Modern Tennis Footwork... Learn how to move like Federer and Nadal
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One of the things that makes Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal such good tennis players is their footwork. Their footwork doesn't just get them from A to B... it's actually a weapon!
FYB head coach Will Hamilton and Yann Auzoux (a 2008 and 2010 Washington Post coach of the year and former Davis Cup player for Cameroon) walk you through the footwork patterns that Federer, Nadal, and other top players use during a match... in other words, modern tennis footwork.
Will here... This is one of the best footwork videos online (granted, I'm biased). It's actually one of the best videos we've ever produced. Yann is a great coach and he shows you exactly how to move quickly, efficiently, and in a way that helps you prevent injuries.
Please let us know what you think of the video in the comments below!
6:34 The Walking Step
10:00 Dynamic Steps and Hopping Steps
14:00 The Cross Step
16:46 The Pivot Step
19:10 The Inside Step
20:20 The Karaoke Step
20:20 The Carioca step
Too much talking, not enough step by step guide.
skip to 21:46
good instructional video
Having ADD must be fun. A lot of important points at the beginning.
The boredom is the theory! If you listen again and again you will find very interesting better than jump and training. Good players will love that, remember!
1st i would love too see a 40 yo man doing all this hopping and walking...right...
2nd this is nothing but give names to footwork allready exists and every kid does this every time,
and third i would like to say something positive, that girl in white dress (the first sister) she has a beautifull shoulder rotation, therefore a big and clean full power shot, great forehand, best of all.
The footwork and all those names to the steps can became really confusing and not very practical in a match
I'm here 11 years later and the same guys are still on top of the game
His explanation on the difference between weight and speed just does not make any sense!
this video is 12 years old and is still the best video about footwork, great job!
Thanks! 😃
Honestly, you guys need to d a lot less talking and more showing. You don't need to repeat, repeat, repeat what you're going to teach. JUST DO IT! A picture (demo) is worth a thousand words. Thanks.
The best way to improve footwork is to take Cha Cha lessons.
This guy does say a lot of good things, but I completely disagree with his "walking step." Unless you are trying to rush to net or have an easy sitter inside the service line this never happens. Neither Federer nor Nadal do this. You can watch hours of their videos (all up on youtube) and that step never occurs in the manner that Yann has mentioned.
I have seen footage of federer on yt when he has a short ball and he uses the walking step to take the ball in an "inside-out" fashion. You may also find him doing this on return of serves on videos of them practicing. The pro players will adjust according to each shot, so expecting them to do this walking step depends on the opposition as well. It won't happen every game.
shap932 I must agree with you!
This video is mis-leading. Federer, Nadal or no other pro take a crossover step before turning their body sideways.
P D So true. I was quite confused when he said that!
You mean take the ball earlier? Geez, 36 minutes and a bunch of new terms and words for that. What a waste of a video.
Lol
Waste? Not at all!
I completly agree with the whole moving into the ball part.
But as I see it, the walking step almost entirely blocks the rotation/uncoiling of the hips and upper body.
By moving your left foot forward (right handed player) your hips just cant rotate into the ball.
As a consequence the upper body cant rotate as much, and all that is left is your arms and shoulders, which have to compensate for the loss of power throughout the kinetic chain.
So what you get is a more complicated shot, with less power....
Any thoughts on that?
starts at 6:35
Great explanations. Very clear. Thanks!
mr zoo i aint lookin 4ward 2 it.and i dont like 4d tennis.time passes very slowly in this vid.and are u criticising footwork of players like connors, borg and johnny mac hmmmm?
excellent video....time to put that to practice next time
am I the only one around here a little annoyed by all the "you got it"s ?
Yes. Time to switch to decaff.
With old wooden rackets, closed stances and open grips were the rule. Eastern grip front foot points at the net. Now, closed grips and open stances are the rule. I would argue that the speaker's opinion is not strictly true: the level of athleticism is generally higher, but the influence of technology is very strong in tennis. The ball stays on the racket so long, and the sweet spot is so much bigger, than it was 30 years ago.
Blue dude! You really don't have to reexplain every single point made by the only important guy in the video. It honestly was not that hard to comprehend the first time he said it.
How to move like your technique can provide the best result....that makes more sense. I move like federer but i am 1.65 tall so i always wonder why i cant hit so well. My friend is 1.95 and moves like nadal but now he is in wheelchair.
@SadegoGG First of all I never said it "only" helps children from 9 to 14. I brought up that age to explain you in detail what I meant with my first comment on Nadal's and Federer's movement mechanics (or technique). About you not understanding my conditioning drills, well, Its clear to me that you don't understand how mechanics and technique are really the same, and that tennis is one of the most technical sports period. I just hope you are not teaching tennis anywhere.
completely agree. This is all good intentions but way too complicated and over-thought for this matter. I was never taught, and never practiced any of these movements. When you are quick, stay on balance, move the feet aggressively, and play enough high level tennis, you do alot of this without even thinking about it. In other words, it develops naturally.
