3. Swing up during contact with strings a few degrees closed
4. Continue swinging up and feel free to follow through above your head
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You got this!

[tennisteuton]

1:20 What is that grip, Hawaiian? It seems to be more than full Western.

[myra_myrka]

Valuable lesson, as always! Finally I did get the TopSpin Pro (using your link) and excited to improvise the spin, in order to stay more consistent. Thanks, Ryan!

[kktn]

Will try tomorrow morning, thank you!

[anjasamann]

Keep up the good work. I have just ordered the top spin Pro through your affiliate link.

[Better_Call_Raul]

You can also video yourself from the side view and check the racquet swing path from contact to immediately post- contact. Just like the video at 3:00.

If your swing path is correct for topspin (upwards steep angle), you will not be able to see most of your strings from contact to immediately post-contact. If your swing path is not correct for topspin, too flat (no upwards steep angle) you will be able to clearly see most of your strings from the side view... I checked this with shadow swing using Eastern and SW grip, which is what most adult rec players use.

[paddlepower]

Hi Ryan.
I've been trying to get this right and FAILING, so I moved on to Tomaz Mencinger's "Forehand Drop Techniques: control vs power, " which included a discussion of a stable forehand as that with the wrist at full extension. To try that out, keeping the wrist at full extension and with a short backswing, I hit a ball at a wall 20' away and kept hitting it that way. Just before the ball hit the wall, I looked up and saw the ball spinning. I wasn't trying to get spin and the ball wasn't spinning Nadal crazy, but it was spinning. I recall the racquet path angle as slightly upward (I'll shoot video later)
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Before contact the angle of Khachanov's swing path to the ball is 16-18 degrees above level. Your swing path to the Topspin Pro ball is about 45 degrees above horizontal. The angle of Khachanov's racquet head path AFTER CONTACT is 60 degrees above horizontal. The angle of the swing guides on the Topspin Pro is 75-76 degrees. I question that angle for all hitting situations. Maybe I need to take those things off my TSP.

I also don't think I can time a sweet spot hit on a fast moving ball if the swing path is 70-90 degrees from the ball path. I'd be just as likely to chop a speeding bullet with a butcher's knife.

Comments?

[itsmidtrib]

Good stuff. I have found that hitting with lots of topspin isn't that important for me. I'm actually more of a flat hitter and it throws people off a lot. I hit top spin when needed but otherwise I force them to generate the topspin and then I just place them in corners and they get tired running and generating top spin

[mylifeinsqft]

I have 3 rackets that have chips in their finishes at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions of the frame from my topspin pro. I think it's because of the little metal cap that is covered by the black rubber cap is chipping my rackets. They need to fix this.

[twinwankel]

Ryan, nice video. Pros use this shot as a quasi defensive shot when the ball is hit wide and/or when they know they are going to be late. This is exactly how Karen is using it. It has a diagonal finish somewhere between a driving forehand and a vertical forehand. The contact point is further back and you really have to pull ball and finish around your head. Takes a lot more energy to hit this shot but this shot has been around for awhile. Fed has been using since he became a pro, way before Nadal. It is not a shot that makes many winners however Fed does hit inside-in forehand winners from it. I use it in the same manner as most pros because it does make fewer errors. But it does represent a problem if you don't pull the ball deep enough as it travels much slower than a driving forehand and it is always hit crosscourt.

[Stiffjab]

Considering the forehand grip he's using (a strong Full Western) I was not expecting the racket head to be almost completely vertical at contact. Just a thought, of course his forehand is the state of the art for topspin. Ciao!

[noelcollins]

I have a question about a discrepancy I see in the video. My on-court teaching pro told me to strike with my palm facing up to the sky (with a semi-western grip). I noticed the pro Karen had his palm facing up. But when you were swinging at the topspin pro your palm was facing down. Which is right, palm up or down? (Or it doesn't make much difference). When I face my palm to the sky, it is hard for me to start with racket face down as you suggest. Help?

[watcher]

Don’t hit the ball. Spin the ball. I got thiss!

[XD-nyzz]

I might never play with this grip, I'm afraid I might injure my wrist 😅

[genkafioofficial]

Ugly fh, my god. One of the worst in top 50 with paire

[vlaminggarrulus]

Wouldn't have wanted to miss this video, that's some advanced stuff🙏