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I think this is a very important topic that everybody should know how to do, which is
training. How do you go out and practice? How do you go out and maybe use your pro to
get you better? If you don't have a pro, use a friend that you can bring to a park or to
a location to get better and improve on all the things we're talking about. First thing
I want you to understand is when you're trying to practice, especially going through this
course and try to develop your forehand, you want to focus on one thing at a time. I see
so many players, and even a lot of coaches when they're trying to teach somebody, they're
telling their kid or their client to have an open stance and focus on your swing; it's
just too many things. My analogy for this is like juggling. If you have one ball, it's
not hard. You add in two, it gets a little bit more difficult, and you get three, unless
you're really good at it, basically it's just going to fall apart.
Really make sure when you go out and practice you're practicing one thing at a time, and
only worry about that one result for that one thing. One example of this is if I'm going
out working on my forehand take back, I'm not going to worry about other things. I'm
not going to worry about my follow-through, I'm not going to worry about my feet. I'm
going to work on one thing and that's the only thing. You want to work on that one thing
until it becomes what we call is unconsciously competent. There's four stages of learning.
The first one is where you're not conscious, but you don't know something. You don't even
know what you're doing wrong. The second stage is where you become conscious of it, but you
can't do it. You know what you need to do, but you're not able to do it.
The third phase is where you know what you're supposed to do and if you think about it,
you can actually do it. The phase where you see a lot of the pros and very high advanced
players is where they are unconsciously competent. They've done it so many times, it's what we
call muscle memory. They're not thinking about their take back or their stroke or their feet,
that's where you need to be. That only comes from focusing on one thing over and over,
getting enough repetition so it completely just blends into what you're doing without
you having to think about it. That's the first tip when we talk about training. Thanks for
hanging out and watching this video, but if you want more content on how to improve your
forehand's power, consistency and placement, make sure you check the link below and check
out Forehanddomination.com to get all the latest content that I release on how to improve
your forehand. I'll see you on the other side.