This is what Rick Macci teaches. I learned it practicing with the ball machine for a long time. This explains it easier than Rick Macci. Rick Macci doesn't say left hand takes over when the racquet drops. He says when you contact the left hand takes over. This video is easier.
This is the best video I've ever seen on the 2HBH, been playing for years and my backhand always felt very disjointed and stiff compared to my forehand, this just made the overall "flow" of the stroke really click for me in a new way.
Thanks so much Thom, really happy to hear that this one tip made a big difference for your backhand. You made my day now! Have fun playing this amazing shot!
Two handed backhand explained perfectly. Broke down the complex two handed swing into smaller steps and explained all mechanics in clear and easy to understand terms! I am recommending my students to watch this video. Thanks for making and publishing good one.
Thanks so much for your thorough comment and kind words. Means a world to me to hear it, especially that you will share it with your students! Good luck and let us know how it goes!
Great tips... In case this helps some one else... (I've played off/on many years casually and recently the last 6mos. straight almost every day. also just switched to 2 hand from 1 hand due to terrible tennis elbow). My backhand is really bad and although all the tips make sense putting it into action was a long/hard road of practice. Today I finally cracked it in 10mins. This is the tip: Have a bag of balls and practice your back hand hitting as HARD as you possibly can (don't worry about accuracy just try to send it) for several rounds of bag balls. Somehow that opened up my mind/body link and it just clicked and made everything smoother. After that I was driving those balls much smoother in normal slower play and the tips all came together.
Great video! I tried this yesterday and it was the first time my defensive backhand got any topspin and heaviness on it. The key for me was the pulling with the right arm first as you said. Thanks for the great content, keep it coming!
Thanks so much, makes my world to hear that some of these tips helped you and that you started improving. Really appreciate your feedback! Keep working on it and please if you can, share this video with some friends who might also want to watch and learn from it. Thanks again!
Thanks so much for your comment, really glad you like it! Let us know how did it work out for you and please share this video with others so that they can learn as well.
Thanks a lot for kind words. I am so happy to hear that you find it helpful. Please if possible, share it with some friends who might also like to watch the video and learn from it.
This was really good, this step by step in slow motion. I just started playing and my back hand feels so off. I don’t think I was dipping my racket, so I got no power. Will try that now.
Hi thanks for this video. I really like the way you so the footwork when the left foot is stepping from back it can be a way to also get a step into the ball bye moving in.
With the left/non dominant hand you recomend the 7th bevel (like an eastern forehand with the left hand). What about the 6th bevel (like an semiwestern forehand with the left hand)? Doesn't it make more sense, since almost all players use semiwestern for the forehand already?
Thanks so much for your comment and great question. Definitely, I agree with your point regarding more closed grip on the left hand. I also recently started using a bit more extreme grip on the left hand for my two-handed backhand. But again, there is no right or wrong in tennis, it's all relative to the player and his or her style. You can for sure use bevel 6 for the knuckle of your left (non-dominant) hand for two handed backhand. Hope this helps!
When you have time you want to approach the ball from behind so you have better weight transfer. You still need to be sideways from the ball when hitting it. Hope that helps!
So the leading hand is left? Is this mistake to share it 50/50 or make the right hand as a leader to the ball, then spin from the left? Or would it be complicated to switch the leading hand so that being not precise in the moment of contact?
Right hand leads for the first part of the swing, left takes over as lead right at contact and continues to lead for the rest of the stroke. If you were still wondering 3 years later.
IMO, the one important missing link is WHEN you start pulling through with the dominant right-hand, you're simultaneously rolling the back of your right-hand toward the ground. This will close the racquet face and bow your right wrist. ALL the great two-handers in the game have that bowed right wrist with the racquet head below the ball prior to the forward motion. If you don't bow that wrist you're screwed!
I find it hard to make that wrist play, when the racquet is supossed to go low and then upwards. Also, I find that when I hit the backhand my right hand is the dominant one with a strong grip, so I find really difficult to have the left hand leading the stroke like you say.
