So the first thing from my plb tennis mentor, which I'm applying on daily basis, is the position. Bass stands for position. So position on attacking forehand. This is again, very crucial, very important, and we're going to talk about the aaronic position. Again, I will always give an example for examples of tennis pros that alike like to model the game on it and then apply it on the court, you're gonna start applying the same thing. So let's talk about the internet position of Roger Federer.

The reason Roger Federer is 400 so effective is because he doesn't give much time to his opponents. He takes the ball super early, he positioned himself very early. He doesn't wait for the ball, he chases the ball. So this is the number one thing you want to ride out. You want to chase the ball, you go after the ball, you don't wait for the ball. If you want to attack if you want to have a big forehand, you're going after the ball.

That's the number one thing. You don't wait behind the baseline to 40 meters back. You're trying to step in, you're trying to be around this base, around the baseline if not inside a common attacking. Especially when you pay on a hard course. Now, the way the Roger Federer moves, of course, is incredible. We can all learn from them.

We're gonna try to get to the similar level. But of course, we're not gonna train as hard as he does. We're never gonna reach that level. But it is possible it is possible to get close by at least. So it's very fast, but his footwork, his stay slow, is crucial. You want to stay down when you move around the court again, and you are going after the ball.

The moment the ball leaves your opponent's racket, this is what I'm always telling to everybody, the moment your opponent hits the ball, this is the moment when you need to start moving. When you need to start getting in a position and he chasing the ball, you see the ball coming you chasing, again, lots of clock players, they only start moving when the ball bounces on their half of the court. This is already too late. You cannot start moving when the ball bounces on your house, you're not gonna get out on time, you're gonna have a ball late. And this is the result and the players have a bowl next to their body and they know having ball in front of them because they had no time. Get there to get the right position, and then end up hitting ball too late with racket face open, of course.

And then from this, you can really attack you can't have a powerful forehand is not going to be a weapon. So again, we want to avoid this way. So how are we going to avoid having a late contact point, of course positioning. So number one thing to remember, the ball leaves the racket of your opponent. That's the moment when you start getting into position. So I'm just gonna show that a bit.

There's gonna be also demonstrations of me hitting on the court. But just to give you an idea, so I'm right here waiting for the ball imagining I'm Roger Federer right now, space that that's where the ball hits. Yeah, that's where the ball is my opponent's racket placed at the very moment I started moving and turning at the same time. You see, that's the next step. And I'm start talking about this turning. Remember this again, write it down, I start tearing loads of players.

They just start running and they're not turning the running on your running and then at the end, they start turning and it's already too late. So again. So you have that early positioning as you're getting into early position, you already start turning. So by the time you get to the position, you're gonna be sideways on, you cannot be perfect the turn and prepare for that for the stroke. So we got a position. I'm getting there super early, the ball bounces, and now I'm able to hit it very early.

So if I get there early with my footwork with my feet, then I have a chance to hit the ball early. Now, let's say we got this far down. We're getting there very early. Perfect. We are there before the ball bounces. Now, what Roger Federer does very well, right after this is again, he hits the ball early, so he doesn't just push it early, and then wait for the ball and then hitting ball late, like, again, 85% of tennis players, but he gets there.

He's there super early, and he manages to hit it right on top and in front of him. So this is another thing we want to focus on. So it's not just getting there, but it's about getting there and executing it early. So you don't wait for the ball. The ball bounces on your hand side, the moment the ball, I will show you quickly here. So the ball bounces around your house.

And the moment the bond reaches this point at the highest point after the bounce this ideally, or you want to be hitting the ball, Roger Federer hits it even earlier, he manages to hit it just before it reaches this point. But it's fine. You have let's say about from here up to here. I really want to have it waist high of course. But something like you won't really hit it up there. At least I'm here.

Now, I'm also gonna talk about why is important to hit the ball. Right up here. There is two main reasons for me. Number one thing when the ball reaches the highest point after the contact points over His ball bounces traveling up and reaches this point, that's the point when the ball will start coming down. So when the ball is at the peak of that momentum, this is very important to hear it here because at this moment, the ball is weightless. And it's much easier to hit it up here because it doesn't wait much, then rather than waiting for the ball to drop down, because when it starts going down here, again, it starts becoming heavy.

When it starts to keep becoming much more heavy, then you have to use much more energy, much more power in order to hit it to the other side again, and you're getting more tired. This is why again, timing comes in hand comes very handy. And this is why the prompts they're doing so well, because it's all about the timing. And this allows them to hit a ball at the moment when the ball is weightless. So it becomes effortless. And the result is they just changing the direction of the ball.

And this is why sometimes some big servers if you get a big server and you have a really good returner like Joker, which Amari They changing the momentum of of the game and they take advantage of the big serves, actually. So the ball comes 220 kilometers an hour, you know, you have these these servers 130 miles per hour. And they just time it so perfectly, that they take the power of the ball and they just changing the direction of the ball. And then the guy struggles on the other side. And it's actually his big stuff becomes this advantage at this point to him when you have a really good, really good returns. Yeah.

So again, that's another great thing how you can have an already big weapon forehand on the return. If you time it. Well, if you take the ball right up here, it's much easier than waiting for the moment it starts dropping down starts getting heavy, and you're gonna struggle. Of course, from the moment you can attack at all, but you're gonna even struggle just to get it to the other side, and you're gonna be getting tired. So you don't want to get tired. You're gonna so by making sure we're hitting it up here.

We know getting so tired, the forum becomes much more effortless. Number two reason. Again, super important. This is why Federer does so well. As I mentioned before, it gives less time to your opponent for the preparation. Because if you don't wait here too much to execute to hit it through, then you're really saving time here on the left side.

And the guy on the other side has a less time for recovery. So he's recovering, but he's just getting left, right left try like Andre Agassi used to do you know, prolonging the rally slowly bit to make him tired. And also take him out super early, this guy is just gonna be running, he's not gonna have time to recover is not gonna have a chance to attack you because he's gonna be always on the back foot, you're putting on the pressure constantly. So two great reasons why you want to get the ball right up here and very early. Yeah, number one, you know, getting tired, you're gonna have much more cordless forehand. Number two, you're giving less time to your opponent.

So again, you have a more chance to win the point. Now. Let me go talk about the positioning again, from this angle. I want to be kind of like one meter away from the ball from this angle. I don't want to have it next to my right. Hey, I want to have the ball about 45 degrees right kind of pointing To the to the fall of the net cost of the net.

So I'm having the ball kind of one meter away from my body, and one meter from my kind of right hip here a little bit more. So you're not too close, you're not too far neener you want to find a well balanced contact point. So you have a balanced position. And then you have the balance contact point that allows you to do all this. Because it's, it's crucial to keep the stance if you're not gonna keep the stance, and you can do all this, it's not gonna work, the weight transfer and the body rotation, what I'm going to talk about right now, it's just not gonna work. So always remember positioning, keeping the distance, trying to hit the ball as early as you can, right on top here.

These are kind of the first two things. First two, three things you want to start focusing on in relation of positioning in order to to have that big forehand. Now, I'm going to get into much more detail biomechanics. We're gonna talk about the legs and the body.