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Here we go. Just warm up dinking. Just kind of want to see a little bit how you move the ball around.
>> Oh jeez.
>> I know. I'm giving you a heavy one. I'm going to kind of test you foot to foot here. Yeah, you're good.
>> Nice, Brian.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Perfect placement. We like it. We'll take it.
>> I like this paddle. You like it?
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>> Yes.
>> Yeah. I love a good honey. I love a honeycomb paddle.
>> I know. It's such great control on it.
>> That's That's exactly actually the kind of paddle I like.
>> Yeah. Same. I generate sometimes too much power for my own good.
>> Uh-huh.
>> So, I need that little extra control.
>> Nice. Yeah. That spot right here is so essential for attacking your opponent softly. So, it's aggressive placement without being too like overwhelming with pace or like hurting your margin for error. This kind of outside foot because you're able to get it here softly and just kind of bunt it and I have to step back. I'm not paying attention. So you could easily jump for an Ernie from that because I'd really have to scoop it across. Your partner has it if that's the case. Can attack middle then.
>> Yeah.
>> Or you can even if it's a call it a fernie a fake Ernie. So even if you just fake like you're going to go that pressure if I feel you moving I'm I'm gonna probably pop it up.
>> Oh.
>> Yeah. So that's it's just kind of an intimidation shot without you having to put too much pace on it. So I like to see this outside placement, especially when you're in front of somebody. Works on this side, too.
>> Yeah. Oh, wow.
>> Nice.
>> Oh.
>> Nice. Oh.
>> One thing so many people do and I'm just the only time you're missing.
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>> Is when you're pulling yourself up out of your shot a little bit too early.
>> Oh, pulling.
>> So, I want you to make sure you stay in it long enough to take a still photo of yourself.
>> Uh-huh. And then you can move out of it. Just so you pull in your same.
>> Yeah. Nice.
>> That's why people do that.
>> Yes.
>> Oh.
>> Yeah. Oh my god. I feel like I just like saw an epiphany moment.
>> That's why.
>> I feel like I've seen like a lot of tennis players, they'll like really look at where the ball like after the ball's gone.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> They'll be like here.
>> Still paused.
>> You're just like,
>> "Yeah,
>> I get it." Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, if you find that you're missing in the net a lot
>> and you're like, "But I was there." Like, "Why? Why is that the case?" It's usually because you're like, "I need to rush back and recover." So, your brain is like, "Hit and go back to where I need to be to cover the rest of the court." Finish your shot first. Like, finish it out because there's no second shot if you don't finish that first one. So, yeah. Yes.
>> What would you say is like uh uh how do you like how are you determining you're finished with the shot or that movement?
>> How like um pacewise?
>> Yeah. Like when you selection after your statue like to move and like go to the next
>> position. So as I start to see the apex of the ball that I've just hit happen and it starts to drop a little bit, I know that I've I've finished. Yeah. So that's ultimately with this to get that downward trajectory. Especially when you're at the kitchen line, I want the apex, the highest point to be on my side still. And so once I see that happen, I know that I can go back and recover because I haven't disrupted this part of the shot first. It's already going. I see what's about to happen and then I can anticipate with my body language how I can best receive the next shot.
>> Damn. Okay, that's awesome. Yeah. Okay.
>> Yeah. Yeah. That's a great like Oh.
>> Perfect.
>> I would never pick that up.
>> Yeah.
>> I would. Yeah.
>> And sometime like when you hear it, it sounds super simple.
>> But it's not something you automatically end up looking at.
>> Like or looking for.
>> Yeah.
>> Unless it's point out. It's the same thing as like, oh, keep your eye on the ball.
>> Like, well, yeah, of course I'm hitting the ball. I should have my eye on it.
>> Uh-huh.
>> Right. But it's not always that easy. We're always looking for the next one. Nice.
>> Oh.
>> Nice. Yeah, that's so good. Moving me here and then outside here. It's not like a super hard aggressive. It's enough that it disrupts my timing on it.
