Two-Handed Backhand 3-Step Timing Progression with Anna

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In today's tennis lesson with Anna, we work on recalibrating the two-handed backhand after her long absence from the game.
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[@brockshimek9866]

Anna is back, tennis is back

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[@steeel]

Everyone's favorite Anna!

[@bmanbusee3812]

The queen finally returns!! Welcome back champ!!

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[@Gotterrich]

Welcome back Anna, the secret hero of the channel! Keep up the good work coach! Love the videos!💪🔥

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thank you!!

[@milanvincic9668]

Welcome back Anna. Shamir and Anna are Intuitive Tennis lucky charms. Very nice video Nick🎉

[@xart23x]

I see Anna I immediately press like. Dream Team is back. Nostalgia hitting hard.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

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[@alexmol]

Now, this "side, back, finish" will be in my mind forever, with every backhand I hit. Impossible to forget😂

[@jaquevius]

Anna is so entertaining and seems like she really enjoys life. I like the way she has so much fun with the process rather than getting frustrated. I tend to put unrealistic expectations on myself, which allows me to get better, but sometimes at the expense of having fun during the process. I’m too goal oriented in general at most things I do, which can lead to “success” in life, but also frustration and irritation. Wish I could be more forgiving of myself at times.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Anna has fun on the court and laughs off mistakes. Easier said than done but it’s the right way to approach tennis.

[@formica.]

Anna is the best student, a great attitude, who listens well, asks good questions, follows instructions, and improves immediately. Thanks for helping us Anna. Hey Nik, where are the Anna T-shirts?

[@ac55699]

Great to see her back. Won't take long for her to crush it again. Well done!!!

[@unclesam6985]

Her front is also not that bad

[@hainamnguyen6749]

Our queen is back 😍

[@IntuitiveTennis]

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[@KC-tt6oh]

She’s back!

[@coachtripleb5121]

Anna IS Back!! Whoop there she is 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@K4R3N]

Side-Back-Finish 🏆

[@IntuitiveTennis]

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[@basicallynormal]

amazing content and great to see Anna back on the court! I got back into tennis 3* years ago and my partner, who had never played before, picked it up with me - Having Anna on this channel was amazing for us because it contextualized advice and feedback that is relevant to beginners vs 99% of the content out there are for intermediate to advanced players (even the ones that say they're for beginners). Four years later, we're hitting 2~3 times a week together - I'm competing at 4.0 level and while my partner doesn't play matches, she can rally with me just fine. We definitely owe both our progressions to you Nick and also Anna! Thanks for the great content and I hope you continue to get lots of views!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thank you so much and keep going with your game 💯💯

[@pencilcheck]

Anna is back!!

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[@smb5742]

I watched the whole series of Anna's training and i was eager to watch more of her progression , i was motivated and started training tennis just 2 weeks ago and thought about going back to see you coaching her and here we are again with Anna ! Im glad she is back and im more motivated to invest more time practicing

[@IntuitiveTennis]

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[@raizispce]

welcome back Anna, we missed you

[@djaziztube]

Welcome back Anna. I am supplementing my wife's tennis instruction but I don't have a 2h myself so these videos are priceless.

[@juliashulgin4232]

Anna is back 😃🌷yay !

[@alexcimmerian2185]

Finally ❤ please more tennis with Anna

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[@bushmenaa]

First rule of tennis and any sports is stay alive :) Didn't know she was injured. Great to see her back. In 1-2 weeks and she will be 100% back. Even i feel the same i haven't played in long time.

[@amandacodrington3739]

Welcome back annaaa😊😊😊

[@IntuitiveTennis]

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[@user-gl7hs5sm8t]

Great to see Anna's back

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[@alexandermonzon8165]

These are the videos I actually started learning from Ana the beginer from scratch I been kicking @ss has well since September and now the Intructions for my Backhand will make me a Savage in this game...

