WOW!!!! I can't wait to at least try it tomorrow. I am doing a shadow practice in my computer room and I can imagine a good improvement to my game. With this walking step I think I do not need to hit harder till I get used to it... thank you in advance coach....
I think Federer often uses the forehand hoping step when approaching the net on a low midcourt ball. The hoping elevating motion combined with heavy topspin allows him to approach very aggressively.Go Roger !!!!!!
Thanks again for this very instructive video about modern footwork. I really enjoy all your videos. I actually googled FifthSetntl but I haven't fount any website... Could you give me a link ? Thank you.
Hello Andreeontube, I too use a semi-western, what you can try is to take the ball even earlier and a bit higher so that when you follow through downward your balls go down and stay in. Change the trajectory of your ball with a downward intention and it should fix your problems. Not every follow through has to go around your neck.
I have a 2 handed backhand and have trouble hitting on the run. I feel like my body gets in the way. What kind of footwork do you use for hitting 2 handed backhands on the run?
I remember the open stance single handed backhand being used a lot by Becker and Edberg. The single handed backhands on tour today eg Wawrinka and Gasquet are closed stance. I think if you have time, a closed stance is the way to go. The open stance is probably more of an improvisation shot when rushed.
+jochooi The court speed back then was faster than today's, I guess today's SHBH players have more time to arrange their foot work in order to hit closed stance. I believe all closed stance backhands are forced shots, both SHBH and THBH.
Court surface was a little bit faster but the pace of ball and amount of time you have after contact until contact again is significantly less than back then. Balls have tons of more power, rpms and players move their feet more efficiently and faster to get up to balls and cut the angles from the court to take time away from the opponent. It is way harder to hit closed stance today than it was 30, 40, 50, etc years ago
No one uses a walking step on the BH. Especially with a one-hander. You can see the guy was off balance on every shot he hit. The open stance one-hander is an effective shot when moving along the baseline...Gasquet is example of good technique on an open stance one handed BH return of serve
Regarding the open stance pivot motion on the one hand backhand on wide balls, same here. Federer never uses it.Federer will use a close stance , hit the ball, and then he will recover by bringing his back leg around and to the outside, push on this outside leg to recover towards the center area or close to it.
Leroux Patrick yea, i have absolutely never seen RF do this on the backhand either. It looks rather awkward and uncomfortable. Seems like you'd just use the open stance on the backhand. Ive never seen Wawrinkwa or thief do this either.
Hes slowing it down for yall here and with a much less efficient than RF They are so subtle when doing it given the athleticism, strength, explosiveness and efficiency when they use it so it’s not easily detectable to the inexperienced tennis eye. I played line 1 for a national championship D1 school and was a top 20 junior in the world, having played all junior slams. Just fyi so you dont come snapping at me haha
The 'walking step' is most similar to the backhand return of serve, however, during a point, a closed stance is superior because you can drive off that lead leg. But instead of all the theory argued here, just look at someone like Wawrinka, whose backhand is a rocket of a shot ... There's an overwhelming abundance of examples to confirm my claim and virtually none to confirm the claim about a mid-point walking step!
@@antoninartaud1985 For 1-hand BH, most pro’s use this “walking step” mostly for the return of serve, including the 1st point of Gasquet VDO you attached. This should have been mentioned in this VDO.
I think his rackethead is too upright in the preparation phase. I would correct that before going on with stepping through the ball. Now he is repeating the wrong movement with hos racket while trying to get better footwork. He needs to lose N up a bit more his wrist before impact it will create more racket head speed and a bit of topspin too. The way he hits now that( topspin) is almost impossible.
Both Djokovic and Murrry do use the hop-step off approaches on their backhand side. This video is great as I used it with all my private lessons and they were using in match play by the end of their lesson. And please, stop just pointing out top players and saying they don't hit their shot that way, of course everybody hits the ball differently. But the ft is the 3 or 4 ways that he shows to approach the net in this video are all correct. 40,000 hits 132 thumbs up and 5 down, get a clue
Fair enough regarding the Hoping step, someone like Federer uses it all the time. But the one hand backhand walking step ??I can't pinpoint the last time I saw Federer using one, and I'm a huge Federer fan and I have watched hundreds of videos of Federer's backhand. Never seen it. But maybe I'm wrong.
