Tennis - Inside to outside swing

How to ACTUALLY swing at the ball (NOT “through it”)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5uiu7R90b0&list=PLVOspl3tsfno90Lz3nYOzg5jlizltmfF_&index=14

Not low to high

1. Did you know that the best players in the world do not swing low to high?
2. Most players don’t realize that you can actually hit both flat and spinny shots with this one versatile swing path.
3. Yet it’s going to have you playing the most consistent shots of your life.
4. The best part is anyone can do it and you can implement it into your game in a matter of minutes.
5. Lets look at
   1. The best swing path used by top players to achieve consistent strokes.
   2. How to know if you’re going to be swinging in the right direction or the wrong direction
   3. How to change this swing path to flatten out the shot or hit more spin on demand
   4. What is the best way to practice this swing path and get you dialed in before every practice or match?

Different ways to swing at the ball

1. There are multiple ways to swing at the ball
   1. you can swing through it
   2. you can swing straight sideways
   3. you can swing straight up
   4. you can go through it and up and
   5. you can go across the ball
2. It’s important you understand this point before we go into depth on what this versatile swing path is.
3. And there are many different sling paths.

Out forward and away from the body

1. But if you want to maximize consistency and shot versatility, this is the best swing path by far.
2. Most of the results you see on YouTube that talk about how to properly swing at the ball talk about swinging low to high.
3. And this has nothing to do with that.
4. And honestly, that approach is quite restrictive; because it’s going to limit you to only hitting top spin shots and not flattening them out.
5. But really the best swing path is forward and away from the body. Forward and away from the body.
6. This is going to not only give you power since you are swinging forward but it’s also going to give you spin since you’re swinging across the ball.
7. You an use the same swing path but still easily switch between a Topson shot and a flat shot.

Gives you consistency

1. Now by stretching your body out like this, out forward and away from the body, you’re going to get a ton of consistency; because it actually stabilizes all the larger muscle groups and stops their rotation.

Conceptualizing the swing path

1. And it’s important to note that different people will conceptualize the swing path differently.
2. For some you may need to imagine swinging toward the net pole if you swing too much to the side of your body.
3. For people who still swing too far forward or make contact too far in front, you will need to imagine you are swinging more to your side.
4. You may think you want to be right in the middle of swinging straight forward and straight sideways.
5. But I often find that players that are trying to do this still end up swinging too far in front and making contact way too far in front of them.
6. So I often tell people to swing out more to like a 30° angle off their body.
7. And if you unsure if you’re doing it exactly right, then what you need to do is, get a side-by-side video comparison with yourself to players like Federer, Nadal and Alcaraz and other top players who are swinging this direction.
8. I also find that you need to offset an exaggeration with the opposite exaggeration.
9. So if you’re way too far forward then you want to start acting like you got to swing out straight to the side.
10. And what ends up happening is, you actually start swinging in the right direction; you understand that that’s actually the correct way; because you’re trying to offset it that much.

Contact point

1. Regarding your contact point, you can make contact with the ball anywhere on the swing path;
2. Optimally, it’d be further out away from you; since you will have more space between your arm and your body; and you have more leverage out there.
3. But hey, it’s tennis, and there’s another person on the other side of the net trying to mess up your strokes. So maybe it’ll be a little bit close to you.
4. So yeah, a straight armed contact is preferable.
5. But a lot of times you see a slightly bent arm; and that’s fine.
6. Other times, it may be so far away from you because the guy stretch you out so far.
7. But as long as you’re making contact along this swing path, then you’re going to be putting in the ball into the court consistently.
8. And you’re giving the best; you’re really giving yourself the best chance to do that.
9. That’s why, it doesn’t really matter if you have a bent arm or a straight arm at contact.
10. But we all know a straight arm looks a lot prettier.

The racket finish

1. So does my racket finish matter in this swing path?
2. Well, you want to keep swinging in this direction the entire time.
3. So your your racket finish is going to happen automatically.
4. You don’t really need to actively think about it.
5. You may even have a shorter and better looking finish the more you stretch off into this direction; because you’re just pulling off that way.
6. And if you swing more vertically in this direction you’re going to have a higher finish maybe even above your head.
7. And if you swing more horizontally you’re going to have a finish more by your shoulder.

How to know if you’re swinging properly enough forward or to the side and away from your body?