In tennis, the players at the net, like the in-fielders in baseball have to be quick off the ball because they are close to the persons striking the ball and neither have much time. Players at the baseline, like outfielders in baseball have to be quick off the ball so as to move laterally, up or back to cover the greater distances involved from those positions. continued...
@nsr12345 is right: the collision is between the racquet & ball. See "Technical Tennis" by Rod Cross (a physics prof). The pro's talk of Nadal's 200 lbs of weight behind the ball is all wrong: it only matters how fast Nadal swings his racquet. There is a little bit more racquet speed relative to the ball if Nadal is moving toward the ball, but Nadal's weight is irrelevant.
Horrible job delivering the content. Hold video is about efficient foot work, learn efficient communication. Could have been 5m video
A factor of why Federer is so good is because he reads every hip and leg movement in everyone's shot and kills people who can't hip fake or shoulder fake. That's why Federer is better than "modern footworK" because he reads it in everybody. Notice only unorthodox players like Nadal can beat Federer?
Of course they don't think about it. They move the way they do thanks to the training they did when they were younger. Today is all automatic for them. Movement mechanics are key in the development of young players.
That's not true because Federer never gets injured due to his superior footwork, Nadal gets injured because of his game style.
8:19-8:52 physics howler! complete nonsense: ball speed comes from racket speed only (and speed of incoming ball); Nadal's "weight" of shot simply means his ball has lots of topspin.
what im saying is why not teach it the other way around with teaching proper balance, turning, forward momentum.. ect... and the foot work will naturally develop by itself?
Great training tips... I like the video. No one has talked about Federer's footwork as one of the reasons he doesnt get injured, which is the truest statement I have ever heard any trainer mention.
Those inside the baseline moves are great if your opponent lacks pace of shot... But much more difficult to do if they have hard ground strokes ..... Requires much greater hand eye skill.... For some this technique will cause unforced errors
honestly...i just watched the first half and i've learned so much! one of the most VITAL tennis lessons EVER.
that is a rediculous reaction to some actual critical questions and remark, the person merely asked for your opinion, the person took your angles seriously and tried to apply it, but because you've got an ego and need to point out how you won't share, you call that person and all other viewers 'sneaky cheap bastards' and idiots. who do you think you are? are you drunk? lonely? djeezus, that's so dissapointing and so not like a coach. you actually had a listener and kicked him/her in the face.
I've watched videos of him and he appears anything but sloppy. I have no idea where you get that. A big part of what makes him dangerous is that he simply gets to balls he shouldn't (like nadal) and that's because of his footwork, not just raw speed. One thing that really jumped out at me is his cross step, he uses it a lot at the baseline and it's evident that it helps him a lot.
@euroclyde
and we all know energy is transferred through the inside of the body. We can feel this in every day experiences and we can feel this after exercise. So to make a theory that only takes into consideration a side effect of the cause of movement (Work done inside the body is what causes the movement) and to neglect all other theories regarding how movement can be trained is just bad science. This is why numerous scientists view nutrition and weight training as social sciences
@euroclyde
So to argue that exclusively looking at the outside of the body and replicate it is a good way to develop athletes is absurd. Replicating the outside of the body doesn't mean you're body is working in the same manner or as effectively as someone else who's body looks the same. There is a lot more to movement than exclusively what you can see with an ordinary video camera regardless of how much it can slow down an image. Your entire theory neglects the inside of the body,
@SadegoGG you're kind of right now when you say "whatever method [i] learned isn't right". i didn't learn a method, which is huge difference in developing a player today. of course someone's natural athletic ability is key, but it can only take someone so far. there are some fundamentals that must exist, and as you said, probably the biggest one is "to maximize the force that is transferred from the tennis racket to the tennis ball."
@euroclyde
Whatever method you learned isn't right either. And the methods that I would teach also aren't right. There is no right way to do anything since there is always a better way than the methods that have been discovered today. There are more effective ways to do something, but there is no right way.
Now, isn't the whole point in tennis to maximize the force that is transferred from the tennis racket to the tennis ball? How does moving your feet maximize this force?
@easpill0
You could argue any sport is the most technical sport in the world. Hell, I could easily argue chess or Starcraft (yes, a video game) is more technical than tennis. Also, out of the millions of high school athletes around the world practicing mechanics its interesting that only the ones who are really good before practicing mechanics make it professionally and all the others see little if no improvement.
