I Took a Forehand Lesson With a Coach With 50 Years of Experience

Okay, Tim, so last session we had, we worked a bit on your forehands. Can you give me a shadow swing at what you're going to do here? Good. Now, one thing, if we can make an adjustment, we don't need to, the old days was everything was way up here to the drop, to the perfect timing, to the front. It's a very difficult thing to control. Modern guys, whether it's the Curios, the Manarinos, even Sinner, although he does this adjustment, but we don't need, we just want to point at the fence and as it drops, we also want grip four, which is our semi-western. Okay. Because what that allows us to do, and we're always going to count from the top bevel or else we can pretend it's a frying pan and we're going to hold it. Okay, oh yeah, yeah, nice, okay. So at that point, we're also big muscles. Okay. So at that point, everything's going to be, let's let the big muscles be involved in the tennis stroke. Okay, okay. Wide platform. Okay. Because again, we have a two foot racket and a two foot arm. Yeah. If we're wide and all I did was one shuffle, I basically got three quarters of this half. Okay, so show me that again. So you want me to, so on the backswing more here, not so much here. I was watching Musetti. Yeah. He's up here, right? But I guess, you know, he's a pro. I'm a pro and when a million dollars goes into making what you are, because that's what basic modern players have had to spend to get to that level, to make that million dollars. Yeah, of course. The next important thing is to make all of this muscle structure be part of the process. I want you to reach across. The pros get away over here so they get the turn. So what you're thinking about is your chin and your shoulder. Yeah. There you go. Okay. And your contact, go ahead. Okay. Plate drop. Beautiful. And again, we're not going to super accent the wrist movement. Okay. It's only 10% of what's, and it usually will lie to you all the time that I'll do something special for you. Never happened. Okay. Fantastic. Cool. Okay. So Tim, I'm going to feed you some balls. Again, we talk about zen tennis, which means that we just relax. Okay. If our strongest grip, if we're shaking hands is 10, we only want to be a four when we're holding the racket. Okay. Nice. Because this weighs 11 ounces. We call it the sledgehammer. If you let us one pound weight travel, it'll create all of the beautiful power you want. Okay. This is a carrying game because at 39 feet, this net actually, because it's not three feet, it's actually five feet when the ball's having to travel this way. Okay. Cool. Okay. So again, we really want every shot is always going to be wide. Okay. Because if we are solid this way, and also we want to get down to the ground because we want most balls that we can to be contacted between your knee and your belly button. Okay. Doesn't mean we don't take them up here. So if we take him up here, we go to contact. We finish high. If it's down about here, we go contact and finish across. Okay. Because it's slow and I want to go across. Okay. Everything finishes across. Cool. Okay. Let's keep staying down, wanting to hit. Yes. Really feel the hips and the shoulders created all that. Oh. Okay. We didn't hear a sound. So you tried to make your hand deal with it. Don't. Carry it. Feel too much roll. Okay. The racket only goes from vertical to about 10 degrees forward. Here we go. Okay. Good job. Contact. Okay. Now we want to go bounce. Hit. Yes. Beautiful. Now what's that's allowing is we're getting so much rotation. We're getting so much height over the net and we're getting down. Okay. A few more. Go. I don't want to get that far back. I want to stay out. Yes. Let that sledgehammer go get it. Love it. Now let's try staying up with our head down a little bit longer. Because as soon as our head moves, our body moves. Okay. I don't want that. Listen to the sound. Even if you don't think you're looking at it, listen for the sound. It'll tell you that you kept your head down. Okay. So what we did on that process is you started with the old way of always going up. Now that's not wrong. Yeah. It just becomes how good and most people are not used to timing up and down to forward. So lower. Keep it lower. Closer to my body. Yeah. But once the ball hits the ground, it's going basically from your knees to your belly button on most fastballs. It allows you to get that height. It's called the cheat code. You get this elbow at the finish. Okay. High elbow. Okay. High elbow finish. Absolutely. Keep your head down. There you go. Well done. In order to get the rack, the ball to travel longer. Is that I want the racket to go about a foot to a foot and a half long out where your left foot is. You want to be at 45. Okay. And then initiate and get out. The ball should be where your left foot is out right there. Contact. There you go. Beautiful. Never let the ball push us around. Love it. Okay. Love it. Okay. Again, you're standing to go up. Okay. Stay in contact. Half a second. There you go. Don't worry about over. We want heavy balls. Okay. Sweet. So good. Sweet. You got to incorporate that. Yeah, yeah, I will. Okay, Tim. So a lot of great balls, but as soon as you start to let Mr. Muscle deal with it or your hand, both of them will lie to you. Yeah. The problem is if we're going too fast and the ball can only stay on your strings for four milliseconds. Don't let it stay two milliseconds. Yeah. Yep. Now the forearm is connected to this. Remember 60, 30 and. Yeah. So what we want to do is if I want this to turn a little bit, I tell this to tell that to turn, but I'm still holding a little steadier. Okay. Yeah. Nice part work. Great. Your contact to that front spot was much better. But again, the number one cheat code in the modern game of tennis is forward and then finish forward. Because how do I get top spin? Because remember, this is a five foot net. And at 39 feet, if I don't at least get enough height, then I'm hitting in the net or I'm hitting the fence. Okay. Nice. Yeah. Awesome.