Summary: <img width="1024" height="576" src="https://blog.tennisevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Buggy-Whip-Forehand-Rafael-Nadals-Speciality-Shot-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin: 0 15px 15px 0;"><p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-13065" src="https://blog.tennisevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Buggy-Whip-Forehand-Rafael-Nadals-Speciality-Shot-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576"></p> <div class="smart-track-player-container stp-color-2d7bbf-EEEEEE"></div> <h2>Show Notes</h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hey, it’s Jeff Salzenstein, founder of Tennis Evolution, USTA High Performance coach, and former top 100 ATP player. And today, I’ve got a great Tennis Evolution tip for you. I know you’re going to love it, and before I get started, I just want to let you know I am super passionate about helping players and coaches and fans, tennis enthusiasts all over the world, learn tennis in an easier and faster way.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, for today’s tip, I want to talk about a shot that is often shunned by the more conventional tennis coaching community. And you know, I’ve taken a little heat form some coaches in the past for teaching this shot. Many players, many top coaches, and many coaches out there in the world think that the buggy whip forehand, or the reverse forehand, is a shot that should not be taught, and it should be not used, and well, I say bahumba to that.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I used to use the buggy whip forehand as a 12-year old. I didn’t know I was using it, but I would use it on specific shots. I used it as a college player and as a pro early in my pro career. Didn’t know I was using it, but I was using that reverse forehand finish, where the racket comes up above the head and finishes on the same side of the body.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, this is the finish, the follow-through on the forehand side that Rafa Nadal has made famous. So, in the last 10 years, the buggy whip forehand has become all the rage, but many people don’t know that the buggy whip forehand has been around since as long as tennis has been played. It’s a natural way to swing the racket when you’re under stress, when you’re on the run, when you’re dealing with low balls, even high balls, and it’s a type of finish on the forehand that Rod Laver used, Bjorn Borg used, and even Peter Sampras.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In fact, I think there’s a story behind that, I don’t know the exact details, but Robert Lansdorp was Pete Sampras’s coach, and they were working on their forehand—he was working on his forehand. One day, and I believe they were working on the wide forehand, and all of a sudden, Pete Sampras runs</span></p>
