Thanks for sharing this thought! Would you mind explaining further why hitting from a lower center of gravity is free power?

⁠​⁠​⁠@@ihabelalami3710I think what they mean is because you are low, you can use that “jumping power” from your hips and legs to give the racket even more speed. You start low and you end up high.

you can spread your legs,during the split step.and you stay to so close to baseline.

@@thebigmonstaandy6644 come on man keep it pg

@@Charmander009 splitstep helps you to spread you legs.and pros like Nadal and Djokovic dont stay so close to baseline. almost every pro goes 1 or 2 steps back after he hits the ball.nobody stay on the line.

What exactly are proper tennis coaches going to learn from this? Patrick Mouratoglou knows nothing - what are his tennis qualifications - he doesn't have any.

.. in your own words - explain what is great about this video?

He's the best talker who knows nothing!

He have an Academy "mouratoglou academy" located in France.

Exactly. But I think he kind of mentioned that. ☝🏻

Basically the whole issue with the dominant eye is that if at some point during the trajectory of the ball towards you the dominant eye loses vision of the ball (due to blocking of the dominant eye by the nose) and the non-dominant eye takes over the tracking then when this 'switch' happens for the perceived position of the ball and causes mishits (due to your brain thinking the ball is in a different position than it actually is). --> if you do the test which Mouratoglou shows and alternate closing the left and right eye you will understand what i mean by the switch of the perceived position of the ball. So basically then the whole goal is to make sure your dominant eye tracks the entirety of the ball flight towards you so you never get this perceived position switch of the ball. You can actually benefit from this knowledge when receiving, position yourself in such a way that your dominant eye will be able to track the ball the entirety of the time (e.g. in RR people receive the serve on the deuce side from an open stance when aiming to hit a forehand). ==================== To make it more practical if you are right hand dominant and right eye (RR) then: - your forehand will most likely be an open stance forehand (djokovic is RR for example and seems to be staring in front of him but he can actually see the ball in the corner of his dominant right eye in that position, same goes for Murray) - your backhand will most likely be a closed stance since this is the position in which you can look 'on top' of the ball, if you would hit an open stance backhand it is likely your nose will be blocking the view of the contact point. ====================== If you are cross dominant (e.g. right handed but left eyed or vice versa) and have a double handed backhand then it could be wise to hit the double handed backhand out of open stance (since your dominant eye is towards 'the back' and vision from it might be blocked by your nose). Or you could hit your backhand one handedly then your hitting zone will be more in front and obstruction of view from the nose is less likely as well, which also mitigates the problem (a la Federer). Lastly a test you can do is that you position yourself in the stance in which you hit your forehand and backhand (right at the point you would make contact with the ball in your preferred stance) and then you alternate closing your dominant and non-dominant eye. This way you can check whether you are still seeing the ball/contact point in that stance. If your dominant eye does not have vision of it anymore it might be wise to change your stance in such a way that you do. This will lead to less misshits and a better contact point. Last note: i think ultimately watching the ball onto your strings with both eyes is best since you need both eyes to be able to assess depth/position in the best way possible. Although i feel you need to have trained this from your childhood onwards, otherwise it will be a big change and is very hard to learn later on (since your entire life you have learned your strokes by doing it the way you found natural yourself). Sorry for the wall of text :D hope it helps!

Thanks, I get that. What I want to know is what adjustments to technique are recommended to avoid this.

@@augustoudshoorn7816 that was a great “wall” of knowledge!! Thanks a million 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎾💨

@@emjay2045 glad you got something out of it :)

@@matija1027 i write about the changes in technique in the text (with regards to open stance / closed stance)

so basically you look at something with a distance through a hole made with your 2 hands and you block one eye at a time but the eye you block and the image doesn't change the one that's looking at the object is your dominant eye. I think

Or you can do the same thing - hold your hands in a diamond/triangle shape like they did and look at something in the distance. But instead of having someone cover each eye, just bring the diamond back towards your face slowly. It will naturally come back more centered towards your dominant eye. Or if you do like they did and just close one eye and then the other. It will be pretty obvious which one is your dominant eye.

Don’t let the that determine or derail your progress. It’s basically useless. If one’s not the same as Nadal and Federer, should that person quit tennis?

Yea and he will never win a grand slam

@@Charmander009 except he won the australian open last year……

@@TheTimster007 ☝🏻

@@Charmander009 getting extra hot now?

Backhand I believe.

And if a player is left handed, and right eye dominant

Basically when you turn sideways, whichever eye is in front will be the side you can keep eye contact on the ball longer without losing it. I'm a rightie who is left eye dominant. So when I turn sideways for my forehand my dominant eye is in the front so I don't lose track of the ball.

It has nothing to do with your dominant eye. Try this. Go out and try to hit a ball with your left eye closed and then your right eye closed. This is utter nonsense.

@@laykefindley6604 And what do you prove by playing with one eye closed?

Then hit it waaaay in front like fed. Not all OHB are hit that way as you will notice

in-case it helps, I find that focus is noticeably better in one of my eyes, perhaps that's the same thing?

But he coaches pros. And doesn’t need to be a “pro player” to coach champions. Like bolliterri , who’s a worse player than Patrick

@@emjay2045 Provide the evidence - give a list of pros that definitively state that they have been coached by Patrick Mouratoglou and that their success and achievement is due to Patrick's teaching. Give names of players and coaches that have adopted something new from PM that no-one else teaches. FYI - Bolletieri never trained or coached anyone - he only provides the facilities, same as Patrick Mouratoglou. Players book the academy and train with their own coaches and hitting partners. For advertising purposes, some sessions are filmed giving the impression that Bolletieri or Mouratoglou are actually teaching, however, to experienced qualified professionals it is obvious how bad the coaching is - if you go to a proper qualified tennis player or coach they do not endorse either Bolletieri nor Mouratoglou as good coaches; it is known that they only provide the training facilities. These so-called 'celebrity' coaches are businessmen, yet they have elevated themselves in the media to be something that they are not. How many player profiles list Patrick Mouratoglou as their coach - how many pro coaches endorse Mouratoglou? Both Bolletieri and Mouratoglou are fake 'coaches' - con-merchants in the field of tennis - neither have any professional tennis credentials in teaching or playing. Among the tennis elite no-one even mentions these guys .. have you ever heard Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, Andy Murray or anyone ever give a mention to the so-called celebrity status of Bolletieri or Mouratoglou? They are nobodies - simply media-candy for the ignorant who know nothing about professional tennis.

@@Chris_Sheridan Serena, Halep, or Pavlyuchenkova isn’t a good enough resume for you? How much more do you want from a coach?