Squash Backhand Tips

Video Transcript

"Okay, the backhand it's not quite the mirror image of the forehand because on the forehand, you're hitting the ball with your back shoulder coming through the ball. But your backhand, you're using your front shoulder. So what I want you to think about is you have the racket up, you have the face open when you hit the ball. So that part is the same. The face has to be open. You have to come somewhat underneath the ball to create under spin. So in a lot of ways, you want to think of it as if you're pulling. So you can do a little tug of war here. By pulling, you then engage the hip and the shoulders. So these are the big strong muscle groups of the body. So you want to turn, open the face and hit. Just like that. So, and so I just keep, by keeping the racket up, I keep the racket up and I turn and I hit the ball. So that's really the idea here on the backhand is, it's nothing complicated, but it's very similar to throwing a frisbee. It's very similar to like if you're on a weight machine, you're pulling. Okay, so racket up. Okay, so that's what you want to do. This is just a real basic shot and then everything comes off of this. So racket up, turn, you want to think about slicing through the air with this part of your racket. So slice through the air, and that's going to loft the ball. So we're going to go into more depth of the other various parts of this, but that's the real basis of your backhand is slicing it."