Tomas you are truly up there with the best coaches online! You have helped my game tremendously with your simple to understand, and well explained teaching style!
What a revelation ! It goes with your video on people coming to you for their FH and ending up with their balance . ( sorry I don’t have the name on it ) 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 thank you very much
Glad to hear that! And you'll really appreciate the drills once you do them for a week or two. You'll start moving and preparing your forehand much earlier without thinking about it...
Thank you soo much for this video, I actually had to watch it twice with a fresh mind to appreciate the gold you are giving away. Firstly no other coach has explained this in with so much detail & secondly most tennis fans/players don’t even see these footwork patterns that are ‘hidden in plain sight’ & merely concentrate on the tennis ball flying from side to side as players play. May I ask (if you have time to answer) typically how long do you think these patterns would normally take to assimilate into an average player ranked say between 3.0-4.0?
Thank you for the wonderful feedback! I have seen good results of these drills just after 3-4 days (doing them every day 5 minutes before the session). So assuming a typical 3.0 - 4.0 player will practice 2-3x times per week, I am quite confident of very good progress in terms of early preparation in combination with movement patterns in about 4 weeks. And 4 weeks is nothing assuming one will then keep playing tennis for more than 20 years. ;)
Again, amazing lesson and BIG thanks for sharing it with us Tomaz. I always hate when I had to step back to make a shot because it more than often ended up as bad shot lol, but now I know how to deal with it. Sad you're not traveling to Asia anymore cuz I always want to have some offline coaching with you. Maybe a different topic, any plan to release courses on slice/dropshot, smash/overhead and tactics for both singles and doubles?
Much appreciated! The Volley / Smash course is just around the corner, make sure you're subscribed to my newsletter on feeltennis.net so you'll know when it's launched. For slice / drop shot there is a lot of free content already, for drop shot start here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0MhJ74Ehn4s.html. For slice just a search on my channel. I plan to just add free videos on those topics. As for tactics, yes, courses are planned in the future as well as free content!
I saw something. As the arms are dropping down, You start to rotate Your body and then rise Your arms to the shoulder level again and let them drop again and rotate body at the same time. When arms are dropping down, shoulders are relax because of this and You can rotate Your shoulders by Your core in a very relaxed way what then gives You a perfect feel how to rotate Your body when You are prepering backswing and then striking the ball.
Be careful by analyzing such small details. All that happens naturally without any need for thinking or explaining these details to anyone. There is a massive difference between analysis and learning methods. Tennis is an OPEN SKILL sport which means technique has to ADJUST to different situations. What you see here is true only for this specific situation and not true for 99% of other situations of me hitting a forehand.
You’ve been helping me for a decade, thank you so much. And your forehand course was huge for me, well worth the price. I have a question regarding the side to side movement the way you are teaching it, when you “reset” using just the one step I see that you’re feet come together, will this be reinforcing poor movement patterns because I thought we only use a split stance in tennis and never want our feet so close together. I’m probably wrong on this but just want clarification
Much appreciated! No, there will be no long term negative consequences of putting your feet together in this drill. Realize that almost all drills in tennis and especially corrections are all exaggerations. Therefore none of such drills are actually exactly correct. :) The brain eventually calibrates all movements over time...
@@feeltennis hey tomaz, I’m finding that my spacing between myself and the ball can use some work, do you have any RU-vid videos that highlight this because i feel like I get jammed from time to time
