Forehand

what is ultimate forehand? it is power, angel, deep and consistency. u might have this xperience, one day u are totally on, one day totally off. u don't know what happen. in this clinic, we are gonna learn the proper form. u can trust ur form. the cross court, the down the line. the deep shot. short ball. then ur opponent will fear ur forehand.

--grip: semi-west

--ready position: 1140
ready position is well balanced position. ur knees r slightly bend. u can quickly move to the right or the left. i see contantly out there when people played. their raquet is down there, they r looking over here, looking over there. they r not really paying attention to the ball. u have to have good ready position in order to be a good player. ur weight is down. ur eyes r focus. u have really big eyes, watching the ball coming.
again, ur feet are shoulder length split, ur knees are slightly bend. ur raquet is up. at first u may feel stupid, but it is ok.

--footwork: 1400
step out with outside foot. step cross. as u r close to the ball u start we call baby step to get ourself in the position. we plant our leg and drive to hit the ball. tennis is very much of timing game. that a little amount of time is very valuable.
reay position, footwork is prety important part of this puzzle.


--back swing: 1718
type A: big loop. it is kind of waste of the time. it is ok on the clay but ont on the other surface.
type B: compact stroke. it is an abbreviated swing.
tips: the back hand goes back together that will help rotate the shoulder.

Open & closed stances
2 types of stances. open stance and close stance. both of them used outside let to drive the hip and wieght forward.
closed stance: we had plenty of time, i run towards the ball, i plant the foot, i step and i drive through the target.

--Ball contact point:
where r we making the contact with the ball? it is the biggest misconception in people's mind. the proper contact point is right in front of ur front foot. so ur

whole body is behind the ball and then u can generate the power to hit the ball.
dip and lift: dip the knee and lift to hit the ball. that dip and lift actually will generate more power and more spin. let us utilize the biggest muscle in our

body, our leg and our butts. everything works together, my leg, my butts, my shoulder.. so we can generate all the power possible

--follow through:
the final piece of the puzzle is the follow through. without follow through, we lost the control because the ball stay at the string for a shorter amount of time.
a, it is gonna hurt us. if u want to hit the ball with power, u have to relax. the easier u feel, the more power u will hit. u lost the control by not following

through. u gain the control by following through.

Lobs and drop shots

introduction

In today's clinic, we are gonna talk about the drop shot and the lobs. i am sure u played with the player. all they do is just lobs and lobs and lobs again. these players move u up to the net with drop shot and then lob coming over your
head. normally we call this old man tennis. this shot is really underestimated. now i just wanna blast every ball.
I guarentee once you learn touch nice drop shot, defensive lobs and offensive lob, u will become a complete player, one

they can use anything they need to win the point. otherwise you just blast and blast, once the opponent change the pace, you r in trouble.

drop shot is great shot, especially on the clay court. but it can be used on any surface out there. lobs too. it can be used to get u out of the trouble. today we will learn the drop shot, learn how to hit it properly. learn when to hit
it. i guarentee you can pick up that stroke and find it is not that difficult. and you will have a lot of fun when u use those in your matches.

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drop shot technique

what u have to know about the drop shot is every net shot will use continental grip which is v of the hand on platform number 1. it is our volley grip, half volley grip, drop shot grip, overhead grip and serve grip. once u learn this
continental grip, u r way ahead of most players. most players use easter grip and then change to backhand eastern, or windshild waper here. once you learn the continental grip , u can do whatever u need to do, u can drop shot, u can puch
hard in order to win the point.

now u have the grip, now what we do with the grip. the motion of the drop shot is exactly same as slice motion. what u trying to do is high-to-low-to-high, following through. we are trying to generate the spin, when it hit, it is going to
stay where is that. very important on this shot is do full following through. too many people when they hit the drop shot, they go from hight to low, then what they do is they cut it. most time they cut it right down the net.

what we wanna do is we start closed to the net. because the drop shop is very much of touch shot. we have to learn good touch. i like to use this terminology that when we are taking that ball in, it is like catching a waterbollon toss.

continental grip, turn to the side way position, from high, not too far open. with too far open, we are gonna pop the ball up. it is about 10, maybe 15 degree. maybe a little bit more. depends on where we are on the court. but 10-15 degree in general, from high to low to high.
u don't want to give the drop shot the way too early. otherwise they have plenty of time to run up and cover it. so what we wanna do is make it looks like we are going to blast it. and in the last second we take the pace off the ball,
nice soft hand , put back spin on the ball. so when the ball hits, it bounces 2,3 time before get the service line. that is the sign of a good drop shot. once we feel comfortable about the drop shot, we move back a little bit to make it
more difficult. give a little bit air under the ball. starting to get that feel, understand what it takes to take the pace off the ball.
backhand side is identical to the forehand side.
remember, from high to low to high. finish the slot. don't cut down on the ball. cutting down will go right into the net.

