5 Dead Ball Drills That Improve Your Skill
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- A dead ball is a shot that you play by throwing the ball in the air and hitting it. It isolates the ability to hit accurately. Perform each drill for 1 minute, alternated with a 30-second power hitting side-to-side drill. Use an app to manage the timer.
Hit all five drills on the forehand and then repeat the sequence on the backhand.
The optional target system is defined as follows:
Foundation: racket length.
Competitive: Racket head width.
Advanced: Ball width.
If you choose to use the targets, place all five BEFORE you start the routine.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Start
02:14 - Reminders
02:36 - Solo Practice Principles
02:45 - Use The Targets?
03:05 - The Target System
03:48 - Target Levels
04:19 - Target Placement
04:35 - Hitting Positions
05:09 - Side-to-Sides
05:58 - Routine Overview
06:48 - Drill 1: Straight Drive
07:14 - Drill 2: Straight Drop
07:57 - Drill 3: Serve
08:26 - Drill 4: Working Boast
09:16 - Drive 5: Crosscourts
10:04 - Outtakes
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The more I watch your videos the more i like them. It is because they are well made, clear, precise and helpful. Bravo 😍
I'm glad you like them.
@@BetterSquash The more i watch you the more i like you 😁
Just make sure you take the time to practice everything!
I will master. Am just a beginner. Can i ask you something about rackets.? What string pattern is best, the the usual square or the V-shaped stinging pattern?
If you are just beginning, don't worry about stringing patterns. Those things are not important until much, much later. Just find a medium weight racket with an even balance and play with that for about a year. After that you can begin to think about different weights and balances, strings etc.
GREAT video Phillip. I hadn't seen the outtakes, haha
Thank you. I just watched the outtakes and laughed too.
Fantastic video and drills - really gives me alot of fun (and headache) and something to work on - I love it! Thanks :)
I'm so glad you enjoyed and have benefitted from the video. Keep up the hard work!
It's great advice, Thanks!
My pleasure!
Great video, love the content of your videos. Making me become a better player for sure at my club
Hi Brandon, it's great to hear my videos are helping you. Keep work hard and smart!
Thanks another great video, I'll be trying that soon.
Please let me know how you get on.
Great as usual 👌
Thanks again!
Thx you man
You are most welcome. Which was your favourite?
The bloopers are the best part
Well, I hope that the rest of the video was helpful.
How is the handicap in a senior squash tournament. In which different categories play?
I'm sorry I don't understand your questions. Some senior tournaments play up to nine points instead of eleven.
Where sould we place the A4 target for the serve drill?
I show the position at 8:06 in the video. To be honest, as long as you place it high on the side wall, somewhere behind the service box, that's fine.
Thanks for doing this thankless “job”
You are most welcome.
Why no longer than three minutes? Thank you
Two main reasons:
1. Solo practice should NEVER be boring. If you ever get bored, that feeling my prevent you from doing it in the future. Better to do something for a shorter time and enjoy it than making it last too long and not enjoying it. See my note below for some more details.
2. To learn a new skill, it's better to keep the practice time short and repeat it many times. Research has also shown that sleep between practice helps players retain those new skills. I prefer my pupils to repeat sets and mega-sets than do one thing for too long. It's also been shown that if you practice for too long on one thing, the quality of your performance goes down and all you will be doing is reinforcing poor quality and technique. 3 minutes is not a scientifically proven time, but I prefer to err on the side of caution than not.
NOTE: there was this wonderful piece of research that studied medical procedures. In all cases the procedure was either uncomfortable or painful. if the process was stopped immediately after the procedure, people remembered the pain more vividly. If the medical staff finished the procedure but kept the patient there and waited 5 to 10 minutes and then said the procedure was over, patients reported less pain and more likelihood to repeat the procedure. I can't remember where I read it.
Also, I am not using this one piece of research as the basis for my 3 minutes. It's just my experience that many players will find any reason (excuse!) to not do solo practice.
Wearing a mask while SOLO training?
At the sports centre where I record, everybody was required to wear a mask at all times, except in the shower and swimming pool.
I like your videos but wish you would have taken that silly mask off
The mask was required to use the facility where I recorded the video.
Wearing a mask is simply ridiculous I don’t want to watch video with a coach wearing a mask !
I don't know why you need to see my mouth to learn, but it's your choice to watch or not.
I have lost all respect for you I had to take a second look. You hold a world record. I thought you were better than this 🌧️ lose the mask
I really don't understand the hate I'm getting for this thumbnail/video. Where I live, The Basque Country, Spain, there was/is a mandate to use a mask at all times indoors - even in the gym (although this may have changed). I am just following the rules. I suppose I could have taken the image without a mask, but it is not that important.
The mask has no bearing on the sound quality because all court views have over-dubbing anyway.