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Hey guys,

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Brady here with your daily tennis lessons.

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So, we've got a pretty cool week coming,

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you guys,

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with

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some

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grips for your backhands.

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I'm gonna check out two different grips for one-handed backhand hitters, and

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a couple different grips for all you two-handed backhand hitters out there.

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Today we're going to look at the eastern

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backhand grip for all you one-handers out there,

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and this would be Roger Federer's kind of

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traditional grip when he drives his backhand,

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you guys.

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And it's such a good grip for one-handers because you have the ability to hit,

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you know,

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a really huge heavy flat ball,

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and it's also pretty easy to get topspin in this backhand.

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So,

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let's look at the bevels on the grip right now.

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So that very top position

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is bevel number one,

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and that is our focus today

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for the eastern backhand grip.

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What I'm trying to do

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is line up

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the base knuckle of my dominant

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hand

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from that index finger onto bevel number one.

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So, it's really just

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right in the middle of that top beam.

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I'm trying to line up

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that knuckle

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along that top beam.

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OK.

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And so, right there

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is my eastern backhand grip.

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And as I said,

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you know,

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I'm gonna go ahead and hit a couple.

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What's cool about this,

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you guys,

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is

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the racket head,

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when I hold the grip

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in an eastern backhand grip,

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you know,

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and that set-up position

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turns out really nicely away from me.

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And so as I drop into

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my downswing,

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it just has this nice kind of

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slightly shut position.

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And again,

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I

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said this backhand is

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great because you have the ability to flatten out pretty easily and hit those

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kind of bigger passing shots.

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And it's also really easy to roll at the last second.

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It's easy on the wrist in the eastern grip

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to just roll the wrist a little more

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and get some extra topspin.

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OK.

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So,

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base knuckle

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on bevel number one,

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and let's take a look at a couple one-handed eastern backhands.

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Here we go.

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OK.

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There's a little flatter ball.

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Let's do one more of those.

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Nice pop,

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and then I'm gonna roll my wrist a little bit.

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And I get pretty

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effortless topspin right there,

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you guys.

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So,

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you know,

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if you don't have a one-hander,

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but you want to just kind of

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go out and feel what Roger's feeling when he hits his backhand,

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I think

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this can't hurt to just go out and give this swing a try.

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Not that you've got to commit and totally change your backhand,

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but

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tennis is great because if you know how to hold the racket

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for these specific shots that we see the pros hitting,

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it at least gives us an understanding

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of how to hit differently than what we're comfortable with.

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OK.

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So that was the eastern backhand.

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