Im open minded about this, but I have my doubts about its overall effectiveness. Most notably I see a massive potential for the player to loose racket head speed and possibly dynamic weight transfer during the "walking" phase. I would also like to count the recovery steps as opposed to an open stance shot and this. my money is that it takes 2 steps as opposed to 1.
It's look like he doesn't have much balance...no leg drive. Most of the best 1 handed backhand players like Fed,Stan etc used to Pivot and shoulder turn for close stance to create a solid groundstrokes.
@@nhonoyalayon958this isnt a regular backhand drill Hes not saying you should aim to do this on your backhand whatsoever, in the slightest. Its a drill that helps you get your footwork right to be able to move up to balls so that you can take time away from your opponent by attacking the ball earlier (at a slower speed/acceleration maybe, while giving you the flexibility to hit the ball wherever you want and maximizing your efficiency on the court If done right, its way more effective than waiting for the ball to come to you (even if while still moving your feet and then just turning and stepping in to rip it as hard as you can behind the baseline. But yes, it is way better to hit closed stance on most shots when youre not on the stretch or run
After reading the comments which were critical of the coach, I looked around You tube to see if I could find any good tennis player (not necessarily pro player) using this one. I did find a girl using this and she was a good player and you can see that from the way she is striking the ball. Here is the link below :
I think coach Yann Auzoux means well. I just disagree with him when he says that top pro tennis players use all of that stuff. It is only partly true. Actually, top pro players, men and women, often use very basic , sometime old school, footwork .They mix it with specific modern footwork patterns on very specific kinds of balls during points. Especially during the recovery phase.
Everyone uses walking steps. The hopping step is most natural on the backhand side. The idea of using a walking step on the one or two handed backhand though is not right. The walking step on the forehand side is one of the most natural footwork patterns for approaching the net. Almost every pro uses the walking step or the hopping step depending on which foot they land on. I suggest people try the footwork before calling it junk. one handers stick to the hoping step though for sure.
Lol you have no clue what youre talking about Absolutely not the case. The amount of footwork specific and also tennis drills to implement and put the footwork to practice is such a big part of 99% of top 50 players It’s one of if not the biggest differences that separate some of the most elite, skilled and talented tennis players in the world and those that are in the top 50. Typically the top 50 is both.
Agree with you 100%. On the forehand it is possible, on the backhand...NOT AT ALL. If the player would be 2 handed, maybe...but still wrong. Anyway, is just my opinion, but I played professional tennis and now I became a coach...I never teach that step
How many top 100 players have you developed? I was top 20 in juniors, #1 in college at a top D1 school before i medically retired and I can assure you that only subpar tennis coaches can disagree with this. Look up some of the best tennis coaches in the world and their videos on footwork, not just one, several of em so you can get the full gist if it, and come back to me
One of the best explaned drill footwork /body positioning translating potentially where you're aming, body alignment. BODY alignment is always about geometry.
I agree - the LTA in the UK has received many valid criticisms from it's own players, including former British top players, world class players from the past, even government MPs have been critical of LTA funding and the results they actually produce in getting UK players up to world class standard. The fact is that the British LTA is 'the laughing stock' when compared to other tennis organisations around the world. Roger Draper has been called many times to resign by players and critics alike.
Look at Federer on his forehand and tell me he doesn't use the hopping step and walking step. If you don't see it, you dont have an eye for tennis or coaching.
its....different....interestingly different. isn't that hitting while moving？ a new concept maybe? even in a closed stance u can still hit different angles though. this disguise would be pointless and i dont see how you can hit a powerful shot. but its something new to think about for the very advanced student maybe. big maybe.
i cringed a little bit when they got around to the walking step on the backhand side. looked extremely awkward and the player was constantly off balanced...
