What does mean leading with the back of the hand in a BH loop?

[isaacdl]

Me, yesterday, while surfing on Youtube, found one video of Coach Chen, a chinese coach very famous in chinese social media. At the start of the video, he talks about something that disturbed me all night, because I think I have the same problem when performing a bh loop against backspin.

The video cut is the first. He starts saying that the boy's problem is leading the movement with the racket head instead of the back of the hand. When he uses the racked head as a lead, it reminds me a lot of my bh topspin, very thin contact, and very uncontrollable. On the other hand, when using "back of the hand" as a lead, the contact is thicker, well controlled, and it looks really safe. It also reminds to quanshibao's Fang Yinchi bh. I know the translation is not very good, that's why I'm asking what you understand from the clip. In my opinion, when using racket head as a lead, he touches the ball on the top of the ball, but when using back of the hand, he makes a more solid contact, like behind the ball. But I'm not quite sure, the subtitules are really bad.

If someone is chinese and understand what is he saying or if knows what he is trying to explain it would be nice, I think I found the root of my problems (one of them, but big one) and I want to fix it no matter what.
Thanks in advance!

 

[Dr Evil]

Great video. I can't help with the translation, but I think I get what he's saying. I was taught to lead with the wrist (rather than the "back of the hand") but it's probably the same thing. The point is that your forearm and wrist snap should both drive forward through the ball rather than pulling off to the side. You can see in the video that when the coach "leads with the racket head" he's pulling off to the side, whereas when he "leads with the back of the hand" he's driving more straight through the ball. More stable contact, control, and easy power.

 

[KM1976]

In short - keep wrist relaxed and let the snap happen as a result of quick motion/momentum of your forearm. Do not force the snap of wrist.

 

[isaacdl]

In short - keep wrist relaxed and let the snap happen as a result of quick motion/momentum of your forearm. Do not force the snap of wrist.

Thanks, forcing the snap of my wrist is indeed my problem, I never thought it that way!

 

[KM1976]

Thanks, forcing the snap of my wrist is indeed my problem, I never thought it that way!

I think you should check out the video on Backhand by Andres Lind. He explains a very important concept of loading energy and releasing it without a break. That is the core concept and it takes time to get it in the muscle memory.

 

[Wakkibatty]

I think you should check out the video on Backhand by Andres Lind. He explains a very important concept of loading energy and releasing it without a break. That is the core concept and it takes time to get it in the muscle memory.

Link?

 

[KM1976]

Link?

 

[zeio]

I took a look at the original video. The English title is mostly accurate.

反手拉球教学 #乒乓球教学
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1cpZMYVEov

What coach 陈康宁/Chen Kangning is saying is that the boy is consciously doing the "wrist snap". Rather, he should just focus on leading with the back of the hand (my note: with your wrist bent in) and the wrist will snap naturally (my note: because of inertia) and with that the racket head will follow, yet the hand (wrist) is under tension (my note: you're actually hitting the brakes at that point to stop the inertia from overextending your wrist) and the racket head is under control (@0:20 in the original video and 0:35 in the subbed video, and this is where the English title is off, "But this way, the motion is tight. And it's under control.")