How to Hit a Heavy Topspin Forehand | Tennis Lesson with 4.5 NTRP Student Alec

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  • Опубліковано 19 жов 2023
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    In this tennis lesson, I work with my student Alec (4.5 NTRP) on developing a heavy topspin forehand with progressions.
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  • @IntuitiveTennis
    @IntuitiveTennis  8 місяців тому +6

    How to Deal with Heavy Topspin
    👉 ua-cam.com/video/Q_K8WAImaNg/v-deo.htmlsi=sydCLeJ_8xa5H5lX

  • @Shaunsweeney-Kubach71
    @Shaunsweeney-Kubach71 8 місяців тому +38

    Not only are you an awesome coach, but you are a humble man my dude. You’re able to encourage people and your ego isn’t in the way.

  • @PaulVoorberg
    @PaulVoorberg 8 місяців тому +17

    4:53 Topspin practice drill
    6:30 You can hit the ball very high over the net and make it go in when you hit it the right way
    10:11 The result after practice
    11:09 Very nice shot

  • @aniv8600
    @aniv8600 8 місяців тому +6

    Loving the Croatian flag in the video Nikola! Pozdrav iz Hrvatske! Počeo sam s rekreativnim tenisom i tvoji videi mi puno pomažu!

  • @lyndseyandandrew5771
    @lyndseyandandrew5771 8 місяців тому +7

    Alec’s footwork is looking much more lively than the last time I remember him on your channel! Really useful progression.

  • @DynamicPickleball
    @DynamicPickleball 8 місяців тому +6

    I'm guilty of isolating the forehand to get extra spin, but now I see that adding height and keeping racquet head speed fast is needed. Thank you for the lesson!

  • @ZacharyShahan
    @ZacharyShahan 8 місяців тому +4

    Damn you make good videos. Way to tease out the critical nuances of these things and explain & physically teach them clearly.

  • @-Munditimum-
    @-Munditimum- 8 місяців тому +2

    Great Training session. Love Alec.
    Loving those 1 handers Nik!! Way to go!
    Cheers and a great weekend!
    M

  • @melfox215
    @melfox215 8 місяців тому +6

    Alec has a beautiful follow through. I think the follow through frequently indicates the level of a player. Many lower recreational players tend to not follow through at all and instead stop the motion actively when the racquet is close to the player's head.
    Regarding Nik's coaching methods: Simply ❤ it.

  • @Javi_C
    @Javi_C 8 місяців тому +2

    Nice drills Nick, thanks!

  • @lustercool4999
    @lustercool4999 8 місяців тому +2

    Learning more on every teaching ❤

  • @joshualeifer3335
    @joshualeifer3335 8 місяців тому +5

    Thanks!

  • @grantcallaghan3277
    @grantcallaghan3277 Місяць тому +1

    I really enjoyed this video - it really helped me with the ball machine today and then playing matches later in the day. thanks.

  • @Joytoy91
    @Joytoy91 8 місяців тому +6

    Bravo za zastavu!

  • @lorenzocardoza1665
    @lorenzocardoza1665 8 місяців тому +3

    Nice shoes (Vapor 9.5 Tour Leather) I bought a pair a few weeks ago I find they're just as good as the AJ3s!

  • @patrickseven606
    @patrickseven606 8 місяців тому +4

    Nice towel Nick :D

  • @milanvincic9668
    @milanvincic9668 8 місяців тому +3

    I absolutey love this video! Great drills. Alec is simply a fine 4.5 rec player. I love his technique and racket head speed. You are right about the drop in racket head speed when aiming for more top spin. Generally speaking it is very tough to fight with this intuitive desire to slow down and decrease the racket head speed.
    What happened to Shamir? Haven't seen him for a long time😀

    • @IntuitiveTennis
      @IntuitiveTennis  8 місяців тому +2

      He has chronic foot problem, not playing that much

    • @milanvincic9668
      @milanvincic9668 8 місяців тому +2

      @@IntuitiveTennis So sorry to hear that. 🥲Shamir is such an inspiration for us rec players. Wish him a speedy recovery😎

    • @IntuitiveTennis
      @IntuitiveTennis  8 місяців тому

      🙏

  • @rkytr.2765
    @rkytr.2765 8 місяців тому +2

    Both guys wearing the Vapor 9.5s 😎

  • @joshualeifer3335
    @joshualeifer3335 8 місяців тому +3

    Nice lesson. Alec has a good stroke. Seems to keep a pretty open stance with most of the top-spin forehands. Is this recommended? Not sure what most of top players do.

    • @IntuitiveTennis
      @IntuitiveTennis  8 місяців тому +2

      Open stance vs Closed stance Forehands with Shamir 👉 ua-cam.com/video/mrTag-q3F84/v-deo.htmlsi=Js9xIe6tNdHtrPLx

  • @patrikmarflak6559
    @patrikmarflak6559 8 місяців тому +1

    Great lesson but one thing springs to my mind. You are feeding Alex with balls that are at comfortable height all the time. I am confident to hit heavy when the ball is around the waist or lower, but as soon as it’s at the shoulder level, I am struggling. If I hit it at the apex, it’s not a good heavy topspin, I can’t make it work, maybe because I play with eastern grip. So I tend to let the ball fall into my comfortable position, but if it’s too heavy I have to get too far back. And also it’s harder for timing when I have to hit a topspin with the accelerating ball that falls down from bigger height. Taking it on the rise seems to be even harder for timing. What’s the solution?

  • @lcervantes8505
    @lcervantes8505 8 місяців тому

    Hit spin hard.

