Stop Using A Continental Grip When Hitting Volleys (Tennis Technique Explained)

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have you been told that there's not enough time to change your grips at the net when you're hitting a forehand and backhand volley that you're supposed to come to the net in a continental and that's the one grip you use and because you don't have enough time we just use this one grip have you been told that well guess what it's not true it's absolutely a falsehood i'm not saying that the person who told you that was lying but i am telling you it ain't true and i'm sorry uspta i'm a dues paying member of the uspta for decades i am not going to teach that crap and the reason is because it's simply not true when you watch the pros by the way when the pros come to the net they do not use a continental grip on the volley and you coaches know exactly what i'm talking about they don't use a continental grip and i mean the continental grip like on your serve they are just slightly over from a continental think halfway between a continental and an eastern forehand they're in between the two and what does that produce by the way it produces a forehand volley that goes forward and a backhand volley that is chopped is that how you volley do you volley forward on your forehand and down on your backhand volley it's because of the one grip system if you use a grip system that allows you to change the grip between forehand volley and backhand volley your backhand volley can look just like your forehand valley because now the racket face matches the same as a forehand so i actually don't want you to use a continental grip on either forehand or backhand i want you to be just to the side of it on the forehand and just on the other side of it on your backhand volley what it does in the benefit it gives you is no different than the benefit you get from changing your grip from the baseline what if i were to give you a lesson out here right now and you and i were rallying and you got a semi-western grip on your forehand and then you changed the grip to hit your backhand i said you know what just make it easier just use one grip on both sides don't change your grip i mean it's so much easier just to use one grip you said but ryan i don't care if it's easier i want it to be beneficial i actually wanted to enhance my game that's the benefit that comes from changing your grip now then the question is how long does it take to change the grip we're about to find out i'm going to hit some volleys on the ball machine and we're going to see how long it takes for me to shift my grip from just slightly to the right of a continental to just slightly to the left of the continental think of the corner between an eastern backhand and a continental for my backhand grip it's not a full eastern backhand it's in between a continental the serve grip and the one hander's backhand the eastern backhand we're gonna see how long it takes for me to go to one side of the continental to the other side of the continental to actually find out do i have this amount of time while i'm playing here's what you'll notice when i do this i will finish the grip change before i even put my racket in the way of the ball if i don't have time to put my racket in the way of the ball i'm going to lose the point anyway who cares about the grip change so i'm going to hit some backhand volleys and we're going to see how long it takes me to change my grip from a forehand grip to a backhand grip all right so let's see how long it actually takes for me to change the grip so here i am with the split step let's look at my hand very carefully let's look to see when i start changing my grip so i'm starting the grip change right now that's really the grip change so let's see how long it takes all right well i've already changed my grip the grip change has already occurred i'm done with the grip change and let's just say it's 0.16 seconds so it's one it's 0.16 sexes for me to change the grip for for the ball to get to me point six eight it takes a lot less time to change the grip than it does to set your racket in the way of the ball and make contact but let's look at actual double situations when you might actually not have enough time to change the grip so this point is usc versus stanford and we're going to pay close attention to this net player the player who's crouching and i want you to watch him make this volley in fact by the way notice he hits a two-handed backhand volley yes i thought that was old school right i thought he wasn't supposed to do that i'm a big fan of the two-handed backhand volley right so check this out right about now his brain is noticing where the ball is going we can see that from the racket so i'm going to start the timer right i'm going to start the timer right there that's when his brain is actually recognizing where the ball is going so that's when the grip change would actually begin so remember 0.16 seconds is how long it'll take to change your grip so let's go to 0.16 seconds oh there it is so it takes less time if your opponent's at the baseline and you're at the net he would have already changed his grip if he was going to be someone who changed the grip on the backhand and then let's see how long it takes for him to actually make contact 0.36 seconds he has twice as much time needed in this situation so he could change his grip twice in this amount of time and then he puts this ball i'm not saying he did change his grip but again the argument is that you don't have enough time to change the grip all right well in this situation when your opponent's at the baseline you have plenty of time to change your grip so then let's watch this point and specifically this player at the net watch him slam this ball so let's watch this is what people talk about that right there right so people say yeah but what if you're playing doubles and you're this guy and you get slammed with the ball okay well let's do that so he's getting crushed with this ball do you think he has enough time to change his grip absolutely not if you don't have enough time to change your grip then you're not even going to touch the ball so this argument that you don't have enough time to change your grip yet that's the reason why we're going to use a one grip system it just makes no sense when you change the grip it helps get your racket face square against the back of the ball if we just look at this player's racket juancho's racket actually guesses the forehand first look how the racket goes to the forehand first and then he sees the ball going to the backhand so let's start the timer right there let's start the timer here and let's see 1.16 seconds so the ball actually goes by him at point two did this player have enough time to change his grip well theoretically yes because it's point two and he only needs 0.16 but really we'll say no if you don't have enough time to change your grip you won't even hit the ball right if you don't have truly enough time to change your grip remember the whole reason why grip changes help you at the net is it helps square up the racket face against the back of the ball because i changed my grip to just on the other side of a continental think between a continental and a one-hander's backhand like an eastern top spin backhand grip you're halfway between that what it does is it really squares up the racket and gets your strings to be flat against the back of the ball i'm not going to be chopping down from high to low as i hit i'm going to be hitting through this volley why because i changed my grip and 95 of the time you have plenty of time to change your grip now if you're looking for more people in your local area to compete against practice with or even find a coach who's close to you use my link in the description playercourt.com two-minute tennis they are an amazing website that pairs you up with evenly matched people in your local area use my link in the description and you get 50 off when you join you don't have to listen to conventional wisdom especially when it doesn't even make sense i think this idea that going to the net is a one grip system and it's a one grip idea it's been passed down and said so many times that people just accept it to be true but vic braden 60 years ago proved that this is simply not the case you have plenty of time to change your grip 95 of the time and that one time when you're playing doubles and the ball is just crushed at you you're not going to win that point anyway so if that's your thinking if that's the only reason why you want to stick with your one grip system look don't listen to conventional wisdom don't use a continental grip in either volley because the pros don't use a continental grip on their forehand volley they're just to the side of it learn to change the grip and go to the other side of a continental and as you saw you have plenty of time to do so you learn the two grip system when you're at the net on your forehead and backhand volley and there is no doubt you're gonna gain confidence win more matches and play much better tennis this is ryan reedy from twominutetennis.net i can't wait i cannot wait to read the comments by the way you got this
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Length: 9min 10sec (550 seconds)
Published: Tue Mar 15 2022
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