@@ericbrenner2310 Staying loose is the final result of the master of the shot. I do not think you can do really do that before. What is your tennis level Eric?
I am struggling with my backhand. I feel a lot of tension in place where I hold my racket and during the contact with the ball. When at the same time my forehand much more fluid and fast. I am currently around 4.0 level in US, but my feeling that I did not hit one normal backhand in my life. I watched a lot of videos about it, but I am still not able to figure out what is the matter with my technique. Do you have any advice? Thanks!
for me, getting TURNED and having my racket parallel to the fence on my left helped tremendously. Do this, let everything drop naturally (stay loose), and everything should feel much more normal! :D
@@ericbrenner2310 For me what eventually helped to improve my backhand is developing more of my left hand. Or may be more correctly to say developing brain to use more of my left hand on the two handed backhand. Without that I do not think you are really able to "be loose" in this shot.
If you mean the background noise, those are insects that get very loud during the summer heat! :) Sorry for that! I am glad that you still like the video!
Hi Milan, this is a great video. Quick question about grip pressure: do you use the same pressure on both hands? Or is your right hand grip a little bit looser (since this stroke is like an assisted left-handed backhand)? Can you kindly clarify?
Thanks so much Romeo, glad you like the video. Please share it with some friends who might also like to watch it. I apologize for the insects' noise, it was extremely hot period here in Shanghai! Thanks for suggestion, will consider it!
Hello everyone, Advice needed on whether to switch from double handed to one handed. Footage in link below, thank you! ua-cam.com/video/qfXrxCiIOEo/v-deo.html
I found that the "stepping in" makes sense but my understanding of your words makes it feel like you are saying to step directly into the ball trajectory, but that would not work since you have no room to turn, so "stepping in" should be "stepping forward but parallel to the ball so you have room to turn". Let me know if this make sense? Or maybe I am totally wrong?
Thanks Penn so much for your thorough comment and interesting question. I understand exactly what you mean and you are correct. The point of stepping in is to get the right weight transfer forward and have better use of body and momentum prior to the contact. Definitely you want to keep that distance away from the ball (sideways distance), you don't want to get jammed with the ball getting too close to you. So yes, you can think of it that way, not stepping into ball trajectory but rather moving forwards while keeping some sideways space from the ball. Hope now it makes sense. Let us know how it goes and please if you can, share this video with some friends who might also like to watch it and learn from it. Thanks again!
@@tenfitmentennisimpulse I wonder if you can make a video about returning a shot hitting near your feet without jumping back, I had trouble hitting this shot whenever the others just push it back and always land on the baseline when I am standing nearby. That would be awesome if you can. :)
yesh but thats only if you have that shitty hammer grip , if you re really going strong you need to keep your right hand in control the difference is that you need your wrist to control it and twist at the right time if not the ball goes out, lets see nadal again.
I love your videos but really wish you would redo this one. The background noise makes it very hard for me to hear what you are saying as you are demonstrating the technique. I have tried to incorporate your ideas into teaching my beginners at my junior high school.
Dude! You’ve no command of the language to engage people for a long time! Just show it and label it, or better yet, just show it and be done with and stop torturing us!
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This is the best 2 handed backhand tutorial I seen so far
Thanks so much, really happy to hear that. Please if you can, share this video with some of your friends so that they can learn as well.
I completely agree the best.
Yeah I like everything in that video. I sent the video to my student and I even improve my own backhand.
I read you wrote 2 best and hahaha i was curious which is the best which is the best.. now I saw it’s the best 2 handed .. couldn’t agree it’s perfect
This is what Rick Macci teaches. I learned it practicing with the ball machine for a long time. This explains it easier than Rick Macci. Rick Macci doesn't say left hand takes over when the racquet drops. He says when you contact the left hand takes over. This video is easier.
