Tennis Backhand Handling a High Ball
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Handling the high backhand is taught shot for a lot players, but the mechanics of hitting a high backhand arent really diferent from hitting more traditional backhand.
A backhand that would be maybe about waist level.
What you need to do is figure out what your rocket and arm relationship is, at contact for normal backhand, the hitting arm position and you take this, off course I am hitting two handed backhand, and then I am simply just raise it up.
So my arm position, my rocket position doesnt change, I just bring the whole thing up as one piece, as one unit.
and the same thing goes for one handed backhand, here is my contact point around my waist as a normal hight for one handed backhand.
I just raise that up, just coming up at the shoulder There is no bend in the elbow or anything like that, rocket just comes straight up.
Now what does happen for high backhand is the way you swing up to the tennis ball changes a little bit.
If I am hitting a ball at waist level, the rocket drops down and then swings forward, but if I have to hit a ball thats a little bit higher.
I am not gonna bring the rocket down as much during my back swing and forward swing, it stays a little bit higher and again that is true for two handed and one handed backhand.
Now lets take a look at some pros hitting two handed and one handed backhands.
We gonna start with Sasha Jones.
She is gonna hit a normal hight two handed backhand to start and here is her contact point, we gonna split screen this with a highball.
First of all, lets just look at her rocket and arm position, that relationship at contact.
The rocket is obviously higher on the highball, but relationship between the rocket and her arms stays the same.
Now lets move it back a little bit and look at how low she drops the tennis rocket on the normal hight backhand and then highball and you see the rocket is a little bit lower, the rocket and her arms a little bit lower on the normal high backhand, and on the highball her rocket and arms stay a little bit higher and again thats because she has to keep the rocket up higher when she makes contact with the tennis ball.
Now lets switch to Justin Gimelstaben, and we will watch his one handed backhand and here we are at contact on the normal hight and highball and again the relationship between his hitting arm and his tennis rocket stays the same.
It looks like kind of that he just raise his tennis rocket and his arm just a little bit.
Again from the shoulder on that highball and if we rewind it slightly. Here he is swinging up to the tennis ball and again just like Sasha Jones, hes got the rocket and his arm a little bit higher on the highball then he does on the normal hight about the waist high backhand.
