2 SIMPLE DRILLS To Massively Improve Forehand & Backhand CONSISTENCY

Do you miss hit your forehand or backhand a lot? Or do you need to improve consistency?
In this video I show you 2 very simple but different drills to help you develop a more consistent tennis forehand and backhand. By working on these 2 drills, it will also help with timing, which will allow you to hit with more power and spin, but while maintaining control.
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[@TennisHacker]

Which stroke do you struggle more with out of the forehand and backhand?

[@desmondhoe3291]

Forehand. I tend to grip the racket too tight and only use my arm instead of the kinetic chain.

[@shubhamjadav]

Backhand! I know the technique but while playing the coordination is messed up. Please Help...

[@vlesmeries]

Forehand mostly since I topspin too much.

[@stevenalva5157]

Went from 2 to 1 handed backhand

[@leenakinage5028]

Forehand

[@ajollypanda4175]

I’m a coach and I love looking at online videos to learn and get insight from other coaches…this is maybe my 4th video of this channel and I think you are now my favorite!

[@bimwopbarn47]

fabulocity. you are the first guy I've seen to stress the underlying foundation rather than the technical result. hats off!

[@TennisHacker]

High level tennis is build on solid foundation and being able to do basics really well. It aint sexy, but it's true :-)

[@saiantraining7937]

So much help for my current problem of tracking the ball. Love your videos!

[@TennisHacker]

Glad you found the video helpful!

[@madhurarora8270]

That's an Amazing stuff to learn !! Many Thanks..

[@TennisHacker]

You welcome.

[@fairman1455]

so important, so right, thanks Richard

[@TennisHacker]

Happy to help

[@vicmulyk5775]

Love this! Years ago, I learned to juggle 4 and training the left arm (naturally RH) timing was crucial. So, after 3 balls, continue on to 4. Letter ball is new, so I'm going to do this now. Thank you!

[@TennisHacker]

4 balls is next level 👊 i haven’t tried doing that in a long time. I can do 2 and 2, but sounds like i need to try again 😂

[@martincomesana6824]

Thank you!

[@BITStudioCode]

omg your videos on vision has been helping me so much, i didn't really find any other video that talks about this, wow wonderful work and thankyou.

[@TennisHacker]

Thanks, happy to help. I got into vision training while I was rehabbing a concussion and my tennis suddenly got a whole lot better. Which is why I started teaching it to other players 😀

[@bajitkuttappa2434]

Awesome video brother

[@akaebbassouan4979]

Fantastique ce sont des exercices intéressants que je découvre depuis plus de vingt ans de tennis Thanks guy

[@TennisHacker]

🙌🙌

[@nickmadahar416]

Great Drill. Thank you.

[@TennisHacker]

🙌

[@albertoescobosa179]

Great tip, it trains the eye , and swing coordination …

[@TennisHacker]

Thanks. Glad you liked the video

[@garyraab9132]

Great Playing both basketball and tennis, there’s a huge transition between looking at the ball, the shadow on the bottom side of the tennis ball; and in my case the front of the rim on the basketball court. Steve Nash and Magic Johnson had incredible peripheral vision, peripheral sense on the bball court. I improved my peripheral vision with karate and aikido...and racquetball and squash. The toughest part in all endeavours for me was to shut down the mental game in my head, and just play the ball as if it was being projected from a ball machine!

[@TennisHacker]

Basket ball players are insane athletes on many levels.

[@caryoulwhitty]

This is very useful! Focusing on the ball is really important

[@TennisHacker]

🙌🙌

[@yanoz225]

Thanks coach 🙌

[@TennisHacker]

Any time!

[@abmubbumba]

Love your content. I can play only secretly against the wall due to tyrannical gvt restrictions. I tried to play only watching the ball during the complete session. It is an amazing experience, since you get in some sort of meditative state doing so. And weirdly you get aware of your body. I suspect I usually look at unnecessary things, perhaps the ground, my target, my hand, the swing path, the wall…. Now that I only watch the ball, I am somehow hitting „blind“. I must feel my stroke with the inner eye/body awareness. This in turn gives me freedom to concentrate more on my movement. This idea was inspired by several of your vids. Thank you, love your work.

[@TennisHacker]

Sorry you aren't able to play properly at the moment. Hopefully all the madness will stop soon and we can all get back at it. But great to hear you've been working on things and enjoying the results :-)

[@sunsioux444]

@@TennisHackeryou were certainly right about the “madness”

[@ytchrisd]

When ever I am having a bad tennis day it usually because I am looking up to soon and that’s usually because I have very active players the other side of the net. I have searched many times for ideas on how to better concentrate on the ball and never heard of the letter wall idea. I will be giving this a go thanks very much.

