Why you should "pat your dog" in tennis...

Welcome to Revolutionary Motion! In this video, we explain to you why you should absolutely pat your dog in tennis when hitting your forehands. Learn to integrate the patting motion into your swing on your forehands in order to create more power and spin and develop a high level forehand. Happy playing,
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[@kumarsabaratnam4787]

Thanks for the very detailed & clear explanation on generating Top Spin.

[@Ynafey]

Its amazing how counterintuitive tennis can be sometimes. I have played for years and never understood why my forehand did not feel good. After following the advice given from some of the videos I see here, I have been delightfully surprised by how much nicer it feels to play with a whipping effect (ATP forehand). However, I also realized that its probably impossible to discover the right technique by yourself. Thus videos like these are very important.

[@andygarcia6619]

Excellent tutorial 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@jameschoi3137]

You're right. I just discovered this coiling and uncoiling in the arm/shoulder from 'pat the dog' and it's giving me effortless power and spin. What I noticed is that 'pat the dog' is the result of relaxing my arm while starting the rotation/uncoiling of torso which leads to the uncomfortable twisting of the arm that you mentioned. As the torso and body rotates, the arm uncoils and shoots out like a rubber band.

[@topspin1715]

Excellent video, what's helping me achieve this consistently is to make a unit turn then prior to releasing racket from non hitting hand, I will extend the wrist, then as the racket drops from gravity, I can achieve the pat the dog position easier.

[@BojanH]

Hmm...Delpo, one of the greatests forehands of all time...

[@lokzim]

is the patting dog motion same if i use eastern forehand?

[@fingersm]

Semantics