Your most important step towards the tennis ball is always your first step, so you need to make it count. In today’s lesson, Brady discusses how to put yourself in position to immediately explode towards the tennis ball with your feet.
Published on 12/30/2017 by Brady
Very useful!
Very useful!
Thanks Brady…I have noticed over the years that there are a lot player are getting to balls that I cannot. Thought it was just because of aging. Looks like this will be a good way to make some good ‘gets’. Will give your suggestion a serious effort. Thank You!
Bill
Also for the volley, where the passing shot comes at a large distance, close to the side line, first moving the ball-near leg a bit towards the ball then crossing over the ball-far leg allows one to reach almost all balls (if they are not too fast 😉 One can easily check by trying out that doing the two steps in this order allows for covering a larger distance than first moving the ball-far leg and then the other. I have been training this for quite a while but never though about starting all moves to distant balls in this way, but it makes absolutely sense. Thank you.
Good tip on improvement of movement for a faster, more efficient move to the ball. I’m 6-4 and at age 80 I have lost some quickness so I’m going to work on your suggestion.
great tip!!
great tip!!!