This is the first time I saw your videos and I would like to say this is on of the best I have seen on KZfaq about swinging the tennis racket. I appreciate the thought you have provided in this video for a player that has been playing and studying tennis for quite a while. Great video.... keep it up.

Good advice! Proper distance to the ball is often overlooked by a lot of KZfaq coaches.

Amaizing❤

The best coach ever. By your examples, even in some other videos, I really understand what you mean.

I suggest everyone try this bucket of water thing - paradigm shift

Wisdom! Not like other coaches only say something like “just relax”

Your videos are always great Edgar. Do you have any drills to reinforce this? And how does it differ for bent or straight arm hitting? Thank you very much

What I tell.my students is to swing outside the fingertips of the nondominant hand

Too much echo in the audio

Seriously flawed info. Of course you don't want to be too close to the ball and no one advocates pushing the racket or muscling one's shots, but you do want to be balanced and you are off balance on every one of your demonstration swings - which is why you are having to take a big corrective step on every one of those swings to maintain your balance - that you presumably think helps generate Force into the shot when the reality is that a proper swing taking advantage of centrifical force and the weight of the racket would generate much more pace without necessity for any extraneous body weight shifting and / or corrective steps. Certainly there are times when that's necessary because you're moving wide to get to a shot, but that shouldn't be the goal. Ideally you'd want to get to the shot in time to be quiet with your body through the entirety of the swing - except for the initial core rotation and initial hip thrust to get the swing started. Also, a lot of those shots that you suggest are too close to your body are really not so,; you've just not allowed the ball to drop or you aren't choosing to alter the contract point and swing path take the ball a bit higher or further in front of the body so you'd still execute a smooth, rythmical and balanced swing. Like many so-called expert instructors, you seem to want to over correct a problem. You also seem to have bought into the fallacy that emphasizes the role of the body in generating force on the shot rather than letting centrifical force in the way of the racket do the work. Just look at any online video of Federer or Djokovic or any of the good pros and warm-ups and you'll see how quiet their body is through the shot and how easy and rhythmical their swings are and they certainly aren't taking any giant corrective steps during or after their shots to regain their balance unless they're running wide because the opponent force them to do so and there wasn't sufficient time to get to the shot to execute an on-balance swing.