[@IntuitiveTennis]

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[@TreeontheMound94]

“Don’t go too crazy…I know you’re excited to be back.” 🤣

[@cyberjonesy]

Hey it's good to have Anna back on the channel ! At the beginning, one thing I noticed on Anna's forehand is that sometime she has the "zombie arm" on her offhand while hitting forehands. I would try to have her pointing at the contact point and tuck-in that side's elbow during the swing motion. Besides that, Good lesson with the backhand, we can see that in the span of a lesson she has made a nice improvement. Well done !

[@jkn1951]

Yes the use of the non racket arm to position herself properly from the ball and to allow the shoulder turn was an issue with her years ago and was never corrected by her coach.

[@dbforever1000]

Welcome back Anna!

[@rickyowens831]

Super model Anna is back.

[@dai786]

Welcome back

[@shambhaviprasad1387]

I am so happy to see Anna again. Please coach keep bringing her in your upcoming videos. Your sessions are beginner friendly and easy to understand. I really love the way you teach tennis. Loads of love and blessings from India. ❤❤❤

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thank you, I will

[@stevengershman9404]

Nick. I loved the 3 step approach to better timing on the 2 handed backhand. So many others online teach early preparation on groundstrokes. Your feeling is if preparation is to early there is no flow to the the stroke. Looking forward to using this timing approach with my students. If you remember, I took some lessons with you in Boynton. Playing less, but still teaching kids and adult beginners. This video and others of yours gives me great information to use with my clients here in northern Virginia. Looking forward to the forehand timing video. Is it much different? Thinking not. Steve

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Hey Steve The 1. (side) is early prep 💯💯

[@-Munditimum-]

Wait what?? A year an half ?!!! Nuts! Time apparently doesn't just fly, but now it teleports. Anna is such a gem. Just a lovely spirit. Huge progress with the backhands! Some great coaching goin' on here Nik. Cheers and a great weekend. M

[@1114gabby]

Good to see Anna back! Forehand is still there.

[@sj-mf8zz]

I freak out if I haven't played in a week, thinking my level will decrease. She hasn't played in 1.5 years and it seems her level hasn't decreased. It is good to know that tennis level doesn't disappear, it is like riding a bike.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

It doesn’t disappear, the hard work you put in stays w u for life 💯

[@msedmocsu]

Anna!❤❤❤

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[@TrumpforPresident24]

Very enjoyable lol

[@alexandermonzon8165]

Side Back Finish Side Back Finish Side Back Finish Wow Coach...Side is the early prep with you're Racket and chest facing the Alleys aka "Callejon" then went It.bounces I should be prepared with Racket Behind me and Ready to blasts also dragging that Back foot for better Full rotation and Finish a clean stroke Racket and elbows pointing up Thanks Coach gonna do.this with my little ones Thanks Coach Thanks Anna...

[@peterstern1375]

