Frankie Dell: Hi, I am Frankie Dell. I am a professional tennis instructor. You are watching how to play at the net. Next, I'll demonstrate the forehand and backhand volley. So we have our continental grip, we are in our ready position waiting for the ball. We see it's going to be a backhand, so we pivot on our outside foot, pivot and turn your shoulders, pivot and turn your shoulders to here.
Try to think of it as turning your shoulders rather than think of it as taking the racquet back. When you start thinking of taking the racquet back most people go too far and they end up doing this. That's too far. So just rotate, pivot and rotate to here. If you can still see the racquet out of the corner of your eye, that's good, if you can't, that's too far, it's going to become a swing. You don't want a swing when you are up here at the net. It's tougher to make contact with the ball cleanly if it's a swing. You want to keep it simple. Just turn and punch it. So just here, you can see that my hand is still in between my shoulders. It hasn't gone back here past my back shoulder, that's too far. Keep it here, pivot, turn your shoulders.
Okay, now we've prepared. Now we are ready to step in and hit the volley. So we've rotated, we've pivoted, now from here we want to transfer our weight forward on to your outside foot, here; forward and it's just a punch, turn your shoulders and just step and punch. Your follow through is very brief. Notice how I am not swinging, I am just punching it.
Notice that, that was a low ball. On low balls you always want to keep the head of your racquet above your wrists. Even if it's low, don't dip it down here, it's more likely going to go into the net. Up and then you bend with it, punch. That's your backhand volley.
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