a little bit wider base go a little wider apart so you're ready and on your toes an athletic
stance like this look like this you see this right here slightly down with the upper body
there it is much better shamir so here's the thing with the volley movement and it's correlated to
how much you're turning on the volley so if you were for example the first drill we did we're just
volleying back and forth you can be completely open you don't have to turn much okay on the volley
there's absolutely no benefit in turning on the volley in fact if you turn too much it puts your
your hand your hitting hand too far behind the body and you get a disadvantage from that a lot
of times when people are standing the ball comes at them real fast they have an instinct to turn
like this to make themselves thin and not get hit by the ball yeah and end up making contact back here
very very common mistake yeah yeah so what you need to do when the ball is coming at
you and you're stationary without movement you don't need to turn much there can be a slight
turn like this very minimal turn to make it more comfortable to hit the ball on this side and then
on the backhand there's going to be a little bit more of a turn because we're reaching over here
but generally you want to be more open okay okay and that's the case even if you're moving straight
forward even if you're going forward yeah so if you get a ball that's straight in front of you
you don't need to turn and then move like this you just kind of face the ball and move forward
and volley it okay so if you don't have to move towards the sides on the volley there's no need
to turn a lot so here's where you do have to turn on the volley okay if you get a ball where that
requires lateral movement so in other words if i get a volley that's far away i can't reach it
i'm gonna have to move towards it i don't want to move like this look it's completely awkward right
yeah so what you're going to do is the first thing you do when you have to move towards the volley is
you turn like this and then you move and you play contact now one thing you want to avoid is being
too turned so you just want to turn enough so you can comfortably move this way so you don't have
to move in a sideways position so you want to move in the most natural way which is like this
but don't over turn like this and now you're running like that because that again puts the
hitting hand too far back okay so when you get a lateral ball you turn enough so that you can move
the most efficient way and you still have a good chance to play the ball in front because here's
the key on the volley you want that contact to be in front with the elbow clearing your rib cage
there needs to be enough space where you can stick a ball in here and so you can create this angle
so even the lateral ones even on the lateral ones when you're running like this you still want to
make contact like that in front you want to have space there okay okay on the backhand is going to
be very similar one mistake that a lot of people do is they turn too much they're like this and now
they make contact too far back so you turn enough so we can move in the most efficient way so you're
not moving like this you turn you move this way and now you're going to be make making contact
a little bit more in front of your body like this again space between
the elbow and the ribcage like that here we go you no need to turn too much you can face the ball
good job i keep freezing that racket stay in an athletic position beautiful job
good nice job shamir okay that's all right no you didn't mess up at all no what like when the ball
comes to your body you want to do a backhand volley oh yeah it's much faster than doing a
forehand look yeah if you try to do a forehand you have to take a step out of the way in order
to hit it there okay but see there it doesn't really feels comfortable without turning yeah it
wasn't like it's it's not unnecessary to turn no all right so now i want you to go to the service
line i'm going to give you a floater you're going to close okay and you're going to avoid turning
too much as you're running forward to close the ball you're going to kind of face the ball more
like that all right try it out got it close come on yeah don't turn too much look you
can run up to the ball like this open okay you don't have to run to the ball like this
all right open facing the ball your chest towards the ball here your chest towards the ball when do
i take out the racquet though you can take it out early you can prepare the racket here you can keep
you can keep the racket in front of you as you're running but be more open
like this racket is here and then you just freeze it exactly exactly come get in
excellent now backhand same thing get in come come come it's good close good job close okay
remember what i told you on the backhand naturally is going to be a little bit more of
a turn than the forehand right right on the back because if you don't turn it all in the backhand
you have to reach over to get the racket to the proper place so naturally look we go gonna have
a little bit more of a turn on the backhand side not a full turn like this because again if you have to
run up and you're like this is going to be weird so you still want to be able to move forward but
you are going to be slightly turned take a look at my take a look at my backhand volley look here
see there's a little bit of a slightly slightly turned i would say like a half turn 45 45 but
you're still facing forward with the chest on the forehand because of different biomechanics you can
be completely open as you're running up to it like that get in there perfect so look on the lateral one
again no full turn but enough turn so you can run this way
this look on the backhand is this this turn and now you're a little bit more turned than the forehand
and you're gonna go this way but you gotta move more it's not just one step there you go okay
there's maybe a little too much try it again right there yeah there you go try forehand
perfect absolutely perfect yep that's it
but there is one mistake i see a lot at the rec level people turn too much and now your
contact's going to be too far back yeah you avoid avoid running to the ball like this run like this
don't allow this shoulder to get ahead 45 well not 45 straight on so if this shoulder
gets ahead now you're going to be making contact back here that's what you did there so not this
this absolutely 100% in this relationship of the shoulders don't allow this one to get ahead
because now okay think of it this way you don't want your back
pointing towards the other side so you don't want to show your back as you're running don't show your back
