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[riquered]

yeah thats what i understood from the reverse take back too the only thing is that if you watch fed his elbow doesnt really go past his torso on his take back, and the instruction says for you to lead with the elbow as far as you can and thanks for explainind the supinating and pronating part as well i just needed some clarification,and also how do you feel the shot it self? your backhand looks good too,try to compare it to feds and c how he holds the racket a little longer before he releases it

[tennisPete]

@riquered Thanks for pointing the elbow position out. May be I don't need to stretch as much... With the straight arm and everything, my forehand now feels pretty much like a serve. It takes a while to get used to the pronation through the ball feel and get the direction of the ball right at the same time~ But I love the feeling whe I kill the balls with my new forehand and watch the shock on my opponents face lol

[riquered]

@tennisPete i was messing around with the take back yesterday and i figured that if you hold the racket with both hands and apply the principle of reverse take back by leading with the elbow but continue to hold the racket with both hands as far as u can, u will get that feeling of the stretching of the chest and also your arm will be locked and wont go past your torso, then just from that position start moving your forearm back and then continue with the rest of the motion!! thoughts???

[KrugmanTheKing]

@riquered

Federer's take back is ultra simple: you turn your hand and you drop the arm down. You can take your arm further back, but it's not necessary most of the time. The key is to have your arm in the position it will be in at contact before it starts moving forward. Bent or straight, it has to be true. The second point which really devastating in tennis is to aim above the center of the ball if you want to have spin. The third key is to swing on as horizontal a plane as possible.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@riquered

I hit with a straight arm and a similar take back to Federer, except I use almost a full western grip, but that has little relevance here. All I do is extending both arms to the side, I let the racket go down and I rotate as fully as I can.

There are key points the guy in the video doesn't show, namely the swing path I mentioned. It has to be very direct in most cases. Federer and Nadal swing most forehands on a 10 to 16 degrees plane before contact...

[tennisPete]

look at 1:53, that's my take on the reverse takeback. It's more like stretching the chest than taking the racket back. Took me a lot of trial to figure out the supinate and pronate part. Supinate is like turning the door knob clockwise. I did it to rotate the racket tip back to pointing to the back and pronate through the swing~

[riquered]

can you do a front and side view?? and how was the lesson??

[tennisPete]

@riquered I'll try to upload a side view later from the indoor court. It has only 2 of the 5 chapters of the lessons for now. But it did help me with the "brushing" problem and I have never thought about the reverse takeback until reading the chapters.

[riquered]

@tennisPete yeah i singed up for the kickserve yesterday, and i dont get the reverse take back, and by the way they have all 5 chapters up!! can you explain the reverse take back?? supinate and pronate your forearm rapidly??? when?? sorry but i am totally confused so u supinate and pronate as you hit??? so whats the reverse take back??