You are absolutely right. My trainer coaches me like this to and he is way better than this guy. You just feel that if you planting your right foot and so your body weight to the front that the backhand is better. This guy in the video says everytime when he does it wrong 'thats it'.
joe xu as someone with a one handed back hand...practice hitting wrong footed one handers is super helpful. Of course you work to get a ball you can unload on when you have time and get your feet under you
Dudes, Come on. Just for fun I found vids of Nadal, Federer, and Azarenka using these footwork pattens in combination in practice and point play all over RUclips, but they don't allow URLs to be posted. Maybe it is not obvious because the feet move quickly through the patterns and they occur in dynamic situations, not in simple demos, like 1 - 2 - 3.
Which FYB coach was that? The only FYB coach making tennis video presentations is Will Hamilton and generally all of his analysis is good and I have used many of his demos in links to send to my students. However, when he got Yann Auzoux .. then his credibility went down for using this guy. The Bryan brothers on the other hand were good and extremely useful. Yann Auzoux on footwork? .. don't go there!
Each person moves his own natural way . that's why all the advises here are simply not good . People that play for fun will only ruin their tennis with it, and coaches that don't understand enough will teach wrong .
I would NOT say this video is TOTAL nonsense; you are far from accurate. There are alot of shots from this viedo that men and women are using in the pro game and college game. Yes, Federer uses his right leg to step in on his backhand, but thats is only one of the shots he is showing here. It is becoming more and more popular, and it makes sense especially for a two hander to use a power walking step on a shorter ball, stepping into the court with the left foot and landing on the right.
UK tennis basically is rubbish - the better players are not a product of the LTA system; many are harsh critics of the crusty management system of the LTA old boy structure which is outdated. Some of the former no.1 UK players went to train abroad at proper tennis academies and get to play on clay, either in Spain or in France. After Tim Henman, Andy Murray is the only player to be considered true world class standard on a par with the best of his era. He is not a product of the LTA.
I 100% agree with you Tony. The LTA have a massive chip on there sholder. Any coach that has other qualifications than the LTA one's is blackballed. As correctly said in the USA there are many very good Tennis Academy's and they are not straggled by the USPTA. In the UK you get these so called coaches that know nothing about different systems that are teached else where in the world. And LTA coaches walk about like. Look at me I am a level 1 or 2 and so on and must have coach written on the back of there sweatshirt. The LTA even consider NIck Bollettieri as losser when the fact is that it's the LTA that's the lossers. As you stated its only Murray that has got to the level that most other Countries players have been at for years. The LTA is a disgrace to tennis and everyone overseas knows this.
In twenty-two of USPTA coaching I've never seen such a poor explanation of footwork. If you know something extraordinarily well you should be able to explain it easy. This is a mess.
Yup. None of the pros use this junk. I really hope that players, rec or not, are not learning from this series of videos on the "walking step". Yann seems like a nice guy and all, but this is just plain wrong.
Backhand advice is sooooo wrong! Even the student's expression tells it all. Walking step into the backhand??? Where is the basic body rotation where the power comes from? This advice is not what I read from so many tennis books on basic strokes.
Remember that this advice is meant to be used when you take the ball early and are going into the court. You should not do this if you stay behind the baseline
Sri -- This technique doesn't replace the one-handed BH footwork you've learned IMO, it's an advanced variation which allows you to hit with power from different hip positions. These positions begin to happen naturally the more familiar you become with the one-handed BH. Advanced players use them most frequently when they don't have time to take the extra step. Look at footage of Federer returning serve, you'll notice he hits his backhand from this open hip position a lot of the time then reverts to more traditional footwork during the rally. Good luck.
.. This guy's backhand is totally jerky .. yet Yan is supposed to be a footwork expert. He should be correcting him instead of saying he's o.k. The player needs a deeper knee bend so that he can lift smoothly; instead he makes a very stiff, mechanical and awkward jerky movement, precisely because his footwork is at fault. Using a golf stance to compare with tennis footwork is ludicrous - has nothing to do with it. So many flaws in this guy's teaching method.
If you watch the best two-handed players ie. Murray, Djokovic and Nadal, they will opt to move forwards when playing on their forehand side - the backhands are traded from the baseline with lateral steps and they lift their bodies. Rarely will they get a short ball on their backhands and do what you suggest. You know nothing about pro tennis - the above video is next to useless. You should watch pro matches and learn from them. This Yann guy hasn't even achieved anything!
