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Video Transcript:
"Coach Tom Avery here. Head pro at the Consistent Tennis Wins Academy in Naples, Florida and a USPTA elite professional.

Today's lesson is on where is the optimum contact point with your forehand, so stay tuned. When we talk about the best contact point for a forehand, there are two key areas that you have to keep in mind. Number one, you want to hit it in front of your lead foot. Let's say the ball's coming from there, I'm hitting the ball in that direction, okay? I turn to hit my forehand.

Now, you want to hit the ball in front of your lead foot or at least even with your lead foot. If you're hitting the ball back here, you're not going to develop a real powerful forehand. Your forehand's going to be inconsistent and not powerful.

You want to make sure that you prepare early so you have time to step in and get the racket out in front of the lead foot. That way you're getting everything into it. The hip has already turned and now the arm's just coming through with the ultimate racket hit speed.

That's number one, you've got to hit it out in front of the lead foot. Number two, you don't want to hit the ball to close to the body. If you're too close to the body, it's going to cramp your swing, you're not going to be able to swing freely and it's just going to slow your swing down.

I find that many people when they're hitting the ball too close to the body, it's like a false sense of security. You think you can control the ball better when it's closer to [00:02:00] you but that's really going to hinder your ability to get power and consistency. You want to hit the ball away from your body.

Now you notice if I was hitting the ball right here, my hitting elbow right here, it's not to close to my body. Some players like Federer and Nadal are even hitting the ball further out away from the body which will give you a little more power.

You want to keep the ball away from your body. Djokovic on the other hand, he has a slight bend in his elbow and he's hitting the ball at least a hand's width from the thumb to the tip of the pinky. If I put my thumb on my torso, and now my pinky's out there, that's minimum, minimum for optimum power. Let me demo those for you. Watch here in slow motion.

I keep the ball out away from my body so that when I'm making contact I've got plenty of room between my elbow and torso to swing freely. This is probably a little further than you need to be, my arm is almost fully extended. You could be a little closer and still get plenty of power.

Watch in slow motion. From the side you can see how I'm stepping in there and boom, the contact point is well in front of my lead foot. You don't even have to be this much, even if you were back a little bit you're still in front of the lead foot or at least equal with the lead foot.

I hope you enjoyed that lesson and please hit the like button, subscribe to our channel. If you have any questions or comments, please leave those below and I'll do [00:04:00] my best to answer. If you'd like my free serve course or my free forehand course, check out the links. They're down there in the description or up here in your left hand corner. All the best and have a good one."

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