I'm going to start with a feel exercise okay okay so basically here's what I want you to do
you want to take a ball in your left hand you're gonna watch I'm gonna show you first okay you're
gonna throw the ball up and you're going to catch it with your strings without the ball
bouncing off your string so without the ball going like this you're going to catch the ball like that
you have to basically go in the direction of the ball and catch it like that let me see go ahead
I'm gonna show you again Watch throw it in the air and catch it like this go ahead
okay remember you go down with the racket like that in the direction of the ball
what I like about this is also you're kind of working on the
serve toss by throwing the ball with your left hand do it again
look go down like this you start off with the edge and then you scoop this
way watch start with the edge and you go like that
Follow The Edge yeah you almost had it almost had it look watch with the edge
and then you go down with the ball as low as you can and keep the hands kind of soft on
the handle don't hold it too stiff okay the stiffer you hold it the less feel you have
turn the racket more if your racket is angled the ball is going to roll off you got to make
the strings parallel to the ground like this turn the strings completely over this way
oh you did it okay very good so next progression I'm going to throw the ball towards you and now
the ball's gonna be traveling this way you have to go back with the racket in the direction of
the incoming ball so let me just show you how to do it throw the ball towards me right here
okay perfect do it again one more time see how it went back the same way like this
and throw it yeah throw it towards me you see I caught it like that okay so I'm gonna do the same
thing for you here go this way so you can catch it on your forehand side Ball's gonna be coming
at you and you scoop it up okay you're gonna look if you just keep the racket here the ball
is going to bounce off the strings you're gonna have to go back what I like about these exercises
you get to be aware of the incoming ball and you get to be aware of controlling the racket head
you start learning what the racket head does to the ball so obviously if you stay
there and stop and block the ball is going to bounce right off your strings okay so go back
more look you have to go back that way with the racket the racket has to go this way do it again
see right before it hits the string you have to go
back otherwise if you keep it there it's going to bounce off the string do it again
yes there it is you did it okay so these two exercises are fantastic for feel in addition to
the ones that already showed you where you bounce the ball like this we don't have to do it now but
you've already been doing this this stuff and it's a great exercise so now I'm gonna do one
more feel drill and we're going to be hitting back and forth to each other but before you hit
the ball you're gonna tap it to yourself so let me show you how to do that okay you're gonna stand
right here throw me a ball I'll show you how to do this so I'm going to tap and then I'm going
to hit like that okay I'm gonna tap and then you're gonna hit good tap and you're gonna hit
good now remember we can progress to holding the racket on the bottom we don't have to hold
it there anymore okay we can go in the bottom of the handle and go again tap to yourself and hit
do I let it bounce yeah let it bounce it's going to give you more time
again this is a great exercise to learn how to be aware of the incoming ball to learn
how to feel the ball there's something that's very important very early on when you start
because you know what happens a lot of beginners just want to come out here and just smack the ball
really hard and when you're just getting started it's important to hit it nice and soft and learn
how to feel the ball you're doing good here one more tap and hit it fantastic job awesome