hey I'm Dayday and this is Daytri. We're from RacquetFlex.com and today
we're gonna be going over the ground stroke footwork pattern of the pivot
we're going to be comparing the 1 foot and 2 foot pivot so so what is a pivot a
pivot is rotating on a central axis so this is your central axis your center of
ways here you're pivoting okay and in the pivot forward pattern usually what
you want to do is to try and get your feet pointing in the direction of the
ball to force rotational power into your ground stroke so the pivot shot is used
in neutral situations and the reason for that is because you want to always
maximize power you know obviously if you're hitting ground strip ground
strokes and the pivot what the pivot shot does is it maximizes rotational
power while minimizing the time it takes to prepare and recover from the shop
because let's say you were hitting a spin move right if you were trying to
hit a high spin then you would actually be hitting the shot then it would take
longer to recover as supposed to when you were hitting a back foot pivot and
all you have to do is rotate hit the shot and you're already in a recovery
position for now first we're going to be comparing the two foot pivot
so you hit two foot pivot when the ball is low and because you're not straining
your legs you're hitting yet on upon a one foot pivot or on any shock you're
usually trying to maximize ground force reaction right so you'd be straightening
your legs while your uncoiling but this shot is different because you're
actually trying to maximize rotational force instead of leg drive yeah to
substitute for the lack of you know leg drive because in this shot usually you
won't be able to hit the ball from a straight in position you're trying to be
hit the ball and stay low yeah and to max so so we got that to maximize the
rotational power you want to rotate from this side to all the way to this side
and to do that you need to be in an open stance so basically the shots usually
hit from an open stance it's not hit from a semi open stance or because when
you're in a semi open stance the non-dominant leg is actually blocking
off your ability to rotate all the way so if you're hitting if you're hitting
from a no semi open stance what you'll see is usually what the players will do
is take their non-dominant leg back on an honest spin on on the one foot pivot
right Oh to clarify let's go over what you do exactly step by step in the two
foot pivot so first obviously again we're starting in an open stance so once
you start an open stance your shoulders and your hips are most likely going to
be facing the side parallel to the sidelines right and then once you do
that you want to start to rotate and uncoil you're not going to be
straightening like you would on a one foot pivot you would actually be
starting to rotate the hips and the shoulders then once you make contact and
follow through you're going to be pivoting your foot to the other side
either to the net to the net or to the other side depending on what what does
this pace of the ball the depth of the ball you know this the what where how
high it's coming how much all of these factors are going to determine how much
you want to turn and when how fast you want to recover
is probably the most common shot that you'll see on the ATP side and the
reason behind that is because you don't need a lot of effort to put behind the
shot obviously a jump shot is going to recover require much more effort that's
why there's much more power but in that this is the best shot is because you can
sustain your energy much longer because you won't be having to jump constantly
you can just straighten right and that'll be enough force to to be
sufficient enough to stay in the rally you won't be put in a defensive position
and and then we have to remember we're in a neutral position so neutral
position means the ball is actually coming at us pretty hard and we're not
moving right we're in this sort of position so we don't want to hit too
hard that's that's just gonna make an error usually exactly so let's talk
about what you do in the 1 foot pivot so you can't start in an open stance just
like the 2 foot pivot but you almost you want to start in a semi open stance
about 45 degrees from the baseline two-thirds of your weight on the back
foot just like this now because because you're in this stance you actually have
available rotation available about 20 to 30 degrees you can rotate which causes
more external oblique stretch now that in turn you can be it you will be able
to turn in with more force in your upper body as opposed to the two foot pivot
where you're rotating your entire body as a core you will be able to turn more
of your upper body compared to your lower body which will give you more you
know stretch and able to uncoil right so like I said start in the semi open
stance your hips are faced in the direction and your chest is going to be
facing parallel to the side fence again so as you uncoil and straighten you're
going to want to lift your back leg up and point it in the direction of the
ball now what that does is basically it helps you gauge the direction of the
ball and help your upper body start to turn towards the ball now a pointer for
this is you want to try and keep your back foot stable
and on the ground all of your weight will now be on your back leg because
your other leg will be raised in the air naturally there will be a tendency for
your leg to kind of bend slightly about 45 degrees you could do that other
players prefer not to do that for various reasons but for this case we're
going to be bending the key points are for power is to maximize leg drive
exactly you'll see you know the best four handers using like their cows
everything exactly and then you'll see maximum core rotation yeah so once you
once you straight in your back foots off the ground your foots pointing in the
direction of the ball right then you hit the ball you make contact
then afterwards during the photo you'll want to pivot the back foot so that you
you can finish rotating again at the net or on the other side of the fence and
because because you're actually you're so you start here
you're uncoiling with a lot of force right exactly that's going to cause you
to naturally pivot so you don't want to hit and then like just do this right be
a natural thing just like when you hit the forehand shot this is going to be a
natural reaction to the force that you're exactly in the uncoil
now the best thing about this shot is the fact that once you reel and you will
be ready into a recovery position you will want to once your back foot lands
you will be your weight will be on the back foot which will allow you to return
to your original position your next shot yeah hey guys if you like the video
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