  • @paultaylor204
    @paultaylor204 7 місяців тому

    Hi, I have watched over 100 of your videos and unlike videos by other coaches I have watched they are very good, very clear and not annoying to watch in any way ! But there is one video I would like to see, whenever you talk about the racket drop you describe it as a natural thing that you don't have to think about it, but this is not the case for me. Usually when I consciously think about it I do it correctly dropping on edge and do a good shot but when I don't I then forget to do hardly any racket drop and do a shortened stroke which is not good, perhaps you could do a video to help us who do not find the cshape and racket drop that automatic.

  • @FLAC2023
    @FLAC2023 6 місяців тому

    I'm a physician. You give private lessons? I would like to go for a few days and get a complete analysis of my game

  • @juan2thepaab
    @juan2thepaab 8 місяців тому

    I think he would get more spin if he got his racket head beneath the ball more. Looks like he's setting up at the same level as the incoming ball

  • @vr6936
    @vr6936 8 місяців тому +1

    Ma jel' moguce da gadja sahovnicu? To se moze interpretirati na ovaj ili onaj nacin ^^

  • @sanyatanugroho5716
    @sanyatanugroho5716 2 місяці тому

    How about one handed backhand progression sir?😊

    • @IntuitiveTennis
      @IntuitiveTennis  2 місяці тому

      👉 ua-cam.com/video/rySDCTLv61M/v-deo.htmlsi=nWUGncF1bURRHHYq

  • @akbarberlian
    @akbarberlian 8 місяців тому

    Is this doable with eastern forehand?

  • @vijaynarsapur147
    @vijaynarsapur147 6 місяців тому +1

    just where the hell were you when I was trying to learn tennis? I have got it all wrong now...

    • @IntuitiveTennis
      @IntuitiveTennis  6 місяців тому

      I was right here since 2018 😂
      Don’t worry you can fix your strokes 💯🙌

  • @MrExpert23
    @MrExpert23 Місяць тому

    Played today a heavy topspin player oh my god that he was torturing me.

  • @pjcdm
    @pjcdm 4 місяці тому +1

    I think you are am excellent coach, bit on your drills you are sacrificing good results (more spin here) for speed & high numbers (stamina) too much.

  • @igo2054
    @igo2054 8 місяців тому +3

    Great forehand but the elbow is too low on the takeback imho too close to the body correct me if i am wrong

    • @mandomerlie1997
      @mandomerlie1997 8 місяців тому +2

      You’re not wrong. I also like to get my elbow back and away. But I think that is more stylistic than a nonnegotiable fundamental. It’s probably not worth completely reworking his forehand technique because that is a pretty solid shot for him

  • @sahulhameedmajidmohammad2668
    @sahulhameedmajidmohammad2668 8 місяців тому

    Good exercises. I like your video. But the persons weight is on the wrong foot while hitting the forehand. Maybe he's used to taking the balls on the body

  • @arel3708
    @arel3708 8 місяців тому

    The drawback of the racket was done in two parts, it was not done in one fluid motion and that reduces a lot the power and the ability to produce efficient topspin. In some balls where he played more freely the ball went a lot better

  • @hansolsson3409
    @hansolsson3409 8 місяців тому +3

    I am first! 👍👍

  • @TimTheMusicMan
    @TimTheMusicMan 8 місяців тому

    He has a very mechanical swing. It should be more fluid and any topspin should come naturally.

  • @willkittwk
    @willkittwk 8 місяців тому +2

    Rafa has a ugly looking forehand compared to Fed and Djoks.

    • @-Munditimum-
      @-Munditimum- 8 місяців тому +1

      I know what you mean. But he makes it work really well for him.

    • @victorious1177
      @victorious1177 8 місяців тому

      cool story

    • @transamination
      @transamination 8 місяців тому +1

      When you watch Nadal's forehand in a mirrored video (so he appears right-handed) it looks very similar to Federer's, just Nadal does the weird lasso whip thing around his head.

    • @willkittwk
      @willkittwk 8 місяців тому +1

      @@transamination LoL that lasso whip looks gay outta the village people disco. YMCA

  • @ryanmitchell9460
    @ryanmitchell9460 8 місяців тому +5

    it might be an idea not to rally with Alec at the end using your one hander. You only managed to get two balls past the service line and some didn't even go cross court. I think you need to work on it a bit more as its pretty bad if Alec is a paying customer and the coach can't give him a consistent ball.

    • @MyLifeFrAiurGaming
      @MyLifeFrAiurGaming 8 місяців тому +6

      😂

    • @yueshe4323
      @yueshe4323 8 місяців тому +3

      Well that’s the whole point of doing the rally at the end. The incoming ball might be short/deep/more angle/more flat, and it’s unpredictable. And Alec needs to produce topspin consistently regardless in this case.
      This is not a rally/hitting session

    • @ryanmitchell9460
      @ryanmitchell9460 8 місяців тому +1

      @@yueshe4323 I agree somewhat that it’s less predictable, but when it ends up on the backhand side and then sinks one into the net that can be classed at not very good. Even Nic says that it needs work so I was surprised he was using it.

    • @yueshe4323
      @yueshe4323 8 місяців тому

      @@ryanmitchell9460I’m not surprised at all. First of all Alec is just starting developing more topspin on the forehand, so he does not need super high quality ball coming to him and a one hander is sufficient enough. Second, as many of Nick’s video said, having a one hander is ideal for coaching such that he can hold many balls on another hand to feed one right away when he misses, which is exactly suitable for this situation

    • @005rmac
      @005rmac 8 місяців тому +8

      You really think that if Nick wanted to hit it deep in the corner with his backhand he couldn't do it against a 4.5 level player? He's clearly just giving him easy rally balls to attack in the middle of the court to work on the heavy topspin forehand.