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How I Developed a Flick out of NOTHING

A backhand attack out of the air that floats instead of dipping is almost always a paddle face problem. Anna Bright teaches the roll with a closed face, because an open face turns the shot into a slice and hands your opponent an easy ball to attack.

The topspin is supposed to come from the shoulder, not from opening the face to lift the ball over the net.

She separates three versions of the shot. A poke is a paddle throw at full extension with no spin, a roll lifts from the shoulder joint, and a flick is almost pure wrist snap.

Learn them in that order and start with the shoulder. Pure shoulder lift is what saves you on balls at knee height or lower, and it is the base the wrist and elbow get added to later.

Set up by hinging back at your hips with your rear end back, rather than rounding your back to reach. Rounding costs you the reach you were trying to buy, and you want contact as far in front as you comfortably can get it.

Direction changes the timing. Going crosscourt requires an earlier contact point than going middle or up the line, because you have to get outside the ball to send it across.

She thinks crosscourt speed ups are badly underused. A right handed opponent covering the middle is sitting on their forehand, so a ball found at their belly button jams them up.

If the shot still feels impossible, she blames forearm strength rather than talent. One light dumbbell and regular wrist rotations built the stability at full extension that made her one handed attack work.

Key points

An open paddle face turns your backhand roll into a slice and hands your opponent an easy ball.
The topspin comes from the shoulder, not from opening the face to lift the ball.
Pure shoulder lift is what saves you on balls at knee height or lower.
Hinge back at your hips instead of rounding your back, which costs you the reach you were trying to buy.
Going crosscourt requires an earlier contact point than going middle or up the line.

Watch the full tutorial here.