Lesson 4 of 4 · Move and react · 6 min
Recover to the middle of their options.
Not the middle of the court.
The middle of the court is not the middle of the court. Recover to where their next ball can go.
01
See the cone of replies your shot leaves them, and where its middle really is
02
Why the centre mark is sometimes a metre wrong
03
Score one preparation per rally start with a partner
04
What a 1933 idea and a 2024 study can and cannot tell you
Watch it traced
The stroke, eight instants at a time.
Traced frame by frame from real footage, then lit like the rest of the Academy. Flip through it: the shape of the swing is the lesson before a word of it is written.
FIG. 40 · NADAL’S FOREHAND
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