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Today's Guest:
Justin Yo is one of the famous tennis coaches who has a tremendous experience in working both in Australia and Puerto Rico. His immense knowledge of tennis and the evolution of the game over the years, provides him an expertise on time management hacks in a tennis court for both on-court and off-court preparation, particularly for amateur tennis players. Things You will Learn Today: Whether you are in a match or just preparing yourself for a match in the training sessions, working on your time management skill is always going to be vital. Learn:- How the game speed has evolved with time
- How to manage and steal time from the speedy tennis match to make yourself comfortable and ready to play
- To analyze and dissect your opponents ploys and prepare yourself early by watching their racket
- Spin of the ball
- Power of the shot
- Identify the depth
- Speed of the ball
- Minimizing your foot time
- Reducing split steps to perform your shots perfectly
- Pros level time manage to do it all
- Stop looking at the ball
Transcripts
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Speaker:Right now is 10 Minutes of Tennis.
Speaker:With world renowned tennis pro Australian in Puerto Rico,
Speaker:Justin Yeo, he is on location today.
Speaker:He was on the court.
Speaker:He now looks like he's driven his golf cart
Speaker:on the court that we'll figure that out later.
Speaker:But Justin, thank you so much for making time.
Speaker:We are talking about time.
Speaker:You're making time.
Speaker:How do we take away time?
Speaker:How do we gain time?
Speaker:What does that mean in today's modern game?
Speaker:Today's modern tennis game is all about time.
Speaker:Justin, what are we talking about?
Speaker:Yeah, so we've already talked about this
Speaker:once before about time.
Speaker:Learning how to take fall earlier, take fall in the rise,
Speaker:take time away from your opponent.
Speaker:We've talked about this,
Speaker:but the one thing we haven't talked about
Speaker:is the game has increased in speed
Speaker:between racket to racket.
Speaker:And people still aren't doing enough of understanding that.
Speaker:And by doing that, you start to identify
Speaker:whether when you should come in,
Speaker:when you can't come in,
Speaker:what kind of ball you need to give yourself enough time
Speaker:to get to the net.
Speaker:And what we have to identify is foot speed as well.
Speaker:But the one other thing that we haven't talked about,
Speaker:I'm going to cover both of these,
Speaker:is the second one is watching the racket
Speaker:to give you more time to process faster,
Speaker:make an earlier decision,
Speaker:get your preparation earlier,
Speaker:and still meet the ball early
Speaker:to take away time from your opponent.
Speaker:So there's all these factors that, again,
Speaker:come from reading from the eyes
Speaker:because eyes have to be told what to do.
Speaker:If you stand there, you think you're watching,
Speaker:but you're actually just watching the ball come over the net.
Speaker:By doing that, you're actually slowing things down
Speaker:and you're not giving yourself processing time
Speaker:to be able to prepare early enough,
Speaker:make a quick decision and then go.
Speaker:So a lot of pros, the reason why they look like
Speaker:they've got plenty of time is 'cause they're reading
Speaker:the person by the time they turn their body,
Speaker:position if they strike the ball,
Speaker:they've already seen all the way you're going
Speaker:before you strike the ball.
Speaker:So that had given them time, all right?
Speaker:So that's where all players could do more of
Speaker:is watching the player, watching the racket.
Speaker:I always say watch the racket because that's at least the start.
Speaker:If someone's watching the player too much,
Speaker:commonly the ball will come back
Speaker:and they'll hit the ball right back to the player
Speaker:'cause that's the last thing they looked at, all right?
Speaker:So the best thing is to watch the racket
Speaker:and you start to identify spin more,
Speaker:you start to identify depth,
Speaker:you start to identify power or speed
Speaker:because the racket's going slower or faster.
Speaker:So there's all these factors by watching the racket,
Speaker:you're getting a little bit of processing time earlier
Speaker:that allows you to prepare earlier
Speaker:or maybe even take advantage.
Speaker:So that's one factor, the second factor
Speaker:that I wanted to talk about is the time
Speaker:between racket to racket.
Speaker:That has sped up in the last few generations
Speaker:and we all think that we're like,
Speaker:yeah, yeah, I want to hit a ball faster,
Speaker:I want the ball faster and I can hit the ball faster.
Speaker:Yep, but that also takes away time.
Speaker:And when that takes away time,
Speaker:it takes away better decision making
Speaker:or rushing of the contact point
Speaker:or not being able to get to the net,
Speaker:what the hell happened to my volley?
Speaker:Well, there's nothing wrong with the volley.
Speaker:It's just you haven't got as much time
Speaker:from baseline to service lines
Speaker:you used to have two generations ago.
Speaker:Great, great, the great, big break
Speaker:and brought this up many years ago
Speaker:that we have to get rid of the split step
Speaker:in the middle of the court
Speaker:and work on a reaction step,
Speaker:which is one foot then the second foot.
Speaker:And that's going to compensate for the less time we have
Speaker:to be able to get to net,
Speaker:especially in singles or you're just trying
Speaker:to attack the net in doubles.
Speaker:You're baseline to the service line
Speaker:because we've lost time from racket to racket
Speaker:with power rackets, poly strings,
Speaker:the ball coming faster.
Speaker:All of that, we only have a certain amount of foot speed
Speaker:from baseline to service line.
