Drilling your transition game effectively 🔥

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Frequently Asked Questions 🚨

1. How do you determine whether you’re going to hit a reset or a counter when your coming in from the mid-court?

There are a lot of factors to consider here. The most important are: how close I am to the kitchen, the height of my opponents contact, and where the shot they hit actually goes. This is a super individual shot: you won’t see someone like Collin Johns hit too many counters from several feet behind the kitchen. The most important thing to remember when someone is hitting hard and aggressive while you’re in transition is to be on balance. I see way too many people forget to split step when they are a few feet from the kitchen line to get ready for a counter. Players at the highest levels will see this and hit an aggressive dink at your feet, or away from you. I would get comfortable resetting from all parts of the court, but if you see that ball being hit upwards, don’t hesitate to smack it down at their feet.

2. When is it a good time to go for a crosscourt attack?

Well first of all, I feel like there’s sometimes a misconception about what a crosscourt attack even is. In my opinion a crosscourt attack is when you are going directly at the person crosscourt from you, or that sideline. I see a lot of speedups that are basically through the middle and the crosscourt person happens to get it - I wouldn’t classify that as a crosscourt speedup. A true crosscourt attack definitely has its place, especially on a speedup taken out of the air, but you have to be very careful with your spot. The best time to do it (as a righty on the left side) is when you anticipate that your left side opponent is expecting you to attack through the middle. If you can catch them leaning with the forehand to cover the middle, sometimes the wide part of the court or even hard at their chest is a great play.

Best Wall Drills with Ava 🏆

1. Forehand/backhand alternating volleys: Get close to the wall and alternate between forehand and backhand volleys. Make sure you’re taking small swings, and making contact with the ball as far out front as possible. Obviously this helps with your hand speed, but is also extra beneficial for forearm strength, which can help you on other shots like the backhand flick.

2. 5 shots - Dink, Dink, Speedup, Counter, Reset: See how long you can keep this sequence going! It’s quite realistic, because you should be hitting your counters down in a match anyway, which forces the next ball from the wall to come low. When it’s this low in a match, you’ll want to reset this ball as well. Use the two dinks in between to help get back in control of the ball to do it again.