Okay, a lot of you have tried to help me on this one so I've uploaded my latest attempt to rectify the dog pat. Can any of you see any improvement??? Airforce, 10splayer, jperedo,...can you cast a look please?
It's incredibly hard work to modify a backswing. The kid is totally convinced his racket is not closing and gets demoralised seeing the video playbacks. He can't cope with an extreme change so I'm trying to tweak. It's so hard to see a kid get demoralised and you know darn well there is no easy route to correct the problem. It breaks my heart that I can't help him get thru it more easily. He's very talented and needs the best coaching I can give him.
In my attempts to modify I have tried to make the racket travel in a more continous loop and go beneath the height of the ball on lower shots. There seems to be some marginal improvement and on higher balls the shot seems to work well. Below are the latest attempts to modify the stroke.
Compare the above clips to G's slomo forehand, which is the orginal unmodified forehand. Link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_K5TSZlNFI
It's incredibly hard work to modify a backswing. The kid is totally convinced his racket is not closing and gets demoralised seeing the video playbacks. He can't cope with an extreme change so I'm trying to tweak. It's so hard to see a kid get demoralised and you know darn well there is no easy route to correct the problem. It breaks my heart that I can't help him get thru it more easily. He's very talented and needs the best coaching I can give him.
In my attempts to modify I have tried to make the racket travel in a more continous loop and go beneath the height of the ball on lower shots. There seems to be some marginal improvement and on higher balls the shot seems to work well. Below are the latest attempts to modify the stroke.
Compare the above clips to G's slomo forehand, which is the orginal unmodified forehand. Link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_K5TSZlNFI
Focus on an education in the Game Based Approach. Technique is important but only a means. Hitting a ball is about sending the ball. All the information you gave was about the reception of the ball. Important factors in the reception of a ball lie in 1. knowledge about ball trajectories 2. knowledge of the game situation 3. synchronisation with the incoming ball 4. observation of the ball. This last point was also mentioned by CarreraKent. You did not gave any reaction to his suggestion but give me the idea that you are obsessed in changing "your" stroke of this very unfortunate boy. Please find him a qualified teacher!
Sorry I can not put it in an other way.
Nico Mol.
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