This is total nonsense! Go watch slow-motion clips of pro-player backhands and their associated footwork eg. Federer, Gasquet, Henin and others .. then come back and watch what is going on here. NON of the pro-players play backhands as depicted in this 'instruction' video with such jerky footwork and wrong positioning. Federer plants his front foot (right leg) and smoothly lifts his body from a good knee bend as he executes a single-handed backhand. This video is far from accurate!
This so-called 'top student' isn't that good - look at his footwork; not smooth at all. He's a very jerky player and rushed which means wasted energy. Pro players 'stay' with the shot when playing the backhand and lift their bodies from the knee bend, extending the follow-through high up - just look what this 'top student' does on his backhand. Check with the pros on other video clips and it will become clear that this is bad coaching.
FANTASTIC videos. The WHY of the various steps is very enlightening. Thank you!
The tip about pivot step is very valuable. I could see an immediate difference on the court with hitting angles.
Something new for many coaches. Thanks for tips. That is really helpful to implement some specific footwork into practices.
WOW!!!! I can't wait to at least try it tomorrow. I am doing a shadow practice in my computer room and I can imagine a good improvement to my game. With this walking step I think I do not need to hit harder till I get used to it... thank you in advance coach....
Thanks for posting the video. Very helpful.
Very nice video. It gives some instructions also.
I think Federer often uses the forehand hoping step when approaching the net on a low midcourt ball. The hoping elevating motion combined with heavy topspin allows him to approach very aggressively.Go Roger !!!!!!
wonderful .. i love it .. it really helped me thank you ...
best footwork lesson.
Very interesting,thank you.
how does walking step and pivot work with 2 hand backhand?
Thanks again for this very instructive video about modern footwork. I really enjoy all your videos. I actually googled FifthSetntl but I haven't fount any website... Could you give me a link ? Thank you.
Hello Andreeontube, I too use a semi-western, what you can try is to take the ball even earlier and a bit higher so that when you follow through downward your balls go down and stay in. Change the trajectory of your ball with a downward intention and it should fix your problems. Not every follow through has to go around your neck.
I use pivot steps on the run backhand side
I have a 2 handed backhand and have trouble hitting on the run. I feel like my body gets in the way. What kind of footwork do you use for hitting 2 handed backhands on the run?
I remember the open stance single handed backhand being used a lot by Becker and Edberg. The single handed backhands on tour today eg Wawrinka and Gasquet are closed stance. I think if you have time, a closed stance is the way to go. The open stance is probably more of an improvisation shot when rushed.
+jochooi The court speed back then was faster than today's, I guess today's SHBH players have more time to arrange their foot work in order to hit closed stance. I believe all closed stance backhands are forced shots, both SHBH and THBH.
Court surface was a little bit faster but the pace of ball and amount of time you have after contact until contact again is significantly less than back then.
Balls have tons of more power, rpms and players move their feet more efficiently and faster to get up to balls and cut the angles from the court to take time away from the opponent.
It is way harder to hit closed stance today than it was 30, 40, 50, etc years ago
No one uses a walking step on the BH. Especially with a one-hander. You can see the guy was off balance on every shot he hit. The open stance one-hander is an effective shot when moving along the baseline...Gasquet is example of good technique on an open stance one handed BH return of serve
Look at this video where gasquet does walking step on first point: ruclips.net/video/9g0zn8X9PMk/видео.html
When you teach him the pivot step at 5:38 seconds on the backhand he plants his left leg and then plants his right leg on the other...which is it?
Sapient Budgie left leg plants then right leg plants. 👍🏻
Regarding the open stance pivot motion on the one hand backhand on wide balls, same here. Federer never uses it.Federer will use a close stance , hit the ball, and then he will recover by bringing his back leg around and to the outside, push on this outside leg to recover towards the center area or close to it.
Leroux Patrick yea, i have absolutely never seen RF do this on the backhand either. It looks rather awkward and uncomfortable. Seems like you'd just use the open stance on the backhand. Ive never seen Wawrinkwa or thief do this either.
