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.
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.
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