I wish I'd have watched this video 30 years ago. It's everything anybody needs to know about a single hand backhand drive. It's not about mimicking any pro player but understanding the foundations, the function. Congratulations and a big thanks, Kevin!

This man knows what he is talking about. What a sensible, bright, pleasant approach to teaching how to hit a one handed backhand. Where was he when I was trying to understand this stuff back in 1975. I know he wasn't born yet. I am happy i discovered him tonight.

Yes please we definitely need a tutorial of the one handed backhand from A to Z 🙏🎾

Thanks Kevin! I've been playing tennis for almost 30 years and knew my backhand has some technical issue. Thanks for explaining in details and make it easy to understand.

This video has transformed my one-handed backhand. My backhand is my favorite shot and I have been told by my coach that it's very effective and not to make any changes, so I was hesitant. However, your forehand tutorials changed my forehand to be deadly and the content of this video made a lot of sense to me, so I gave it a go. Now my backhands are so much heavier and going even deeper into the court. Brilliant! Thanks, Kev. Much appreciated. Please continue to produce these excellent videos.

Excellent video Kevin! What I would like to see in the tutorial is how to hit backhands from the back court so that they go over to the opponent high, hard, and heavy but also how to make the ball go up and down quickly when you are very close to the net for both a one handed backhand and a two handed backhand. We love your channel. Thank you for all you do to help us be better players!

This was the best backhand lesson I ever watched

Perfect video. I was practicing my backhand the other day hitting against a wall as a I do. I was aware that I needed to point the butt of the racquet at the ball but felt like the backhand was constricted. Then I noticed that if pulled across my body rather than swing up in front of me I had better power. What I was discovering was your abduction explanation without realizing it. This video put it together in such a succinct way for me. Also, the notion that you load the body a little on the turn to prepare for the shoulders to be in the right position during contact is something I've never heard of. Again, great explanation..

Great lesson. I’d definitely like to see further tutorials about mastering the one handed backhand.

i was struggling w my 1 handed backhand, after watch ur video, my mind felt woww i think i got the answer of my problem

Great lessons as always Kevin!

This was the fastest crashcourse of tennis ever. 🎾. The speed was amazing. Haha. As a person who have played tennis over 50 yrs, also competing as young, I agree that your advice is valid for one hand backhand. Mine changed to two handed backhand, but sometimes miss my one handed backhand. It was Björn Borg, who I can 'blame' my change of this key stroke. Keep up yr great work, and slow down the pace a little! Or make a bit longer vlog. You are a pro tennis coach, by far.

Great video Kevin!! I finally understand this shot . Thank you so much

Wow. One of the best one handed backhand videos I have ever seen. Thank you for breaking it down like that. Taking time to go over the grip, the basic mechanics.. phenomenal.

awesome break down of the key movements. best i've seen yet!

Awesome lesson Kevin - perfectly loaded with information w/t being too much! Congrats & thanks for sharing your knowledge.

yes it was very good thanks, great explanation/presentation

This was the best backhand lesson I ever watched !! Thanks

Great Video and Yes a full tutorial on the one handed backhand from A to Z please!

Very good explanation!

Cool, great explanation for someone exploring the one hand bh! Very clear. I was taught that the bh rotation is supination, with the thumb rotating outward on the extension. Thanks and keep up the great work!

Best backhand lesson I've seen. Good communication

You are a great teacher - thank you!

Great video, thank you!

Love it Ryan an amazing reminder, always trying to make sure I finish high like the chin shoulder to shoulder you’ve talked about previously! Thanks man

Great video!

great video please make more on the backhand

Your training sessions were impactful I need more training on single backhand

Excellent! You sir have a very nice backhand.

Awesome video

Could you please do a video on how to build match confidence/mindset for rec level players? i feel that i do well in practices but as soon as i start a match, my play level sinks. really annoying.

These are really good videos. Could you please do the same thing for a two handed backhand I seem to struggle with pulling the left arm. I can’t seem to find the feeling. Thanks again.

Tyvm & GodBless!

Great video Kevin! Could definitely use more! Also I'm interested in your thought on how to transition from a one handed to a two handed backhand. Having had a (flimsy) one handed for over 30 years, I haven't found a way to change.

@TotalTennisDomination

2 ай бұрын

I think one key is making sure he use the same idea of the lever swing, but just two hands. I think one of the differences that I've been experimenting with, is having the right arm pull to create leverage position and the left hand extending through the contact and adding stability. Good luck!!

Agree with others, this is a game changing video for me. Thanks TTD !

Great lesson as usual! My 1HBH is solid but I'm planning to move to a 2HBH, would love a video on that.

@TotalTennisDomination

2 ай бұрын

Noted! I'll put that on the list. thanks

@theyruinedyoutubeagain

2 ай бұрын

@@TotalTennisDomination thanks so much, you're the best! ❤

@702bigron

2 ай бұрын

Why are you switching if you don’t mind me asking..