Hes slowing it down for yall here and with a much less efficient than RF
They are so subtle when doing it given the athleticism, strength, explosiveness and efficiency when they use it so it’s not easily detectable to the inexperienced tennis eye.
I played line 1 for a national championship D1 school and was a top 20 junior in the world, having played all junior slams.
Just fyi so you dont come snapping at me haha
Not the worse one-handed BH movement video, but its way up there, top 3.
On the forehand it promotes a lot of good things but on the backhand I'm not so sure
The 'walking step' is most similar to the backhand return of serve, however, during a point, a closed stance is superior because you can drive off that lead leg. But instead of all the theory argued here, just look at someone like Wawrinka, whose backhand is a rocket of a shot ... There's an overwhelming abundance of examples to confirm my claim and virtually none to confirm the claim about a mid-point walking step!
Actually Gasquet does it, you can see it on the first point on this video: ruclips.net/video/9g0zn8X9PMk/видео.html
@@antoninartaud1985 For 1-hand BH, most pro’s use this “walking step” mostly for the return of serve, including the 1st point of Gasquet VDO you attached. This should have been mentioned in this VDO.
I think his rackethead is too upright in the preparation phase. I would correct that before going on with stepping through the ball. Now he is repeating the wrong movement with hos racket while trying to get better footwork. He needs to lose N up a bit more his wrist before impact it will create more racket head speed and a bit of topspin too. The way he hits now that( topspin) is almost impossible.
Both Djokovic and Murrry do use the hop-step off approaches on their backhand side. This video is great as I used it with all my private lessons and they were using in match play by the end of their lesson. And please, stop just pointing out top players and saying they don't hit their shot that way, of course everybody hits the ball differently. But the ft is the 3 or 4 ways that he shows to approach the net in this video are all correct. 40,000 hits 132 thumbs up and 5 down, get a clue
Fair enough regarding the Hoping step, someone like Federer uses it all the time. But the one hand backhand walking step ??I can't pinpoint the last time I saw Federer using one, and I'm a huge Federer fan and I have watched hundreds of videos of Federer's backhand. Never seen it. But maybe I'm wrong.
Im open minded about this, but I have my doubts about its overall effectiveness. Most notably I see a massive potential for the player to loose racket head speed and possibly dynamic weight transfer during the "walking" phase. I would also like to count the recovery steps as opposed to an open stance shot and this. my money is that it takes 2 steps as opposed to 1.
It's look like he doesn't have much balance...no leg drive. Most of the best 1 handed backhand players like Fed,Stan etc used to Pivot and shoulder turn for close stance to create a solid groundstrokes.
@@nhonoyalayon958this isnt a regular backhand drill
Hes not saying you should aim to do this on your backhand whatsoever, in the slightest.
Its a drill that helps you get your footwork right to be able to move up to balls so that you can take time away from your opponent by attacking the ball earlier (at a slower speed/acceleration maybe, while giving you the flexibility to hit the ball wherever you want and maximizing your efficiency on the court
If done right, its way more effective than waiting for the ball to come to you (even if while still moving your feet and then just turning and stepping in to rip it as hard as you can behind the baseline.
But yes, it is way better to hit closed stance on most shots when youre not on the stretch or run
Nadal is the master of the walking step
After reading the comments which were critical of the coach, I looked around You tube to see if I could find any good tennis player (not necessarily pro player) using this one. I did find a girl using this and she was a good player and you can see that from the way she is striking the ball. Here is the link below :
Just look at tsitsipas
I think coach Yann Auzoux means well. I just disagree with him when he says that top pro tennis players use all of that stuff. It is only partly true. Actually, top pro players, men and women, often use very basic , sometime old school, footwork .They mix it with specific modern footwork patterns on very specific kinds of balls during points. Especially during the recovery phase.
@Tony07uk+++++++You are Mr Know it all.
Ive seen pros use both walking step and hop steps,the guys know his stuff,give him a break.
Everyone uses walking steps. The hopping step is most natural on the backhand side. The idea of using a walking step on the one or two handed backhand though is not right. The walking step on the forehand side is one of the most natural footwork patterns for approaching the net. Almost every pro uses the walking step or the hopping step depending on which foot they land on. I suggest people try the footwork before calling it junk. one handers stick to the hoping step though for sure.
