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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Every player has been coached to “brush up the back of the ball” in order to generate topspin. While this advice is technically correct, it’s very misleading as to how this famous “brushing” actually...
Jennifer Brady hits her forehand like a man. And that’s a really good thing. Not just in the sense that Jen Brady’s forehand is awesome, and the forehands on the ATP tour are also...
“Fault tolerance” is a term from computing – it refers to a machine’s ability to remain functional even in the face of a fault, a small problem. For example, imagine that one of the...
A full hip rotation is impossible if both of your feet are firmly planted on the ground. Trying to rotate your hips while your feet stay planted will put a large amount of torsion...
A great lesson is worth infinitely more than a bad one. And I mean that literally. It isn’t worth double, or triple, or quadruple its less effective counterpart. No, the difference in value is infinite. With...