3 Different types of forehand volleys… Use them accordingly!

The last couple volley videos that I had uploaded was about how to hit your volleys more powerful. So it was to be able to add power on your finishing volleys and some people asked me like oh Federer doesn't do that or Nadal doesn't do that or Djokovic doesn't do that. You guys are watching like practice videos okay like you guys are watching like practice warm-up videos instead of when they're actually trying to finish off the point. You guys are going to get way more volleys that are a little bit higher medium pace where you could actually finish off the point with your power. They're not going to be getting that all the time. The opponents are actually trying to hit passing shots and the passing shots are a lot faster than a floater. They don't see that very often but they know how to hit it. Now for most of the other people even the you know lower level pros and even the junior players and recreational players you guys need to be able to know how to finish off the point with the volley on an easier one. So it's more important that you actually win the points that you can win and finish off than actually like hit you know hit tougher shots like there's not too many situations where you're seeing like super super tough situations or balls. So it's actually more critical and more important that you you're able to finish off the point that you are given the chance to finish the point. Now that's why I was explaining how to hit those volleys with the turn and adding power to the volleys. Now today I'm going to be explaining the three types of volleys. They're different volleys okay but the main common three volleys are reflex volleys okay normal volleys and then the put away volleys which which I like to call go home volleys like you say go home as you're hitting it like our uh my friends used to say that all the time when we're playing points and stuff so I like to call it go home volley and then there's also first volley which is the volley that you hit just past the service line after a servant volley or when after approach shot that's another one that's fourth one and then there's drop volleys and and angle volleys and other volleys but today again I'm going to be talking about just the three volleys the main volleys that most people get taught when you're starting to play tennis when you're obviously intermediate advanced players like I said when you're at that level the first volleys are more important because obviously you're playing doubles and when you attack and hit an approach shot you're coming in and you need to know how to hit a first volley which is the the volley that you hit around the service line or behind the service line so let's get started. I want to talk about the reflex volleys first the three types of volleys that you're going to learn today has to do with a lot with the the arm joints okay now the first reflex volleys are when you just let's do the forehand volley first let's when you take the wrist and there's no take back at all and you're keeping the racket out in front of you and you're basically squeezing the racket as the ball contacts the racket or the strings so there's really no take back and this is useful in doubles or when when the opponent you hit a bad approach out and the the opponent is just ripping it right at you you need the reflex volleys there's no time to take the racket back or the arm back or turn so what you basically do is you do you take the wrist back cock it back and you just sit there you just stay there and you try to block it back so those are the reflex volleys it's very important that you take the racket back with your wrist lay the wrist back and block the volleys now the normal textbook textbook volleys are taught to take the racket back just a little bit more keeping while keeping the elbow forward in front so if you're keeping the elbow in front of you basically what happens is you're taking the wrist first this is a normal medium paced volleys wrist back first and then the elbow moves without moving the elbow so basically what you're doing is you're locking back the wrist and then the elbow to to get the power from the elbow you see the elbow joint moving here now i'm not moving my body basically my arm is doing everything and my arm is moving after the joint so just the joint here the elbow joint now you see how that's hit now that's the medium pace volley usually the textbook volley uh the coaches tell you to turn but you know you don't really need to turn it's just how everything happens just with the elbow and a lot of coaches tell you to keep the elbow out in front and as you're tucking the elbow in and taking the racket back everything is very stable and you could hit the volleys pretty solidly the go home volley where you're trying to finish it off this is very useful for in doubles when you get like a really easy floor floater and it's really slow same thing same concept the first thing you do is cock the wrist back and then you take the elbow keep it out in front you take the elbow and use the elbow joint to take the racket back and then what you do is you take your shoulder joint and then go back and take it back and then you swing at it now this one is not really no one really teaches this but i'm trying to explain what the difference is between those three types of volleys that you actually hit a lot i know you hit a lot of first volleys and doubles but generally when you're hitting volleys in this area like in the mid section of the service line and the the net these are the three types of volleys most players are the reason why this is very easy for players intuitively is because when it's reflex volleys all they have to do is take it back and then once it slows down they take the elbow back just a little bit further not elbow but they take the racket back with the elbow joint and then what they do is if the ball is even slower then you could actually swing at the ball that's why players intuitively kind of know that and they're not really taught these three types of volleys especially the go home volley like you know when you're just putting it away and just smashing it it's almost like an overhead but it's just a small abbreviated version of the overhead that's basically it so elbow uh sorry uh wrist elbow and then all three so one two and then three so basically it depends on the ball speed of which shot you're trying to hit the ball back and you add on as the ball is slower you add on more joints to the shot and the swing to add more power from your momentum of the swing whatever you call it uh you could call it swing whatever it is you could add more muscles uh smaller muscles with wrist being the first one and then the bigger bigger muscles with here and then even bigger with the shoulder so that's how you add power also and depending on which shot and which situation you're in you're changing your backswing of the volley let me show you oh watch out watch out i'm gonna show you the reflex volleys first jesus almost hit me in the face so i'm gonna show you the reflex volleys first you take the wrist back and there's really no take back at all like you just sit here and just keep it solid and boom so here reflex volleys boom again see that so again it's very uh it's very quick i'll try to do it even shorter you see that so it's very compact nothing really moves and it's right here it doesn't go too far back and you're basically blocking the shot blocking their shot here boom okay okay now i'm gonna show you the medium pace volleys where it's not a quite a floater but it's medium paced more like a textbook so this one wrist back and then the elbow back wrist back and then the elbow that way you get more power again you see that again wrist elbow boom again wrist see that now the here's the difference between the reflex volleys versus the elbow the normal textbook volleys reflex volley versus textbook volley you see that so that's how you hit the regular medium pace volleys now here is the easier loopers the ball's high so you take the wrist back elbow wrist elbow and then okay wrist elbow and then the shoulder so basically you're using all of your muscles to to actually just do like a a mini overhead you see that so basically you're using all of your muscles wrist elbow wrist elbow and jesus wrist elbow and shoulder so that's more used in doubles usually not in singles okay now that you know the difference between the three types of volleys you could hit the reflex volleys the normal textbook volleys and then the go home volley you could use this when you uh according to different situations a lot of players that always tell me like oh my volleys suck oh i'm not good at volleys or i can't volley in doubles if they tell me that i know what to say to them and teach them because they usually learn only reflex volleys like right here and just take the wrist back and just keep the racket out in front they always tell me oh man i can't finish the point you know my volleys are so bad but the thing is they've left they've never learned it but the thing is i asked them to visualize a really good doubles player that they know doesn't have to be pro but usually like like a really good players a good doubles player that they play with and a lot of times i explain to them here's the reflex volley here's the normal volley and then here's the go home volley they always tell me hey i've seen uh the good doubles player actually like hit an over kind of style volley on those easy ones and i'm telling them yeah so depending on the situation you have to change your backswing of the volleys it's not always just one size fits all so that's what i wanted to tell you guys today and again this took years to figure out on my own because no one's really actually talked about it but if you actually know that there's difference in volleys and how to hit them and the correct way of moving it's going to shorten the amount of time that you could actually get better with the repetitions that you put in so hopefully this video helped you out i'll try to do some first volleys uh and how it's different from a regular volley very very different from your uh regular volleys that i just showed you first volleys are um it's actually uh the the whole mindset and you have to kind of open up your mind to how the ball is hit it's very different from uh the regular volleys you just hit now or i've seen you just i've shown you just now so thanks again for watching thanks for all the subscriptions we just passed 4 000 subscribers and it's been amazing your comments and the questions are are all great like it it just keeps me motivated since i've done a lot of 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