Join Margit Bannon, USPTA tennis pro and Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher for this Yoga for Tennis Volley Drill designed to help you improve your forehand volleys from anywhere in the court! Whether you’re a beginning tennis player, a doubles player wanting to improve your volleys in no-man’s land or a coach looking for a fun way to work with children, this simple drill provides results. Players start up at the net, touching the nets with their racquets, and each time they make a volley they get to back up one step closer to the baseline on the tennis court. At any time if they miss a volley, they have to start back to the very beginning, up at the net. First player back to the baseline wins! Improve your body awareness of how you’re holding the racquet, working towards the continental grip and a slightly more open racquet face in order to make volleys anywhere in the court (including no-man’s land) reducing the tendency to hit down into the bottom of the net. Dare to work on the simplicity of this drill and master controlling your forehand volley! This drill can also be modified by doing it with backhand volleys, and mixing up the strokes in order to make the drill more challenging for students who find it too easy. Varying the feeds would be another way to challenge and prolong the drill, and perhaps even up varying levels of play amongst students. Shout out to my old teaching buddy Tom Haddow where we used to do this drill MANY years ago in Columbus, Ohio in our kids competition development program where it was a hit! Now I find that adults like it just us much as the kiddos 😉
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