Speaker:If you split step there,
Speaker:you're going to be stuck on the next volley
Speaker:because you're not far enough into the court
Speaker:to get to the second volley.
Speaker:So what he proved is that you can come in
Speaker:and split step on one foot,
Speaker:direct that foot and drive into the next ball
Speaker:standing on the next foot
Speaker:and still be on the net by the second volley.
Speaker:And he's the one that created that made people realize
Speaker:because we lost time from baseline to baseline,
Speaker:racket to racket.
Speaker:He showed that the players are between 0.9
Speaker:and 1.2 seconds between racket to racket.
Speaker:All right, so when that happens,
Speaker:that's how much time you've got to get in.
Speaker:But the players doing it now,
Speaker:and if you want to watch them,
Speaker:you'll see they don't split too often
Speaker:anymore two feet in the middle of the court.
Speaker:They literally are running one step, two step
Speaker:and they're on top of the net.
Speaker:And the dial was famous at that one.
Speaker:So anyway, that's all being correlated around time.
Speaker:And people don't understand why they can't get to the net.
Speaker:A lot of that's because of the time between racket to racket.
Speaker:So you're saying the pros have less time
Speaker:between racket to racket?
Speaker:Does that translate down to you and me
Speaker:and then also across?
Speaker:100% amateur player.
Speaker:Are you saying the amateur player also has less time
Speaker:because of the new technology
Speaker:and because of how things have changed?
Speaker:100%.
Speaker:The players are only just faster at processing things
Speaker:in a short space of time.
Speaker:This is thus as amateur, we need longer time, right?
Speaker:So they're faster at running from corner to corner
Speaker:and recover and still making decision making
Speaker:and doing all of that stuff.
Speaker:They just faster at it than what we are.
Speaker:Their processing time is faster.
Speaker:So it's all still the same amount of stuff.
Speaker:We still have to move to the ball,
Speaker:make a decision strike, recover,
Speaker:and then get ready for the next one.
Speaker:So they're just faster at it.
Speaker:So again, if we talk about time,
Speaker:you're talking about processing time.
Speaker:Their process isn't just so much faster
Speaker:than the amateur player.
Speaker:But in that case, they're processing faster.
Speaker:They're hitting it faster.
Speaker:They have the same problems we do.
Speaker:It's just at a different speed.
Speaker:100%.
Speaker:That's why we have a level of 2.5, 3035, 4045.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Most people always ask me what the difference
Speaker:between 4045, but keep saying it's one more shot.
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Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:It's the easiest way to look at it.
Speaker:If I'm a 40 player, do I have to hit full harder to be 45?
Speaker:Actually, no.
Speaker:You just need to be able to hit one more shot.
Speaker:Make one more ball.
Speaker:And if you can have some good one shot,
Speaker:maybe you're on a winner at full five.
Speaker:That makes sense.
Speaker:That makes sense.
Speaker:So wrapping it up, I want to go back to one of your first statement,
Speaker:because we get the time between rackets.
Speaker:And there's not really anything you can do about that
Speaker:without more experience at just getting used to that time
Speaker:and practicing those things.
Speaker:But the question of watching the racket,
Speaker:that's what I want you to finish me off with the racket
Speaker:that I'm watching.
Speaker:So what I've got to do is I've got to watch the racket hit the ball.
Speaker:I've got to keep my head down on contact.
Speaker:So I'm losing sight of the ball.
Speaker:Now, as the ball crosses the net,
Speaker:you want me to look up and watch my opponent
Speaker:and watch the racket to the team.
Speaker:That's all I'm talking about.
Speaker:What they're about to hit the ball, to try to learn what they're
Speaker:about to do, which means I'm not looking at the ball.
Speaker:As soon as they hit the ball, now I've got to start moving.
Speaker:Is now the time finally, when that bumper sticker tennis coach
Speaker:says, keep your eye on the ball?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Am I now finally actually looking at the ball?
Speaker:Is that advice going that bumper sticker going away?
Speaker:OK.
Speaker:Let's make something very clear.
Speaker:When a ball is covered towards you,
Speaker:you're looking at the damn ball.
Speaker:The ball is not stopping.
Speaker:You have to focus on.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So the ball is not something you have to focus on.
Speaker:You focus on the racket.
Speaker:If you do, you already pick up on what the ball is doing.
Speaker:OK.
Speaker:And then when the ball is coming, you're automatically
Speaker:making processing your decisions quickly in your feet,
Speaker:deciding your tactic, making the decision
Speaker:or committing to a target.
Speaker:There's all of those factors that are
Speaker:having milliseconds faster because you watch the racket.
Speaker:And you will always see the ball.
Speaker:I mean, that whole thing of the bumper sticker
Speaker:focusing on the ball.
Speaker:When a ball is being straked as a tennis player,
Speaker:you're just looking at the ball.
Speaker:I'd like a bumper sticker to say, see the court, see the ball,
Speaker:see the court, see the ball because most people
Speaker:don't see the court and see the ball.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:And they don't look for the broad vision and the narrow vision.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:They're looking for the court.
Speaker:Now they lost the ball.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Well, they're watching the ball, and they
Speaker:have no target because they can't see the court.
Speaker:See?
Speaker:So the bumper sticker should be see the court, see the ball.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:But see the racket first to save you time.
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