The arm is going nice, good improvement, I think you can put in mind your legs position, and foot work, when you place movements you probably noticed that you have started doing mistakes, that’s normal because you need to set your body in the right position, so foot working is imperative to practice, add split step in your trainings, you already have a level to start that. Keep pushing bro!
Your forehand looks quite good. One thing you could do is to simply be aware of what type of mistakes you tend to make. Is it a lot of balls in the net, wide or long? Then try and adjust based on that
For hitting topspin, I always like to imagine it as uppercutting the ball rather thank jabbing it. You don’t wanna extend too much through the ball without hitting up on it enough
Three things: 1) Your natural athleticism and coordination are easy to see here. Very good progress, and I expect you'll continue to see rapid improvement if you keep putting in the work. 2) There are a million tips I (or any other experienced player) could give you, but too much information is often a bad thing. I will just give you one thought that you've already probably noticed on your own: Your best shots happen when you manage to get your feet in the right place at the right time. If your feet are late and you end up jammed, off-balance, leaning, etc... you're gonna miss. So for practice in the future, just try to put a little more thought and energy into your footwork. Realize you are practicing the right way of "getting to the ball" as much as you are practicing the right way of "hitting the ball". 3) Question for you: What got you interested in starting tennis as an adult? Most adult players started as kids. Some start as adults for social reasons (i.e. doubles w/ friends). What's your story?
I played basketball all my life and in college, I needed something to switch over to that was fast paced, and would keep me and shape. Tried out tennis and have been loving it, now trying to take it seriously. Thank you for the tips, maybe i’ll make a video solely focused on footwork in the future!
Break down your technique step by step , focus on your unit turn motion and what your doing with your hands. Watch some videos on the correct unit turn and ready position should look like. From ready position your watching the ball coming , as the ball comes over the net, in ready position start your unit turn , offhand on throat of racket to create some stability and help guide the racket back. Rackets back and offhand on throat about shoulder height , shoulders turned and focus on the ball as it enters the strike zone slightly more in front of you then beside you. Swinging high low and finish high following through across the opposite shoulder Eyes focused on the ball until it leaves the string-bed. Good job and thanks letting people follow your journey
Great video! Love the challenge and this video very clearly separates pickle from tennis. Look how many days and hours to make small improvements to your game. Pickle would be in minutes. Keep it up. My best tip is to not over focus on too many tennis videos and instead hit on a wall instead of ball machine. 🎉Make the connection that where the palm of your right hand is going so will the face of the racket. Fast or slow swings and tempo not as important as feeling the face make solid contact ahead of your body with good spacing. 🎉 start feeling that non dominate hand out in front pointing toward the ball and then opening up your left shoulder as your making contact to get the much needed lag. Right now your left arm is chicken winging inside and that can also make spacing feel awkward. 🎉 best drill I learned when going from two hands on both sides a teacher gave me a 2 minute lesson but it taught me proper swing path. On a ball machine this would go well with tip 1. Use your left arm to hold in your right arm so your elbow is against your body feel that circular loop of not letting your elbow fly out from your side. This will keep you connected and let you feel more solid contact. Hit me up if you want more help. By far my forehand is my best weapon and it came down to a few simple fundamentals then a ton of reps. Played D1 and over 34 years in the game. 🎉🎉
I highly recommend tennis doctor & TPA tennis They do give contradictory tips, but overall they’re really good Tennis doctor use a semi western grip and TPA Tennis uses eastern Which is one of many reasons why their foreheads look different
Footwork footwork footwork!! I highly recommend and stress working on footwork as much as possible especially now that you’re just starting to learn tennis. Footwork is so so important. Your forehand is incredible though and you backhand and serve are pretty solid as well. From my personal experience competing 90% of the points/matches I’ve lost are because of bad/lazy footwork. I recommend watching Iga swiatek matches she has some of the best footwork and intensity in her footwork I’ve ever seen. Best of luck and thank you for what you and Trey are doing for the sport
Hey fam, great video! Good reminder of the work that needs to be put in to develop a good forehand. I'm getting back into the game after a long time away and still getting my FH straightened out after a couple months playing again. What ball machine are you using here ?
