Tennis Warm Up Drills - Improving Coordination & Footwork

[@ServantoftheLord10565]

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!

[@feeltennis]

Very much appreciated!

[@ignacioechaide1978]

One of your BEST Tomas. Simplicity and clarity is your BEST virtue.

[@prashantgupta7167]

This is gem of a video. It will take me years before I can move half as fluently as you. Thanks for sharing.

[@feeltennis]

You can do it!

[@ad-rock603]

Thanks, Tomas, this is one of the best yet. The exact type of practice I've been searching for

[@feeltennis]

Great to hear!

[@cesarfernandezlopez2209]

THANK YOU THOMAS !!

[@ianmacdonald5278]

Another gem! I fully expect to see some of this 'borrowed' and branded as new for pickleball very soon, just like some of your other videos were.

[@alisonjames865]

Such a good lesson, so well said, I love anything that is organized😊 please come to Palm Springs this winter!!

[@coachtripleb5121]

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?

[@feeltennis]

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. ;)

[@lanlam879]

I can't wait to try these drills!

[@pm8196]

You're the best at your profession!

[@massimonania7112]

You are great Tomaz

[@carlobacca7840]

Thank you Thomas please do other videos for improve coordinations, because i think that is One of the common problems on player like me

[@feeltennis]

Stay tuned, part 2 coming up next week!

[@carlobacca7840]

@@feeltennis thank you ❤️

[@stephenstephen1505]

Unique and excellent. Thanks

[@lirenchan]

Thanks coach.

[@niravdesai7]

Amazing!

[@christophejousse5394]

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

[@feeltennis]

Well said, I am glad many of you are seeing the value of such drills and not just looking for another video on how to hit a forehand like Federer. ;)

[@fairman1455]

always excellet

[@K4R3N]

Novak 🐐 Player Tomaz 🐐 Coach

[@jfitness432]

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

[@feeltennis]

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...

[@jfitness432]

@@feeltennis that makes sense, thanks for the response!

[@jfitness432]

@@feeltennis hey tomaz, I’m finding that my spacing between myself and the ball can use some work, do you have any KZbin videos that highlight this because i feel like I get jammed from time to time

[@marlowe1969ify]

Thanksss super coach

[@anisjegham833]

thanks a lot Tomaz very interessant video one o the best i have seen.

[@feeltennis]

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...

[@journeyhomefilms6416]

Hey Tomas, I love this drill and I applied it with my players this fall during nearly all warmups. It helped ton and my players really started finding balance and fluidity throughout the year. Is there a volley equivalent to this kind of warm-up? I'm going to tackle that more next year. I have an idea of what you would say but might be a good video in the future to make?

[@feeltennis]

Hey, great to hear that someone actually followed through and applied these drills over a longer period of time! As for volley warm up drills, I would do any kind of drills where the player has to catch the ball - either with both hands or just one hand. You mainly want to "warm up" eye-hand coordination and precise movement to the ball. Otherwise try this warm up drill for groundstrokes and volleys: kzbin.infosOy3aA2N_7s

[@coupedegrace1120]

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?

[@feeltennis]

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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zn7Le2pqes2hatU. 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!

[@coupedegrace1120]

@@feeltennis thank you Tomaz 👍

[@mattc248]

Come give some lessons in the U.S.!

[@feeltennis]

Maybe in the winter somewhere in Florida, stay tuned!

[@mattc248]

@@feeltennis sent you a message on your website!

[@masteryoda9259]

Hi Tomaz, in forward and backward and left right movement in this video, should i use my core to rotate the body in all of this examples?

[@feeltennis]

Yes, only through core you can rotate the upper body.

[@masteryoda9259]

Thank You.@@feeltennis

[@masteryoda9259]

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.

[@feeltennis]

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.

[@masteryoda9259]

Understand, thank You.@@feeltennis