@easpill0
Well if your theory centers around mechanics only helping children from 9 to 14 and it makes no difference in high school athletes, then why would you bother teaching them to college athletes? Your argument is all over the place. Also, your conditioning drills have nothing to do with teaching the concept of mechanics. Teaching mechanics is the act of teaching artificial movements to an athlete based on exterior motions you can see in another athlete.
@Bears0054
Mechanics are never essential for athletic development. It may be important for someone to know what a movement looks like, however teaching mechanics where a full body movement is broken down into small parts is never efficient. Full body movements are done by activating the core (By establishing a feeling), then commanding that feeling to move from one endpoint to another. The individual body parts don't matter, and neither does anything between the endpoints.
Is this really modern footwork or is it just footwork in tennis in general?
The truth is that professional players have used the same foot patterns for a long time. Tempo of the game has grown so the footwork has become increasingly important. Today's tennis players have the same foot patterns when the older players, but the center of players mass is lower than before, therefore players have wider stands (better balance).
Here is some prof of my theory. (Next comment not enough space)
don't know how much badminton would've helped roger with his game, but yes federer only takes stutter steps occasionally...you don't ever see badminton players take stutter steps; in that sense, i guess his steps represent that of the badminton players. his strides are longer. that's also cuz he has brilliant timing. its almost impossible to hit fast paced balls without stutter steps, unless you have brilliant timing and estimation of the distance between you and the ball...such a beast.
i think federer's footwork is not as good as nadal's is. Federer has the ability to be in the right part of the court always but when he has to adjust NOW he is doing i don't know 2 long steps instead of making 4-5 short steps to reach the ball so he leaves all the work to his hand, works pretty well btw
take a beginner to top 50 in the country in 3 years. Then you will have credibility with the viewers. "cameroon davis cup"haha the guy cant even demonstrate a proper backhand. "modern footwork" haha read your tennis history silly. i think michael chang knew how to move. someone shut down these silly videos and rhetoric
@SadegoGG you're wrong. people actually learn how to move their feet today. footwork's incorporated into the stroke. when i learned and used to work out, what our coaches would say is, "move your feet". they never had a method to do it or a pattern. yeah, we did plyos, strength and quickness training, but not actually how to move.
Take it with a grain of salt - some of his analysis is just dead wrong! Even when he is demonstrating his footwork, he is not moving exactly the way he describes it. He naturally knows how to move, but doesn't seem to have good understanding of "why" and "when".
Student demos are great and are perfectly filmed.
@champ1193 i don't know how to explain it is true..but the cross step is actually more proficient than the basic shuffle..umm for me it give me more time to recover. You're right though i kept tripping the first time i used it but after a while after a long time of practice, it's better than the shuffle. just my 2 cents :)
great ""tennis foot work" tell to the tennis kid who spent hundreds of hours in find and maintan their point of equiibrum,now they can wash all this on the windows because of the new miracle in tennis , how to move without losing your point of equilibrum.Stop the bulsheet in tennis go on official site if u want verified info.
so you can only do a kaorke step for a slice? and the inside step only works on 2handed backhand?
what kind of player I belong … beginner or advanced tennis player or something else … thanks ; my video is on my youtube" tatkas200 tennis on the wall" know there are a lot of mistakes and I know where I’m wrong …… Go ahead, watch the ball, loose grip ect
suggestion Your instructions are the best
Ive heard buttholes talk more crap...nah ive just been wanting to say that haha. but really theres no way to know ever! Btw im a die hard federer fan to the grave! p.s. mabe nadal beats fed cause his entire game is based of it, which makes nadal a loser in my mind.
quite honestly if you type in bailey footwork (tennis) in youtube search engine you can get more of a modern footwork that any young person can do. i know bailey method is patented by someone, but my point is that the bailey method footwork is quite similiar to what the pros are doing today.
I fell asleep, did they ever hit a ball?
Yes
I don't agree with the reasoning and of taking time away, but i think having some understanding of footwork will definitely help anyone's game.
this guy is very knowledgeable. as a teaching professional myself alot of this stuff can be easily translated to alot of my students.
I really like the different verbage. especially about breaking down the open and closed stance. I find many intermediate playerd use open just for the fact that they see good players doing it and don't understand the benifits and such.
remember how everyone whas aying that Nadal is running to mutch and he whont last long,, and he proved everyone wrong.. same with that he wouldnt win Wimbeldon. as a tennis player just be you.. and perfect it, and you will reach the top.