Great video, great music ! Adding to the tips : determine your dominant eye and try to adapt your stance at contact in consequence (see Patrick Mouratoglou's videos about this). I was wondering why my stance was naturally so open on my forehand, now I know. For general reference, I find the channel Feel Tennis Instruction really good, really sensible, no BS. Good luck !
Let's go! Edit: ok, that stroke path is amazing for new player. Trey has his lethal serve and you will have killer forehand when you get comfortable to produce power from legs and hips.
I'm so glad you started your own UA-cam channel. Been watching a lot of your bro's vids and is my favorite tennis UA-camr. I just started playing tennis and I'm loving it. Wish we could learn together.
Re: getting too close to the ball - I realized that when I'm tracking the ball my instinct is to catch it, so my intuition is to try and block the ball with my body.
The Pinata and Bridgers albums next to each other goes hard 🔥Lucky you being able to play tennis every day in Texas! Not very often weather allows that in Dallas for me
Yo this is so inspiring!! And freaking love the production man. I started in February training hard like this to finally go up from 3.5. 2 months 51 sessions. I have normal footage but just haven’t posted it. Certainly haven’t done nice production like this. Why not tho?! I’m going to start the channel and post a video today. This quality is a little much for me I think but hey something is better than nothing. Keep up the good work man.
@@Winners-Only-Deuce Here we go! It's a bit late. I spent way too much time on the logo and banner. Now I got to try to produce half as good as you two. Vid coming soon!
@@Winners-Only-Deuce For my own sake had to come back and say I finally followed through! 1 month late but got it going. And also got 2 more videos finished and queued up for the coming week, too. Keep up the grind Kyle, been enjoying the videos. Can't wait to see more of your UTR matches and a rematch with your bro. When you finally take a set from him, you might just break the internet..
Hey man, the “unit turn” is a fundamental in tennis that I would recommend looking at and starting a little earlier in your swing. Shuffling your feet more/getting in position while in that unit turn would be a big step forward I think! I teach tennis but I just started making yt videos and you could teach me in that! Great vid and good luck!👍🏼
Are you a copy of winner only tennis? Same editing, same fond style, same name, music style You don't seem to look like Trey? Are you his brother? You use his same nisplay ball machine
Ah ok well good luck in your tennis journey 🤭 One really funny prank video would be Trey teaching you tennis and act as a professional with gears, tips and technique drills but actually is only average normal 3.5 and people around you wonder whether you took the right coach 😜
Definitely recommend trying to have your shoulders squared with the net as you make contact or point the center of your chest either at 12 o’clock or appointed at your target just as you’re making contact and don’t let the ball past your left hand. That’ll help you hit more in front/sooner
At 6:16 you show a closeup of your string bed. Weird. 99% of the time it’s the mains (tip to bridge) that break first. You probably inherited that string job from your brother. Frankly a hybrid string job is way overkill for a complete beginner. When you restring try and use a middle of the road quality string and pay more attention to string tension. With each new string job experiment with the tension up or down 3-4 pounds. And write it down so you can figure out the tension that works best for you. Try and use the same string each time to eliminate that variable. There will be time enough later to nerd out on strings. Technique development is far more important to your game at this point.
was wondering where this was a scanned the qr code behind the bench and accidentally checked into the court, lol. can't wait to see more from ya. welcome to the life of tennis!
What’s your racket setup like? Strings are a cool color. Are you starting with poly? I just started myself a little over a month ago so it will be cool to follow your progress. Also curious about your thoughts on that ball machine because I was thinking about buying one.