[@TennisHacker]

Sorry for the slow reply. These drills with help with focus and I would grab the free vision program too because it shows you a few others. Then it's a 2 pronged attack. train the visual system and train the skill of being focused.

[@1012bunty]

You're class above many of the other coaches online, I can't understand why would anyone be nasty in comments to your content. Excellent as always, both the understanding of what's important and to simplify it for us eager recreational players! 👌👌

[@TennisHacker]

Thanks I appreciate that. It's just the way it is online. Can't please everyone, but that's ok. It's about getting the help to people who want it :-)

[@akifm6160]

@Akol Agrawal, I completely agree!!

[@progressivedemagogue8480]

Who was nasty? Tennis people can be insufferable c*nts at times

[@user-tx8vb7ju1g]

Hello this the first time I have seen your video.I like your tips and the way you articulate your tips.

[@TennisHacker]

Thanks, glad you are finding them helpful.

[@drewvanzee3063]

really good explanation. good video!

[@TennisHacker]

Glad you liked it!

[@andrewporter2386]

Makes sense gonna try it

[@TennisHacker]

Cool, let me know how you get on

[@bgutierrez6057]

Im a badminton player, but this translates well into what I do. Tracking (a shuttle), judging its place, then hitting it with a racket that isnt even in the picture yet is immensely demanding and requires an intact visual system at the least. Thank you for the video. Training the little things can sometimes be taken for granted. But when you put a bit of time for it, your game improves so much more.

[@TennisHacker]

Glad you find the content helpful. Badminton is just like tennis in terms of how challenging it is on the visual system.

[@huangwee3465]

this is awesome instruction

[@TennisHacker]

🙌

[@jasonrhtx]

Really outstanding explanations, among the best on KZbin! I wonder if you might share some tips/exercises for shortening the backswing--my daughter's quasi-WTA backswing goes way too far behind her and, when finishing the forehand stroke, doesn't have enough pronation at the shoulder. Keep up the great work!

[@garyhoward4064]

Excellent. Played tennis all my life and here my findings: Young age, peripheral vision is wide, hence you can look far and still catch a glimpse at where racket head contact is made. As you age, peripheral vision gradually decreases and you lose ball contact, but experience compensates. But this leads to hitting the ball later and later. Now to improve again the shots, it is clear that (re)-fixing the head/eye on the ball during contact is the recipe. But it is extremely difficult to implement beyond a certain age. That is why your technique should be learned very early.

[@TennisHacker]

Could disagree with the last part more. I’ve seen people in their 70’s and 80’s make huge improvements in vision. Can you make everything perfect? Of course not. But massive improvements? Yes sir 😁

[@youngkwokching8379]

Great informative video and inventive too

[@TennisHacker]

Glad you liked it.

[@agl3797]

Love the video and will definitely try it out. Also nice to learn a new concept---quiet eye! I'm going to borrow the first line from wiki:"Quiet eye is a technique reported to improve outcomes in various tasks requiring human visual attention."

[@MrMu2t]

Thanks I like it 👍🏻

[@TennisHacker]

😀

[@arildopaes]

nice video, thank you

[@TennisHacker]

🙌🙌

[@gnitayamekin]

Great stuff

[@TennisHacker]

Thanks, happy to help.

[@JamesDavisakaRemguy]

Richard, I love the fact that you willingly defy the Tennis Orthodoxy (NO-BODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!) where it decrees "Thou shalt keep Thine Probiscis pointed directly at The Holy Pointe of Mercifully String-ed Contact, thusly keeping One's Earthly Gaze fixed upon such Pointe longe aft' said ball be struck." You know, à la Roger Federer, hence the immutable rule in the first place. The photographic record of high calibre players as Murray and Thiem is undeniable evidence to the contrary. . I do have a competing hypothesis for your consideration. I suggest that it is the brief period _leading up to_ contact that is of greater importance in judging the ball's exact location since any information received after a certain point is simply too late for the human body to react to (due to nerve transit times, (multifocal) CNS processing, muscular contraction duration, etc.). Personally, I am doubtful that peripheral vision (while focusing on contact point) contributes much to ball tracking at that late stage prior to contact (but I reserve the right to be WRONG!) In fact, careful review of slow motion video footage of Federer's gaze pre-contact reveals smooth pursuit visual tracking up to a given (albeit very late) point, then a small saccade to the anticipated contact point, at which the gaze is fixed for the remainder of the stroke, i.e. follow through. Could it not be that all players are doing when they adopt a visual In effect, all Federer has learned to do is make it LOOK LIKE he has tracked the ball (via smooth pursuit) all the way to contact and let his gaze dwell there for the duration of his follow-through. Yeah, it's blasphemy, I know.