Nadal and Federer don't move by thinking of the mechanics. Rather they move by creating pictures of where they want to go and their end result. Anybody who stresses mechanics lack an understanding of what athleticism is and how movement is produced.
i don't see how the cross step is any better than the basic shuffle... i would think that half of the intermediate players would trip on their own feet trying to do that
wow those kids all seemed like pretty solid players, awesome video
pity you won't share, but fine, understandable and your own choice. but it's not just a bunch of beginners around here, it's also just knowledge-curious intermediate players and you just offended them for exploring information
hey will i know this havent much to do with this but could you please do a video about ading light weigt tape i know im not the only one out there there would like to know how to do that it would be a great help thanks alot
@andydufresne87 even he said that you cant movelike nadal and ferderer. but you can learn the technique and get in shape to move like them, cuz you need to be in an extremely good shape like them to move that way
Is this why Federer dominated. Because of this footwork. Does anyone agree?
Also type this into youtube search engine:
Nadal's new serve: It's not just a grip Adjustment!
and also try this one also in youtube search engine:
Serve instruction: The elbow up myth by tennisoxygen
great, totally true. so why does it bother you when people share some little bits of knowledge of the game with others, if that won't bother the reality of closed-off money circles?
@andyacetennis . tell your students to split step just before their opponent hits the ball. then if the ball is hit hard back behind them they can pivot step back to run to the ball.
Hmm, on the cross step, I noticed that Federer for example, crosses over in front instead of behind demonstrated in the video (after the split step). Feels more natural in my opinion.
I didn't understand the "walking step".
Will says it's the same shot as the open stance, except you move in.
But after he moves in and hits, it looks like a closed stance forehand.
Well that's the only one reason he dominated ... besides his forehand... oh and besides his serve... oh and besides his incredible balance... oh and besides his backhand
Wait! Did the coach say CARIOCA step? Carioca is the native of Rio de Janeiro and never heard of this term before. I think I heard Karioke step, maybe??? That's funny!
sure u know something more, but why arent you sideways when preparing for a forehand? :S your BH is way better. you would help me a lot by responding, im quite confused
some coaches just make tennis too complicated for beginners, just play, FEEL, experiment which type of footwork is good for you. read some bruce lee books.
this guy is such a liar...he wasn't coach of the year in 2010...and he is universally disliked and disrespected in the area....its called napoleon complex....
@easpill0
Name a single professional athlete who was an average player in high school who became a professional player by practicing mechanics.
There isn't one.
I mean yeah right: "learn how to move like Federer or Nadal" that is something that can't be learned, that is natural talent, anyone who says different is wrong...
I wouldn't cut them, just sand them so they break during a match when you bet money!
Correct me if am wrong, but would adding the hop to your movement create more spin on the ball since it emphasizes the downward to upward swing path?
@DuhEnlightenedOne Why do you think you're just a 1.5? There's a lot more to tennis if you want to be anything more than a rec player.
@ravi48819 Notice that when he hits he has an open stance. A closed stance is when ur body is perpendicular( or close to it) when you hit.
At 14:50 about X step, my coach said that I should do the 1st way because small steps make it more accurate. So it's a tradeoff right?
Is it just me or is that first girl that did the demo looks like Leylah Fernandez? She's a lefty...
hmm, alright. but what about the general principles of cutting time/space with dynamic steps? that sounds plausible
@DuhEnlightenedOne This is why it's VERY IMPORTANT to practice bouncing the ball on the frame of your racket kids!
Nadal seem to like doing football in the court. lol
Feder? He has really wonderful footwalk and moving.
Gosh guys way too much talking. Get to the instruction already!
i dont understand the difference between the open stance and the walking step. could u explain it?
Is is practical/useful to use the Karaoke Step with a topsin backhand instead of a slice?
Not a big fan of the walking step-takes away a bunch of power
very nice . drop milesper hr..talk feet per sec, or meters per sec >>))
thats funny i thought you guys were coming with something really new...well guess what if you pivot that much you re gonna have a hard time pivoting again if he sends to the same place, remember everythign works both ways so your best position is never 180 degrees.
Is this guy Indian pro player? (I mean not Native american but Indian from India)
get with it dont say take time way 500 times you think youre talking to idiots?
@ravi48819 the closed stance happens after the ball is already left the racquet.
oh and besides his volleys... and drop shots.. and oh his backhand smashes...
So is she a lefty or a righty?...
shes ambidextrous
"THATS NOT FAIR"!!!! xDD
@ darkspirit14 federer's? nah, roddick's flat serve, and del potro's forehand.
.. we're not 12 year old kids - we can see what's happening; don't need the patronizing repetition from both coaches as if we're blind as well!
Yikes. Maybe it was past your beddy bye time when you posted this?
You make the game far to complicated with these video. Think of a circle around you, that’s the space you need to buy yourself time to setup for the return. That’s it.
Oh oh, looks like we found 2008 and 2010’s Washington Post runner up coach of the year.
come si può ridurre il tennis di Federer a una spiegazione teorica?? tempo perso!