The racket I am using in the first part of the video until the strings busted is a Wilson Ultra V4, then I make the switch to the Wilson Pro Staff V14 in the second half of the video. I have found them to both be very forgiving rackets, the Ultra being a little bit lighter of a racket. Strings are toroline wasabi on the pro staff and alu power syn gut hybrid on the ultra. I like this machine, the brand is Nisplay. The best thing about it is that its pretty portable. I would like the balls to shoot out a little more consistent in terms of placement, like you see in the video it goes back and fourth between tossing high balls and low balls mid round without me changing any settings (i'm sure most machines do that they can't be perfect). I would recommend for sure
@@Winners-Only-DeuceThat’s cool. I’m using a Wison Ultra 100L V2 right now because I was able to pick it up on sale for a good price but I’m looking to get something with a bit more weight. Been demoing things like the Blackout, Percept, and ProStaff 6.1 100. What made you want to try poly strings? All I read anywhere is that they are terrible unless you’re a 5.0 player and stuff like that. Regarding the ball machine that’s good to know. I don’t feel like any one can be that consistent but who knows. I know Nisplay is one of the cheaper ones but as long as it’s durable that’s more than enough for me.
I filmed myself hitting groundstrokes using Slinger exactly the same angle as the beginning of your video. One year later, I just played my first 4.0 recreational tour last weekends. Keep working bro.
great editing! love to see these improvement videos while i'm out with injury. one thing i noticed is you hit all your forehands off the front foot - its good, considered a "neutral stance" forehand and great to have. but watch the pros footwork, they actually hit the majority off the back foot in a "semi-open stance". if you google those terms you'll know what i mean. neutral stance is a good place to start, and you have a nice easy swing with weight transfer onto the front foot. semi open you'll make contact while your weight is on your back foot still, so you'll need to remember to transfer the weight (which is more rotational). advantages of semi open is that it allows you to hit it a bit later so gives you some more time, i find it helps me get more shape on the ball too. good for a rally ball. good to be able to hit both stances, as that front foot stance is better at flattening the ball to put pressure on, i.e. when you wanna hit up the line and come in. i did see you hit some more open stance shots but they looked like errors and you looked to be struggling. so i think dedicate a few sessions just to this. you want to move your hips then feel a bit of lag in your arm as the racquet then whips through. another tip is those wide balls i saw you struggle on, the open stance should help with these. also with the high balls, you still want to swing up on them even if they're above shoulder height and you feel like you can slap them down. really you can only slap them down if they're close to the net, its tempting to feel like slapping them down when you're behind the baseline but never do that or you'll leak too many errors.
This is so good bro, I’ve followed Trey from right at the beginning of his channel, I started tennis around the same time as him, and it’s so good to see him grow! Have fun with this project, these videos really do help loads of people. I’ll deffo be following along too! 🙌🔥
Be careful not over train, I over trained and my knees are swallowed up like two balloons! I trained every day and I found out that I needed to stretch before and after I play. Don’t get discouraged and keep calm. Good luck with your tennis journey my friend.
This video is awesome! The video editing and music is so good. Your story telling is great and I will definitely be following your videos to how you progress. Keep it up 🎉
One of my biggest tips to beginners is to get used to the split step. That way you'll be more prepared since you seem to get jammed up with your feet. It'll help you stay on your toes and make micro adjustments to get in the right position! I'd also recommend maybe setting up some cones to get comfortable aiming for a target. Cross court or down the line around no man's land to help you get a better feel of how you need to turn your body to hit different angles. Definitely solid stuff!
One tip to improve spacing is to keep that left arm fully extended and out and parallel to the baseline. I notice you kinda chickenwing/trex arms your left hand which might lead to improper spacing/getting jammed. Cheers and good luck on this long but fun journey
Nice video! I have some advice for you, try to practice against a tennis practice wall, you will hit a lot more shots a lot quicker! So then you won’t have to wake up so early! Also, you will be able to develop better footwork. One of the goats, Rodger Federer, also practices against the wall. Also it will save you time for picking up the balls every time the ball launching machine runs out.
