You went too early there
Stand closer to the alley it's too far over go over there you're too close to the middle.
Again you cut it short
And also you didn't really hit the ball you bunted it. I want to tell you this but look how you
hit that ball you bunted it
So when do you bunt your bunt when there's a lot of pace coming to you. What
did I do? I hit you like a little chip forehead with no pace that means you got
to hit your backhand with more of a full swing. Okay. You got to bunt with pace or
when there's no pace you got to hit your backhand. You could have sliced it too.
Nice Dave
Again you're reaching. Reaching for it.
But see what happens on that shot is ball recognition. You didn't recognize
that my ball was short you're waiting too long you end up like reaching like
this and when you here you have no no shot. Alright so you gotta watch the ball
really try to read it as well as you can. Okay.
It's a little bit thin you caught you catching you just a
tad thin. Alright. So what I mean by that is you you can't make isolated movements
of the forearm or the wrist. This is the thin type of shot. You got to use the
full swing full finish use your body completely. I'm doing what you pointed out
I hold my breath as I concentrate. That's part of it and then you're just like
rolling with the forearm like this and when you're that far back you get no
power that way and you end up missing in the net.
Again. Again you cutting it short. Short finish. It's so thin that ball you. You know
what I mean by that. I think I stopped too far away from the ball. You didn't set up well enough that's
true but the stroke stopped about halfway right here. Look set up for that
ball. It's an easy ball come all the way around use your body. Every time I think
I got you. But again I think when you start focusing on where you're gonna hit
it, your target, your technique goes away. I know.
Oh Dave, you missed it missed it man. But you know what you had a chance to get
into the net over there. You had a chance to come to the net and put it away with
an easy shot. I did? You hit a great cross-court backhand you had me running I had a
defensive, one of these little tap defensive shots.
Super easy volley if you close in on it.
Oh Dave close you got to close on it.
Any ball that's floaty that's soft dinky you gotta close otherwise it's
gonna be at your shoelaces. So I didn't punch up? It's not about punching up. Think about
it. The ball has no penetration it's gonna die. It's going right towards your feet
So what you got to do. You got to close the net so you can take it higher. Get closer.
Close the net, get closer.
On the line Dave
You had that
I made my shot and you got it.
You had that though.
Well not really, your're so good.
You keep going oh you were so close to getting that. It was
a good good approach man. You had that volley you missing like one
extra step one extra step you got that volley it's a good approach. Thank you.
Yeah
Yes
Great shot
You had it man you had it Dave
what a rally. This a killer rally man. I need some rest.
Okay what you did there was you ran completely through the ball Dave you ran
like a train through the ball.
You got to re position your feet a little bit. You know. You got
to make sure to make some footwork. Like so often I don't think I'm gonna get there in time and I overrun it.
You got there with plenty of time.
You got to readjust your feet a little bit you ran straight through that.
You gotta keep your feet moving man. That ball might look slow but you got to make
the appropriate footwork adjustments. Get out of the way quickly because that ball
was way too close to your body.
What was that? A complete push, a steer, a
guide. See what happens is as you're running full-speed from the
baseline and you steer the ball like this you hit it flat and push through
the ball that's all always going to sail long.
So here's your options. You can do maybe a drop shot okay that's not a bad play
in that scenario. You can do forehand topspin no you steered it you pushed on
You steered it, you pushed on
it it's what I went long and with that you had a lot of momentum from running.
I tried to go up but my momentum made me push long, that what happened.
So well you got to counteract that momentum by maybe even doing slice drop shot
topspin.
So that wouldn't be a time for pull up unless I did super pull up.
You can do super pull-up but anything you do in that circumstance you
got to be a little more gentle on the ball okay. But what you should never do is
steer the ball and push it. Here you go.
It's got to be many many small steps to set
up for that ball and get behind it. Keep backing
I realized way too late how deep that was going.
It seemed slow but then it kept floating to the
baseline. Yeah it wasn't that slow actually. It took a lot of the pace out of
your serve. Here you go. But regardless of what it is slow fast you always want to keep
stay on your toes keep your feet moving you never know what's going to happen with
the ball.
Again finish. You're stopping again. You've got to lift that thing all the way you
got to finish a shot Dave
I held my breath on that too.
Well I told you to grunt like
you normally do. When you hold your breath you don't play well. I'm telling
you. You gotta get that energy out.
I took all that time and I lifted it.
Why do you think that happened?
I leaned back?
No
It's ball recognition Dave.
What?
Ball recognition.
See I hit a pickup ball from the baseline
and that ball had a little bit of backspin my ball. So it didn't come
through the court at all. Had no penetration whatsoever. You were expecting it to come to you.
and all of a sudden you realize hey this thing has backspin and then your and
then you were reaching so it's about ball recognition.
Yeah Dave
Awesome Dave, nice shot.
I readjusted
I wanna come over topspin and just like you said when I couldn't I sliced it.
Absolutely perfect. See if you would have tried to do something there with topspin or even
push it bunt it, it would have been a problem you cut it then you angle it
off which is perfect.
I readjusted based on your comments.
No you missed it man.
Again
Not enough set up there.
The ball got it got on the left side of your body
Dave why why why
OMG
What happened there man?
horrible
Well first of all you're walking up to the approach shot. Why didn't you have a little
more intensity there.
I incorrectly thought I had it too easy.
You were doing like a fast walk.
You gotta keep you feet moving
stay on your toes. Just try to push it I guess you're spin made it go.
The forehand was pretty good and then that volley again set up footwork get yourself in a
perfect position
So should I have just come around?
The forehand was good. There's nothing wrong with the forehand. It gave
you the opportunity to put away a super easy volley. And then. So the
volley is the problem not the forehand.
It was too low by the time I got to it.
No it was high actually. Just just didn't.
No I hit it right here.
Yeah that's high. That's above your shoulder.
All you gotta do is tap that in but again you didn't set it up right ball came.
I thought I went like that
Just freeze it, just block it.
Tap it don't try to push through it.