The FOOTWORK FRAMEWORK - One Minute Clinic

what is up guys and welcome to this week's One Minute Clinic [Music] before we get started guys if you're new to the channel don't forget to like And subscribe the channel is growing I'm super excited to help more and more people we're actually almost at 10 000 subscribers which is super exciting also if you want your question answered and turned into a one minute clinic video just like today comment your questions down below I add them to a list and I get to every single one the only videos I don't get to are when people ask questions that I've already covered in which case I'll just put the link to the video where I answered that question in your comment so for the people who I haven't gotten to just check to see if I did that on your comments but today's question comes from Gil Milan 1909 Gill says great news and great content as always will appreciate that it will be fantastic if you make a video explaining the proper footwork for all kinds of balls on the one hand backhand wide short deep low high and the proper footwork for transition to the net keep it going cheers easy enough I can do that but what I'm going to do so this is relevant to everybody as I'm going to do the footwork framework for all of the shots really fast I'm going to do it on the forehand side and the backhand side and I'll highlight if there's a difference between the one hander and the two-hander but for today's video it's going to cover all the footwork for every situation on the Baseline and transitioning to the net I'm going to try and do it as quickly and clean as possible so let's get one minute on the clock and start this week's One Minute Clinic before we get started guys I want to highlight an equipment need or actually equipment not need when you practice agility things I see a lot of people say hey should I use a ladder to go through different footwork patterns footwork ladders are great except for one thing ladders do not actually help you move on a tennis court for two reasons one and this is the most important reason most people when they go through a footwork ladder they look down and when you're playing tennis you look forward so you're actually training yourself to move in a way that does not make sense also tennis is a open-ended movement sport so even though you're going to have specific ways to move the way that you get from point A to point B is going to be completely subjective on your own level of movement and the needs Plus usually your movement level is going to be farther than the range of a of a traditional tennis ladder so if you want to use those things for a workout and just agility practice that's fine but I recommend using cones that are going to Mark where you start and where you go to that way you can actually practice proper distances that you cannot cover with a tennis ladder that being covered now we can get to the footwork patterns so when you are moving on a tennis court amazingly you can cover most of the usable distance within two steps obviously you can take more steps to make the shot more effective and clean but in any situation even if it's all the way out to The Singles Line most people can cover that Distance by having like a good strong two steps out here so I got to this cone in two steps which means the ball would have to be literally on The Singles Line for me to not be able to reach it almost I think the number that they said when they calculated was 80 to 85 percent of the shots you hit on a tennis court are going to take place in this circle here so why not be effective in this circle before we talk about getting outside the circle every step that I take is going to be within two steps and going out to the side anything inside is going to be just smaller versions of it so for example going all the way out to the cone would be two strong steps here and I'd land in an open stance but if I was closer I might only have to go one two and on the backhand it's the same thing two strong steps over to an open stance if I have time to take the extra step then I would step toward the ball always line up your outside foot first on forehands or backhands which mean that you're able to execute a solid open stance shot and when you're given enough time to be more effective then you shift your weight into the ball as I've said in other videos now these eight locations here are going to be your standard issue types of movement if I go to the sides I've already said you're going to take two steps and be there if you go to the front you're going to do the same thing the only difference here is some people make the mistake of leading with the wrong foot if you were to go right foot first that would mean that you are going to finish on your left foot and that covers the court what you want to do is go with your left foot first then your right which ends me kind of in an open stance but then I'm able to kind of shift my weight in so in three steps I'm able to be aggressive on the forward one there it would be the same thing you want to end with the left foot that way you can finish with the right foot always line yourself up with the outside foot before shifting your weight in the front cone is actually one of the most important ones because there's only ever two reasons to move covering space and creating space covering space is trying to make the space between you and where you have to go smaller so if I'm going to this cone I'm trying to cover that distance and get to the ball if the ball is coming to me or Central I have to create space meaning get out the way and then move into the court most people make this mistake so I'm going to highlight this before I do anything else do not cover your space first so let's say the balls in front of me don't run to the ball and then try to get out the way because in most cases if you run out of time you're going to pull off of the shot it actually makes more sense to create your space first and then move toward the ball the reason that is is if I don't have time to get out the way and the ball comes at me this is way more difficult to do even if it's at the perfect height if it's right at my body that's way more difficult to manage than it is if I'm out of the way and the ball is too high or too low so getting out the way and hitting a bad height is way better than staying