 Hello again! So we're now into the third video of 5 in our mini series and in this video we're going to be talking through some of the ways that I like to progress the backhand technique in junior players in particular 8 and under. So let's get into my favourite backhand progressions. The progressions that I'll go through in this video will be pretty similar to the ones on the last video on the forehand. However I will mention that beforehand when using just the tennis ball with throwing and catching skills I do encourage players, pairs and coaches to ensure that we're catching and throwing with both our right and our left hands. This is really important for longer term development making sure that players are capable on both sides of their body. Whether they have a single-handed backhand or a two-handed backhand it'll be good for their future development. So first things first how to hold the racket. If you saw the serve video you will know how to show the chopper grip to young children. So simply pass the racket edge side up into their hand they'll be shaking hands with the racket and then they'll just put their spare hand on the back of the racket. Once they've got the right grip we're going to start with our bounce taps like we saw on the forehand side. So shoes each side of a line facing forwards the ball's going to come in it's going to bounce and we're looking to make contact in front of our shoes. So quite simple bounce tap, bounce tap you'll see that I'm not doing a big swing it's just a push. Once they can do that comfortably we'll see if they can move out to the side next. Move to the ball, bounce tap, recover. Move to the ball, bounce tap. Once they can do that again consistently you can then start to introduce some rallying skills. So onto the next progression just like the forehand that we saw on the previous video we're now introducing the side on position. So starting face on as the ball comes in towards the player they'll be turning sideways making contact with the ball because they're turning their hips to face the court we should see another tip stance. So here we go turn sideways tip stance and sideways tip stance. Next is on the move out to the side tip stance out to the side. Once they can do that comfortably you'll then look into do some rallies and then we're going to introduce the follow-through. So again we call it the big nose on the forehand there's no reason why we can't call it the big nose on the backhand. So to the side big nose finish, side big nose finish and then we have movement. Out to the ball, see the tip stance again, again out to the ball. Tip stance is really important to ensure that the child is using a unit turn there using their body rather than just using their arms here and another teaching point is to make sure that the player is swinging from low to high so they're lifting the ball up and over the net. So the final progression on the backhand side we're going to start to make the swing slightly bigger so that as the child grows bigger and stronger and they start to play on a bigger court they can hit the ball slightly faster and slightly deeper. Now I was actually doing it a little bit in that last progression I shouldn't have been. We're now going to try to take the tip of the racket back behind us and sometimes it's good to have a visual aid like the cone behind so this is what we wanted to look like. Side on, hit. If that's a step too far what we just did you can simply get them starting side on getting the tip of their racket to point to the cone they'll set themselves first they'll look up at the ball and then they'll swing through just as we did before same again here and then when that's comfortable they can get back into the ready position and do it all in one go. Then we'll practice it on the move then we'll add rallies and have a great backhand. So they were my backhand progressions I hope you enjoyed them let me know if you do it in any different ways and feel free to subscribe to the channel if you'd like to see more take care