Your Strokes: Paulo Caneiro: Forehand

Check out Paulo’s forehand and that court!

This month’s Your Strokes is has a bit of an exotic flavor, coming to us from a well-known coach in Brazil, Paulo Carneiro. It was filmed on amazing looking red clay court that appears to be surrounded by jungle.

Paulo writes that he has been a coach for 25 years and was an elite junior player. I am willing to bet he was a pretty rough customer on the dirt. (And probably still is.)

He sent in this clip of his forehand which he says has always been his problem side. If you’ve read the instructions for submitting footage you know I ask people to use a shutter and try not to frame too wide. This piece of footage doesn’t really have those qualities, but I was able to see a couple of elements anyway that I thought could really help him. And I loved the fact that it was coming from the jungle in Brazil–or so I imagined. So here it is.

A big, world class turn, but what happens next?

If you look at his turn and set up, you’d think Paulo was about to rip a huge, world class topspin…