A beautiful day today shamir right it's awesome it's beautiful weather some people would say
it's a little too hot and humid but i like it i like it too i love it man only this is for like
players who are in shape nobody else comes out at what time is it one o'clock in the summer only the
two grinders the true warriors come out at this time yeah man you know what i like about our last
lesson okay that you texted me afterwards and you were like analyzing the lesson analyzing the points
play yeah and you could see the mistakes you were making and you're applying the coaching that i
was doing between the points and it's a really effective way to get better yeah it's to play
points and then the coaching between the points and then and then when you get to see it yourself
it's fantastic but not only for you but also for other people watching it's very useful i noticed
like when we were playing and i was watching the intensity of your like your serve was like a 50% I
was wondering i was like what would it be like if he actually tried his 100% you know with his serve
and his full game see if i could even win the point yeah you were annoyed that i was serving
slow yeah because i could tell you know like yeah some people are annoyed with that when i reduce
my level like they want me to they want me to play at my normal level yeah but then i won't
even win a point probably why we don't know that man i don't know i'm not as good as i used to be
so what are you saying you want to play for real let's play yeah just kick my butt you want me to
play for real play for real all right yeah no problem like for real now i'm gonna say that um
right now just because of your injury you took a year and a half off yeah we're gonna rate you 4.0
today 3.5 no not 3.5 4.0 come on don't be silly okay 3.5 i mean 4.0 okay okay
okay now you were close to 5.0 you were 4.5 before yeah because remember i had to set
i set you up with a couple of guys who were 5.0's yeah and you were doing well you were taking
sets off for them and stuff but now you told me you've been playing with a 4.5 guy and losing
yeah yeah yeah yeah which is due to you not having practiced you can't move that well yet
you're getting better yeah so so we gotta you know grind ourselves way back to the 4.5 level
and do step by step but real quick shamir now that we're playing each other let's do a thumbnail
you know what i mean by that no we're gonna like let's just stand right here
a thumbnail for the video okay we're just gonna face each other like this
oh for the picture okay nothing just like like boxers you can come closer too come closer
closer come on like boxers no smiling serious faces come on okay come closer
okay that's the thumbnail right there shamir you know what else i'm gonna give you the mic
okay so um we can hear your thoughts your thought process
i can't believe i missed that all right make sure i'm in the right return position
i'm going to aim for the middle okay
oh god
all right that was just that was just reaction and i guessed the right spot intensity
follow it in because it's short ah but nice shot let's go
oh that serve good shot i can't do anything about that one
ah man is that three doubles oh geez oh geez on the line oh that's too good
oh dang it
oh get under it
i didn't put enough on it
i didn't see my backhand is what was so weak that he just attacked it
was good i can't get to that ball nice shot
see
oh my gosh
oh i see i can't get to that
see i gotta play on it stay alive ah see that backhand didn't have enough on it
ah that was such a bad shot selection
man that was a good shot oh that was good that was good
i can't even get a racket on it
ah see it's too short i don't know why i even decided to do that
okay oh see then i
oh my gosh i was right i wasn't going to win one game
you know what the biggest difference is between like someone who's at the recreational level
and someone who played the high level most people think it's like power. Footwork.
well that's like getting into more detail yeah but the biggest difference people think is power
but it's not the case it's control let's say this way when i play against some of your level yeah
like i don't really have to exert any power all i have to do is just put two to three quality balls
in the court and i know the point's going to be over because you're going to make a mistake
ah that was such a bad shot shot selection when you did get a first serve in and
you got a little bit of a loopy response back you were taking those like early
we're stepping in instead of taking your time let the ball come down a little bit
then when we're exchanging rallies often you would like
change directions too fast i told you this a million times
yeah like couple balls in then right away you go down the line especially with your backhand
ah yeah you know what i mean i agree i agree i agree 100% so that's something that you could
have done different but no matter what you do the outcomes are always going to be the same
you get either zero games or one game that's usually the outcome
it's unlikely you're going to get two games yeah so that's anybody with a high
level doesn't matter if it's me or anybody else yeah you're just a big discrepancy in control
and like i said the power comes in play when when players are evenly matched when i play someone at my
level and of course i gotta do more otherwise it's just not enough to keep it in play i gotta
put pressure i gotta be aggressive now why is that the case that gets like super deep into
technical analysis that's why i love teaching at the recreational level because to be able to
not miss and stay in the rallies longer that's maybe one of the hardest things in
tennis and it's most likely not achievable unless you start playing tennis at a young age it's very
difficult because it it did in the warm up we hit like well that's completely different though
but then once you start like playing a match yeah in a warm-up you barely miss anything yeah
once you start playing a match then it's a whole different story but yeah to be able to do that
to be able to play it requires like everything everything that every technical aspect of tennis
is required in order for you to be able to do that i keep the mistakes at a minimum yeah in a real
match situations because it's like you said it could be different like rallying down the middle
but once the point starts it's a whole nother world so let's not do this again okay