I want you to come up close to the net, come closer, I'm gonna give you
a ball that's very very close to the net and now you have to hit it very gently
with a lot of feel back over. You can either do angle you can do the
counter drop shot and make sure that you hit the ball with a lot of feel. Here we go.
What you gotta remember, when the ball drops below the level of the net right. So here's the level of the
net, when the ball drops below that level you have to you have to open the racket
face. If you play it like this it's gonna be hard to make it over the net. So when
it drops below here you open up a little bit and any time the racket face
is open like that you have to be very gentle. It's very easy to over hit.
What happens is every now and then in a match you get a ball like this maybe not much maybe like
One, two, three but it might be coming at a super important time of the match.
Let's do lateral volleys okay and these are important and singles and doubles
So basically what I want you to do is not turn too much when you move like this, like just
do half a turn. So when you're going here do a half a turn like this and then go
towards the ball. Don't worry about your feet just go, make sure it's almost
like you're going with your upper body first the feet go second, you go like
this. Don't go out with the feet first, go down the line. I'm gonna I'm
gonna pull you wide okay down the line. Here we go.
sprinters position come on like Rafa head down come on get your head down
Okay here's the the instinct that we all have that
you need to break and this is something that's very common so you were
at the net you get a ball going to your side okay and the first instinct that we
have is to stretch out the arm and go like this. Very difficult to volley when
the arm is stretched out this way. So what you need to do instead is like
break this instinct and just leave this for absolute emergency. Instead when the
ball comes you move your entire system to the ball like this. You can
volley from here which is gonna give you a lot more feel. So I see a
lot of you going like this and you're going like this
and try not to stretch the arms so much and go more with your body towards the
ball. Remember how Rafa runs, he has his
head down like this he runs like this run like that head goes first and you
keep your arm a little bit closer to your body on the volley otherwise you'll
lose the volley you won't be able to control it well. Come again.
Whole body goes there.
Much better. If you notice how Rafa volleys. He's got this always
bent arm like it's always in here close to him this way he has the most feel
when he's volleying inside like that. You don't see him stretching unless he really
has to. It's an absolute emergency, he can't get the ball and the other way he'll go
like this but not often. And now I want you to go lateral but you're also going to
go forward. So you're gonna transition forward and you're gonna go lateral to
the side and you're gonna do forehand down the line. Here we go. Come.
If you go like this on the ball you're gonna miss it. I want the strings
parallel to the net, the tip of the racket to the outside as much as
possible. Don't allow that tip of the racket to come through. Again.
Freeze the racket right at the moment of contact.
Connect both hands in the middle together, don't allow that
racket just be by itself, connect the hands every now and then.
the hands. Good. Connect the racket every now and then.
Hold on time out. See this is just a sloppy technique right there that's gonna make
you miss. You're going like this, don't allow this to happen.
Come in here this way. Really like force yourself to maintain this angle of the racket
parallel to the net okay. Here we go come on.
Ok let's go again backhand now you're gonna close the ball off, you go down the line okay.
So when you do any type of volley
where you are closing it's obviously gonna be on the ball with very little
penetration. The ball that's kind of dying and we do that you have to
transition through the contact you can't really stop and hit you have to hit and
then kind of go 1 1 2 afterwards. When the ball comes very quick you just hold
your ground. So let me do that next, I'm gonna rip it right at you hard and you
just hold your ground you hold your foundation and just deflect the ball
back. You lose yeah you lose the fear of the ball that way. Come on here we go.
Remember you don't want to drop the racket too much here.
You keep it the racket head above the level of the grip.
no mistakes no mistakes
No mistakes. Come on stay strong up there. Don't drop the racket so
much keep it up a little more good.
Let me give you one overhead and then one like a little floater shot, little
dink shot that you're gonna close on. You're gonna move up and back okay.
Now the cleaner you can make that volley
technique when you're closing the better. The more you do with the racket the
bigger the chances you're gonna mess it up. Keep it very compact here, don't do a
lot. You're gonna close on it so you can get a lot of momentum from moving
through the ball. You don't need to do much with the racket. Okay. Aim short too.
You can angle the ball off. Do it like Rafa. Do those little short angle volleys.
Don't allow the ball to bounce. Take everything in the air. Come. Aggressively close. Be explosive
up there be explosive.
You're playing the ball a little too high actually.
Take it just a tad lower.
Like slightly below your shoulder a little bit lower. And rip it hard man go for it.
Now go to the baseline, come in and take it out of the air.
Nice job. Go back touch the line.