1. Now how do you know if you’re swinging properly enough forward or to the side and away from your body like Federer, Nadal and Alcaraz?
2. Well the best indicator of the proper swing path is to see if your hips and your chest are freezing or stalling out a contact.
3. With your hips rotating in one direction and you stretching your arm out in the opposite direction, it’s going to pull your chest in two different opposing directions.
4. And this will balance it out and stop the chest rotation.
5. And it’s often a telltale sign with my players; if they’re swinging too far forward and through the ball rather than to the side and away from the body, especially if their chest is over rotated at contact, or if their chest and hips are still rotating during contact.
6. There are two ways you can check to see if you’re doing it right.
7. The first way: record yourself and see if your chest is stalling out of contact.
   1. Compare the video side by side with Federer, Nadal and Alcaraz to see if it looks familiar.
   2. And you can look at other players that are kind of doing similar swing path.
   3. I just choose these three because it’s very obvious with them.
8. The second way is way more immediate.
   1. During the shot, it’s going to feel like you’re stretching further and further and further away from your body in the direction.
   2. And you’re actually going to feel your lat muscle stretch out.
   3. It’s often the feeling that I aim for in my shot; when I feel like I’m not stretching deep enough into this direction.
   4. You are quite literally going to feel like you’re stretching in the direction with a swing path.

Can I hit a flatter shot or a spinnear ball with swinging out and away from my body?

1. You might be wondering can I hit a flatter shot or a spinnear ball with swinging out and away from my body.
2. Well if you want to flatten it out, swinging across the ball is totally fine.
   1. You just want to make sure your swing path is a little bit more horizontal, swinging out that way.
3. And in all the videos you’ll see online from Federer’s practice sessions, you’ll see he swings pretty horizontally out in this direction.
4. But if you want to get more spin, swing across the ball, but swing vertically in this direction as you keep stretching out this way.
   1. So you’re going to swing out this way but more vertically this time.
   2. I think an obvious example of this is clearly Nadal.
   3. Just watch his practice sessions though because he finishes his racket by his shoulder rather than above his head.
   4. But you can still see that he isn’t swinging totally horizontal in the practice sessions like Federer is.
   5. But he’s also not totally vertical in this direction like he does in his matches.
   6. So of course if you want to hit a shot with great power and spin, you’ll want to swing between horizontal and vertical in this direction, like Nadal practice sessions.
5. Now, like always, you’ll need to get a lot of reps in practicing the different ways to swing this racket and direction.
6. Master the horizontal, flatter swing path in this direction.
7. Master the more vertical swing path in this direction.
8. But just remember to keep feeling like you’re stretching out deeper and deeper and deeper into this direction.
9. If you’re pulling straight up, then of course you’re going to brush the ball and get no power.
10. And if you just hit flat forward and through the ball, rather than in this direction, you’re likely going to pull off the hit; but that will introduce a whole host of other issues we don’t even want to hope we don’t even want to get into those issues; because they are a whole mess.
    1. And you’re likely going to miss your intended target on the other side of the net.
    2. Spray the ball long or in the net,
    3. reduce your shot variability,
    4. you’re going to have less stability with the upper body and hips of contact
    5. But man, they are they are crappy problems, and it’s not really a lot of fun to go through those issues; because it sucks.

How to practice? The drill

1. Here’s what is going to get you doing the swing path correctly every time in a matter of minutes so you can dial in your swing just like that every day, even if you took like a 6mth or a 2-year hiatus from the sport.
2. So stand behind the baseline, in the alley and have a basket of balls with you.
3. And if you’re on a clay court, I want you to draw a line at a 30° angle off the baseline.
4. So if you’re doing a forehand on your right hand, you’re going to draw an angle out that way.
5. Then you’re going to drop feed the ball to yourself, so you’re just going to toss it up, let it bounce, let it come up, and you’re going to hit the ball down the line in the alley.
6. When you swing your arm, you’re going to stretch it in the direction of this line that you’ve drawn.
7. And you’re going to keep stretching your arm in this direction off to infinity.
8. Just keep going.
9. And then, yes, it’s going to go all the way through the end of your stroke.
10. And don’t worry; your follow through will automatically happen for you.
11. So keep everything lined up there.
    1. To make it easier to swing this direction, I often find that,
    2. if your head stays lined up with this line through the entire stroke;
    3. and your non-dominant arm stays lined up with that line for the entire stroke, and only pulls in once the racket kind of hits that non-dominant arms hand, instead of forcing it to pull in,
    4. when I have both those things lined up there, especially the head, it makes a massive difference;
    5. my swing path stays out into that direction.
12. It’s almost going to feel like you’re swinging straight out that way.
13. Because, if you line everything up forward, it’s very easy to swing forward.
14. But if you line your head up this way, you line up everything out that way, honestly it feels like straight; but obviously when we’re looking from above, from the sky, we know that it’s actually diagonally.
15. So you can do as many baskets of balls as you like.
16. You can do this on a court, at home, before practice or before a match.
17. And it’s really a great way to get the swing path dialed in, so you can play great tennis at the blink of an eye, whenever you want.
18. Once you’ve got the right swing path down, you’re going to start hitting more consistently and making a lot more shots than when you weren’t before.
19. And it’s really a great feeling.