Amazing lesson! Good to see Anna back in action, and you two just make a perfect team. Watched a bit of the Errani Rus match today, after not having seen Errani for few years. Could you do an a video where you point out the main things Errani does wrong on her serve? It probably would be too much to list all of the issues there, but listing the main ones could help recreational players to realize their own mistakes and try to avoid them. I guess she has some issues with her shoulder that limit her serve, it's strange because the rest of her game was top level, and at almost 40 years she is still competitive, even with the serve-handicap. My impression is that there is a problem already with the ball toss, I guess that could have something to do with the dominant eye. I'll try to explain what I mean by that, I'm ambidextrous and my dominant eye is the right eye (I guess that is the same situation as Errani), so when I serve with the left hand I'm in a similar situation as Nadal (right eye dominant, serving with the left hand). That means placing the toss is relatively easy in case of a lefty serve, because even if the head is in a "natural" position, the toss arm is more in line with the right eye (which in my case is the dominant eye for the vision, the left eye mainly gives the brain the 3D info for the depth in space of the object, but it's the right eye that focuses the ball). But when I serve with the right hand I have to turn my head slightly, like as if to bring the visor of the cap more in line with the toss arm so that the right eye can follow the ball on its trajectory which is more on the left side of the body. Additionally before tossing for a right-hand serve I feel it helps to bend/tilt the neck to the toss-arm shoulder forward into the court, that helps to follow the ball as it goes up for the toss, but on my left-hand serve I don't need to that bit. So I don't se Errani doing that (I've noticed several pros doing that "head-tilt", just can think of one in particular that is doing it a very evident way, but I guess you know what I mean, maybe Roddick is one that does this in more evident way, Shelton too), and I guess that is one reason why she loses her toss frequently. The other thing that I think is an issue with the Errani toss is that she tosses the ball up while her torso is basically perpendicular to the court. I think it is much easier to toss/place the ball if the tossing motion starts as the upper body is leaning slightly back, so that the chest and toso is pointing slightly up to the sky (say instead of having a 90 degree angle to the court, the back would be around a 75 degrees angle to the court), I've noticed that Sinner has made a change in this sense from the beginning of last year to then of 2023, and it is even more evident when comparing 2022 and 2024, before Sinner was more "hunched" forward before starting the toss, now he gets upright be fore starting the toss and then slightly leans back as the toss arm goes up. When doing that "slightly leaning back" thing, the toss arm motion changes, it basically becomes more "natural", if one would still stand straight then the ball would go up more in a forward-up motion, instead of in a straight-up motion, that kind of forces the head to lean back to follow the trajectory, whereas if the back is leaning slightly back, the head is already looking up to where the ball will go, and because the back is "leaning slightly back" the ball is now going straight up and not forward-up (as would happen if that same arm motion would be executed with the body perpendicular to the court). A bit of a wider starting stance at the start of the toss can help to achieve this "slightly leaning back" position during the toss in a more natural way without having to force it (perhaps Cilic could be an example for this "trick"). Well so that's what I've noticed on the Errani toss, there are some obvious things that don't seem right on her serve motion, like the arm and racket position in the trophy pose (my guess is that is due to shoulder problems), but also it looks like there is very little help from the body/hip and that the serve is mostly arm, well perhaps you could go into some details about that stuff, and maybe even give me a feed back out the things I've mentioned around the toss. I would really appreciate your opinion on that, so it would be 1, head-position in relation to which eye is the dominant one of a person (the one on the toss-arm side as is the case for Federer and Nadal, or the one on the racket-arm side) 2, tilting the head to the tossing arm shoulder, in case ones dominat eye is the eyey on the racket-arm side 3, tossing while leaning slightly back. Thanks and looking forward to more videos of you and Anna!

[@leandronicolas8848]

Tennis is the best.

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[@carlobacca7840]

Can we have same video for forehand? 🙏🏻

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Sure

[@edwardypark]

I root for Anna as much as Rafa.

[@aca2077]

*as for

[@dibokim6868]

Hi, Can I ask what racket you are holding?

[@IntuitiveTennis]

I have a racket reaveal vid coming soon…

[@djaziztube]

@@IntuitiveTennis Looks like a painted white WilDunBaboYonHead IDontGiveFreeAdvertisements 98 2024 edition

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[@marcomonti9823]

Meanwhile Ema has started her second career and it seems to still have the spark inside her

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Video with Ema coming soon, she is very motivated 🔥🔥

[@oopsdididothat7727]

14:48 💔 why isn’t this talked about more

[@michaelp9061]

Was she injured? Needing the operation?

[@aca2077]

Not you business

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[@markbuckholz3184]

Alright, Anna is back. Nik, now you need to get your wife out for another coaching session, I have never laughed as much at any of your teaching videos as when she would give you the "look".... ;o)

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Haven’t played w her since 2019 😂

[@Geistlos0]

Both shoulders should be at the same height during the hitting movement. Then she doesn't turn her body so much.

[@vinny6_9]

you can tell Anna is Eastern European just by the outfits she wears lol

[@aca2077]

you can tell it’s a little kid when it says lol