one thing that improved my forehand a lot was focusing on relaxing the grip on the racket, it feels like you are going to throw the racket, but the flow of the swing is way smoother
that's gonna be one of the hardest things for me is staying low. always was a mediocre defender in my basketball career cause i couldn't make it habit to stay low on defense
1. Have a loose grip and hit over the ball. Self explanatory 2. Spacing and timing Find a gauge for when to start you’re swing (and not necessarily where the ball bounces) but rather where the ball is gonna be. That being said for spacing and time I’ve found that using you’re left hand as a gauge for spacing away from the ball (about a foot away from where ur Palm is) is where the sweet spot is. This also applies to timing (how close or far the ball is to passing you’re hand) 3. Stay low and movement is extremely important. You’re racket is longer than you realize so you also need to make sure to move away from the ball even when it’s coming towards you. 4. Hip rotation (fire with the hips) When you have a loose swing you still need to make sure you make contact on time and it will be a lot more helpful and effortless if you really exaggerate you’re hip rotation. 5. Keep you’re chest foreword Be wary of even slight leans that you may not pay attention to even when you’re thinking about getting the ball over cause often you’ll hit it long. Rather focus on extending you’re swing more at a steeper angle if you want more spin and net clearance. That being said got an impressive forehand for a beginner and you should only focus on one thing at a time which in this case I think movement and spacing are most important
I played college level tennis and I've coached tennis for 20 years off and on. First off, I would like to say that your forehand has improved drastically so quickly! Great job. Here's my pointer for you. You mentioned how you have a hard time with highballs and how you know your footwork probably isn't ideal, and you're right!. Ironically, the way to improve your forehand is to address both of these issues at the same time. If you have a ball that's in the perfect position around stomach level you hit your forehand pretty well. This is because your basic swing looks really good and when the balls in the right spot and is the correct distance from your body, you had a good forehand. The key then, is to make sure that you are always hitting that forehand regardless of what ball your opponent gives you. Focus on the footwork and your positioning. If the ball goes high, back up and hit it at that stomach level with BOTH feet on the ground. Alternatively, if you have the time you can move forward and hit it at stomach level before the ball goes up high. Keep your feet moving and try to hit that ball around stomach to chest level every single time and when you do, try your hardest to keep both feet on the ground the entire time. Have fun!
Thats terrible advice. No shot in tennis his hit with both feet. Even a high ball open stance forehand on the swing you'll be on the hitting side leg. On every swing your weight is one ONE leg. It goes back leg / back swing - front leg / forward swing. And as I said on an open stance shot its the same but the legs swap roles.
@@pd1323 he's picking his weight up off the front foot, keeping weight on the back foot. First step to fixing that would be to keep both feet on the ground.
@@proshepherd Thats how an open forehand is hit, you lift the 'front foot' so the hitting side leg drives into the ground. In no shot in tennis should you 50/50 weight distribution at contact or you're not using your bodyweight in the shot. With a neutral forehand where you step in, you don't want to still have any weight on the back foot at contact.
the production quality is crazy high. Keep it up! I love the editing style and musics
The arm is going nice, good improvement, I think you can put in mind your legs position, and foot work, when you place movements you probably noticed that you have started doing mistakes, that’s normal because you need to set your body in the right position, so foot working is imperative to practice, add split step in your trainings, you already have a level to start that. Keep pushing bro!
thank you!
Awesome video, Kyle! Looking forward to seeing more content from your journey
Your forehand looks quite good. One thing you could do is to simply be aware of what type of mistakes you tend to make. Is it a lot of balls in the net, wide or long? Then try and adjust based on that
For hitting topspin, I always like to imagine it as uppercutting the ball rather thank jabbing it. You don’t wanna extend too much through the ball without hitting up on it enough
love this channel idea. What kind of balls do you use for the machine?
You'll never amount to anything in this sport kid
who are you
1v1 !!!
FINALLY a tennis youtuber that got good tracks instead of some generic royalty free.
Hope to see more man, keep up the great work 💪
I’m here for this
May be time for you to pick up a racket
might be time for you to pick up a racket grant
Three things:
1) Your natural athleticism and coordination are easy to see here. Very good progress, and I expect you'll continue to see rapid improvement if you keep putting in the work.
