let's start off with some reflex volleys okay let's go back and forth volley to volley
let's do the same thing from the service line okay
go to the service line with volley from here we're trying to keep it in play
half volley's okay if you need to hit a half
volley it's okay just kind of stay on the service line back up a little bit
now let's work a little bit on your reflexes come really close where that yellow line is
and we try to volley from here don't do it too hard and we won't be able to keep it in play just
a little softer and we're going to gradually speed it up but here we are really working
on the reflexes there we go and go a little bit faster
good
nice transition is tough forehand to backhand
that's why i'm standing a little further where i'm cheating
nice ah
there's two got two in a row let's get even closer let's go crazy here let's try it again
let's get even closer but we're going to be able to switch lets do forehand to forehand really close
go a little faster
here try it again
okay now let's play out some points but only half court you start at the service line
you have to hit the first volley from the service line and then you play it out
you can let the ball bounce but the objective is to try to close in and put it away okay
let's go let's go up to seven you start on the service line right in the middle of
these two these two lines the singles line and the t and you gotta imagine the t going
all the way to the baseline that's that's our court this is half court
four one me you're scaring me with those stomps they're very intimidating here we go
too good man that was solid very solid
you got it yep
good idea but it was a little too high let it sit too high five three
okay now let's do the same thing cross-court okay
it was wide
too good you got me okay let's let's make it two points if you hit someone starting now if you hit
me you get double points that's what my my coach mel purcell in college used to do that they used
to hit us with volleys which is great because you have to work on reflexes getting out of the way
and uh i get a lot of bruises let me tell you that when i was i had a lot of bruises
six three you
six four yeah i'm not gonna i'm gonna fight now i'm gonna come back here we go come on
six all come on
six six sudden death it's part of the game i'm not going to say sorry because i
i'm trying to do that here we go six all right
come on you're going the other way i know you coach lessons make sure that like you don't do
with this with your juniors or your adults because this requires a high playing level because you and
i we play a high level we know how to not hit each other in the face and hurt each other exactly like
when i'm gonna hit you i'm gonna aim for a safe spot your legs right right you know what i mean
but if uh recreational players would do this exercise they don't know where the ball is
going to go exactly and they can hit each other in the face and the throat is very dangerous so
this is only for high high level players we don't want any life-changing events absolutely oh
how you didn't get me i thought you're going to get me you didn't
oh yeah got my racket on i'm good okay you're gonna volley back to me i'm gonna be at the
baseline this time a lot of times it's a lot easier to volley from volley to valley than volley
to baseline you know because the volley usually is hit more flat maybe you got a little bit of
underspin on it well when you get top spinning you get the big pace you know that way it makes
the volleys more challenging so let's rally you at the net me at the baseline you come back to me
come come back to me no drop shots come on back to me
okay now what i'd like you to do is work on volleys in transition so you're going
to start at the baseline i'm going to give you an approach shot okay
hit it back to me and then transition into volley's we'll keep it in play still
you go back to me into the corner but you start from the middle of the court
put it away one more time one more time come
the sun is bad right yeah try again come
nice volley there come overhead okay
good
put it away again try come on block the sun block it
try to block the sun with your hand try to block it come find the ball block it there you go good
put it away come good job nice
excellent job nice okay what i want you to do is hit one volley and one overhead but on the
valley close and get to the net as close as possible and then an overhead i'm going to
push you back on the overhead you start off with a volley here do a volley close in start over no
you put it away please put everything away away from me here we go put it away and close and i'll
overhead and and now volley come close it overhead turn more come there we go volley close come overhead
come again volley close get in there tell me how bad is the sun is it is it really bad
you can't see anything oh yeah it's really bad yeah but you know what it is like uh
like i just did but you've got wings you're gonna have to do in the tournament too you know it's
like what if you're playing a match right here on this court and you get a lob like you gotta
i would say you can probably block it block it with your hand a little bit
it's you can try it's the educational lesson yeah you try you try to block it with your hand okay
again come volley close in and overhead come block the sun block the sun yes close it block the sun
yes sir volley close backhand overhead
on volley close it do a backhand overhead you know how to do backhand overhead
do you know how to do backhand overhead yeah okay here we go backhand overhead
and volley come on backhand overhead good volley close in overhead block the sun block it
ah volley close and last one block that sun there you go see you can see that's
the brutal part about tennis man what are you gonna do you gotta look in the sun you gotta
find a way to find that ball okay now some volley drills i want you to put these away
down the line okay they're going to be high and you're going to be moving laterally okay
yeah take it high move laterally put these away these are high volleys
good come on make sure not to use the wrist
it's good to hit down but sometimes you have to be careful that if the ball is too low you can't
hit down anymore right or if you're too far away so you have to calibrate that a little bit better
come on good come on good come on good three more good come on two more that was a little
bit lower last one come excellent work nice okay now i'm gonna move you laterally but
the ball is going to be super low so you got to take it in the air okay say again
yeah backhand but it's going to be very low so you're going to you're
going to have to bend yeah you're going to bend here we go come on bend down good
good you open that racket face you go for feel
now do counter drop shot drop shot i want you to do a counter drop shot so you're drop
shot back okay all right work on your feel go ahead again come on soft hands here one more
excellent touch there nice job but now i want you to close the net i want you to go around
this little thing right here after every volley okay okay you get as close to the
net as possible i'm going to kind of give you a high sitter that you can close on and put it
away all right start you off with a forehand here we go come on close good get around it no
the other way the other way so forehand you go there and then back and then back in here like a v
yeah you go behind back on the same side you came from okay we start over the forehand come
good backhand come good touch there again forehand get good hands backhand come close good
get a little closer close to the net come forward forward good get around it forward come on close
and two more two more last two come on close get in there quick quick quick last one
forward excellent work i want to do one more drill with you and it's a poaching drill okay so i'm
going to be at the base now i'm going to feed the ball cross-court but you're going to start
from the singles line okay so after each valley you hit from there you're going to come back and
touch the singles line here okay just work on a lateral movement i'm going to feed it kind of
firm so you guys will be very explosive start at the line there that line singles line come closer
right there is good are you ready go and i'll touch touch touch dodge
come again taj come on be explosive go good touch and again explosive come on again go go go go go
you got three more come on two more you got this go last one explosive
come on all right good work doubles alleys are in by the way you did good there's the last six balls
well you know what you don't necessarily have to but i think it's a better training for you to do
side lateral movement back in reality if you're playing doubles you're not going to be doing that
you're going to be crossover stepping and stuff but for the sake of making this exercise like
a high intensity exercise i think it's fine makes sense whether whether you're doing this in reality
or not uh that doesn't matter okay but you're moving but you're moving the real weight to the
ball that's the important thing you're moving the correct way very explosive laterally towards the
ball and also closing off the net if you have to all right six balls here we go come good
come on last two are going to be tough milan come on
come on one more i'm going to push you wide explosive come on yes that's it that's it
that's it you did it man you did it that's how you poach bryab brother style good work today nice