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[Music] Stop. Don't break it.
>> What? I can't do it.
>> I'm going to teach you. Don't worry.
>> Okay.
>> All right. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to my channel. Today, we got a video where I teach this lady right here who is What's your number?
>> Uh 38.
>> 38. I'm going to teach her how to hit a one-handed backhand slice. Uh, dink. This is going to be kind of like a dinky master class where I show her exactly how I hit my backhand dinks, uh, patterns to use, and how to stay consistent at the net. So, let's get straight into it.
First of all, I'm just going to show you the good form and good technique on how to hit a backhand ding. So, right now, I feel like she doesn't really know what she's doing with her backhand. You want your wrist slack. So, basically do everything that I'm doing. Just replicate. Okay? So stand straight with me. First, we're going to lock the wrist. We're not going to be moving the wrist when we're danking, okay? Especially with the one hand. We're going to turn the paddle to a 45° angle. Kind of a opening it up. Okay. Open up your paddle. So this way.
>> Yep.
>> We're going to open up the paddle 45°. Okay. Next. So when the ball is coming to us, we are taking a step, loading all the weight on our left foot, and then using our shoulder to go forward. So, keep that paddle at 45°, right?
>> Your paddle is Yep. 45° versus we're using our shoulder pushing the ball forward. Okay? You never want to fully extend your elbow when you're thinking. We want to keep that elbow kind of bent and like I said, just using our shoulder, guiding the ball with the shoulder.
>> So, what are the main mistakes?
>> So, main mistakes for you are you're using too much wrist and you are swinging up way too high. We want to guide the ball and keep the paddle uh flowing where we want the ball to go.
>> How do I grip my paddle?
>> So, I have a continental grip at the net always. I feel like that's just more stable for me and I feel way more consistent at the net, especially with my backhand. So, let's let's start hitting a few. Okay. Let's see how it goes.
>> Okay.
>> What if I have a semi western? Will it work for me?
>> It's going to work, but it's going to be a little bit tougher because you're going to be way more open with the back end. So then you kind of have to even try to close it a little bit more. Still keeping that 45 degree angle. But since it's western you're super dominant with the forehand, we want to be kind of neutral at the net. Backhand and forehand.
>> Okay.
>> Okay. So, let's try to hit a few now. Okay. Let's see how it goes. Good. Much better already. Good. All right. Not bad.
Okay. So when do you think we want to make contact with the ball? Right now. So there's ball phases, right? There's uh at the peak uh while it's peaking or on the descent.
>> Good question. I think at at the descent.
>> At the descent. Okay. Uh actually, no. We want to hit the dink right now at its peak if you want to be aggressive. So, right now, I'm hitting you kind of dead dink. So, I do want you to be hitting them at the peaks. Whereas, if I bring you out wide, if I hit a wide dink, I want you to hit it on a desend. Okay? So, if you feel like you're late to the ball, hit it on a descent. Okay, keep going. Good. Yeah, get out of here. Nice. Good. Keep going. Good. Good. Nice.
And what I like, what most people don't do is have their shoulders turned the other way and then guy with our shoulders towards the ball. That's big right there. That's good that you already got that down because actually a lot of you if you're missing backhand things, one of the reasons might be that you're just too straight up with your shoulders. We want to twist together with the paddle and the shoulders. I mean turn more than twist and then use our shoulders to guide the paddle and the ball. Okay. Okay. Keep the paddle at a 45°ree. Okay. Don't lock your wrist. Keep the paddle 45. That's That looks really good. Much better. Much better.
So, now that you know the proper proper technique, it looks really good. One thing I would say is you're still going too far with the lead. We want to stop towards our opponent instead of bringing it all the way up. That's going to help us to be just a little bit more consistent as well. Good. Good. Nice. Okay, much better. Good progress.
Now, just to add a little bit more to the backand to be just a little bit more aggressive, getting a little bit more backspin. So, on your backhand dink, I actually want you to start now kind of like on top here instead of like this. So, this way once you're going under the ball, you're going to get a little bit more backspin on it, a little bit more brush on it. Okay? A little bit more backspin starting from here. So basically starting up and still doing that same motion, keeping a 45. Here's a perfect example of the pros doing the same thing. Look at Ben Johnson. Look at Dascu. They are getting that paddle ready, pointing the tip at the sky. Top of the paddle is looking up, getting ready, hitting those things with extra bite on it. So they are not attackable. Look at Ben John's doing exactly same thing as Dasco. Diesco just overexaggerates it even more.
>> Let's see how it goes. Oh, going to be right here. Up straight. Okay, let's try it. Good. Keep that paddle forward at me. Don't bring it up too high. Good. Don't bring it up too high. Keep it forward.
[Music] Good. Bring it up. Good. See, coming with a little extra bite. Push it still. 45°. Don't keep it straight. We keep it 45° always. Okay.