hide your back hide your back hide your back and on the on the forehand it's going to be still
showing the chest a little bit as you're moving you're still showing the chest a little bit yeah
it's a little different on the forehand okay so let's try it again
the ball is getting farther away the farther it is it's harder is to not show my back i'm gonna show
my back you are so if it's a complete emergency you are gonna show your back okay so if you're
reaching like this you will have to stretch it out and the shoulder will get ahead you will sure but
this is a disadvantage yeah so you do that if you have to if you have to but if you don't have to
generally you want to make contact a little bit closer to the body remember our volley lesson
it was a long time ago we talked about like playing the volley a little bit closer to the body
yeah so one mistake on the lateral volley at the rec level is this so players will wait and now
the ball comes laterally and the first instinct to have is to stretch the racquet out like this
so they don't move the whole body you have to move your whole system towards the ball like this right
and then you can make that contact closer to the body where you have more feel you're more strength
you're more stability okay you have less stability less feel and less power when you're stretched out
when you're reaching however sometimes you're forced to you have to because there's no other
way to get to the ball it's better to get over the net well you have to fight right so on the
backhand yes you're right in emergency i'll have to go like this and yes this shoulder will get ahead
there it is see that was an emergency right yeah
you see what i mean before you're doing a much better job controlling this setup and not being
too far uh turned like this very good okay now one more movement thing we have to talk about
is what do you do as far as rotation when it comes to the low volley okay we'll do that next
okay so let me first see you do the low volley i'll tell you if you're doing it right okay
can you feed me a few
so you see what i did there i continued moving through the ball but there
was a lunge aspect to the low ball okay there's a lunging aspect because the best way for us to
get down because here's the fact when the ball is low we have to get low if we don't get low
the other option is bending uh just the upper body while the legs are straight and now you have
a horrible angle of the racket you'll have to hit the ball up right okay so we have to get low the
best way to get low is with a lunge okay all right so the tricky part about the low volley is if
you're doing it in transition you have to do a a dynamic lunge in other words you're going to lunge
and then you right away going to continue moving after a lunge when
it's more of a stationary low volley you can do a stationary lunge where you just go like that
in both of those cases however you're going to be more open if you're moving forward if you're
moving forward right so the same thing applies to all the things you're doing is just like
putting a lunge in yeah if you're doing a lateral lunge then of course you're going to be turned
right so the same things apply but you've got to make sure that you're performing the lunge
try it out i'm going to give you a low ball and this is going to be a dynamic lunge where you're
going to be moving towards the net you're going to be coming from the service line low volley and
you're going to continue transitioning after contact like i did the other one
exactly but you try to lunge more so in other words you take a longer step prior to contact so
you can get lower am i making contact while i'm in the lunging position right it's going to be
inside of that don't overthink that it's going to happen naturally okay okay but the easiest
way to get down is by lunging look i'll show you if i lunge naturally i'm down already see
i'm down you're down yeah if i'm narrow now i gotta bend like this it's harder yeah a lunge
brings you down automatically dynamically no it brings you down yeah automatically whether
it's dynamic or stationary that depends on the situation you're in intuitively
i try to incorporate the you're reading this you're getting confused yeah
just okay all right no it's got nothing to do with that so okay it's just a different type of movement
depending on the incoming ball okay stationary is when stationary is when the ball is coming to you
to me yeah if it's dynamic it's in transition i'm transitioning so there's no time to stop
in other words yeah right so i can still do the lunge volley if it's not if it's not away
from me i still like if it's if it's i stay lunge volley is when the ball is low there's absolutely
no need to lunge for the volley if it's high watch this feed me a high ball and I'll lunge oh god
what happened i lunged why would i lunge it's stupid yeah you only lunge if it's
a low ball absolutely but if it's a low ball that's far away from you you lunge of course
and if it's a low ball that's coming to you you just station that stationary
line yeah i get it now all right let's try it again okay go to the service line service line ok
much better okay back up there and now you get a stationary lunge okay stationary here we go
so see go lower lower but see what i'm doing is i'm just ripping the ball right at your feet and
it's coming right at you but all you got to do is go bam right here there you go that's it backhand
oh how good was that i like that one add some pace on it too a little bit they did does that
make sense yeah so if it's low you lunge if the ball's low and away from you you lunge actively
moving to the ball with that absolutely if it's coming to you low you just lunge with the ball
let me summarize the lesson you're waiting for the ball like this and the ball is coming to you
yeah avoid turning too much this big mistake at the rec level is turning too much unnecessarily so
so players will go like this and now the hand is too far back so avoid that if the ball is coming
right to you if you like reflex volleying with someone you don't have to turn that much forehand you
can hit like this backhand is a little bit more of a turn here but you're still facing the ball
like this however when you're laterally moving this way you have to turn but avoid overturning
because obviously you can't move to the ball like this so you have to turn the body so you can move
more efficiently this way all right but while you're doing that you still want to maintain
a little bit more open on the forehand and avoid overturning on the backhand like this
and you have to and you can show your back absolutely okay
what do you think does that make sense yeah it makes perfect sense
all right shamir good job man your volleys are getting a lot better thank you very nice