Nice.

Not mentioned is footwork. Right foot has to step toward sideline more than to target for power and not to open up too quickly as shown.

Brilliant, so useful, yes please, love to see further tutorials on the one hander backhand.

Great video, Kevin! Thank you. It’s almost like pulling the racket to the ball to hit it with the buttcap. I’m thinking of designing a method to groove this correct swing. I’ll wear one of those wrist braces with a splint in it so that my wrist is immobilised in that cocked position throughout the stroke. PS: thinking about maintaining the cocked leverage position of the wrist, I’ve just discovered that there are two one handed backhand killers: wrist flexion and ulnar deviation. It’s crucial to avoid these two from happening. Thoughts, Kevin?

@TotalTennisDomination

2 ай бұрын

I agree that flexion isn't optimal during hitting because you're using a smaller muscle, but it is necessary in situations where pros don't have time and they're not able to use their optimal swing. In these moments it's purely survival to do whatever you can to get the ball over, in my video, I focused on optimal swing where we have time to set up and swing properly without the pressures of ball, speed, spin, and power.

When You talk about leveraging, what kind of lever is it? Fulcrum is the shoulder joint, it's understood. Is it single arm lever? And when You talk about wrist action isn't it a forearm action?

@TotalTennisDomination

2 ай бұрын

I don't know if I understand your question. The shoulder is the fulcrum, and the shoulder muscle provides the force to move the arm. In this video I've mostly isolated the single movement combined with rotation of the torso. Rotation of the torso starts the first portion of leverage, then shifts to the shoulder. thanks

@maxiv8744

2 ай бұрын

@@TotalTennisDomination Thank you for your answer! I'll try to clarify my question. When You showed the leverage on racquet: short power arm - fulcrum - long arm, it was clear and it was very good visual material. But next explanation was not clear for me. I understand, that human arm is a single-arm lever, not a double lever ( I hope I have chosen an understandable term - english is not my native language) But why - straightened arm, horizontal abduction, shoulder muscles, 90° angle between racquet and forearm + eastern backhand grip = "leverage", and all these factors + neutral grip = "no leverage"? Grip makes that difference? Or something else? If it possible, could You please clarify it? If not - no problem. Thanks in advance!)

Fantastic vdo

Does the wrist stay locked in the 90° angle with the knuckles pointed up, or does the wrist ever relax through the contact zone where the wrist releases slightly?

- Очень понятное объяснение! Благодарю! 🎾👍🤝

You are an AMAZING TRAINER!!!

@TotalTennisDomination

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your support!

The best video

This video transformed my one handed backhand into a two handed backhand

The key question is when does the racket transition from butt pointing at the ball to impact (racket tip coming through). I think most people (myself included) transition too early.

Explain the concept of hitting the ball in front of you . If I am the baseline with my shoulder pointing to the net, where is my front ?

@FMD023

Ай бұрын

The people that comments what a great video or instruction this video is are either noobs that want to learn or people who wants to learn tennis. This video has too much information for someone to learn. Also don’t drill by dropping the ball in front of you. A beginner can make it look easy. Either have someone feed u from the other side or get a machine and feed it to you. Way different than just dropping the ball in front. I practice playing with a one hand BH and I’m not taking his advice.

I call it the "metal rod position". I stick my arm straight in front of my body. At first, keep your knuckles forward like you're throwing a punch. Now slap down on your knuckles with your other hand and notice how the wrist breaks and the hand goes down. Now do the same thing but stick your arm in front of you and turn your knuckles up toward the sky. Now slap down on them as hard as you want and the wrist/hand will not budge. I call this the "metal rod position" and just think about keeping this metal rod/knuckles turned upward position the entire time throughout the swing.

@karadale5219

2 ай бұрын

Wonderful! In other words ‘maintain the COCKED wrist’ throughout the stroke.

The grip with the "hook". Interesting... I need to try it. I was always trying to keep the rocket in the relaxed, loose way, to have more head-rocket speed resulting with more spin and more power. But yeah, control was not there ;-)

@pawelmod3292

22 күн бұрын

and thanks for the video! You are always sharing a lot of positive energy!

👍🎾👌

Do you not think your non dominant hand plays a role in a solid backhand? From my experience it's less about pivoting correctly and more about equally throwing your left hand behind you to counter the swing so you don't over swing like you showed in the video. basically open both arms as if you're about to hug a big wall, every time you swing to keep yourself positioned correctly.

