How to Hit the Perfect Forehand
The calendar just switched over to April, and I’d like to christen the new month by recapping the technical underpinnings behind a perfect forehand. Before we start, a quick word of warning: Don’t click...
Is “Snap Your Wrist” Good Advice?
Well… no. Not empirically, anyway. Just look around at your local courts, club, or league, and you’ll see plenty of “wrist snapping,” despite seeing precious little, you know… good serving. The cue just doesn’t...
The Rafa-Style Follow-Through
The “buggy whip forehand.” The “reverse forehand.” The “over the head follow-through.” It goes by many names, but my favorite pays homage to the first man to really abuse it on the pro tour...
The Felix Flick
I get this question a lot: If I’m trying to master the modern forehand, who should I emulate? Look no further than 2022 Rotterdam champion Felix Auger-Aliassime. We always talk about how the optimal...
The Secret to Saving Your Knees
The knee, like the foot, is a beautiful, well engineered piece of biological machinery. And also like the foot, the knee is very easy to injure. When a person is standing, their weight is...
Losing the Feeling
The perfect forehand release is elusive. That loose, explosive, natural flick through contact feels amazing when it works, and when it’s not there it feels… frustrating. One day you’ll have it, and the next...
“You Can’t Teach That”
What is a “forehand,” really? For many, it’s simply a tennis stroke, but for us, it’s something else. We consider “the forehand” to be a class of related movement patterns. The entire class constitutes...
The Swinging Volley is a Cheat Code
There’s one shot in tennis that changes the geometry of the court in a way unlike any other: The swinging volley. This shot allows a player to attack in ways that are physically impossible...
“I Just Started Missing.”
Ever wonder why sports books try really, really hard to get you to place parlay wagers? It’s because the parlay bet, a bet type where you bet on multiple events, and ALL of them...
The Power of Patience
If you can keep the ball heavy enough, deep enough, and, most importantly, in the court, for longer than your opponent, you’re almost always going to win. Most tennis points end not with strokes...