The 5 Mistakes Ruining Your Forehand Follow-Through (And How to Fix Them!)

[@TomAllsopp]

What ya reckon?

[@sebastianlunaalonso256]

Incredible tips as usual, in a condensed format. Always the best!

[@sammihoulides2971]

I’ve been teaching tennis for more years than I’d like to admit! I have to say I truly enjoy your teaching and your relaxed presentation! Good Work!

[@TomAllsopp]

@@sammihoulides2971 thank you! Contact me, I’m putting together a forum for coaches to discuss coaching ideas.

[@tarikmarckubach2767]

I would like to congratulate you for this video because I had not seen before this particular problem so well being analyzed. I applied some of the concepts this morning to my best ability and beat someone 6:4 who had beaten me 6:0 yesterday after writing down these notes in my notebook: - Don’t search for the ball decide early contact point; - Relax don’t hit; and - Don’t hold on to the shot for too long with too much tension.

[@robertwong-w5s]

Slow down the body rotatation, let the arm, racket go. This is the simplest explanation about “stop over ratation” and “whip “. ❤💯

[@johnddwyer]

I don't think I've heard about slowing down the body on the forehand to let the racket catch up. I think this is great advice.

[@katesealey9565]

coach tom is seriously the coolest

[@TomAllsopp]

@@katesealey9565 Nomsayin

[@at1838]

Good points and a no nonsense video. A comment overlaps with your first two or three points. “Tip versus throat shots” I like to call it. The FH / BH / serve are tip strokes where the goal is to accelerate / throw the tip of the racquet on a particular path. For these shots, we don’t need to guide the ball by pushing in the direction of the target and in fact that hinders racquet speed.

[@davidhall5364]

Great instruction Tom.

[@JackRoss-g7d]

This was very helpful, I especially benefited from the tip on being confident in the timing of when to hit the ball.

[@djp3525]

Tom you need to go on another teaching trip across the US!

[@TomAllsopp]

Agreed!

[@lethedan]

To make Tennis as a Rotational sport: Please mention the intention of seeing (receiving) and hitting the ball at 45 degree to allow body rotation. Thanks Tom for so many great lessons :)

[@Anton.Arkhipov]

The part about wrist, I agree with the idea that you need to move the racquet the way you demonstrate… but your hand can only “connect” for this movement, not do it. You (yes you, in this video 😊) “whip” the racquet head by turning whole arm, where elbow comes from pointing down to pointing outward. Hand delivers this twist to the racquet, for sure. One tip I surprisingly enjoyed to train this is to actually (try to) bend your elbow right to left somewhere at contact. This forces turning the whole arm and respectively driving the racquet head over. After you get feel for this, you can focus on hand/racquet edge executing the final racquet head swipe. But what works to create it will be the arm/shoulder. The beloved ISR 😁

[@orangecoolius]

amazing video

[@julianpenfold1638]

As so often a great insight. I have low confidence in my timing - it turns out rightly so as today I tried to swing and follow through properly at every ball and I was spraying it all over the place. So my takeaway is I need to improve my timing, either by specific drills or just by continuing to believe in it and hoping it gets better. My gut feel is that if my timing was going to get significantly better after thousands of hours of tennis, it would have done.

[@EmmieEditor]

What a nice content

[@user-bk2ns2xk6n]

Are you doing the internal shoulder and elbow rotation consciously? I heard in another video that this happens naturally if you swing from inside to the out.

[@TomAllsopp]

I don’t really think about that. Not sure I understand what that feels like

[@omarsultanov362]

Rotational sport 👍👌🏽😊

[@GabrielMedeiros]

It's the windshield wiper forehand you're trying to explain in other words, right? My forehand improvoed a lot (more spin and control) after knowing this technique.

[@jamesking6030]

Pretty sure it's not the windshield wiper forehand because that is generally taught by most conventional pros to have the elbow roll the racquet when, in actuality, it's the racquet head that rolls the elbow. Quite the opposite

[@GabrielMedeiros]

@@jamesking6030 " it's the racquet head that rolls the elbow." That is what i understand as windshield wiper.

[@jamesking6030]

​@@GabrielMedeirosthat's good . I've heard so many pros say the windshield wiper is the elbow that rolls the racquet

[@tennisproslav1237]

👍🔑

[@JackMeyer-bt3bi]

Tom this is still like a slideshow you should add some music to spice this video up. For example your intro comes in and it plays a riff of music that is specific to your channel but other than the editing the slow motion version next to the real time is very good.

[@TomAllsopp]

@@JackMeyer-bt3bi you asking for more nonsense?

[@JackMeyer-bt3bi]

@@TomAllsopp yes

[@don9733]

You doing you Tom, get straight to the point that matters

[@Pt225go25]

Disagree. Don’t need more fluff. Right to the point is great!

[@jigmasterj]

Nah, there are plenty of instructors with flashy transitions and effects. I like that Tom just cuts to the chase. No nonsense!