Tennis Movement Tip: Beat The Ball To The Bounce

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6 жыл бұрын

In this tennis movement tip OTI Instructor and movement guru Ean Meyer explains the importance of beating the ball to the bounce on the tennis court.
Great players like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic constantly beat the ball to the bounce.
One key aspect for achieving this is to improve your first reaction to the ball and Ean shows you a very effective drill for doing that in this new video.

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@carlrennie1141 6 жыл бұрын

understood the split step but hadn't seen such a fluid example for practice - very nice, ta

@cp_703 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing footwork video to get to the ball faster thanks coach !! This helps so much

@Chungtze1 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent drill. Great help thx

@h4rms 5 жыл бұрын

Looks like a useful skill to have. Will try it out and hopefully my sharpness will improve

@rmrib5 6 жыл бұрын

Great coach

@danielgomezgarzon 5 жыл бұрын

Great video !!! Thank you !!!

@ramasubhashpottipati5260 6 жыл бұрын

This is great

@garymccusker9825 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant, first time split step makes sense to me..

@gilbertoortiz3140 2 жыл бұрын

Excelent detail.

@Osnosis 6 жыл бұрын

What is being described is NOT a split-step, but a DROP-step. Jim McLennan has an excellent description of this.

@Aaswing 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Ean, does this method work if you have to cover a lot of distance? Let's say your opponent hits a sharply angled shot to your backhand side. Then, would it make sense to land on your right foot and then push off with your left foot (what Jim McLennan calls a gravity turn)? I feel like that gives me a more powerful push off than if you were to push off with the right foot.

@EatMeSometimes 5 жыл бұрын

damn, I was always told to land at the moment of contact but it's true -- that's slightly too early! We gotta be in the air to pull off the flow step.

@ernestodeluca 6 жыл бұрын

Great instructions!!! Congratulations & thanks, from B R A Z I L

@richieortiz5 4 жыл бұрын

I always wondered, I see a lot of instruction saying to “prep early” and a long the same lines of the video some saying get to the ball “ahead of time.” I’m relatively fit and at the lower levels I play at playing side to side is easy but players end up hitting shallow to deep deep to shallow a lot in just one rally. What’s the protocol for recognizing the ball laterally and moving that direction but the ball is shallow? Just some thoughts...

@obbsie1975 6 жыл бұрын

Florian, is this similar to the technic that Andy Murray uses on return of serve? Andy starts back further, but he moves forward and pushes off one foot in the direction of the serve to cut it off.

@cgtennis 5 жыл бұрын

This is interesting. Maybe it's better to take a video from the back view to show the audience when this kind of split step happens, the ball is being hit on opponent's racquet or the ball is passing the net? I feel that this kind of split step is very tough for anyone below usta 4.5 rating to learn and implement in a real match.

@Rbackwards 3 жыл бұрын

What a nice place to play tennis!

@StrageSrebreniy 4 жыл бұрын

- Отл! -Спасибо!

@jeffjeffersons4640 6 жыл бұрын

he looks like almost heal clicking is that advisable?

@pjakobsen Жыл бұрын

What if you play at the low intermediate level where 50% of balls are mishits, random, or accidental moonballs, and no way to tell where the ball might land because they float and spray all over the place? I'd much rather read a deep fast heavy ball with pace.