Interactive Forum: November 2008 Philipp Kohlschreiber Backhand

[nabrug]

Hello Nabrug! I didn't even want to read your whole thread...but i did, well half. It's way too complicated and way too unspecific i cannot understand a thing. You have to explain it simpler man or differently. From what i understood fh1 could be the same forehand stroke as fh2 but with a different ball trajectory or spin ?

In short I explain in the article:
1. that besides (the “normal”) Fh1/Bh1 technique there excists an other really different technique namely Fh2/Bh2. Most of the time you use it to create different ball trajectories to achieve different goals. But you can also hit the same ball trajectories using both techniques. Like a pianoplayer who can use different finger settings to produce the same sound.
2. that the players mentioned there use them and in what way they use them. I explain in this thread about the movies in this thread where Kohlschreiber is hitting which stroke.
3. how they use them in play from defending, building to scoring.
4. some caracteristics of swingfases Fh2(A)/Bh2(A). And that they belong there. Coaches should not aim for the same caracteristics in Fh1/Bh1.
5. that because Nadal only uses Fh2 technique comparisons to other players without Fh2 technique is not relevant and in my opinion are non-issues.
6. that comparing to Federer it depends on which technique he uses.
7. that it all has to do with enlarging your hitting zone in which you can maintain your maximal power.
8. that hiting zones Fh1:Fh2:Fh2A compare themselves as 1:4:8. That means that the hittingzone is 4 times bigger with Fh2 than Fh1. If you compare Fh1 to Fh2A the last is even 8 (10) times bigger. So Nadal Fh2A hitting zone is at least two times bigger than Federer with "only" Fh2 technique.

Besides that I want to add these points as well:
1. that even with the highest high speed camera’s you will miss information to really hit the same shot. The essence of a shot is not in the caracteristics of the shot.
2. The stroke is not risky at all. Fh1 is a lot riskier than Fh2. When you use Fh2A you can almost hit with all your power without having to control the shot like you have to do with Fh1.
3. that Fh2A/Bh2A is giving you the possibility to defend in a very offensive way! (Nadal can easily defend incoming slices with Fh2A technique. Fh2A will be dominant in a slice-Fh2A ralley. So Bh-slice is not the answer for Federer.)

Please read the article again. I think it is there plus the questions I ask myself righ now.

Because the technique is so obvious to me now with this article I want to help people who are still looking at all the shots as one technique. That was my main goal for now. I tried to explain that some observations of caracteristics are correct but they belong to Fh2/Bh2.

Nico Mol.