in the way and hitting at the perfect height on the two back here you're just going to go with an open stance or a semi-open stance crossing over two steps hitting here and crossing over two steps hitting here the one in the back is kind of fancy super simple though you're usually going to pick your forehand side and as you get into this position your weight's gonna be in the back and you just kind of pick up and rotate through now that I've covered all of them now we're going to run through a quick exercise where I use tennis balls to illustrate it so using Mia to demonstrate the movement in a faster pattern I'm going to throw this ball where she has to catch it on each on each one of these cones and all she's doing is just going through the footwork that we just Illustrated so two steps that way one two two steps that way one two three steps into the court one two three so she ends up in a closed stance same thing one two three ends up in the close Stitch two steps to the back so she angles one two for the back one two prop rotating her body one two and if she was going to swing she would just twist her body out of that and then last one creating her space first then she moves into that position to finish so while me is grabbing her racket for the next set of exercises in which we're just going to Shadow the footwork by itself the only thing I'll highlight here is when you have extra time you can add steps except you want to make sure that you don't take so many steps that you end up eating up all your time a perfect example would be if it only takes three steps and you try to shove 10 steps into it eventually you run out of time and you're probably gonna be in a worse position than if you had just taken the efficient three steps so the trick here is trying to figure out what's the highest number of steps you're allowed to take to make the shot better without making the shot worse so while Mia Runs through this footwork drill super fast we're going to just be making sure that she doesn't take any extra steps that way we know that the minimum amount of steps is always there and the maximum amount of steps is somewhere far away and if she decides to when she's playing take an extra step or two she's nowhere near the cap of where she should be go so Mia's whole job here is to just be able to Shadow each one efficiently and then make sure that all the movement stays the way it was when she was just focusing on catching the ball every time she steps in she's making sure that the steps are not wasted she's making sure that every time she moves backwards she angles her body so she's able to rotate then she's also making sure that every shot that she goes for actually feels the way that she has to if she was on the tennis court perfect and you should be able to execute that whole pattern within about 8 to 15 seconds depending on your level so now that we've covered the basic movement on that 80 to 90 percent of the gameplay space when you find yourself in here the biggest mistake that people tend to make is how they split to get there so if I'm moving toward the court let's just say my Court's this way if I was on the Baseline my split steps more up and down to allow me to explode laterally but when you're moving into the court your split step is more like a tripping sensation you split in your feet kind of get stuck for a second and then you continue to move forward so if I was moving into the court and then I had to react to my opponent hitting the ball I should be in the air as they strike that way the ball has moved about five or six feet off their racket as I hit the floor and I'm able to react and then continue my momentum forward like I said big mistake people will make is move into the net go up and down and then that forces them to almost have to move their momentum laterally forcing them to swing as they go to hit the shots so if I was going in for a volley I would literally just hit this tripping momentum and then take my step there or likewise going through on the forehand side there's not much for there's not much footwork to teach when it comes to volleying I'm not one of the people that says you have to step in every time you volleyballing is a reactive game sometimes you cannot step in which you do have to do is make sure that the racket is firm and that you move very minimally pretty much just directing it and if you can get some body weight into it then do so but the footwork itself is literally just trip and track the ball the last thing I'm going to add in before we close this video off is the split step now the split step is the most important step you'll ever take on a tennis court and it is a mandatory thing in order to be able to react quickly but I'm going to teach you guys a split step as part of a framework not just a standalone thing the split step is part of what I call a movement cycle that means that that there's a thing that's recurring over and over again so it's a beginning a middle and a repeat not an end so beginning middle repeat so if I was splitting this is the beginning my movement is all the stuff we just covered and then the recovery to the repeat and then starting again do not look at split stepping as its thing that kind of just happens from time to time your recovery leads into your split step remember you can always get to the ball usually within two to three steps and then from there that means your recovery would be capable within two to three steps as well so if it takes me two steps to get here and then two steps to get here my movement ends where it begins my movement doesn't just end with me showing up in the middle use that movement cycle to start execute and then restart and then execute but that's going to wrap up today's video guys as always if you know anybody will benefit from this please send it off to them and again if you want your question answered and turned into a one-minute Clinic video comment your questions down below I add them to a list I get to every single one if you're new to the channel don't forget to like And subscribe on your way out if you found some value in this video but until the next One Minute Clinic I'll catch you guys in the next one thank you

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Length: 12min 23sec (743 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 24 2023