>> And if you ever feel like you're in trouble on this outside line here, direct back to middle. That just pulls everyone back into the center and kind of resets the point.
>> So, it's like middle's always a good idea.
>> Okay.
>> It's confusing because it's this inside leg of both people. If the communication is not great or they're still trying to figure it out, it's going to be a little awkward. Sometimes there'll be a popup then you can take advantage of it.
>> Got it.
>> Yeah. So, middle it seems boring, but it works.
>> Okay.
>> It works.
>> Nice. Yes. Good pause.
>> Yep.
>> Oh boy.
>> Nice. Yes.
>> That middle. See on that I tried to recover too much. I was like, "Oh my god, I'm over here. I'm leaving this. I need to come back." I went like this. Took myself completely out of the shot.
>> Okay. So, that's probably where you would like feel it the or like notice it the most of like when you maybe didn't hold it long enough is like when you're rushing back.
>> Oh.
>> Yeah. Interesting.
>> Yeah. So, when you're rushing back, so that's all about um like body language of your opponent. So, trying to create the body language you want to see and the other person is kind of panicked on their timing. So, if you're able to hit a particular spot a few times, make them think it's going to be there and then take them out of it and then they feel like they have to scramble back, that's the easiest time you're going to get either a setup or they're going to miss the ball. Okay? Because you put them in a situation where they're a little uncomfortable.
>> Gotcha. Okay.
>> Yeah. So, you can lull them in with a certain pattern and then pull them out wide. So, that's what we'll do a pattern. I'll scooch over here. So, we'll do some crosscourt this way just to warm it up. I want to see your movement kind of out wide and then we'll kind of work on a specific pattern when you're in a crosscourt kind of situation with somebody. Okay. Okay.
>> Yeah, I got you. I got a ball. All right.
>> Oh, boy.
>> Do you see yourself going up and out?
>> Or you mention it? I feel it.
>> You're just like, I feel it happening.
[laughter]
>> Right? Cuz I'm seeing you. YOU'RE JUST LIKE, OH, like there's this little curve that's happening and you're on it. Just kind of stay like keep your head in the same same plane. So you don't want to bob. I call it mircat mode of like out of the tall grass.
>> Don't be a mircat. Try to try to keep yourself along.
[laughter]
>> The same picture.
>> Same way. Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> Yes. Nice. Yes. Spot. Nice. Oh.
>> Nice. Good.
>> All good.
>> All good. All good.
>> Mircat. Mircat.
>> Mircat. Mircat. But also, if you feel uncomfortable and you're back here, don't feel like you need to hit a more extreme angle to try to make up for it. Cuz the more extreme you go, the more extreme it's going to go. And eventually someone's going to get an ATP. Or it's just going to get so extreme that your partner cannot get involved because they have to cover this line the whole time.
>> So meanwhile you're out here, you still have to cover this middle cuz they have to stay rooted here, right?
>> So ultimately, if you're out wide like that and uncomfortable, bunt it back to middle. Yeah. And then it just resets it and then you can start to go across again if you need to.
>> Okay.
>> But then butt back middle. Anytime it's uncomfortable. Middle. Middle. Yeah. Nice.
>> Oh, damn.
>> All right. It's fine.
>> Oh, boy.
>> Good.
>> Oh.
>> Nice.
>> Yes. Nice. That's it.
>> Okay. Yeah, you were good on on your head height here. You just swept across your body.
>> So, you just move instead of just.
>> Wow.
>> Yeah. Yeah. No, it's good though. You adjust like super quickly. It's really nice.
>> Interesting. All right. Okay.
>> Couple more like this. Nice.
>> Oh boy.
>> Yes. Yeah. That's the effectiveness of that inside leg cuz I'm just trying to like you've neutralized me. Can't really attack comfortably from down here unless I try to do something interesting and then you can sit on that next one. So really good. Always stay in this inside leg when in doubt. Oh jeez. Oh.
