so let's say you watch one of my videos and you find it really helpful and you want to go out on
the court and try out what you just learned but you don't have access to a coach or maybe you
can't afford a coach so in today's video I want to teach you how you can train your significant other
your brother or your sister or your friend to teach you a lesson in other words I'm gonna teach
my mom how to teach me Mom are you ready to teach me yes all right oh that was a good one a good one
okay let's go let's do it so the difficulty for people that don't know how to play tennis is going
to be feeding the ball and feeding the ball with the racket is going to be impossible so you have
to teach the person that's going to be training you how to feed the ball by hand in other words
hand feeding and the most common mistakes that people who don't know anything about tennis commit
when they hand feed they just throw the ball at the player like this now the ball will come too
fast and the player has no time to react so the important thing when it comes to hand feeding is
that the technique is correct there's going to be two techniques this is the first technique which
is the drop feed the palm of the hand is to the ground and it just drop feed it like this okay
that's technique number one there's gonna be a ball that's stationary in place so we're going
to do some drills like that now another way is to throw the ball to the person and most people
will go like this but what you want to do is do it on their hand like this underhand it's
going to be nice and slow and generally it's going to be a lot easier to control the ball
so we're going to start with I want you to just drop feed me some balls like this okay
so right there is good so obviously where your hand is positioned that's where the
ball is going to drop and I'm going to work on my forehand say I just want you to drop
it right here and then once you drop it pull your hand away and I'm going to hit forehands
okay the first mistake you did that you went like this you don't need to like throw the ball just
let it yeah just let it come out of your hand do it again perfect awesome and do another one
oh this is great and keep going now you can put your basket right next to you so you can increase
the frequency and and let them drop faster all right here we go nice oh this is perfect
okay wait a second now it's getting a little sloppy you see because you're starting to do
some weird techniques like this extend your hand and just let it drop like this then it's going
to be super clean you see what I mean okay all right here we go yes that is as clean as
it can be very nice thank you now of course you guys can do forehands and backhands so I'm just
going to show forehands but you should do all Strokes in a stationary position but the next
progression that you should do is hitting on the run off a stationary ball like that so why don't
you just drop it right there and I'm gonna come from the middle and hit the ball go ahead perfect
one more time that is perfect oh you win you went like this a little bit now what I love is working
with cones because that forces the player to go towards the middle all of us will naturally not
go all the way back if there's no cone so working with cones will make us go all the way back to the
middle and it's going to increase the intensity so I'm gonna go around the cone after you feed
it okay go ahead good and now when I reach the middle you drop there you go good and you drop now
nice one and again and drop oh I missed it all right one more time last one
is it good forehand good forehand
and what you should do next is position the person that's training you in different
locations around the court so you can work on different movement patterns
so drop feeds are great because you have to generate your own power in other words there's no
Pace coming at you but you also want to practice when the ball does have a little bit of pace and
this is where underhand feeds come in very handy so in this drill I'm going to have my mom on their
hand feed me some balls diagonally into the corner perfect of course I go around the cone good and go
a little bit more to the side perfect you can go a little bit more make me run more you can make
me run even more come on yes that's it good well not so I gotta go to the middle first go ahead
oh my goodness my forehand is off okay so this is a good example of
you have to wait until I come back to the middle otherwise there's no chance for me to get the
balls I so always when I'm in the middle that's where you can feed the next one okay
good
you want to go like this right yes underhand okay now we do the same
thing to the backhand you throw it underhand diagonally this way
perfect don't be afraid to go a little bit more that way go ahead make me run go for it
go ahead perfect I'll do a set of five that's two
four last one I got to make it
one more I missed it one more
and on the line yes and guys one negative aspect of serving it to an empty box is that you have
mentally this freedom of not having an opponent there so you don't feel that much pressure targets
help for sure but also what's a good thing to do every now and then is positioning a person at the
Baseline now the person is going to be training you is not going to be a tennis player so don't
serve right at them you're going to serve opposite of them like I'm gonna do now with
my mom she's standing there I'm going to serve down the tea or I'm going to angle it way off
wide so it doesn't get anywhere near her but just having a person there will change things mentally
and you might feel a little bit more pressure so guys I can tell you that just my mom's standing
there is shrinking the box of course it's just the optical illusion the box is the same size
but mentally it feels like a smaller just because she's standing there so this is a good practice
you can see there I missed the serve because I tried to place it a little bit too good
so let me try another one I'm going down the T
okay that was a little bit better
so positioning a person over there is good training from a mental standpoint
even though this might seem trivial it does make a difference thank you so much for the
lesson that was one of the best training sessions I've ever had oh my God thank you I appreciate it