2 SIMPLE DRILLS To Massively Improve Forehand & Backhand CONSISTENCY 

Which stroke do you struggle more with out of the forehand and backhand?

I’m a coach and I love looking at online videos to learn and get insight from other coaches…this is maybe my 4th video of this channel and I think you are now my favorite!

fabulocity. you are the first guy I've seen to stress the underlying foundation rather than the technical result. hats off!

So much help for my current problem of tracking the ball. Love your videos!

That's an Amazing stuff to learn !! Many Thanks..

Love this! Years ago, I learned to juggle 4 and training the left arm (naturally RH) timing was crucial. So, after 3 balls, continue on to 4. Letter ball is new, so I'm going to do this now. Thank you!

so important, so right, thanks Richard

Thank you!

Great Drill. Thank you.

omg your videos on vision has been helping me so much, i didn't really find any other video that talks about this, wow wonderful work and thankyou.

1:20 Did he seriously just do that? That's some serious skill right there. Respect.

Love your content. I can play only secretly against the wall due to tyrannical gvt restrictions. I tried to play only watching the ball during the complete session. It is an amazing experience, since you get in some sort of meditative state doing so. And weirdly you get aware of your body. I suspect I usually look at unnecessary things, perhaps the ground, my target, my hand, the swing path, the wall…. Now that I only watch the ball, I am somehow hitting „blind“. I must feel my stroke with the inner eye/body awareness. This in turn gives me freedom to concentrate more on my movement. This idea was inspired by several of your vids. Thank you, love your work.

Great tip, it trains the eye , and swing coordination …

You're class above many of the other coaches online, I can't understand why would anyone be nasty in comments to your content. Excellent as always, both the understanding of what's important and to simplify it for us eager recreational players! 👌👌

Awesome video brother

Fantastique ce sont des exercices intéressants que je découvre depuis plus de vingt ans de tennis Thanks guy

This is very useful! Focusing on the ball is really important

Really outstanding explanations, among the best on RU-vid! I wonder if you might share some tips/exercises for shortening the backswing--my daughter's quasi-WTA backswing goes way too far behind her and, when finishing the forehand stroke, doesn't have enough pronation at the shoulder. Keep up the great work!

Great Playing both basketball and tennis, there’s a huge transition between looking at the ball, the shadow on the bottom side of the tennis ball; and in my case the front of the rim on the basketball court. Steve Nash and Magic Johnson had incredible peripheral vision, peripheral sense on the bball court. I improved my peripheral vision with karate and aikido...and racquetball and squash. The toughest part in all endeavours for me was to shut down the mental game in my head, and just play the ball as if it was being projected from a ball machine!

Thanks coach 🙌

this is awesome instruction

When ever I am having a bad tennis day it usually because I am looking up to soon and that’s usually because I have very active players the other side of the net. I have searched many times for ideas on how to better concentrate on the ball and never heard of the letter wall idea. I will be giving this a go thanks very much.

really good explanation. good video!

Hello this the first time I have seen your video.I like your tips and the way you articulate your tips.

This is another great video that appeared in my notifications. When reading the letter aloud and catching the ball, is it recommended to catch the ball far out in front (i.e. the same distance as the ideal contact point)?

Excellent. Played tennis all my life and here my findings: Young age, peripheral vision is wide, hence you can look far and still catch a glimpse at where racket head contact is made. As you age, peripheral vision gradually decreases and you lose ball contact, but experience compensates. But this leads to hitting the ball later and later. Now to improve again the shots, it is clear that (re)-fixing the head/eye on the ball during contact is the recipe. But it is extremely difficult to implement beyond a certain age. That is why your technique should be learned very early.

