Unlock your forehand's power by taking your racquet back like the Pros...

"Get your racquet back Early" is something every tennis players heard but most pro's don't do it so why should you. In this video I'm going to show you how to take you're racquet back the way the pro's do.

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[DTran]

You made me fall in love w the game of tennis again! I could never afford lessons as a kid.THANK YOU SO MUCH, keep it up. The way you communicate makes it so easy to understand the whys to each thing you teach

[haroldho]

Another tennis stroke mystery solved by Kevin :):). Thanks.

[statcat]

I think separating the 'unit turn' into the two components (i.e., prep versus start-of-stroke) is very helpful, and gave me a light-bulb kind of moment, thank you. For many amateur players like myself, I think we can get caught up with doing the full unit turn too early which as you describe negatively impacts the entire flow of the shot-making with the negative consequence of diminished control and power on strokes. Most instructional videos focus on hitting a shot with minimal movement to the ball (so the unit turn is described as a single component - which it is when not having to move at all to the ball, however this non-movement-scenario is the exception to the rule when actually playing tennis). This small but important point of not fully committing to the unit turn immediately during the 'moving into position' phase catches many amateur players out in my humble opinion. Thank you for this video!

[andellmarsh]

Kevin thank you for this explaination. I'm new to tennis and tbh honest it does feel weird when I run to the ball with my racquet already in the take back position. Love your videos you explain everything so well. Are you using the Pro or MP Radical?

[ryanyimsize]

Hi Kevin, how are you liking the new radical? Is it roughly the same as your old radical?

[NamesAreRandom]

Mmm, I think there is really 3 steps - the first is the unit turn like you said where you can still run to the ball, but you can hold the racket at step 2 before the racket drop and make smaller footwork adjustments, then there is a step 3 where you execute the racket drop and swing. What's key and what you didn't mention is what's going on with your legs - to swing generally your weight goes back and you then push off the back leg. It's that point (the weight on the back leg locking it in place) that commits you into the swing (step 3), it's then you do the racket drop and it's from all that you get the power.

Effectively saying you have to commit to the swing the moment you leave step 1 is too hard as it takes too long - sure you can manage it on a ball machine feed but you won't in a real match. You'll struggle to be standing in exactly the right position and to time the ball for such a long motion.

That's also a much more obvious jump from what you said the original problem was which is essentially starting with a pre racket-dropped racket. Not that it's always wrong to do that as it shortens the timing even more (at the cost of some power) - something that you may want to do if you lack time (e.g. return of serve) or can't judge the bounce of the ball (e.g. a heavy slice).

[더힐-mn]

Hi, this is short compared to, real situations are not easy, because we don't know where the ball is landing .

[bartssmith]

Because in the vidéo Novak is not in open stance, it seems he doesn t coil and uncoil at all