Tennis Windshield Wiper Forehand
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Titulek 1 If you've watched pro tennis lately you've probably heard of a WW forehand.
It's a specific type of forehand you can hit Opposed to a classic forehand where you hit and follow through up around your shoulder On a WW you hit and the racket comes up but then it comes back down and you can see that the follow through kind of looks like windshield wiper blade as I follow through.
Now, why would you want to hit a WW forehand? Well, this type of forehand, the way you hit it allows you to generate a lot of top spin and still hit very very hard and that extra spin is important at a higher level of play because most players can already pound the ball so what they're looking for is consistency that spin will pull the ball in and allow you to hit higher above the net get more margin for error; And that extra spin will allow you to generate more angles and move your opponent around the court more effectively.
Now, how excatly do you hit a WW forehand? Well, before we get into that I want make a brief note about your follow through.
The way you follow through for any shot in tennis depends on how you're swinging prior to and at contact.
It's the smoothest way or at least it should be the smoothest way to decelerate your racket after you hit.
So, what you can't do with the WW, is take clasic mechanics and then tack on the WW finish.
That doesn't work and you won't hit the WW forehand.
More generally, let's just assume that this is my contact point and I'm gonna swing straight through the tennis ball and when I do that now the racket is on edge facing the camera you can't see my strings If I go back to contact and now I swing straight up you can see my strings the whole time Just lifting the racket up If we take this a step further and I hit a classic forehand where I'm coming pretty much through the ball I hit through, now the racket ends up more or less on edge and I bring it up around my shoulder.
But now, if I swing up a little bit more I'm gonna swing up as oppose to through my racket strings will stay facing the camera more than they would if I was hitting a classic forehand.
And you'll notice on the finish I'm turning my arm over as oppose to extending up, continuing to extend up because this is an awkward way to follow through So, after you hit and the ball is well off your strings you'll turn over at the shoulder and this allows you more time to decelerate the racket.
Let's start by looking at my classic forehand and my WW forehand from the front.
We've got them in split screen here the forehand to my right is my classic forehand and one on my left here is my WW forehand As we play these two forehands forward I make contact and when I follow through on a WW forehand during my follow through you can see my strings but on the classic forehand my racket ends up on edge, you can't really see my strings too well and again, that's because of the direction I'm swinging prior to and at contact.
If we now clip to this side view same relationship, the further away is a classic forehand we got the WW to my left What we're gonna do is draw a line between my swing paths prior to and at contact what you're gonna see when we do that is clearly on the WW I have swung up on the tennis ball more and on the classic forehand I'm swinging through it a little bit more Again, because of the direction I'm swiging on the WW, up on the ball that's gonna cause my follow through to look different than the classice forehand.
It's gonna cause my racket to look like a windshield wiper, my racket, my arm as I follow through and complete my motion.
How do you practice developing an effective WW forehand? Well, the way I like to think about is as I swing up to the tennis ball what I wanna do is attack the ball with a top edge of my frame.
So, assuming I'm hitting the ball this way as I swing I attack the ball with the edge of my frame almost like I'm trying to hit it with the frame and that will get me swinging up, across the tennis ball, lifting up when I make contact.
Now, when you practice this shot chances are when you're beginning you're gonna frame a bunch of balls, you'll probably dump a bunch of balls in the net, there'll belot of top spin on the ball so it'll be pulling down earlier than you expect so what you'll just have to do is hit about ten thousand ground strokes and just really work the technique but I promise you you hit enough balls and use the correct technique you will develop an effective WW forehand.