This is the best video I've ever seen on the 2HBH, been playing for years and my backhand always felt very disjointed and stiff compared to my forehand, this just made the overall "flow" of the stroke really click for me in a new way.
this gentlemans videos are so useful , nice 👌
Thank you for this demo and especially the slow motion demo of the backhand. Really helpful.
This tip at the 6:00 helped me so much and fixed my backhand by getting behind the ball in each shot. Thank you so much! you're the best!
Thanks so much Thom, really happy to hear that this one tip made a big difference for your backhand. You made my day now! Have fun playing this amazing shot!
Thank you man, you are one of the two that explains the pull with the dominant hand.
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Excellent Vid !! Keep em coming
Excellent tutorial.Thank you.
Nicely demonstrated
Very nice explanation, thanks a lot TenFitMen!
Great explanation on shoulder and top spin backhand.
Thanks so much, really glad you like it!
Great footwork tip!
Thank you so much; Great video.
Two handed backhand explained perfectly. Broke down the complex two handed swing into smaller steps and explained all mechanics in clear and easy to understand terms! I am recommending my students to watch this video. Thanks for making and publishing good one.
Thanks so much for your thorough comment and kind words. Means a world to me to hear it, especially that you will share it with your students! Good luck and let us know how it goes!
Really helpful
Love the slow motion clips from the pros
Perfect explanation
This is the reason i subscribed to you. Simple and amazing technique videos
Thanks, means a lot. Really glad you like our videos!
Great tips... In case this helps some one else... (I've played off/on many years casually and recently the last 6mos. straight almost every day. also just switched to 2 hand from 1 hand due to terrible tennis elbow). My backhand is really bad and although all the tips make sense putting it into action was a long/hard road of practice. Today I finally cracked it in 10mins. This is the tip: Have a bag of balls and practice your back hand hitting as HARD as you possibly can (don't worry about accuracy just try to send it) for several rounds of bag balls. Somehow that opened up my mind/body link and it just clicked and made everything smoother. After that I was driving those balls much smoother in normal slower play and the tips all came together.
Nice tutorial, thanks
Great video tutorial!
Nice video. Keep up the good work. I really like Yevgeny Kafelnikov backhand.
Very good; thank you.
So helpful I saved this video thank you
Great video! Thanks a lot.
Thanks for sharing video
You are the best
Thanks, glad you like it!
Great tutorial, thanks!
very good one！ thanks ！
Great video. Milan
Excellent 2 hand backhand steps. Like, Subs
Best coach helped me to get the servicn
I managed to improve my backhand returns after I applied the things the you said. Thank you so much, sir. God Bless
Great video! I tried this yesterday and it was the first time my defensive backhand got any topspin and heaviness on it. The key for me was the pulling with the right arm first as you said. Thanks for the great content, keep it coming!
Thanks so much, makes my world to hear that some of these tips helped you and that you started improving. Really appreciate your feedback! Keep working on it and please if you can, share this video with some friends who might also want to watch and learn from it. Thanks again!
Good analysis with some great players’ performance.
Excellent tutorial very helpful on key points and explained clearly thank you sir!
You're very welcome John! Glad it helps!
Awesome video! Very clear information howto execute a backhand. Thx!!!
Thanks so much John, really glad to hear that you liked the video. Please share it with others so that they can learn as well.
Good job man
Thanks, glad you like it!
great tips!!!
great explanation!
Thanks so much Arnold for your comment! Glad you like it!
Thanks coach for help now I can tell the players play well
Really excellent analysis of that difficult to learn stroke .. Thanks
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Thank you.
Clear and Precise tutorial, Nice! T.Y.
Thanks a lot for kind words. I am so happy to hear that you find it helpful. Please if possible, share it with some friends who might also like to watch the video and learn from it.
THANKS BRO
This was really good, this step by step in slow motion. I just started playing and my back hand feels so off. I don’t think I was dipping my racket, so I got no power. Will try that now.
