Do we hit through the ball on the volley or do we hit across the ball? The volley
is a deflective shot so it's definitely not a linear shot and there's two types
of volleys. Let's start off with the forehand. So on the forehand we can
either come up to the ball and then completely freeze the racquet and
basically deflect the ball back in play or if we desire to achieve a little bit
more power we can actually have the racquet go across the body like this. Now
because the wrist is in an extended position and we can't really get the
arms far across on this side. The forehand volley is going to have the tip
of the racquet come forward a little bit to accommodate more of an across the
body action
On the backhand volley we can hit it two different ways. We can simply deflect the
ball back by freezing the contact point or if we achieve to get a little bit
more variety on the backhand volley or more power we have a lot more freedom on
the backend volley compared to the forehand, because our elbow can freely move
out of the way and so the across the body action is a lot more prominent on
the backhand volley.
On the forehand swing volley the technique is very similar to a regular forehand
One difference is that swingvolleys are usually struck higher than regular
forehands maybe between the shoulder and the rib cage, somewhere around the
chest area and then the take back is going to look very similar to a regular
forehand and now once we make contact a little bit higher at the racquet will
whip around the body in a horizontal way, because once we make the contact a
little bit higher we don't have a lot of space to go up and apply topspin and
so depending on how close to the net we are we can even try to hit down on the
swingvolley, or if the proximity to the net is a little bit further away we can
have more of a horizontal as swing path on the swing volley.