250 Series: Skills & Drills Lab
Ground Strokes
Takeaways & Training Tasks
Keep the momentum rolling with these quick steps:
- Refresh your memory with the 2 skills, 2 drills, and training video.
- Knock out the drills 2ā€“3x before we meet again.
- Each time you play, pick one skill and make it your mission to useĀ it often and on purpose.
Ground Strokes
- Contact Point: Approximately 12-15ā€¯ in front of front foot.
- Weight Transfer: Load and Rotate. Extending forward through the ball.
- Hands: Reach out with non paddle hand on forehands.
- Swing: Short Backswing- paddle butt to back hip. Swing plane to the side
to initiate kinetic chain- not pendulum swing.
Bounce Hit
- Players set up 1 at the baseline and 1 at the NVL.Ā
- Player at NVL hand tosses a ball focusing on good form and good finish out in front.
- Baseline player must call out BOUNCE when ball bounces and HIT when they contact ball.
- Hit controlled ground stroke to partner who catches the ball.
Ground Strokes
- Contact Point: Approximately 12-15ā€¯ in front of front foot.
- Weight Transfer: Load and Rotate. Extending forward through the ball.
- Hands: Reach out with non paddle hand on forehands.
- Swing: Short Backswing- paddle butt to back hip. Swing plane to the side
to initiate kinetic chain- not pendulum swing.
Stay Alive: Ground Strokes
- Players compete as a foursome standing mid court
- Players start a groundstroke rally and see how many groundstrokes they can hit and keep it in bounds and over the net
- 3x 1 min rounds - rotate players each round
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