Hi thanks for this video. I really like the way you so the footwork when the left foot is stepping from back it can be a way to also get a step into the ball bye moving in.
vrlo dobro i jasno! hvala
Hvala puno Mark! Pozdrav!
Step in and finish is as important as the unit turn I am finding in my backhand.
Thanks you for this Great tutorial, I have seen many to improve my backhand and whit this I feel super confident!
Excelent Bro! 👏👏👏
Thanks so much Vitto for your support! Glad you like it!
On the racket drop, are you actively pulling with your right arm or the shoulder turn causes the pull naturally? Thanks.
Lean in, drop, pull, rotate, extension/reach, follow-through finish. Easy.😁
Loved the video! I was just wondering how to take the racquet back without being too cramped while still keeping the racquet head high for leverage?
Nice Tutorial thanks for your video this helps!!
Thanks
Thank you for the comment, glad it helps!
the background sound is actually fun for me. good vid man thks for sharing
Thanks Negan, really appreciate it :)
With the left/non dominant hand you recomend the 7th bevel (like an eastern forehand with the left hand). What about the 6th bevel (like an semiwestern forehand with the left hand)? Doesn't it make more sense, since almost all players use semiwestern for the forehand already?
Thanks so much for your comment and great question. Definitely, I agree with your point regarding more closed grip on the left hand. I also recently started using a bit more extreme grip on the left hand for my two-handed backhand. But again, there is no right or wrong in tennis, it's all relative to the player and his or her style. You can for sure use bevel 6 for the knuckle of your left (non-dominant) hand for two handed backhand. Hope this helps!
wow first time I've been told to get behind the ball... I will try it. so not suppose to be next to the ball but behind??? will try that for sure.
When you have time you want to approach the ball from behind so you have better weight transfer. You still need to be sideways from the ball when hitting it. Hope that helps!
So the leading hand is left? Is this mistake to share it 50/50 or make the right hand as a leader to the ball, then spin from the left? Or would it be complicated to switch the leading hand so that being not precise in the moment of contact?
Right hand leads for the first part of the swing, left takes over as lead right at contact and continues to lead for the rest of the stroke. If you were still wondering 3 years later.
IMO, the one important missing link is WHEN you start pulling through with the dominant right-hand, you're simultaneously rolling the back of your right-hand toward the ground. This will close the racquet face and bow your right wrist. ALL the great two-handers in the game have that bowed right wrist with the racquet head below the ball prior to the forward motion. If you don't bow that wrist you're screwed!
I find it hard to make that wrist play, when the racquet is supossed to go low and then upwards. Also, I find that when I hit the backhand my right hand is the dominant one with a strong grip, so I find really difficult to have the left hand leading the stroke like you say.
I have very similar issue, thanks for writing about this. And for now I do not have any reasonable solution.
@@vladimirgetselevich4704 stay loose!
@@ericbrenner2310 Staying loose is the final result of the master of the shot. I do not think you can do really do that before. What is your tennis level Eric?
I am struggling with my backhand. I feel a lot of tension in place where I hold my racket and during the contact with the ball. When at the same time my forehand much more fluid and fast. I am currently around 4.0 level in US, but my feeling that I did not hit one normal backhand in my life. I watched a lot of videos about it, but I am still not able to figure out what is the matter with my technique. Do you have any advice? Thanks!
for me, getting TURNED and having my racket parallel to the fence on my left helped tremendously. Do this, let everything drop naturally (stay loose), and everything should feel much more normal! :D
@@ericbrenner2310 For me what eventually helped to improve my backhand is developing more of my left hand. Or may be more correctly to say developing brain to use more of my left hand on the two handed backhand. Without that I do not think you are really able to "be loose" in this shot.
Which types of voice is it ? It's disturb me to understand......but great vedio
If you mean the background noise, those are insects that get very loud during the summer heat! :) Sorry for that! I am glad that you still like the video!
@@tenfitmentennisimpulse Judging from the sounds, the insects are probably cicadidaes
Why does Nadal keep his racket head more parallel with the ground- not pointing it up?