>> Okay.
>> I don't know why it's popping up so high.
>> When I like try to slice. I don't know. Even if I do like return slices. Do you know why.
>> Some return slices will go flat versus like.
>> So it's the body upper body movement. That's why. So on those that I'm seeing when you're popping up, there's more you've got more rotation happening on it versus staying in the one plane forward.
>> So the more you add on this, the more more is more.
>> So.
>> More is more.
>> More is more. So the more it's going to.
>> You just have more movement that you have to time and work with. Okay.
>> So, if you're getting pressed on something and you try to add more to what's happening, you almost want to do less. So, the more you're pressed, the less you do.
>> Okay?
>> And it's hard to do that because we tend to panic when we're pressured. And we're like, I need to get out of it, so I need to do something versus kind of just resetting the situation. Um.
>> That makes sense. I've heard I've heard someone say like keep it quiet.
>> Quiet. Like yeah, just like the more noise.
>> Yeah.
>> The more that's going to happen with the ball. Okay.
>> Yeah. And there's some players, myself included, I do like some chaos, like cuz I have fast hands, but I've also seen the wisdom of the ability to slow it down and not get sucked into something chaotic and throw an off speed is what will disrupt a lot of people.
>> Okay. So ultimately, I think main thing we have to realize about the game is that the whole objective is to disrupt the timing of your opponent in whatever way possible. So if you're feeding the same pace back to them that they just gave you, you're not disrupting your timing. You're like feeding into it. So if you're able to do the opposite of what you're given or make it a little awkward so they can't anticipate what's going on, that's that like kind of body language aspect of manipulating what's the circumstance. Then you can really take advantage of where someone is on the court.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> Nice. Yes. Stay nice and low.
>> Oh, it's okay.
>> Yeah. One other thing. I'll pause a lot. I keep talking. So you can tell you can tell me to stop whenever. Um, so on the outside I'm seeing when you are missing or when you are sailing it up, it's because there's extra reach happening without the foot following. So your foot's kind of planted and you're at the end of your rope and you've started to lean and you're trying to make up for the fact that you're not as close to it feetwise with your arm. So then you're adding a little extra up. So there's that pop up. So yeah, so the side lunge is super important as well as just an extra even if you need to straddle this corner a little bit to get there to keep it in front of your body versus reaching side. It's like if you were to cross over here, bad position to be in cuz it's behind you. So ultimately you want to be in a position where everything is kind of in front.
>> Okay.
>> Legs always behind your paddle.
>> Oh boy.
>> Okay. Yeah. Yes. You're good.
>> Nice. Yes. Nice.
>> Oh.
>> There we go. Good pickup. Good pickup. Yep. Nice. Stay low. Yep. Got you. Yeah.
>> Damn. Good shot.
>> Okay. I just I caught you cheating to the outside a little bit.
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>> Yeah. So, that's rolls into the next thing of reading the body language of your opponent.
>> Oh.
>> So I already know what I can do. So, I can turn my focus away from myself and onto you. So, then I can be like, how do I manipulate this situation? Where's my opening? And so because you're then starting to camp out a little bit more here and even to when you come back, you're recovering slightly leaned this way. I can hit a little bit of a heavier shot toward the middle and it'll automatically be behind you cause some type of panic. Sets up the point to be over like a couple shots later.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. So that's a pattern that you can kind of utilize.
>> Yeah.
>> Is pushing to the outside and then attacking middle. So, we'll switch to this side and I'll show like a common right side pattern you could do.
>> No, I'm good. I haven't played in a little while, so this is like perfect.
>> Okay, good. That's exactly the way I like to teach is like
>> Intuitively see what my client is doing. Yeah.
>> And just kind and feel the ball that they hit. Like I don't do a ton of feeding. It's more just like I need to be able to feel the type of ball you're giving me in order to give you the right kind of intuitive response. Yeah. On how it feels. Okay. I agree.
