It is not difficult to find that an athlete who is excellent at both the forehand and the backhand is often rare.
Whether it is an amateur or a professional athlete, most of them are either good at forehand or good at backhand.
Can't the forehand and the backhand, like a fish and a bear's paw, be both? Here we analyze it from three dimensions.
1. Physical condition
Here is a question: is it difficult to forehand or backhand?
If you ask a person who has a good forehand, he may say: "The backhand is difficult, the forehand has enough room for adjustment, the fault tolerance is high, and it can make the upper force; the backhand swing distance is too short, there is no room for adjustment, it is easy to make mistakes, and the strength is small."
If you ask a person who has a good backhand, he may say the same thing: "The forehand is difficult, because the forehand action is large, and there are many points that are easy to make mistakes, which requires the cooperation of the whole body; the backhand is aimed at the batting point and the work on the hand is almost complete." ”
In fact, there is nothing wrong with what the two people say, but for the same thing, the two people start from different their own conditions and express their understanding.
A person will always have their own good action posture, power habits, and usually there will be weak links, it is difficult to cover everything. The difference between these bases is manifested as the difference between the advantages of the forehand and the backhand, and it is difficult to have both.
Second, the inertia of thinking
There is indeed a certain difference in thinking between the forehand and the backhand.
For example, the forehand's batting point is on the side, you need to use the whole body to find the ball, the action is relatively large, if the whole idea is directly transferred to the backhand position, there will inevitably be problems such as not finding the batting point, the action is not concentrated, and the force is too scattered;
If you understand the idea of the backhand and move to the forehand without thinking, you may have the problem of hitting the point too far ahead, unable to pull away the sense of space, or only using the hand to dry the force.
This problem comes from the inertia of thinking, although it is difficult to solve, but it can be improved to a certain extent by slowly experiencing the difference between the two sides.
Third, unilateral consciousness
Even if the techniques on both the forehand and backhand are more comprehensive, the athlete will have a "unilateral awareness" in the competition, that is, under the premise that both sides can be used, the first reaction is ready to use which side to use.
The first reaction is the forehand person, the forehand consciousness is stronger than the backhand consciousness; the first reaction is to use the backhand, the backhand consciousness is stronger than the forehand consciousness.
For the ball in the middle position, the forehand conscious person will try to find an opportunity to use the forehand sideways, and use the backhand to barely block it when it is too late; the backhand conscious person will use the backhand to catch the ball by moving to the forehand position, using the stability of the backhand and the adjustment of the hand.
When both sides of the technology are more comprehensive, the so-called forehand is good or backhand is good, and many times it is not a difference in ability, but a difference in consciousness.
The problem of uneven forehand and backhand plagues most amateurs, and even many professional athletes.
This article analyzes three possible influencing factors for everyone, and finds the reasons that help us to prescribe the disease - whether it is a problem of physical condition, or a problem of thinking habits, or a problem of consciousness, which determines the direction in which we should focus on our efforts.
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