Just look at tsitsipas though
No pro uses these steps as he is explaining. they do drils which naturally embed in the players mind.
Lol you have no clue what youre talking about
Absolutely not the case. The amount of footwork specific and also tennis drills to implement and put the footwork to practice is such a big part of 99% of top 50 players
It’s one of if not the biggest differences that separate some of the most elite, skilled and talented tennis players in the world and those that are in the top 50.
Typically the top 50 is both.
@@AdrianOrtizRuiz I have played nationals.
Sure you can go to fifthset dot com
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Agree with you 100%. On the forehand it is possible, on the backhand...NOT AT ALL. If the player would be 2 handed, maybe...but still wrong. Anyway, is just my opinion, but I played professional tennis and now I became a coach...I never teach that step
How many top 100 players have you developed?
I was top 20 in juniors, #1 in college at a top D1 school before i medically retired and I can assure you that only subpar tennis coaches can disagree with this.
Look up some of the best tennis coaches in the world and their videos on footwork, not just one, several of em so you can get the full gist if it, and come back to me
One of the best explaned drill footwork /body positioning translating potentially where you're aming, body alignment.
BODY alignment is always about geometry.
I agree - the LTA in the UK has received many valid criticisms from it's own players, including former British top players, world class players from the past, even government MPs have been critical of LTA funding and the results they actually produce in getting UK players up to world class standard. The fact is that the British LTA is 'the laughing stock' when compared to other tennis organisations around the world. Roger Draper has been called many times to resign by players and critics alike.
Look at Federer on his forehand and tell me he doesn't use the hopping step and walking step. If you don't see it, you dont have an eye for tennis or coaching.
its....different....interestingly different. isn't that hitting while moving？ a new concept maybe? even in a closed stance u can still hit different angles though. this disguise would be pointless and i dont see how you can hit a powerful shot. but its something new to think about for the very advanced student maybe. big maybe.
they are moving wrong..but its not sooooo bad
Student isn't running through the ball enough
i cringed a little bit when they got around to the walking step on the backhand side. looked extremely awkward and the player was constantly off balanced...
You are absolutely right. My trainer coaches me like this to and he is way better than this guy. You just feel that if you planting your right foot and so your body weight to the front that the backhand is better. This guy in the video says everytime when he does it wrong 'thats it'.
Goodbye!
One-handed backhand .... wrong movement !
agree, it is awkward one-handed backhand.
joe xu as someone with a one handed back hand...practice hitting wrong footed one handers is super helpful. Of course you work to get a ball you can unload on when you have time and get your feet under you
This is advanced technique. Gasquet does all of the stuff talked about in this video
very ufff............
Dudes, Come on. Just for fun I found vids of Nadal, Federer, and Azarenka using these footwork pattens in combination in practice and point play all over RUclips, but they don't allow URLs to be posted. Maybe it is not obvious because the feet move quickly through the patterns and they occur in dynamic situations, not in simple demos, like 1 - 2 - 3.
Which FYB coach was that? The only FYB coach making tennis video presentations is Will Hamilton and generally all of his analysis is good and I have used many of his demos in links to send to my students. However, when he got Yann Auzoux .. then his credibility went down for using this guy. The Bryan brothers on the other hand were good and extremely useful. Yann Auzoux on footwork? .. don't go there!
Each person moves his own natural way . that's why all the advises here are simply not good .
People that play for fun will only ruin their tennis with it, and coaches that don't understand enough will teach wrong .
I disagree with his analysis and there are many different ways to hit that allow controlling the ball even at close stances (esp ohbh) lol.
I would NOT say this video is TOTAL nonsense; you are far from accurate. There are alot of shots from this viedo that men and women are using in the pro game and college game. Yes, Federer uses his right leg to step in on his backhand, but thats is only one of the shots he is showing here. It is becoming more and more popular, and it makes sense especially for a two hander to use a power walking step on a shorter ball, stepping into the court with the left foot and landing on the right.
I´ve seen other videos of this guy and he seems to know what he does....but this step....NOT GOOD! WRONG!
