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Hi I'm Alois Rosario from PingSkills. Lou's asked us a question about you stop yourself
from doing all of lunging and throwing yourself off balance and how you start to get your
feet moving correctly. To start off with it's important to keep the
strokes as simple as possible. So I'm going to bounce the ball to Jeff. One to the forehand
corner and the next one to the middle. I'm giving plenty of time to get into position.
I'm going to get him to really focus on making sure that the legs move first, his balanced
and then his ready to play the shot. As he gets good with that and cuts out the
lunging then I'm going to start to hit the ball back to him.
Nice and softly still, just controlling the ball into the two positions making sure that
Jeff is still maintaining that good balance position when his hitting.
Now obviously Jeff is a really good player so we can step this up pretty quickly until
it looks like some really great footwork. It's as simple as that.
Then when you get into a game think about your legs first and your stroke second, often
the first reaction is to move your hand, the first reaction needs to be move your legs
get in position and then your stroke going to be even better.