Hey everyone, here is the full video of my first training with Novak Djokovic!
ua-cam.com/video/J62ggYXCfPI/v-deo.html
What is that grey surface . Odd
Clay!
Hi Milan, this is a great video. Quick question about grip pressure: do you use the same pressure on both hands? Or is your right hand grip a little bit looser (since this stroke is like an assisted left-handed backhand)? Can you kindly clarify?
Grip pressure is not that big of a deal in less your being really tense personally I use the same amount of pressure in both hands on my backhand.
nice!!!
Thanks so much!
Hips get no mention in this two handed backhand tutorial. Interesting.
5:10 The essential.
Nice video but the background noise makes it hard to watch. Try a wireless lav mic (also lavalier/anchor mic).
Thanks so much Romeo, glad you like the video. Please share it with some friends who might also like to watch it. I apologize for the insects' noise, it was extremely hot period here in Shanghai! Thanks for suggestion, will consider it!
No hip rotation ??？
Great tutorial….but please get rid of background music while you are talking.
Hello everyone,
Advice needed on whether to switch from double handed to one handed. Footage in link below, thank you!
ua-cam.com/video/qfXrxCiIOEo/v-deo.html
It seems you have some insects in China. Great job BTW!
Thanks so much! Good one :)
see . and thats why your racket doesnt look up its facing the ground when preparing, if not again when you hit it it ll be out
I found that the "stepping in" makes sense but my understanding of your words makes it feel like you are saying to step directly into the ball trajectory, but that would not work since you have no room to turn, so "stepping in" should be "stepping forward but parallel to the ball so you have room to turn". Let me know if this make sense? Or maybe I am totally wrong?
Thanks Penn so much for your thorough comment and interesting question. I understand exactly what you mean and you are correct. The point of stepping in is to get the right weight transfer forward and have better use of body and momentum prior to the contact. Definitely you want to keep that distance away from the ball (sideways distance), you don't want to get jammed with the ball getting too close to you. So yes, you can think of it that way, not stepping into ball trajectory but rather moving forwards while keeping some sideways space from the ball. Hope now it makes sense. Let us know how it goes and please if you can, share this video with some friends who might also like to watch it and learn from it. Thanks again!
Definitely, this video has helped a lot!
@@pencilcheck So glad to hear that!
@@tenfitmentennisimpulse I wonder if you can make a video about returning a shot hitting near your feet without jumping back, I had trouble hitting this shot whenever the others just push it back and always land on the baseline when I am standing nearby. That would be awesome if you can. :)
You must have bugs in your camera. The noise is really distracting. I was unable to concentrate on your instruction.
The best way improve you backhand is broke your forehand arm, and continue practicing with you backhand arm while other one is healing
yesh but thats only if you have that shitty hammer grip , if you re really going strong you need to keep your right hand in control the difference is that you need your wrist to control it and twist at the right time if not the ball goes out, lets see nadal again.
Thanks Victoria for your thorough comment. I agree, wrist on the right hand it's extremely important to get the whip and top spin!
I love your videos but really wish you would redo this one. The background noise makes it very hard for me to hear what you are saying as you are demonstrating the technique. I have tried to incorporate your ideas into teaching my beginners at my junior high school.
Buy some ear buds. It clear with buds.
This guy never heard of sound filters.
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Sorry but what a noisy and annoying background !!!!! The quality of sound is really poor ..... anyway Thank you for your tips
you apologies for the background noise and then play horrific background music. Why ? Why ?
Why people who use single hand backhand try to explain double hand shot?
Thanks Evgeniy for your comment, I don't see anything wrong with that if you have the knowledge for both. By the way, I play two handed backhand :)
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Dude! You’ve no command of the language to engage people for a long time! Just show it and label it, or better yet, just show it and be done with and stop torturing us!
Great video super helpful thank you!!!
Great video. Thank you.
Great tutorial, thanks!!