I think this is a wrong method.
The coach talks too much hahahaha
yikes
UK tennis basically is rubbish - the better players are not a product of the LTA system; many are harsh critics of the crusty management system of the LTA old boy structure which is outdated. Some of the former no.1 UK players went to train abroad at proper tennis academies and get to play on clay, either in Spain or in France. After Tim Henman, Andy Murray is the only player to be considered true world class standard on a par with the best of his era. He is not a product of the LTA.
I 100% agree with you Tony. The LTA have a massive chip on there sholder. Any coach that has other qualifications than the LTA one's is blackballed. As correctly said in the USA there are many very good Tennis Academy's and they are not straggled by the USPTA. In the UK you get these so called coaches that know nothing about different systems that are teached else where in the world. And LTA coaches walk about like. Look at me I am a level 1 or 2 and so on and must have coach written on the back of there sweatshirt. The LTA even consider NIck Bollettieri as losser when the fact is that it's the LTA that's the lossers. As you stated its only Murray that has got to the level that most other Countries players have been at for years. The LTA is a disgrace to tennis and everyone overseas knows this.
In twenty-two of USPTA coaching I've never seen such a poor explanation of footwork. If you know something extraordinarily well you should be able to explain it easy. This is a mess.
Yup. None of the pros use this junk. I really hope that players, rec or not, are not learning from this series of videos on the "walking step". Yann seems like a nice guy and all, but this is just plain wrong.
Bla bla bla bla....
nex to useless, lmao GET A CLUE
Backhand advice is sooooo wrong! Even the student's expression tells it all. Walking step into the backhand??? Where is the basic body rotation where the power comes from? This advice is not what I read from so many tennis books on basic strokes.
+Sri Lestari Gunawan It's actually great footwork for a defensive one handed backhand.
These are not basic shots. It's advanced.
Remember that this advice is meant to be used when you take the ball early and are going into the court. You should not do this if you stay behind the baseline
Sri -- This technique doesn't replace the one-handed BH footwork you've learned IMO, it's an advanced variation which allows you to hit with power from different hip positions. These positions begin to happen naturally the more familiar you become with the one-handed BH. Advanced players use them most frequently when they don't have time to take the extra step. Look at footage of Federer returning serve, you'll notice he hits his backhand from this open hip position a lot of the time then reverts to more traditional footwork during the rally. Good luck.
Watching these backhands .. seriously bad! Only decent coaches will spot and be able to correct the obvious mistakes.
God that student's white shorts look ugly; it's too big and worn too high.
.. This guy's backhand is totally jerky .. yet Yan is supposed to be a footwork expert. He should be correcting him instead of saying he's o.k. The player needs a deeper knee bend so that he can lift smoothly; instead he makes a very stiff, mechanical and awkward jerky movement, precisely because his footwork is at fault. Using a golf stance to compare with tennis footwork is ludicrous - has nothing to do with it. So many flaws in this guy's teaching method.
If you watch the best two-handed players ie. Murray, Djokovic and Nadal, they will opt to move forwards when playing on their forehand side - the backhands are traded from the baseline with lateral steps and they lift their bodies. Rarely will they get a short ball on their backhands and do what you suggest. You know nothing about pro tennis - the above video is next to useless. You should watch pro matches and learn from them. This Yann guy hasn't even achieved anything!
This is total nonsense! Go watch slow-motion clips of pro-player backhands and their associated footwork eg. Federer, Gasquet, Henin and others .. then come back and watch what is going on here. NON of the pro-players play backhands as depicted in this 'instruction' video with such jerky footwork and wrong positioning. Federer plants his front foot (right leg) and smoothly lifts his body from a good knee bend as he executes a single-handed backhand. This video is far from accurate!
Bullshit advises here...
This so-called 'top student' isn't that good - look at his footwork; not smooth at all. He's a very jerky player and rushed which means wasted energy. Pro players 'stay' with the shot when playing the backhand and lift their bodies from the knee bend, extending the follow-through high up - just look what this 'top student' does on his backhand. Check with the pros on other video clips and it will become clear that this is bad coaching.