2) There are a million tips I (or any other experienced player) could give you, but too much information is often a bad thing. I will just give you one thought that you've already probably noticed on your own:
Your best shots happen when you manage to get your feet in the right place at the right time. If your feet are late and you end up jammed, off-balance, leaning, etc... you're gonna miss. So for practice in the future, just try to put a little more thought and energy into your footwork. Realize you are practicing the right way of "getting to the ball" as much as you are practicing the right way of "hitting the ball".
3) Question for you: What got you interested in starting tennis as an adult? Most adult players started as kids. Some start as adults for social reasons (i.e. doubles w/ friends). What's your story?
I played basketball all my life and in college, I needed something to switch over to that was fast paced, and would keep me and shape. Tried out tennis and have been loving it, now trying to take it seriously. Thank you for the tips, maybe i’ll make a video solely focused on footwork in the future!
@@Winners-Only-Deuce same story here. Tennis just hits different that it made me wanna take it seriously.
Break down your technique step by step , focus on your unit turn motion and what your doing with your hands.
Watch some videos on the correct unit turn and ready position should look like.
From ready position your watching the ball coming , as the ball comes over the net, in ready position start your unit turn , offhand on throat of racket to create some stability and help guide the racket back.
Rackets back and offhand on throat about shoulder height , shoulders turned and focus on the ball as it enters the strike zone slightly more in front of you then beside you.
Swinging high low and finish high following through across the opposite shoulder
Eyes focused on the ball until it leaves the string-bed.
Good job and thanks letting people follow your journey
Great video! Love the challenge and this video very clearly separates pickle from tennis. Look how many days and hours to make small improvements to your game. Pickle would be in minutes. Keep it up. My best tip is to not over focus on too many tennis videos and instead hit on a wall instead of ball machine.
🎉Make the connection that where the palm of your right hand is going so will the face of the racket. Fast or slow swings and tempo not as important as feeling the face make solid contact ahead of your body with good spacing.
🎉 start feeling that non dominate hand out in front pointing toward the ball and then opening up your left shoulder as your making contact to get the much needed lag. Right now your left arm is chicken winging inside and that can also make spacing feel awkward.
🎉 best drill I learned when going from two hands on both sides a teacher gave me a 2 minute lesson but it taught me proper swing path. On a ball machine this would go well with tip 1. Use your left arm to hold in your right arm so your elbow is against your body feel that circular loop of not letting your elbow fly out from your side. This will keep you connected and let you feel more solid contact.
Hit me up if you want more help. By far my forehand is my best weapon and it came down to a few simple fundamentals then a ton of reps. Played D1 and over 34 years in the game. 🎉🎉
Learn to split step, it makes a huge difference when you're just learning.
Love it!
i was here!
Very good man.
The only thing about high volume training is that you're asking to get injured. Saying that, maybe it's just me who's made of rice paper
I highly recommend
tennis doctor & TPA tennis
They do give contradictory tips, but overall they’re really good
Tennis doctor use a semi western grip
and TPA Tennis uses eastern
Which is one of many reasons why their foreheads look different
I messed around with my Forehand for years. The #1 thing that improved it was holding the racket up higher in prep position. Hope it helps.
Love the content man! I just subscribed keep up the grind 💪
thank you brother!
you should hold your racket from the through
Love the vid Kyle
Footwork footwork footwork!! I highly recommend and stress working on footwork as much as possible especially now that you’re just starting to learn tennis. Footwork is so so important. Your forehand is incredible though and you backhand and serve are pretty solid as well. From my personal experience competing 90% of the points/matches I’ve lost are because of bad/lazy footwork. I recommend watching Iga swiatek matches she has some of the best footwork and intensity in her footwork I’ve ever seen. Best of luck and thank you for what you and Trey are doing for the sport
i could feel it as i made this video that my footwork needed some help, might make a video focused on it
Hey fam, great video! Good reminder of the work that needs to be put in to develop a good forehand. I'm getting back into the game after a long time away and still getting my FH straightened out after a couple months playing again.
What ball machine are you using here ?
this is a Nisplay ball machine!
Great video, great music !