@TheTennisDaddy

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely does..I feel like my left hand is like the anchor holding the stored tension from my racquet arm right before I’m ready to unleash it..without that anchor, it’d be purely a one hand swing(which it’s not unless you’re actually an amputee)..with the left arm going away, I use the analogy of squeezing the shoulder blades together…but everyone resonates with different analogies

@JohnSmith-pb4ri

2 ай бұрын

Mine non dominant hand plays a pretty big role. I use it to pull back on the racket a little bit before letting go in order to create extra power on the ball. It's a nice little move but I use a straight arm throughout the swing more like Thiem. I'm not sure if it works when hitting with a slightly bent arm like Federer or Wawrinka.

@TheTennisDaddy

2 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-pb4ri I kinda do the same, I use the analogy like my left hand is the anchor holding the stored energy my coiling body is producing and there’s a slight pull with the off hand/extra shoulder turn right before my racquet drops and hand lets go

@TotalTennisDomination

2 ай бұрын

I think the left arm is important but more so for helping pull the racquet back during the take back and maintaining balance. The hand going back that your referring to is delayed and at contact and fully extends to counter the racquet swing on the opposite side of the body. Great question thanks.

@JohnSmith-pb4ri

2 ай бұрын

@@TheTennisDaddyI would kind of equate the move with taking a plastic stick and bending it with both hands. When you bend and let go, the plastic stick will violently snap back into place. If the rest of your technique is solid, the ball comes off the racket like a rocket.

oooops, you are bit early with your pic and this was already discovered.... you need to be focused on the CTM "slot entry" position. That this the key point.

Why isn’t Almagro getting the same mention as these players he has the best backhand I’ve ever seen

I did not understand how to hold the racquet

Nice video but if you are barely getting into tennis or learning this video is wayyyy too much overload. Luckily for me, I do have knowledge of tennis and understand what he’s trying to say. Even I think it is wayyyy too much information. It’s best and simple way to learn is remember to remain sideways when you hit a one HB. Maintain an L shape wrist on contact and your follow through. DO NOT flick or manipulate your wrist. Hold the throat until it’s at your side pocket (in the slot). From there make sure your arm is straight and wrist in an L shape. So your arm and racquet should look like an L as well. If you are just learning or starting on a one HB, don’t worry about creating top spin first. Worry about your footwork, staying sideways, and timing the contact with the ball. Once you get that down with reps then you will eventually incorporate a shoulder rotation on the follow through. Practice with a ball machine or partner. Dropping a ball in front of you does nothing. It is completely different when a ball is coming at you rather than drop a ball in front of you. For the sake of not sounding like a hater, appreciate the hard work on the video but I am definitely not using these drills to practice on how to hit a one handed BH. A lot of this information can be simplified.

4:17 That is DISGUSTING! Roger's only technical deficiency, imo - that pronation on that takeback. The racquet face is pointing almost almost straight up = 70-80 degrees of pronation!! Grigor, Justine, Haas etc - the great technical exponents - would be 0 degrees at that point. Perfect simplicity.....

Great instruction. But …. I learned a lot simply. You probably could not get away with saying this today - think 80’s Not Safe For Work lingo. (I was also a teenager at the time). I learned: -Eastern grip -Full turn And … -Slap Your Boyfriend. 😂 It worked like a charm in the 80’s because there were so many slap stick movies - at the time from the 50’s and 60’s of people getting B-tch slapped at the time. People were so used to seeing these movies of people winding up to backhand slap someone. I don’t know if that saying would work today. 😂 But the arc of the backhand follows the same path as if you B-tch slapped someone with the back of your hand. I taught people who just could never get it until I took the racket out of their hand and just told them to pretend that they were slapping someone they hated. 😂 😂 😂 People are violent. 😂 I never met anyone in 30 years who had problems with their swing after I told them that. Also, relaxing on the grip and only squeezing just before impact when I said the phrase, “Slap your - insert -boyfriend or hated person. But keeping hand relaxed on the grip and squeezing just before impact. I never met a person that did not get it after hearing that phrase. And I thought that people would need a lot of tweaking of the stroke after that basic instructional phrase, but nope … people got it right away and it stuck. The only time it needed any tweaking was MAYBE when they got to the advanced level of the game. People AUTOMATICALLY get into the leverage position when they are about to B-tch slap the most hated person in their life. Their hand automatically goes back into a leveraged position- some people may be a little timid and not give it a real big wind up and not go back that far; so I might tell them, “No, you REALLY hate this person, give it a big wind up”, and they automatically bring their hand further back and they ALWAYS follow through naturally- because you would naturally follow through if you were slapping someone. (Nothing like using people’s natural instincts). It sounds horrible and funny, but I have never had a child or adult that didn’t get it and they never slipped back and forgot the swing path after hearing it.

Don’t waste your time. 2 hands is better.

Fantastic and thank U very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about Carla Suarez Navarro? For me... the most beautiful backhand in WTA. Please make analysis about her backhand for all of us. Tks for share.