How do I propel my racket out to the hit?

1. So now you might be wondering well how do I propel my racket out to the hit?
2. Do I use my arm? Do I want to use my legs and pushing and loading? Or do I want to use my hips and stretch out to the hip?
3. And how do you hit the ball powerfully?
4. Well these are the exact questions that I asked myself when I was first developing this until I discovered this new way to unlock power from my body with literally one simple change.
5. Now with this one change, you’re going to be able to get 50% more power from your strokes by taking advantage of this natural phenomenon with your muscles that you use every single day with your everyday life.
6. You’re going to hit more powerful shots from places you never thought were imaginable.
7. Let me tell you, when I started doing this, my on the run shots, I was like, dude I can’t even believe I can smack these now when I’m fully stretched out.
8. It’s actually mindboggling.
9. Lastly you’re going to properly engage the kinetic chain with this energy creation method in a way that no one is talking about.
10. So to learn all this click the video right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q21EPyCw3Wc

How To Stop PUSHING Forehands By Fixing Your Swing Path

by Vincent Simone

I’m going to be showing you the secret to the forehand swing path that’s going to lead to massive amounts of power.

What is swinging?

1. So what is swinging inside to outside anyway?
2. You hear coaches say swing away from your body; go in to out.
3. But they never really provide any real explanation.
4. So at the beginner level, if you take a mediocre tennis lesson, they’ll often tell you to swing like a letter C.
5. The problem is, they aren’t explaining that the letter C is not like a ferris wheel.
6. But it’s actually going around your body.
7. So the letter C is not this way (vertical direction from bottom to up).
8. It’s this way (horizontal direction from the back to the front).
9. In order to get power and arm extension, throw our arm away from ourselves as the last part of the kinetic chain.
10. The more radius that we can get swinging away from our body, the more power that we can produce.
11. And that’s why most of the hardest hitters on the forehand have more of a straight arm rather than a bent arm.
12. But you can still do this power move with a bent arm as well.

Why people push

1. A lot of people try to swing forwards to get power.
2. And this is why people push the ball; because when this happens, you’re basically kind of stopping your momentum instead of going away from your body.
3. It’s much easier to have a looser, more fluid swing path, if you don’t get jammed in here; because then the only place that you can go is to finish the swing; and your swing is very small; it’s a little bit too compact.
4. But if we go inside to outside, we’re then throwing the arm away from ourself; and it also forces you to not get too close to the ball; because, to be quite honest, getting jammed, you’re never going to produce a good shot.
5. You can still pull it off, but it’s going to be weak.
6. So when you go, when you do this, we set the racket on the inside; inside does not mean wrapping the racket behind your back.
7. Racket face stays in front of the hand and this does not go behind our pocket.
8. This is called wrapping. We don’t want to do that. That’s going to lose us power.
9. Keep it in front of your pocket, and then from here, the racket needs to go out there and we go boom.
10. Except a lot of people, they swing into themselves because they want to finish the swing.
11. Not really throwing their arm, not being loose, they’re very tight.
12. They’re kind of hunched over with their shoulders.
13. But when we go this way first, we’re getting more radius and more power; and you’re going to get rid of this feeling of getting stuck, getting jammed, pushing the ball.
14. And that’s basically it.
15. For a right-handed player, we’re feeling like we throw the racket out to the right.
16. When I can no longer throw any farther, that’s when I wrap around the swing.
17. That’s when we finish that letter C.
18. The racket’s basically traveling 180° from the point back here to the point where it finishes.

Recap

1. The letter C is there.
2. It’s just not vertical. It’s horizontal.
3. Like the hands on a clock, going from 12 to 6.