Comments on: How to Use Legs for More Power and Spin

By: Carlo

Carlo — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:36:52 +0000

I read this article again after “sneakily peeking” the video from the effortless forehand course 😉
This is a great tip as it can be really applied by feeling it and not by overthinking. This tip along with the feeling you are lifting the ball with rhythm can be easily applied in a match because you can still be focused on strategy and don’t get paralyzed by analysis (i.e.fancy millisecond-long forearm inward rotations seen elsewhere). At least that’s what I found to be true for me.
Tomaz, thank you again. You made my tennis experience way much more enjoyable and fun and you know what it means for us, tennis addicted.
Keep it on!
Carlo, Rome (Italy)
PS don’t want to rush you but PLEASE keep up with your schedule for bringing out the whole forehand course 🙂

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 06:26:36 +0000

In reply to Chris. Hey Chris, If balls go long easily then you've definitely added more power to your shots with your legs. But to keep the ball in the court don't think ANYTHING about your arms - at least not consciously. That's NOT how we play tennis. We just imagine where we want to hit the ball and we keep adjusting. Follow the link to see how natural this process is.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:36:48 +0000

Hi Tomaz,
Excellent piece of advice on using the legs. I tried this, and the balls tended to go high and long quite easily. Should I make my swing have a less upward movement, and introduce more extension with my arm?
Chris.

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 01:50:07 +0000

Thanks Master. You always get very useful tips. Regards.

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 06:20:30 +0000

In reply to Zac.

Good point, Zac, it’s exactly like you said; you must never forget the intention.

As for more mentally-oriented topics, please jump over to:

http://www.tennismindgame.com

… where there’s tons of articles I’ve been posting since 2005.

Hopefully you’ll get the right mixture of information by combining the ideas from both websites.

By: luiz

luiz — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 01:17:08 +0000

thanks

By: Zac

Zac — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 14:30:38 +0000

Hi Tomaz,

Great post as usual. It seems that these principals could be applied to the kick serve, too.

One thought about this and all advice related to creating more topspin: if you do something to create more topspin, you also have to adjust the height of the ball so that it lands where you want it to.

A lot of people seem to see topspin as an end in itself. They do things to get more topspin, but then they play low over the net and their balls land short.

Really, it comes down to always keeping in mind the idea in your post “#1 Thing In Tennis You Must Never Forget: Intention”. In this case, that means having a clear height and depth that matches the amount of topspin you’re hitting with.

In my own mind I put the intention idea in parentheses after the title of all of your posts, because with so much technical information, it’s so easy to forget. For example,

How to Use Legs for More Power and Spin (while not forgetting to always hit with a clear intention!)

Forehand Follow-Through Catching Technique And Why Use It (while hitting with a clear intention!)

I would encourage you to keep making more mentally-oriented videos like the intention one, because even on your site (the best there is!) the technical advice seems to outweigh the mental advice. This can give the impression that the technical stuff is more important than the mental stuff, even though the opposite is probably true!

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 13:24:23 +0000

In reply to Susan.

Thanks, these are really effective ideas but as they are not as fancy as an analysis of Federer’s forehand I am afraid most people will just overlook them.

Any yet these two tips will do much more for the quality and the effortless feeling of hitting the ball than that fancy analysis…

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 09:37:19 +0000

Great instruction as usual Tomas.