Hello coach, thank you so much for this great explanation. Im wondering.. can I apply it on backhand too?

It’s more of a slap when you are pushing it !

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Your coaching is wonderful! Spanish style to train nuetral stance, the most difficult stance.

Coach, You are a hidden GEM in tennis community. You are much better than more popular tennis youtubers. Hope more people can enjoy your creative vidoes.

no one like to be lecturing. That is true. A task to motivate them to learn, good point! Will try next time.

Great technique with easy steps to remember. Many thanks for sharing.

Loose yes. Pull to me is a confusing term.. More like accelerating racket head at point of contact. Push is more like not accelerating at point of contact. More acceleration, more force on the ball. F = mA

Have you got any videos pf you hitting fast?

Is this info right? Totlw is called effortless power but you arent showing power in demos

Is it similar to a punch? How it diffwrs in rotation relaxed?

Is it like pulling an elastic band then releasing band, so relaxing muscles to rotate back to ball?

Could you do the same principles and do a fast shot?

I have been frustrated with my forehand. I tried immediately relaxing my wrist on the unit turn. It resulted in being able to easily get under the ball, easily able to drive the hip, and easily able to complete the semi-circle/uncoil. Lastly, the wrist flipped. I will have to work on this because sometimes my wrist wouldn't flip because I would tighten up. I have to be conscious of the wrist flip. Even when the wrist would not flip, I still got a quality shot with top spin that I could easily place. Thank you for the wrist guidance! I did self feeds. I will try it with a ball machine.

The ball in the sock drill with elbow up shows exactly what is needed for the racquet arm swing path. There are too many serve videos focusing on the racquet drop that do not show the proper arm racquet swing path. Are there any exercises for a tight serving shoulder?

Could be semantics, but it's more of a coil and a PUSH than a PULL. If you internalize a "pulling" motion, you'll break the kinetic chain, will be late often, and mishit often by trying to muscle the ball. You don't bring the racket back with your arm (which you would if pulling); the key is COILING or TWISTING to get the racket face pointing to side fence, and then pushing off the ground with legs, uncoiling (fire your hips) and going forward with a loose hand (to get racket lag) with more of a pushing feeling along an inside-out path (hand near your pocket). Applies to golf as well. 5.0 here.

Simple but very powerful

hoop concept is well explained but your turn while demonstrating seems wrong- you end up turning sideways instead of just coiling your upper body

Thank you! I am going to try that because it makes sense

Very good at tennis...pro level, self taught on the courts in WI

So helpful. I tried on my training on the wall and the force just came out so naturally. Incredible

Hello, I once was at the exactly same point as you. But your final fix for the side spin is wrong. It will work, but not as consistently. The correct fix is not to pull on the side but parallel to the ground. I mean with the strings facing the ground. You will notice that the racket automatically will get to the correct contact position because of the anatomy of the human body. It will only work if you pull untill the end, never interrupt it by actively brushing or something. Let me know if it worked for you, it is not easy at first but once you get it, it is easy and you have so much more easy control of the ball. Timing issues don't really exist. It is all about technique. As you described in your video that hitting with spin and especially hitting cross will depend on precise timing, it makes it really clear that it cannot be 100% correct as it would be too difficult to pull off all the time even for pros. Let me know...

Are you hitting under the ball … not back.. but at contact racquet face is hitting under the ball at 6 and face turns immediately to right? Thank you for such a good video!!

Gene, I’ve been appreciating your approach for a long time, often re-watching your videos. Been struggling for a while with the depth of racket drop, especially as you, when opening up the shoulders. Your side ways drill with demonstration is brilliant! It causes a lot of good things to happen, like keeping the head fixed up at the ball while not looking ahead with collapse of the shoulder structure. And btw, I get pretty good power as do you with a better racket drop. All the best in 2024!

Perfect video. Just one point, actualy the hip movement creates raquet lag, thats why turning the hips first is so important

You are the only tennis coach whom explains so deep and in details. With Pull contact point explanation, now I can understand why i need to be loose and need to bend my wrist. You’re the best … 👍

Thx for me ur one of the best (if not the best) i found on youtube. Many thx

if this technique not taught people will bring serve into the service box with angle manipulation. very important video thanks coach

you are a tennis teaching genius. seriously..Ive watched hundreds of hours of tennis online coaching. congrats

This video analogy is not in line with what you have mentioned in other video of pushing and pulling. Really liked this video and other video but I’m pulling video you appeared to be mentioned as slapping the ball rather than using hip’s rotation

You very calmly did an EXCELLENT job of explaining something that is absolutely vital when it comes to the serve. Pete Sampras is one of the truly great examples of what's being demonstrated here. Great job.

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You are learning inside-out swing path - a common and well understood concept. But Instead of doing unit turn to keep the hand/racket on the hitting side of the body, the demo is just arming and getting the hand to go back of the body plane. It's not how modern forehand works.

Don’t turn your shoulder too much, keeping the stability

No, not really. You are teaching to drag the arm, but really the hand should not fall back behind the plane of the shoulders like you demo. Good about starting with the hip/shoulders ... but to push the hand and Drag the Rh that was lagged into Slot entry.

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It is true natural stroke because we can not hit like a straight line in tennis. I did this some years ago, I got excellent results. Thanks.

Dude? Where you been?

I’m with you on the Social Media thing so your efforts are seriously appreciated. You are a great coach and the info and teaching is amazing! I just found the channel and subscribed right away - keep it up and hope you keep putting out videos 😊

Great video, but there is a slight ambiguity that is addressed by demonstrating at 3:50 (ish), I.e. that elbow height AND its trajectory is important through contact and in the follow-through. Or am I understanding that correctly?🤔

Hi it’s very interesting! Isn’t the Lendl forehand style ?..

11:39 teehee! If you can be any bird what bird would u be

thanks but what kind of thing is the red one that you were using '?

Very cool lesson Gene, it’ll teach your students FEELN TOUCH, and develop good hands, the essence of good tennis skills!, keep up your great work, cheers from London, Charlie

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Underrated video

Most pro players don’t flex the wrist at contact like this coach, they keep the wrist extended but rotate the forearm to make a windshield wiper action, thus brushing the ball up and creating a lot of spin. If you flex the wrist you’ll make a lot of errors.