there you go there you go there it is there it is hold the racket lower though when you do that yeah
like don't go all the way down on the handle go all the way down all the way down on the handle
there you go hold it like that and go now go go ahead and do it okay pretty good nice good feel
can you do this one
wow look at that touch that's really good
nice and now hold the racket in your continental grip remember
like this hold it all the way on the bottom on the bottom and now here's what i want you
to do i want you to go once like this once like this you flip the racket around and go
you tap it on each side of the string once and you keep the ball up try it out
look at those hands i gotta tell you for a complete beginner you're doing a good job yeah
you can do this at home by the way okay just don't break anything okay but look you can do
you can do one more thing that's even more advanced and let's look at this
you go here and then go behind your back and go like this go behind your back and then go
between your legs you do all kinds of tricks you know i miss messed up
okay a little too advanced so just do this just these easy ones for now
and then you advance to the next step okay okay
look at this very nice very nice okay so we had a few lessons we talked about the fundamentals
on the forehand backhand to serve the volleys so today we're going to play real tennis you know
what i mean by that no we're going to rally back and forth we're going to hit back and forth yay
yes we're going to try but we're going to do it very slowly at first
so i want you to come here at the yellow line okay it's actually a pickleball line
and the first thing i want you to do is remember on the forehand we started right here
i want you to do the same thing start right there i'm going to feed the ball with my hand
and you hit it right into my hand okay my hand is up here you hit it right into my hand
do it again right into my hand okay go again remember make sure you finish
you could finish a little bit more with your shot good and again right into my hand go again
beautiful job come again
all right now i'm going to hit it back to you it's going to be the same thing we just did
good and try to finish it good look at this
now do you know the ball can only bounce one time in tennis
okay one one bounce rule in tennis if it clips the net and goes over that counts
unless it's a serve then you get a redo okay now i missed first i got to tell you
we already got like a 10 ball rally within the first like two minutes
that is absolutely insane all right let's do it again let's try to get up to 20.
good good
okay go again
okay we got to make a quick adjustment your racket face is too open so you're in the wrong grip
let me adjust your grip okay okay hold it hold the racket there you go remember when we first started
we had the hand on the strings and we slid down the racket like this that's a good way to find
the grip go down yeah go down now all the way go down to the grip and i'll grip it so now you're
somewhere what's called an eastern grip and that's a good grip to start with so when you hit the ball
you don't want the racket face to be too open it's going to go too high okay good come good look at
this this is absolutely insane i'm the one missing everything because you're too good okay good
you know what i find with you that's unlike other beginners you're not afraid of the
ball a lot of beginners when the ball comes to them they kind of freak out they panic
the racquet starts to flail around but with you you are so calm and you're doing a fantastic job
i'm telling you this is i missed again first i'm the one that's missing first
again look at this i'm the one making all these mistakes you're not missing anything good good
you remember what exactly what are you finishing is important very important
and you move your feet too which is great good
okay nice nice nice
good and again excellent look at these rallies this is absolutely crazy
i cannot believe what's going on right here this is insane on the run
good okay one thing that we have to correct so when you're actually moving that way don't move
sideways like this is very awkward way to move but you can actually turn your body and move
the regular way like that okay all right let's now back up a little bit we'll go a little bit
further back right there's good go in the middle of the court and let's try to rally from there
so trophy position?
that's the serve that's on the serve that's only on the serve and the overhead
okay don't worry about that on your forehand okay
think you mean ready position ready position like this that's what you mean
maybe yeah that's when you're waiting for the ball it's a ready position yeah good
nice look at this rally excellent
nice look at this this is crazy okay racket face opened up a little bit too much come again good oh
yes you got me it's a little bit confusing because they have they drew pickleball lines on this court
so the tennis line is actually the white one well let's try the rally from there okay
you come right at me make sure you finish your shot or it's going to be tough to control it
you took that a little too early great shot great shot okay don't hit too hard okay you
want to keep the power like at 50% don't go too strong too early you know what i mean by
too early when the racket is like pointed this way the ball is going to go crooked
so racket has to be straight like this parallel to the net if you want the ball to go straight
okay if we can get a 10 ball rally from the service line i'll be super happy with that
again okay when you just kind of tap it's hard to control the ball
so make sure you finish every time okay nice one good good that's three four
all right again when it gets when it goes high you're very uncomfortable
here so what you can do is back up a little bit wait for the ball to come down
like you don't have to be stuck and play it you don't have to be at the mercy of the ball
you can adjust your positioning so you play the ball comfortably try it again come on come
good good that's three four five six i'll give it to you here we go seven eight
okay you know what i'll give it to you because it was in it was a little bit high
here's match point last one and play out the point play it out
and you win all right come up to the yellow line and now we're gonna do backhand okay
all right this way like look your body facing that way and now look at me look
at this way get behind the yellow line behind the yellow line put both hands on the racquet
