Hit Your Smoothest Tennis Forehand EVER

Great advice and good explanation!

So gut liebe Meike!!

This is the hardest part of the forehand. Because is the arm going first followed by hip, they move concurrently together, or does the hip move first slightly followed by arm? So many different videos suggesting different ways! Help us!

Hi Meike, should we start the racket drop and load at the same time?

I can't get past the logo on your strings. Is that stencil ink or paint? I love the look and tried it myself, but stencil ink started rubbing off my (synth gut) strings almost immediately.

Such a good explanation of such an important part of tennis.

So, looks like shifting your weight from right to left/forward is the most natural way of "using" hip without "thinking" about it?

When you do it correctly as you describe it feels more like pulling the racket forward instead of what most people do: pushing it!

A rigid full upper body cast with the hitting arm parallel to the shoulder plane would be a good training tool.

You'd have no option but to use upper torso rotation to move the arm.

So valuable tip Meike. In fact, I "forgot" about doing this until I started doing it in my Golf swing smoothly and improved the consistency dramatically and then I started doing it in my tennis swing as well and boom, a total game changer for me. Thank you for pointing it out. Du hast meinen Spaß am Tennis gerettet, tausend Dank !

Excellent lesson, I need to work on this.

This also helps avoid pain problems in the elbow

Always so good, really instructive and accessible. Thank you.

The thing I find hardest here is that my main problem on the forehand is hitting it too hard, so it goes long even if it's only a few inches over the net. So I try to cut back on how hard I hit, to hobble it a bit, so it stays in. Because I'm trying to hit it less hard, overcoming my natural instinct and natural timing which would make it too fast, I naturally remove from the swing the power bits - the hip turn, especially. And that kinda works in that I hit the ball more to my side and more up and less forward, so every shot is a kind of loopy lob, with more than half staying in (obviously a vast improvement on going out every time). What's hard is to both turn this hip and also not hit the ball hard. You seem to turn then deliberately kind of slow the arm and hit a gentle-but-decisive medium paced shot. As soon as I'm not fully committing to the shot my swing gets much less reliable. A slow/medium pace swing with a hip turn must take a lot of drilling to master.

Yes, because club players don't have coaches who know anything about tennis. Or play 3 hrs per day w a smart coach. Be nicer to club players. it's not our fault!! Think!!

Can anyone recommend a good weighted ball for an exercise like this?

When using a closed stance when does the right leg (for a right handed player) come forward? I’m assuming this happens after ball contact. Great video.

We miss you in Denver, Meike! You look happy though :) Great video!! Pete

As usual, clean n concise. Good additions over other vids, like the med ball etc. thanks.

Is there a video for hitting forehand when the ball is deep, right at the base line and you don’t have time for a proper turn? Similarly, when serves are fast, I end up hitting a forehand without a turn with an open stand, which is much weaker than with a turn.

Babel preaches what she practices !

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Can u talk more about shoulder angle of the non dominant..some coach says point that shoulder down...some says something elese. Thanks

Vielen Dank 🙏🏼 für die einfache Erklärung!!!!

Thanks

When you loaded your hips and took aggressive cuts that were the correct way of hitting forehand I noticed sometimes you woould be on your toes with opposite leg which gives you a stronger load on dominant leg, sometimes you did not. Is this just what feels comfortable, I feel like I have to do it all the time or hardly ever unless being pulled out wide to hit an open stance? I am a solid 4.0 getting closer to 4.5 just need little more consistency.

This video is exactly what I needed! Thank you! :)