Really valuable video! What I'd definitely like to see is footwork when hitting deep balls that almost make you fall back, for both sides (forehand & backhand). Thanks a lot!
amazing content. Congrats! I don't know about the others, but i really found those subtitles with blue marks distracting. I constantly found myself paying atention to this ever changing subtitles than looking at whatever is being shown by you guys. Maybe it is just me though
Excellent very clear, helpful advice. I will be 80 years old next month & still playing friendly club doubles. Do you recommend a small less tiring split step for ancient players like me. I only wish I could have watched your brilliant instruction 65 years ago.!!
A smaller split could help save your body and energy and you’d still get some benefits from it. Even just waiting in the athletic ready position can help
Thank you for your very helpful advice. Young players can now receive your excellent help. No wonder they can make rapid progress instead of learning by trial & error.
Enjoyed this. It helped, I never really considered that the spilt step at the net is wider and lower than the one at the baseline. It is how I play, but I never realized it. Thanks!
Fabulous video. I’ve seen many on this subject but this takes them all. I love the exercises to do at the end too, so valuable! Thanks! My humble suggestion for a video: How to return the underarm or drop shot serve? Carpe diem. Thanks 🖤🎾🏆
Great videos. I'd like to see as a follow up the footwork from the split step to making ball contact. How to adjust to different incoming shots. Thanks and keep up the good work.
This channel is great. There's something integral to why players do the split step that maybe is just a given but I don't think you mentioned it. The reason we jump up and wait to see where the ball is going is because if it is way to our right, we can put our left foot down first and immediately start going in that direction, and of course the opposite. Otherwise we need to throw our foot out to the left to change our balance. Most of your examples have the ball coming right to the player, so the split step was almost unnecessary there. Anyway that's how I look at it... Not that my footwork is any good. Keep up the great work!
Why wouldn’t you do the split step on all shots like your example of timing for a big serve? It seems to me that being up in the air after contact will make me late to push off in any direction for a shot.
You can do, but if you land at the point of contact, you won’t know where to move. The ball has to travel at least 4-5 feet towards you before you pick up which side it’s traveling towards. Those milliseconds between you landing and you recognising where the balls going will make that split step less effective
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial So if I understand the context, one would be reacting to a shot, which if we’re at the net, could result in a delayed movement to the ball. Might I suggest that good players use anticipation skills to move to the next shot and less on reacting to an opponent’s shots. Being in the air, as you explain, means less time to load and push off to hit the next shot. Check out videos of good movers and turn up the volume and watch the timing of the feet on the ground and sound of the contact of the opponent’s shot.
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Hey man does Agassi split squat and then stay low on all balls … many thanks
Really valuable video! What I'd definitely like to see is footwork when hitting deep balls that almost make you fall back, for both sides (forehand & backhand). Thanks a lot!
Thanks for watching
amazing content. Congrats! I don't know about the others, but i really found those subtitles with blue marks distracting. I constantly found myself paying atention to this ever changing subtitles than looking at whatever is being shown by you guys. Maybe it is just me though
Thanks for the feedback
Subtitle really distract the content showing, a normal subtitle would have been better.
I never even noticed the subtitles!
Excellent very clear, helpful advice.
I will be 80 years old next month & still playing friendly club doubles.
Do you recommend a small less tiring split step for ancient players like me.
I only wish I could have watched your brilliant instruction 65 years ago.!!
A smaller split could help save your body and energy and you’d still get some benefits from it. Even just waiting in the athletic ready position can help
Thank you for your very helpful advice.
Young players can now receive your excellent help.
No wonder they can make rapid progress instead of learning by trial & error.
Enjoyed this. It helped, I never really considered that the spilt step at the net is wider and lower than the one at the baseline. It is how I play, but I never realized it. Thanks!
Thanks for watching
This what I need! Thank you!
My pleasure 🙏
Fabulous video. I’ve seen many on this subject but this takes them all. I love the exercises to do at the end too, so valuable! Thanks! My humble suggestion for a video: How to return the underarm or drop shot serve? Carpe diem. Thanks 🖤🎾🏆
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Run, run, run!!
Great videos.
I'd like to see as a follow up the footwork from the split step to making ball contact. How to adjust to different incoming shots.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Many thanks 🙏
Thanks video. Useful. I always forget to warm up the split step before tennis games 😊
Happy to help!
This channel is great. There's something integral to why players do the split step that maybe is just a given but I don't think you mentioned it. The reason we jump up and wait to see where the ball is going is because if it is way to our right, we can put our left foot down first and immediately start going in that direction, and of course the opposite. Otherwise we need to throw our foot out to the left to change our balance. Most of your examples have the ball coming right to the player, so the split step was almost unnecessary there. Anyway that's how I look at it... Not that my footwork is any good. Keep up the great work!
What an excellent explanation! Love it.
Many thanks for the support 🙏
Great video as always - really value your tutorials
Many thanks for the support 🙏
Nice tips. Thank you.
I tell my students it's like loading a spring so you can immediately explode whatever direction you need to go
Very good 👍
Nice video
Thanks for watching
The text aid on the left is a bit annoying lol. But the tutorial is great!
Thanks for the feedback
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nice, but you don explain why some split steps is backwards or other forward? some player make split step a little bit backward depends on ball
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Why wouldn’t you do the split step on all shots like your example of timing for a big serve? It seems to me that being up in the air after contact will make me late to push off in any direction for a shot.
You can do, but if you land at the point of contact, you won’t know where to move. The ball has to travel at least 4-5 feet towards you before you pick up which side it’s traveling towards. Those milliseconds between you landing and you recognising where the balls going will make that split step less effective
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial
So if I understand the context, one would be reacting to a shot, which if we’re at the net, could result in a delayed movement to the ball. Might I suggest that good players use anticipation skills to move to the next shot and less on reacting to an opponent’s shots.
Being in the air, as you explain, means less time to load and push off to hit the next shot. Check out videos of good movers and turn up the volume and watch the timing of the feet on the ground and sound of the contact of the opponent’s shot.