Thanks I like it 👍🏻

Love the video and will definitely try it out. Also nice to learn a new concept---quiet eye! I'm going to borrow the first line from wiki:"Quiet eye is a technique reported to improve outcomes in various tasks requiring human visual attention."

nice video, thank you

Great stuff

Makes sense gonna try it

Richard, I love the fact that you willingly defy the Tennis Orthodoxy (NO-BODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!) where it decrees "Thou shalt keep Thine Probiscis pointed directly at The Holy Pointe of Mercifully String-ed Contact, thusly keeping One's Earthly Gaze fixed upon such Pointe longe aft' said ball be struck." You know, à la Roger Federer, hence the immutable rule in the first place. The photographic record of high calibre players as Murray and Thiem is undeniable evidence to the contrary. . I do have a competing hypothesis for your consideration. I suggest that it is the brief period _leading up to_ contact that is of greater importance in judging the ball's exact location since any information received after a certain point is simply too late for the human body to react to (due to nerve transit times, (multifocal) CNS processing, muscular contraction duration, etc.). Personally, I am doubtful that peripheral vision (while focusing on contact point) contributes much to ball tracking at that late stage prior to contact (but I reserve the right to be WRONG!) In fact, careful review of slow motion video footage of Federer's gaze pre-contact reveals smooth pursuit visual tracking up to a given (albeit very late) point, then a small saccade to the anticipated contact point, at which the gaze is fixed for the remainder of the stroke, i.e. follow through. Could it not be that all players are doing when they adopt a visual In effect, all Federer has learned to do is make it LOOK LIKE he has tracked the ball (via smooth pursuit) all the way to contact and let his gaze dwell there for the duration of his follow-through. Yeah, it's blasphemy, I know.

Great informative video and inventive too

Gracias

Im a badminton player, but this translates well into what I do. Tracking (a shuttle), judging its place, then hitting it with a racket that isnt even in the picture yet is immensely demanding and requires an intact visual system at the least. Thank you for the video. Training the little things can sometimes be taken for granted. But when you put a bit of time for it, your game improves so much more.

Very good video! Novak is another player who doesn't watch the ball on the strings. I've heard that Fed watches the ball hit his strings through the bed of the racquet!

Love the letterball! Doubt I'll ever be able to juggle though! Any more tips on how to start?

New to your page. Great content!!

Good drill! What I do is I try to read the logo or the number on a regular ball. That helps tremendously too.

So spot on. My visual skills suck. It doesn't help that I have prisms in my glasses to correct for double vision....noisy eyes LOL. I was just thinking recently that I need to do something about watching the ball better. Very timely.

Thanks, i like having good drills to do on my own and it's good to know that something so simple can be useful. Do you have any drills with regard to training for fast shots? I don't have many tennis buddies and the ones I do play with don't hit the ball that hard so when I go to competitions I can't seem to get the measure of the ball because she speed of their shots shock me and I'm not used to them.

good stuff

cool drill man

this is a great video bryce. What happens if you don't have a wall at home ? any video on helping to practice tossing the ball for the serve at home without actually hitting the ball ?

was not expecting no rackets to be involved, cool stuff

I noticed my hand eye coordination/feel improved significantly on my groundstrokes since I started volleying against the wall

Great drills! Letter ball drill pretty hard with the ball spinning. Does it get better with training? Thanks

I love how he is right handed then hits an effortless pure LEFTY one handed backhand out of nowhere! LOL

👏🏽👏👏🏼

thanks, I use slightly same drill that invent by muself, but I will try to write letters on the ball and read them

I played tennis tonight without contact lenses in. It was a great challenge for really watching the ball to the strings.

Nice calves , bro 😎

Many apologies...I thought this was a joke...but I did this with my son and he loved it. A minute here or there...it will help.

Cool you can hit both hand

Great vid but how can I respond faster or harder

First and FIRST!!

The Dominant eye is why

Nice content! I had actually thought about the first tip to write something on the ball as i can frame a lot sometimes. Feedback: You could have told this using half of the time. You can be economical in your words :-)

Another way is 35 years of martial arts training. Ok, your video is quicker. :D PS Do you have a 10 year old racket? Babolat Pure Drive GT?

We cant play here in Ontario! Help us

Juggling...now I know

With all that juggling, If your tennis doesn’t work out you can always join the circus.

Some valuable advice but too much talking. Better if you make your point more directly and concisely.

Decent club pro, advanced players better off watching pros in slow motion.

Hablas demasiado deprisa

I bet you 9 out of 10 people cannot juggle. Waste of my time!

this video is terrible. too much talk.

Please show more than having too much time with telling... blah, blah. Watch coach P. Mouratoglou; it's the better way how to coach.