Nathan's forehands

Theese are Nathan's forehands. What can be improved?

First of all, these four videos do not show us all of Nathan's habits on the forehand side, since he normally hits better shots. However they are still important to comprehend Nathan's technique and how to improve it.
Of course the more videos we have the better we can understand it. To improve our habits we first need to understand them.

After watching all these four videos it was very clear to me that The May Videos were much better than the October Videos. How can this happen? Shouldn't we be always improving our game?

We are always improving but that doesn't mean that our technique is always better every day we are on court. Sometimes when we want to improve a certain part of our swing we end up changing more than that and the result is that our swing gets worse momentarily. Sometimes that's a price to pay for getting better. Without the courage to leave your comfort zone and travel a bit into the unknown you will never really improve much your swing.




Nathan's Forehands in May:

On this video we can see that Nathan's Unit turn is quite sound. The racket and shoulders seem to turn at the same speed.
When the ball bounces we reach the power position. In this video I can see that Nathan is a bit late because his left hand is still not quite ready to go forward. We can see the left hand going back after the bounce.

As a result Nathan seems to be swinging a bit too far back with the left elbow too far back at contact. As a result after contact there is only forearm movement and the extension is very limited. Notice on a ll videos how Nathan finishes with his left elbow very close to the body.






Nathan's Forehands in October:

These two videos don't seem so good. Nathan's unit is worse. The racket head was a bit lower than before, just after the ready position and start of the unit turn, and there was more upward movement of the racket and hands and less turn of the shoulders. As a result the power position seems very rushed and there is much less shoulder turn.
The contact is still late with the left elbow tucked in and although Nathan was trying to bring his elbow forward on the followthrough, didn't really change much because it was a bit artificial because it was much after the extension and so it had no effect on the shot.