Adding to the tips : determine your dominant eye and try to adapt your stance at contact in consequence (see Patrick Mouratoglou's videos about this). I was wondering why my stance was naturally so open on my forehand, now I know.
For general reference, I find the channel Feel Tennis Instruction really good, really sensible, no BS.
Good luck !
keep it up brother!
Let's go!
Edit: ok, that stroke path is amazing for new player. Trey has his lethal serve and you will have killer forehand when you get comfortable to produce power from legs and hips.
I'm so glad you started your own UA-cam channel. Been watching a lot of your bro's vids and is my favorite tennis UA-camr. I just started playing tennis and I'm loving it. Wish we could learn together.
keep grinding!
Re: getting too close to the ball - I realized that when I'm tracking the ball my instinct is to catch it, so my intuition is to try and block the ball with my body.
The Pinata and Bridgers albums next to each other goes hard 🔥Lucky you being able to play tennis every day in Texas! Not very often weather allows that in Dallas for me
gotta be early morning or evening in the summer here too. 12-6 is reaching unbearable levels of heat now
This video is straight fire, awesome editing, music and production man
Lovely music
Yo this is so inspiring!! And freaking love the production man. I started in February training hard like this to finally go up from 3.5. 2 months 51 sessions. I have normal footage but just haven’t posted it. Certainly haven’t done nice production like this. Why not tho?! I’m going to start the channel and post a video today. This quality is a little much for me I think but hey something is better than nothing. Keep up the good work man.
Do it!!
@@Winners-Only-Deuce Here we go! It's a bit late. I spent way too much time on the logo and banner. Now I got to try to produce half as good as you two. Vid coming soon!
@@NetGainsTennis Love it bro, the logo is dope
@@Winners-Only-Deuce For my own sake had to come back and say I finally followed through! 1 month late but got it going. And also got 2 more videos finished and queued up for the coming week, too. Keep up the grind Kyle, been enjoying the videos. Can't wait to see more of your UTR matches and a rematch with your bro. When you finally take a set from him, you might just break the internet..
Hey man, the “unit turn” is a fundamental in tennis that I would recommend looking at and starting a little earlier in your swing. Shuffling your feet more/getting in position while in that unit turn would be a big step forward I think! I teach tennis but I just started making yt videos and you could teach me in that! Great vid and good luck!👍🏼
Keep it up Kyle! Don’t take any advice on Trey on foot faulting though 😂
I love your editing style. Keep it up mate youtube needs more videos like this.
Are you a copy of winner only tennis? Same editing, same fond style, same name, music style
You don't seem to look like Trey? Are you his brother? You use his same nisplay ball machine
We are brothers! We thought we’d create a second channel for my journey rather than try to cram it into the main!
Ah ok well good luck in your tennis journey 🤭 One really funny prank video would be Trey teaching you tennis and act as a professional with gears, tips and technique drills but actually is only average normal 3.5 and people around you wonder whether you took the right coach 😜
This was fantastic. Loved it on more than just the tennis level. You've got real story here.
Awesome video and great progress! Keep it going Kyle!🙌
Got that Nisplay ball machine putting in work!!
Definitely recommend trying to have your shoulders squared with the net as you make contact or point the center of your chest either at 12 o’clock or appointed at your target just as you’re making contact and don’t let the ball past your left hand. That’ll help you hit more in front/sooner
At 6:16 you show a closeup of your string bed. Weird. 99% of the time it’s the mains (tip to bridge) that break first. You probably inherited that string job from your brother. Frankly a hybrid string job is way overkill for a complete beginner. When you restring try and use a middle of the road quality string and pay more attention to string tension. With each new string job experiment with the tension up or down 3-4 pounds. And write it down so you can figure out the tension that works best for you. Try and use the same string each time to eliminate that variable. There will be time enough later to nerd out on strings. Technique development is far more important to your game at this point.
was wondering where this was a scanned the qr code behind the bench and accidentally checked into the court, lol. can't wait to see more from ya. welcome to the life of tennis!