>> Okay.
>> So popular pattern. You see it happen in pros a lot. Annalie does it a lot. Um, but what you're going to do is if you're ever in a crosscourt like dinking pattern situation, you're going to direct your dinks from the right side. You can do this on the left side as well, but we'll just demonstrate it from the right. You'll do two or three dinks to the inside leg here of your opponent. Just kind of relentless. Do those dinks. Once people are leaned in this center trying to figure this out, this is open. If they pop it up slightly, lean in, take it out of the air and soft roll it to the outside box here. That's what gets them on the run. So that's this pattern disruption of lulling them here to the middle so that they're just going to keep going middle. This is open. Pull them out wide here. If they're out wide and unable to get a good shot back, you slide middle because your partner is now going to slide to cover this line. If they pop it up to the line, your partner kills it right at their feet. If they pop it up across to you a little bit, that's a murder shot down the middle here or kind of to like this area of the court.
>> So you'll see this pattern a lot of just manipulating positioning of someone. Middle middle middle and then wide and then middle finishing shot. So we'll do we'll do a few of those. I'll just kind of dink back to you. I want you to kind of set that up.
>> Okay.
>> If you feel comfortable with that.
>> Okay?
>> Okay. Just look for your opportunity for it.
>> Oh.
>> Good.
>> Oh, okay.
>> Maybe not the shot.
>> Yeah. And don't force it earlier than you need. You need to like always you can always hit one more. I always tell people one more. You can do one more of anything in life. Like just tell yourself one more.
>> One more. It's just.
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>> Brain of a goldfish, you know, type of thing. Just forget that you hit one more and said it. Just one more. One more.
>> Yeah.
>> Sick.
>> Yeah.
>> Sweet.
>> Yeah. So that's here, here, here, and then all of a sudden you have them on the run and it's that difficult outside leg shot that I was kind of saying in front earlier of that they either pop it up here. Some, you know, pros can usually get it back and then you reset it. Middle, middle, middle. Boom. And then attack middle. So this is a good.
>> So hit it more like at that angle. I think like in the past I like Jordan kind of talked about it.
>> I think I had previously hit like that soft roll volley that you were saying more like that and I give people an ATP all the time. Is that what's happening?
>> Yeah. So you can give someone an ATP if it's too much of an angle. So I almost want you to hit a soft roll to here. So it's not super angled where they're on the run, they can just hit that cuz that's you know you clap if they do that if that's the angle that you gave them. But it's almost here cuz they won't have the angle but it'll be at their back foot where they have to step back. Okay.
>> So that's a good question. Good adjustment from that. Not super angled, but kind of here because this is going to be, you know, some people can really bend it around the post that way, but you're not going to see it often.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. So even though it's low, like I was able to get one low back to you, you can dead dink it again and kind of push it for like a heavier thing to the middle and that's going to make it awkward again. So it's just kind of like the manipulation of where you want them to be.
>> Yeah.
>> To get them uncomfortable until they get to a point, no matter how many times you do it, that they give you what you want.
>> Does that make sense?
>> Yeah. What would you do if the person across from you is just significantly better than you encounter? Like if you do roll volleys and everything, they're just slamming it down. Would you just keep like working that person like you kind of said?
>> You would you would keep kind of icing them out a little bit until it gets to the point where they're like enough of this and they start stepping over where they shouldn't be too much.
>> And start getting more to try to take it out because they're going to start leaning this way. Then that's when you get an outside volley here. You can bunt it down the line behind them. Okay.
>> So, you're kind of like, let me pick on this person over here, make them uncomfortable so their partner feels like they need to get involved more. Oversteps, leaves that part of the court open, and then you can just change it. So, you're first manipulate this person, make them uncomfortable, get this person to feel like they need to help, they'll overstep, and then you attack them.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. Cool.
>> Make sense?
>> Sweet. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Okay.