[@TennisHacker]

I recently made a video about the importance of visual prediction. If you haven't seen it would check it out kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKHUqXpuoap0eZY When it comes to ball tracking I don't think we have definitive answers. They are all working theories based on an understanding of the science and observations. Based on my understanding of how the visual system functions, I thing the peripheral vision has a contribution. But I am also happy to be wrong if it get's proven otherwise. I've been doing vision assessments on people for 7 years and have looked a a lot of eye movements. It took me several years to develop a level of confidence in assessing eye movements in people standing in front of me. When it comes to Fed, I've watched a lot of footage and i can't be certain of exactly what he does with his eyes because a lot of the time he squints.

[@quentincrisp6933]

Very good video! Novak is another player who doesn't watch the ball on the strings. I've heard that Fed watches the ball hit his strings through the bed of the racquet!

[@franciscomanrique4979]

Gracias

[@TennisHacker]

🙌

[@williambillingsley7934]

1:20 Did he seriously just do that? That's some serious skill right there. Respect.

[@TennisHacker]

I've never been accused of having serious skill before. So thank you 🤣

[@svarodzic]

Good drill! What I do is I try to read the logo or the number on a regular ball. That helps tremendously too.

[@TennisHacker]

Nice

[@rkverma2006]

This is another great video that appeared in my notifications. When reading the letter aloud and catching the ball, is it recommended to catch the ball far out in front (i.e. the same distance as the ideal contact point)?

[@michaeldeangelis1225]

So spot on. My visual skills suck. It doesn't help that I have prisms in my glasses to correct for double vision....noisy eyes LOL. I was just thinking recently that I need to do something about watching the ball better. Very timely.

[@TennisHacker]

Sorry for the slow reply. You can't always make things perfect in everyone, but in my experience, you can normally make huge improvements in vision with training.

[@sds2954]

New to your page. Great content!!

[@TennisHacker]

Thanks, glad you are enjoying it.

[@ronz91]

was not expecting no rackets to be involved, cool stuff

[@TennisHacker]

Most players already play lots of tennis, but the thing that holds them back is more fundamental like hand and foot to eye coordination. When you improve those, everyone gets better!

[@FairwayJack]

good stuff

[@TennisHacker]

Thank you

[@CH-yp5by]

cool drill man

[@TennisHacker]

🙌👊

[@ileanasantamaria2364]

Love the letterball! Doubt I'll ever be able to juggle though! Any more tips on how to start?

[@TheDrakulie]

this is a great video bryce. What happens if you don't have a wall at home ? any video on helping to practice tossing the ball for the serve at home without actually hitting the ball ?

[@TennisHacker]

I just use a regular wall. And yes i’ve got a video on my page with coordination drills to help the ball toss

[@wierdwabbitt]

I noticed my hand eye coordination/feel improved significantly on my groundstrokes since I started volleying against the wall

[@TennisHacker]

Makes a lot of sense. It's a going to change your vision system in a different. Nice

[@vikingvigilante3703]

Thanks, i like having good drills to do on my own and it's good to know that something so simple can be useful. Do you have any drills with regard to training for fast shots? I don't have many tennis buddies and the ones I do play with don't hit the ball that hard so when I go to competitions I can't seem to get the measure of the ball because she speed of their shots shock me and I'm not used to them.

[@TennisHacker]

Grab the free program, that will help. I’ve also got other programs that dive in much deeper.

[@yans3113]

thanks, I use slightly same drill that invent by muself, but I will try to write letters on the ball and read them

[@TennisHacker]

Cool let me know how you get on.

[@michellepeltzer5057]

I played tennis tonight without contact lenses in. It was a great challenge for really watching the ball to the strings.

[@richardj8853]

Once in a while I play without my glasses and it is extremely challenging to stay focussed .

[@franciscomanrique4979]

👏🏽👏👏🏼

[@truongluongfrancisnguyen9970]

Great drills! Letter ball drill pretty hard with the ball spinning. Does it get better with training? Thanks

[@TennisHacker]

Yeah you have to try and throw it without the spin at first.

[@ejfeldmann]

I love how he is right handed then hits an effortless pure LEFTY one handed backhand out of nowhere! LOL

[@TennisHacker]

Thanks. Stared playing left handed last year after falling off my mountain bike too many times. Now I've got two arms to get frustrated over 🤣

[@vlesmeries]

I started doing the same last year too to give my old aching right shoulder a break. Lefty serve is the hardest thing to learn especially the wrist snap.

[@Sweeney-Kubach]

@@TennisHackerhopefully your feeling better, great advice on your video my friend.

[@emjay2045]

Nice calves , bro 😎

[@TennisHacker]

Hahaha what can i say 😁

[@adenhealthchiangmai9197]

Cool you can hit both hand

[@TennisHacker]

I focused on learning how to play left handed this year. It taught me a lot about ways to improve performance.

