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Hello Everyone,
I have been working a lot on my timing, posture and movement. However, I am by far from being any good. I have a few questions which are related to timing the ball, which I feel I need some help on. I hope that you all will also find my questions worthy and would share your valuable experiences with me.
Question: My strokes are with full swing, this generally means that I let my hand drop till my knee or below and then take the ball late with mostly upwards motion. Since I learned most part of the forehand topspin on my own, this action comes natural to me.
Although this gives me good spin but I loose on the speed, depth and placement part. I understood that for the correct timing of any stroke specially forehand topspin, the initial motion is to just guide the racket to the ball and accelerate just before the contact.
Well, this is easier said than done, since I execute my stroke in one smooth motion, accelerating just before the ball contact seems unnatural and jerky and I just fail to adjust to this new technique or it is just that may be I misunderstood the entire concept?
However, currently, I am loosing big time on long serve attack since I tend to attack very strong but due to my action I sometimes just miss the contact totally on the serve attack or its just an upwards graze on the ball. Worst of all, due to big swings, I get tired after continuous attack and become more and more inconsistent as the match progresses.
Can you guys please help on how can I get rid of these long swings and develop a compact more efficient shorter stroke for my forehand?
Thank you for taking your time out to go through my post and for sharing your experiences.
I have been working a lot on my timing, posture and movement. However, I am by far from being any good. I have a few questions which are related to timing the ball, which I feel I need some help on. I hope that you all will also find my questions worthy and would share your valuable experiences with me.
Question: My strokes are with full swing, this generally means that I let my hand drop till my knee or below and then take the ball late with mostly upwards motion. Since I learned most part of the forehand topspin on my own, this action comes natural to me.
Although this gives me good spin but I loose on the speed, depth and placement part. I understood that for the correct timing of any stroke specially forehand topspin, the initial motion is to just guide the racket to the ball and accelerate just before the contact.
Well, this is easier said than done, since I execute my stroke in one smooth motion, accelerating just before the ball contact seems unnatural and jerky and I just fail to adjust to this new technique or it is just that may be I misunderstood the entire concept?
However, currently, I am loosing big time on long serve attack since I tend to attack very strong but due to my action I sometimes just miss the contact totally on the serve attack or its just an upwards graze on the ball. Worst of all, due to big swings, I get tired after continuous attack and become more and more inconsistent as the match progresses.
Can you guys please help on how can I get rid of these long swings and develop a compact more efficient shorter stroke for my forehand?
Thank you for taking your time out to go through my post and for sharing your experiences.
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