Free the Feet, Free the Hips
Whenever possible, you want to power your forehand using both of the primary engines that accelerate the stroke: positive balance and rotation. Lean into the shot, ending with your weight deeper into the court...
How to Hit Really Really Hard (Without Missing)
At the start of our forehand power checklist, we distinguished between effortless power and effortful power. Obviously, in order to hit really, really hard, you have to use both, but the manner by which...
Which Forehand Stance is Best?
The following is an excerpt from the book The Fault Tolerant Forehand, which will be released on April 15th! Stance is similar to grip – it doesn’t matter that much. With an open, semi-open,...
Tennis Makes you Better at Every Sport
At Fault Tolerant Tennis we teach fundamentals. We don’t start with tips and tricks. We don’t start with this limb position and that joint angle. We start with the human body and build out...
The #1 Forehand Consistency Killer
I can’t trust my forehand. I’ve heard the above sentence more than any other when it comes to fixing the forehand. It’s an extremely common problem that I struggled with myself as a teenager...
Training to Crush The Pusher
In order to beat a pusher, you need high percentage offensive shots. Most players at the recreational level do not posses high percentage offensive shots, and yet they attempt offensive tennis anyway. This leads...
Develop the Feel of Federer
Many people assume that “touch” and “feel” are simply natural talents. They are not – like everything else in tennis, touch and feel can be trained. While there certainly are players who, with practically...
Drop Feed for Forehand Development
There exists an extremely common issue impeding forehand development across the world today, and drop feed solves this issue. Just drop the tennis ball on the hitting side of the athlete's body, roughly...
Forehand POWER Checklist
There are two kinds of “forehand power.” The first is effortless power. Effortless power is the power we gain simply by using proper biomechanics. It’s gained while barely sacrificing any consistency or fault tolerance,...
Dominate the Slicer With Heavy Low Forehands
At Fault Tolerant Tennis we teach fundamentals. Our aim is not to provide assorted tips and tricks that apply only in certain cases, but rather to educate our readers about the essential biomechanical movement...