[@adenhealthchiangmai9197]

@@TennisHacker i agree with you left part teach right part alot

[@TuanPham-in4kq]

Many apologies...I thought this was a joke...but I did this with my son and he loved it. A minute here or there...it will help.

[@TennisHacker]

No joke :-) You can train vision and it's one of the fastest ways to improve for most people Especially children.

[@rusedorange]

So... My coordination is not optimal. Where do I go from there? Just try in spite of my woefully uncoordinated hands/eye?

[@panierbio]

The Dominant eye is why

[@myviews469]

Great vid but how can I respond faster or harder

[@TennisHacker]

Vision training is the first place to start. Grab the free program and if you want to take it further, give me a shout - [e-mail]

[@akifm6160]

First and FIRST!!

[@TennisHacker]

Dangerously fast

[@brodaism]

Nice content! I had actually thought about the first tip to write something on the ball as i can frame a lot sometimes. Feedback: You could have told this using half of the time. You can be economical in your words :-)

[@TennisHacker]

Thanks for the feedback. Some people like short videos. Some like longer… people have different learning styles too!! luckily, you can speed the videos too 😉

[@brodaism]

@@TennisHacker haha.. I did ;)

[@darrensurrey]

Another way is 35 years of martial arts training. Ok, your video is quicker. :D PS Do you have a 10 year old racket? Babolat Pure Drive GT?

[@TennisHacker]

I wish I did martial arts when I was younger. It does so many wonderful things! This is a pretty old frame, but I just didn't like the knew versions. In the end the only way i could get this one was to get the one with the micdrochip in. Basically pay twice the price to get an older model... Brutal !

[@darrensurrey]

@@TennisHacker I'm 50... So if you want to do a martial art then just do it! Ouch. I guess you need to keep an eye on ebay and grab one whenever you see one for sale.

[@fingersm]

We cant play here in Ontario! Help us

[@TennisHacker]

I heard you guys are locked down again. So sorry to hear that. I guess what I'll say is use this time to focus on the stuff that will make you a better play next time you step on court. These drills are perfect for that! Also if you haven't got the free program, grab that and start smashing it out :-)

[@goggleboy2464]

Isn't progressive government smashing!

[@awangsafrisafri476]

Juggling...now I know

[@TennisHacker]

Juggling for peripheral vision, letter ball for a few other visual skills.

[@adama2569]

With all that juggling, If your tennis doesn’t work out you can always join the circus.

[@TennisHacker]

Luckily my tennis works 😉

[@adama2569]

@@TennisHacker i really like the videos. Some really good tips!

[@ajbnmd]

Some valuable advice but too much talking. Better if you make your point more directly and concisely.

[@TennisHacker]

Ha, thanks 😀

[@davewilliams9978]

Decent club pro, advanced players better off watching pros in slow motion.

[@TennisHacker]

Watching slow motion footage is a great way to understand biomechanics, but it does very little to improve visual skills. This video is about improving underlying visual skills to help with consistency.

[@franciscomanrique4979]

Hablas demasiado deprisa

[@smarty432]

I bet you 9 out of 10 people cannot juggle. Waste of my time!

[@TennisHacker]

I’m a bit confused by that comment. If 9/10 people can’t juggle, that most likely means 9/10 people don’t have the hand to eye coordination to play tennis very well. In which case, working on it is huge!

[@couchprincess698]

I hate you. 😭I think this guy just wanted to show off.

[@bengoetz4608]

this video is terrible. too much talk.

[@truthvfauxyeshu4068]

Yes. I made the same comment.

[@TennisHacker]

Did you work on these drills + the free vision program to see if it helped?

[@truthvfauxyeshu4068]

@@TennisHacker LOL! Demonstrate first how it works on a person. Make a video with the subject and show how you, yourself is doing the vision improvement program.

[@jimhickox5181]

@@truthvfauxyeshu4068 shill! be nice!

[@truthvfauxyeshu4068]

Please show more than having too much time with telling... blah, blah. Watch coach P. Mouratoglou; it's the better way how to coach.

[@TennisHacker]

There are 2 parts to everything is tennis. Do you know what to do? And can you actually do it? Coach M is a world authority on the first part, people should definitely watch his videos. But if your body can’t do it, 5 years of private coaching by him, won’t help you as much as addressing visual issues will!

[@truthvfauxyeshu4068]

@@TennisHacker Be humble. I made suggestion how to improve your coaching. Posted comments to your video expressed the same opinion I have. Show more tennis and cut your time talking!

[@pneumati8537]

@@truthvfauxyeshu4068 Man out here giving you exceptional content for free. Just say thanks or if not, make a better video yourself and share it with us all to show how it's done.

[@truthvfauxyeshu4068]

@@pneumati8537 My comment was made 6 months ago... See the result Tennis Hacker did a very excellent job of coaching today. Know the power of TRUTH.