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Tennis Forehand Timing your Forward Swing video
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You want as much racket head speed as possible at the moment you hit the ball. This video examines how exactly your body moves as you swing forward and how the timing of each part is a little bit different. |
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I want to talk a little bit more about the forward swing to contact, because in the fundamentals section we said that you should push off, rotate your upper body, and swing to contact all that the same time. This is true, but the exact timing of these three elements is actually a little bit more nuanced.
What effectively happens at a higher level is that the weight transfer and the upper body rotation precede the forward swing with your arm. What that does is it transfers the power generated in your legs and upper body into your arm and your racket so that at contact, you can be swinging as fast and as hard as possible, and therefore generate as much pace and spin as possible on the tennis ball.
To execute these steps properly, from the completion of your preparation, push off with your outside foot and begin to rotate your body as the tennis racket drops down behind you. It is not until you have dropped the racket down fully and have established your hitting arm position that you begin to swing the racket forward using your arm to your contact point.
In this next video clip, we're looking straight down at Frank Salazar's forehand, and we'll draw a line between his shoulders and the elbow of his hitting arm. You can see that this line is straight at the completion of his preparation. As he drops the tennis racket down and establishes his hitting arm position, the line is still straight.
Once he establishes his hitting arm position, he now starts to swing from the shoulder with his arm and tennis racket. At contact, if we again draw a line between his shoulders and hitting arm, you can now see that the relationship between them has changed significantly. His hitting arm and racket are now rotated significantly ahead of his shoulders.
If we look at Frank's forehand from the side, you can see pretty much the same thing. His shoulders and hitting arm stay in alignment from the completion of his preparation as he drops the tennis racket down. But once he sets his hitting arm position, he then begins to swing forward with his arm independently of his upper body rotation back toward the net.
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