Study your forehand in Ep 8. Even though this was a year ago the forehands you were hitting against the ball machine were far superior to what you do in your matches. Yes the weight transfer was only a little better but the shoulder and body coil were far better than your current match forehands. This resulted in much higher racket head speeds. Focus on what your right arm was doing in ep 8. It was playing a active role in coiling and uncoiling (rotating) your shoulders. Watch pro forehands in slow motion. You’ll see that their non dominant arms play as big a part in a forehand as the one holding the racket. That’s what your doing so well in ep 8, you’ll see the similarities. Now watch you “match” forehands and focus on your right arm. Even on the forehands you do drive successfully the level of engagement of your right arm is noticeably different. Because of this the coiling and uncoiling action is muted in you matches. It’s not uncommon for players to hit differently in a match. Obviously the consequence of missing in a match is greater and your subconscious knows this. But the ep 8 vid is visual proof that you are physically capable of hitting, technically speaking, a pretty good forehand. I can only say technically better because the ep 8 vid did not show how many of these forehands were going in. Just as you had a vid showing 90+% of your slice backhands going in you should strive for a similar percentage of successful forehands in practice. This should give your subconscious the confidence to display the practice forehand in matches. Just as a good basketball player can easily make ten free throws in a row in practice (some pros can regularly do a 100 in a row) you should find a power level that in practice you can make ten in a row without any worries. Then you should be able to produce the same power level in a match.
Yeah that's a great point. I'll focus on that next time. I did indeed notice that i coil and use my rotation more on my backhand than on my forehand. I'll do as you say focus on my right hand to drive that coil.
you have a nice slice defensive game and this can bring you really far at club level! here your opponent was already googld and he managed to overcome your slices but it was taking him 2-4 attacking shots each time and it requires an already consistent baseline player and not easy! and, like you said in a different episode, for many opponents it will be quite frustrating to try to break your slice defense if you defended 3-4 attacks and they can exhaust and collapse physically (attacking low pace slices requires a lot of leg work!) and mentally, at least i would do sometimes!😂
Yeah completely agree with you on that. On top of physically tired indeed it's quite mentally tiring knowing that with several opponents a shot would have been a winner or at least given you an easy short return to finish off the next shot!
amazing you have gotten so much better
Thank you that's very nice of you to say. I for sure feel a lot better out there! It really feels amazing, gonna try to continue pushing even harder.
Study your forehand in Ep 8. Even though this was a year ago the forehands you were hitting against the ball machine were far superior to what you do in your matches. Yes the weight transfer was only a little better but the shoulder and body coil were far better than your current match forehands. This resulted in much higher racket head speeds. Focus on what your right arm was doing in ep 8. It was playing a active role in coiling and uncoiling (rotating) your shoulders. Watch pro forehands in slow motion. You’ll see that their non dominant arms play as big a part in a forehand as the one holding the racket. That’s what your doing so well in ep 8, you’ll see the similarities. Now watch you “match” forehands and focus on your right arm. Even on the forehands you do drive successfully the level of engagement of your right arm is noticeably different. Because of this the coiling and uncoiling action is muted in you matches.
It’s not uncommon for players to hit differently in a match. Obviously the consequence of missing in a match is greater and your subconscious knows this. But the ep 8 vid is visual proof that you are physically capable of hitting, technically speaking, a pretty good forehand. I can only say technically better because the ep 8 vid did not show how many of these forehands were going in. Just as you had a vid showing 90+% of your slice backhands going in you should strive for a similar percentage of successful forehands in practice. This should give your subconscious the confidence to display the practice forehand in matches. Just as a good basketball player can easily make ten free throws in a row in practice (some pros can regularly do a 100 in a row) you should find a power level that in practice you can make ten in a row without any worries. Then you should be able to produce the same power level in a match.
Yeah that's a great point. I'll focus on that next time. I did indeed notice that i coil and use my rotation more on my backhand than on my forehand. I'll do as you say focus on my right hand to drive that coil.
you have a nice slice defensive game and this can bring you really far at club level! here your opponent was already googld and he managed to overcome your slices but it was taking him 2-4 attacking shots each time and it requires an already consistent baseline player and not easy! and, like you said in a different episode, for many opponents it will be quite frustrating to try to break your slice defense if you defended 3-4 attacks and they can exhaust and collapse physically (attacking low pace slices requires a lot of leg work!) and mentally, at least i would do sometimes!😂
Yeah completely agree with you on that. On top of physically tired indeed it's quite mentally tiring knowing that with several opponents a shot would have been a winner or at least given you an easy short return to finish off the next shot!