Great video
What’s your racket setup like? Strings are a cool color. Are you starting with poly? I just started myself a little over a month ago so it will be cool to follow your progress. Also curious about your thoughts on that ball machine because I was thinking about buying one.
The racket I am using in the first part of the video until the strings busted is a Wilson Ultra V4, then I make the switch to the Wilson Pro Staff V14 in the second half of the video. I have found them to both be very forgiving rackets, the Ultra being a little bit lighter of a racket. Strings are toroline wasabi on the pro staff and alu power syn gut hybrid on the ultra. I like this machine, the brand is Nisplay. The best thing about it is that its pretty portable. I would like the balls to shoot out a little more consistent in terms of placement, like you see in the video it goes back and fourth between tossing high balls and low balls mid round without me changing any settings (i'm sure most machines do that they can't be perfect). I would recommend for sure
@@Winners-Only-DeuceThat’s cool. I’m using a Wison Ultra 100L V2 right now because I was able to pick it up on sale for a good price but I’m looking to get something with a bit more weight. Been demoing things like the Blackout, Percept, and ProStaff 6.1 100. What made you want to try poly strings? All I read anywhere is that they are terrible unless you’re a 5.0 player and stuff like that. Regarding the ball machine that’s good to know. I don’t feel like any one can be that consistent but who knows. I know Nisplay is one of the cheaper ones but as long as it’s durable that’s more than enough for me.
I filmed myself hitting groundstrokes using Slinger exactly the same angle as the beginning of your video. One year later, I just played my first 4.0 recreational tour last weekends. Keep working bro.
love to hear it, will do
great editing! love to see these improvement videos while i'm out with injury.
one thing i noticed is you hit all your forehands off the front foot - its good, considered a "neutral stance" forehand and great to have. but watch the pros footwork, they actually hit the majority off the back foot in a "semi-open stance". if you google those terms you'll know what i mean. neutral stance is a good place to start, and you have a nice easy swing with weight transfer onto the front foot. semi open you'll make contact while your weight is on your back foot still, so you'll need to remember to transfer the weight (which is more rotational).
advantages of semi open is that it allows you to hit it a bit later so gives you some more time, i find it helps me get more shape on the ball too. good for a rally ball. good to be able to hit both stances, as that front foot stance is better at flattening the ball to put pressure on, i.e. when you wanna hit up the line and come in. i did see you hit some more open stance shots but they looked like errors and you looked to be struggling. so i think dedicate a few sessions just to this. you want to move your hips then feel a bit of lag in your arm as the racquet then whips through.
another tip is those wide balls i saw you struggle on, the open stance should help with these. also with the high balls, you still want to swing up on them even if they're above shoulder height and you feel like you can slap them down. really you can only slap them down if they're close to the net, its tempting to feel like slapping them down when you're behind the baseline but never do that or you'll leak too many errors.
this is all really helpful, preciate it!
This is so good bro, I’ve followed Trey from right at the beginning of his channel, I started tennis around the same time as him, and it’s so good to see him grow!
Have fun with this project, these videos really do help loads of people. I’ll deffo be following along too! 🙌🔥
Be careful not over train, I over trained and my knees are swallowed up like two balloons! I trained every day and I found out that I needed to stretch before and after I play. Don’t get discouraged and keep calm. Good luck with your tennis journey my friend.
Awesome man 👍
I love your editing style. Keep it up mate youtube needs more videos like this.
preciate that!
Form on the swing and off hand look great. Much better than me 2 1/2 yrs in…!
your selling yourself short i know it. keep grinding!
Good shit man, keep it going!
This video is awesome! The video editing and music is so good. Your story telling is great and I will definitely be following your videos to how you progress. Keep it up 🎉
looking forward to more, this was cool
One of my biggest tips to beginners is to get used to the split step. That way you'll be more prepared since you seem to get jammed up with your feet. It'll help you stay on your toes and make micro adjustments to get in the right position! I'd also recommend maybe setting up some cones to get comfortable aiming for a target. Cross court or down the line around no man's land to help you get a better feel of how you need to turn your body to hit different angles. Definitely solid stuff!
Nice work Kyle!