Once we feel comfortable about drop shot, we wanna accelerate the raquet a little bit more. what it does is it put even more spin on it. so when it hit, the ball will bite the ground even harder.



it will sit there and stay.we want our drop shot to be an effective shot. the target we are aiming for is 2,3 bounces before it get to the service line. once we get the feel, we can start working on the placement. the effective drop shot is at the right time we hit the ball to the right place. we don't wanna just hit the drop shot randomly. actually we wanna use drop shot to benefit us, to set ourself up to win the points. we may win the point with the drop shot, we may win at the next point. once you hit the drop shot , close to where it is going. u can cover the down the line hit, or cross over.

terminology: soft hand around the net. you have the soft hand , you can take the pace off and hit it where u want.
tips: soft our hand, down the raquet and from high to low to high.
time: rememer the time we use the drop shot is the opponet is at the baseline. donot use it if they start moving forward, ready to come up to the net cause that will help them put the ball where they want them to be. great way to make ur opponent to move, make them run. remember what we do is take the pace off, put the spin on it and make it under control.
work on the softhand , that is all thing we have done so far. with this tips, u can pick up the drop shot pretty easily. now we move back to the baseline. usually baseline is not the area u normally use the drop shot. it is really hard to make the drop shot effectively unless you have opponent they played way behind the baseline. once you get the feel, you can do what ever you want.
tips: set up like normal stroke. in the last second, change to the continental grip. remember the baseline is not the place you wanna do the drop shot very often.
it is only used when ur opponent played way behind the baseline or they just don't like to come in and then u can force them to come up to the net with this drop shot.
when u at net, or mid court, drop shot is high percentage shot. to the baseline, it is low percentage shot.
tips: drop shot is just like the waterbloon toss or egg toss. nice and soft hand.


Deffensive BH/FH lobs:

2 types of lob: deffensive and offensive lobs. u can hit the lobs from ur forehand side or backhand side. once u understand the technique, it is pretty easy shot.
the reason i like the lob shot whenever u got pulled wide, lob shot give u extra time to come back to the court, back to the point. it works great when u play with really aggresive player. drop shot can keep off their balance, so then are not able to get to the position they wanna to be.

first thing first: grip--continental grip. lob is prety much soft stroke, a touch stroke. 4-5 feet over the outreach of the hand technique: from low to high. 45 degree. short motion. most problems when people lob is they lobs too short. then ur opponent just blast ur lobs. some one lobs way to high.so they have no control over it. shoot about 4-5 feet hight should keep u in the court. and it also give u some room when u are in the match situation.
nice and relax. right over the head. very simple. forehand lobs is great shot to put you back in the court.
tips: always push ur lobs shot to the backhand side. so even u hit the lobs too low, they can't get to hurt u that bad. backhand lob is identical. basically just pushing the ball right to the target.


in this drill, i setup a box of the cone in the back quarter of the court. what i am tring to do is all my lobs are aiming for the back quarter of the court.
first SB will be feeding me and i will be aimming for that side. once we feel confortable, SB will come up to the net after feeding me, put the pressure on me.
backhand lobs is so critical. even u lob too short they can't hurt u.
finish up ur follow through.

RETURNING A DEFFENSIVE LOBS

some people play single or double. they fear getting lobs. the lobs is over his head, they totally in panic.
tips to return the deffensive lob: RELAX. everyone has 3 to 4 seconds on lobs which is over your head. it give u plenty of time to run back to back of the court. relax and realize you have plenty of time. the technique is simple. as soon as u the ball come over ur head. realize u r not able to get it.
conclusion: u r attaching to the net. they throw a lob over ur net. first thing first, realize u r not able to touch it. as soon as u realize u r not able to touch it, try to follow the ball. if u can't follow the ball, anticipate where the ball is gonna bounce. flip back over like it, and u will realize ladies do this much easier than man because their wrist is more flexible. once u understand this technique, u no longer fear going up to the net. this kind of technique will help u single, it will help u doubles, make this point last much longer.

OFFENSIVE FH/BH lobs:
now we are working on the offensive lobs or topspin lobs. the difference between deffensive lob is floating lobs and topspin lob is driving lob. the key to this shot is accerlation. we accerlate the requiet, not slow it down. the harder u drive the back of the ball up, the more pressue the air drive the front of ball down.\
that is how topspin lobs work.
technique: semi-west grip. depending of where u are on the court, u adjust the angel to hit the ball.


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the ball.




DROP SHOT WALL TRAINING:
Now we are moving to the wall. just make sure we working on the wall with all our strokes. but one stroke is neglected very often time is ur drop shot. when u work on the wall, do not forget working on the drop shot. 2 or 3 feet above the line. find the target. and working on hitting the target everytime.
when u work on your drop shot, it is very important that we do the touch. find the target , aim for the target each time. come to 6 to 7 feet from the wall.

practice it. it is easy , but not quite easy as it looks like. once u feel comfortable here, u start moving back to the service line.
when u feel a little bit comfortable here, u move further a little bit from the net.
if u mess up , do not worry. it is gonna happen.

once u work on ur backhand/forehand drop shot, u will feel comfortable in match situation. and i gurantee u are able to execute this shot when u play it.