okay grip is good and now you're going to hit it back and forth
with me on the backhand side go again
okay don't why does it feel weird i feel like i'm not but don't play with the wrist like you
go from here you don't have to take a take back you go from here to here you just go low to high
okay good you come right at me good good oh good good
okay again good
again
good come go get it a little bit late on that yeah come here we go finish a little more good
okay come again good job and here last one okay feels a little bit easier now right yeah okay back
up not all the way to the service line but like in between keep going back stop right there it's good
good just take your time you don't rush rushing is the number one mistake that
beginners make they panic and they rush you take your time you stay nice and cool good
good again yes
nice one come
nice one very clean all right very nice let's now slide to the service line okay
we'll go all the way back to the service line but first we gotta pick up a few balls hey janae
remember i taught you how to pick up with your racket let me see
nice but there's even a better way you see that that thing right there that's a tennis basket
now the way you use it is not by dropping the balls in there but by go up to the ball
and now you put the basket on top of the ball and press on it there it is that's how you use
the tennis basket easiest way to pick up okay let's go to the service line you already know
what that is and we're gonna rally backhands from the service line okay there you are there it is
very clean look at this okay come right at me
no worries come on happen sometimes very clean get that racket up every time good
very clean up a little bit good adjustment steps there nice that's four in a row five i'll give it
to you watch that open racket face though when i start counting does that put pressure on you
it does but i kind of like it okay i'm gonna keep doing it okay you need to start dealing
with pressure in tennis good i'll give that one to you one two come come nice get three
four here's five wait on the ball a little bit longer good six seven
eight okay that was a really bad feed here we go one two
okay don't get rushed okay don't panic i'm not gonna give that one to you i'm
not gonna count that that's two come again one
two get up up up up three four five back up i'll give it to you it's insane rally six
seven eight okay my mistake doesn't count you got eight
nine keep going ten eleven twelve i'll give it to you keep going thirteen fourteen
fifteen i'll give you two again sixteen it's a little too high close the racket face seventeen
eighteen nineteen go go go go go go and you got 19 in a row
that's incredible really good what do you think about tennis this is real tennis now
you're playing back and forth what do you think you like it it's a lot of fun it's
a lot of fun right yeah okay but here comes the challenging part that when you play with someone
it's not going to be like only backhands or only forehands it's going to be everything so let's
try one rally where you don't know where it's going to come it could be a forehand it could be
a backhand you don't know and you're gonna have to do something which is called the grip change okay
remember your forehand grip right it's more on this side right now you can't hit a backhand like
this because the racket face is going to be open so you have to turn the hand like this open up and
go here the way you're going to do that is just turn with your left hand so this is your forehand
grip you turn with your left hand until you find the continental grip let me see you do that okay
turn the racquet with your left hand up here at the throat up here at the throat hold it there
and i'll open up the hand that's forehand now going to backhand okay forehand again
and backhand turn the backhand there you go you're gonna have to do that and you don't have to lift
this hand up off the racket because you won't be able to look down on your racket to change your
grip you want to be looking at the ball right so you have to do this blindly so it's good to feel
the actual grip on your hand so you know where you're at see i'm doing it forehand backhand
you see i'm not looking down i'm doing it by feel forehand okay look at me look at me and i'll do it
forehand turn it backhand no no no turn the actual racket i'll do it for you okay forehand open your
hand a little bit your left hand no no let's go to the left hand i'll do it for you here grip
the racket forehand grip open your hand a little bit backhand open up a little bit forehand open
up a little bit backhand now do yourself turn the actual racket don't turn your hand around but turn
the record go ahead forehand okay keep going okay good again forehand again you look at me go again
okay good one more time forehand and last one backhand all right you're ready to rally here we go
okay we're going to try to do one rally up to 10 where you don't know where it's going to come okay
okay don't play with the wrist remember you start here and bring the entire arm up
and go come right at me hit it straight come on now the thing that you're doing now where
you're losing a lot of control you're taking your racket too far back okay you start here
that's the easiest way to start to get a feel of the contact to get a feel for the timing it's
that you can imagine the contact much better when your rack is already around the contact
good one two it's too much power too much wrist movement okay remember don't slap the ball with
your wrist you want to gently caress the ball and bring the entire arm up so that the elbow
points forward ready position and come all right i'll give it to you anyway one two three four five
six okay my mistake doesn't count you got still got six here we go ready position seven
eight nine match point ten you did it awesome job ten in a row is no joke but you see how hard it
is to not know where it's going to go because you have to change the grip and all that yes
so that's going to be the next step is getting used to the grip change and we're going to slowly
progress to the baseline where we're actually going to be rallying from the baseline but for
now we'll continue to rally from the service line but again i have to say for a beginner
it's incredible how you're able to rally like when we're just doing one shot at a time
we could have gone up to like 30 40 50. that's how easy it was for you so
again you're progressing really fast you're doing a great job we'll keep going