One tip to improve spacing is to keep that left arm fully extended and out and parallel to the baseline. I notice you kinda chickenwing/trex arms your left hand which might lead to improper spacing/getting jammed. Cheers and good luck on this long but fun journey
love it, thanks for the tip
Nice video! I have some advice for you, try to practice against a tennis practice wall, you will hit a lot more shots a lot quicker! So then you won’t have to wake up so early! Also, you will be able to develop better footwork. One of the goats, Rodger Federer, also practices against the wall. Also it will save you time for picking up the balls every time the ball launching machine runs out.
thanks for the advice!
one thing that improved my forehand a lot was focusing on relaxing the grip on the racket, it feels like you are going to throw the racket, but the flow of the swing is way smoother
great, preciate the pointer
What ball machine do you have and how do you like it?
that is a ball machine from Nisplay. It's great!
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Keep following it my friend
backhands next!
"Sit and lift" - James Blake
that's gonna be one of the hardest things for me is staying low. always was a mediocre defender in my basketball career cause i couldn't make it habit to stay low on defense
Practice doesn’t make perfect.
Practice makes progress.
Good job man keep it up!🎉
1. Have a loose grip and hit over the ball.
Self explanatory
2. Spacing and timing
Find a gauge for when to start you’re swing (and not necessarily where the ball bounces) but rather where the ball is gonna be.
That being said for spacing and time I’ve found that using you’re left hand as a gauge for spacing away from the ball (about a foot away from where ur Palm is) is where the sweet spot is. This also applies to timing (how close or far the ball is to passing you’re hand)
3. Stay low and movement is extremely important.
You’re racket is longer than you realize so you also need to make sure to move away from the ball even when it’s coming towards you.
4. Hip rotation (fire with the hips)
When you have a loose swing you still need to make sure you make contact on time and it will be a lot more helpful and effortless if you really exaggerate you’re hip rotation.
5. Keep you’re chest foreword
Be wary of even slight leans that you may not pay attention to even when you’re thinking about getting the ball over cause often you’ll hit it long. Rather focus on extending you’re swing more at a steeper angle if you want more spin and net clearance.
That being said got an impressive forehand for a beginner and you should only focus on one thing at a time which in this case I think movement and spacing are most important
I played college level tennis and I've coached tennis for 20 years off and on. First off, I would like to say that your forehand has improved drastically so quickly! Great job. Here's my pointer for you. You mentioned how you have a hard time with highballs and how you know your footwork probably isn't ideal, and you're right!. Ironically, the way to improve your forehand is to address both of these issues at the same time. If you have a ball that's in the perfect position around stomach level you hit your forehand pretty well. This is because your basic swing looks really good and when the balls in the right spot and is the correct distance from your body, you had a good forehand. The key then, is to make sure that you are always hitting that forehand regardless of what ball your opponent gives you. Focus on the footwork and your positioning. If the ball goes high, back up and hit it at that stomach level with BOTH feet on the ground. Alternatively, if you have the time you can move forward and hit it at stomach level before the ball goes up high. Keep your feet moving and try to hit that ball around stomach to chest level every single time and when you do, try your hardest to keep both feet on the ground the entire time. Have fun!
Thats terrible advice. No shot in tennis his hit with both feet. Even a high ball open stance forehand on the swing you'll be on the hitting side leg. On every swing your weight is one ONE leg. It goes back leg / back swing - front leg / forward swing. And as I said on an open stance shot its the same but the legs swap roles.
@@pd1323 he's picking his weight up off the front foot, keeping weight on the back foot. First step to fixing that would be to keep both feet on the ground.
@@proshepherd Thats how an open forehand is hit, you lift the 'front foot' so the hitting side leg drives into the ground. In no shot in tennis should you 50/50 weight distribution at contact or you're not using your bodyweight in the shot. With a neutral forehand where you step in, you don't want to still have any weight on the back foot at contact.
@@pd1323 I never said 50/50 weight distribution! He's a beginner and you're suggesting he should be lifting his feet.. smh.. Have a great day!