So, one thing that I didn't point out is that you need to get that paddle early. As you see, Tanya is rushing her backhand where I'm lunging and I have my backhand ready for a dink. That makes it just much more smoother and way more consistent. So, as you see, Tanya is looping her dinks and is doing it very fast. where when you look at me, I'm lunging and I'm lunging together with my paddle and my shoulder. So, just a small tip that's going to really help you just stay a little bit more consistent at thinking. Let's get back into the video. Lunge to our left leg. So, if you're a righty, we want to go from right to left. And if the ball is even farther, we want to drag that foot. So, right there, this is a highle footwork where ball is coming to our backand. It's pretty far where we can't get to it. We're going to drag the right foot to get to the ball.
>> So, that was a perfect example of where you should have dragged the right foot instead of being like this and the ball was way back there. So, we are dragging to get to that ball. Okay, let's try dragging the foot a little bit. I'm going to hit a little bit more aggressive dinks. So, when I do hit more aggressive dinks, I want you to go more towards the middle instead of going back crosscourt. Okay, let's see it. All right, that looks good. Not bad. Drag. Good. Again, what I mean by not pushing it too high, we want to keep it straight. Not here, but we want to finish straight. Drag the foot. Good. Good. That's really good. Turn it. Perfect. Way to drag it. Good. Yeah, I would to drag that foot. You see how you can get to the ball much easier when you're dragging the foot? Good job. You're doing great.
So, now we're going to do a really good footwork drill, especially for the backhand thing. First, I'm going to show it to you and then I want you to replicate uh what I'm doing. Okay? So, this is a really good drill to just get a partner and just work on your footwork while also working on resetting that backhand kick. Okay? So, you see I have two cones, but you don't really need them, okay? But if you do have them, it's a bonus, right? So, you're going to be starting right here. This cone right there is where you're going to be resetting the dink. Put that cone right there because I think that's the perfect position to reset uh your dink, especially if somebody hits a really aggressive dink to you. So you don't want to reset more towards the middle because if you get hit out wide, the person on the left is going to be reaching in towards the middle going to try to take that ball out of the air and be aggressive. So that spot is perfect because the right side player is going to be jumping and Ernie. So we want to avoid the Ernie and we want to avoid the right uh left side's player forehand. So that's the perfect spot to reset that ball. Okay, you're not going to need your paddle right now. You're going to toss an easy ball down the line. Okay. So, wait right before you toss it. Watch me. Okay. Watch me. You need this. All right.
[Music] Okay. Now, we're coming back towards the middle. All right. Resetting that ball in the first half of the kitchen. So, this drill works on your footwork. It works on your resets. What I'm doing right now is hitting the ball on the descend. And I'm also not taking my paddle way too far back. I'm keeping it within my left foot. Again, dragging the right foot to get to the ball. Keeping my paddle in front of my left foot, loading everything on my left, keeping the paddle 45° 45° and pushing the ball into the kitchen very soft. Okay. Okay. You cross your feet, right? We want a lunge at the end. Okay. Okay. Let's try it again. Good. Try it again. Keep going. We want to hit the ball in a descent and we want to get a little bit lower right now. Okay. So, we're taking a lunge. We're basically lunging.
>> Yep.
>> And resetting that ball.
[Music] Better. Good. Good. No, we want that ball to be right here, not in the middle. Okay, good. Last step is a lunge. That's really good. Really good. Let the ball go down. Okay, we're hitting it on a descent. Okay, you have more time. Good. That's really good. One more. Okay, one more. Get lower. Okay, get lower. Last step is low. Okay, we want to get in front of the paddle with the left leg in front of the paddle. Right now, you're paddle here off balance. Okay, we want to always be on balance. Okay, better. Okay, good. So that's your drill to work on your footwork, taking that step, dragging that right foot, and also resetting the dink. All right.
So, what do you think about the onehanded back hand?
>> I think uh it feels better.
>> Yeah, it feels better. She stopped using her wrist. She knows that she her wrist needs to be locked and that we only want to use shoulder. Um, another thing is thank god I saved you $200 because you would have broke that paddle, right? So, no breaking paddles. Watch the video, share it, like and subscribe, and you're going to learn how to never miss another backhand dink. Right. Are you going to miss another backhand dink?
>> No.
>> I don't miss some backhand dings.
>> Do I miss backhand things?
>> Never.
>> Exactly.
>> Liar.
Summarize the five common mistakes.
>> Five common mistakes. Okay. So, the mistakes that you exactly did, not the five common mistakes, but it's going to be for a lot of people because a lot of people make these mistakes. is using too much wrist, not keeping the paddle 45°, extending our elbow, not using only our shoulder, and not lunging on the left foot. So, getting all the weight on the left foot. Actually, another one that you did is actually do that kind of right away, but it's a common mistake where people don't turn with their shoulders.
>> Back here,
>> huh?
>> Hell yeah. Making some content. All right.
>> Making some content.
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>> Only fans. Yeah. Um, hello.
>> Hi.
>> Thank you guys for watching. I hope you're not going to miss another backhand dink and I hope you're not going to be smashing paddles like Tiny would have right there. So, thank you guys. Like and subscribe and I'll see you guys again soon. Peace.