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Imagine snapping a bullwhip in the horizontal plane. Your hand stops (and even pulls back slightly) as the whip snaps through. .... with a tennis racket, your body is the hand and the arm/strings are the whip.

Taught me some useful skills I didn't know or heard before.

you have mentioned sth I found a lot of 3.5-4.0 player have in common including myself. I have a good take back, a full energized coil at the beginning of every stroke, and yet most of my shots are not deep and heavy as I thought they should be and I must compensate it with higher trajectory and more spin. The problem is exactly what you stated here, by looking back to my recordings, over-rotation is the problem, especially the hip rotate together with the upper body make my shot have very little energy transfer efficiency I suspect (especially those seemly “easy” shot require you generate power yourself). One side notes to your video plus my own finding is that often many people will say they like to play with people who play fast, or in my case I found my balls are easily deeper and better quality when I’m defensing, that also seems due to I have no time to rotate my hip on the run, the lower body is naturally constrained while upper body is free to move. I feel much more energy is transferred and shots direction are actually made more precise. I think for those who like to play with heavy hitter but having trouble with pushers probably have the same problem, at least some of them. And the same for those who can made great down the line forehand from outside in, yet can’t apply that to a floating ball. Love to hear your feedback. Thanks.

BRILLIANT!!!

Another great lesson. Best coach on the web

Fantastic 👌. Best short tips so far 👍. Shoot from the hip applies to so many sports!

Excellent!

Fascinating Steve, thank you.

great tip, thank you

Great video. Thank you

Very very informative. Thank you so much

Exactly on the mark! I think there's a better illustration than the potato tho, maybe a whip, maybe a flail

Love the physics. Brilliant lesson

It makes a ton of sense, as always!! You, sir, have a gift

This is really a great explanation. I'm going to the court with a knife and a potato right now.

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Genius

They’re getting smarter , saying this already more then 20 years. If the hand goes the body follows automatically!! I ask my students to stay in profile until contact and then let everything go

Does the same concept apply for the two handed backhand?

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I will start carrying a potato with me as a reminder from now on!!! I wonder instead of using potato-knife-hammer, if the demo can be done with a pickleball player, might have to mute the screams :-)

While I like many of the "One Minute" vids, this one does not make sense to me. How would the energy not pass to the ball, the racquet does not go through the ball like the knife through the potato ?! The only reason for slowing or stopping the rotation would be to end up facing the court, in no way is it transferring more energy, actually less... Maybe the advantage of finishing the stroke in that position outperforms the little energy you loose by stopping the rotation.

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