Summary: <img width="1024" height="576" src="https://blog.tennisevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Hit-The-Darn-Swinging-Volley-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin: 0 15px 15px 0;"><p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-13071 size-large" src="https://blog.tennisevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Hit-The-Darn-Swinging-Volley-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576"></p><div class="smart-track-player-container stp-color-2d7bbf-EEEEEE"></div> <h2>Show Notes</h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hi, it’s Jeff Salzenstein, founder of Tennis Evolution, USTA High Performance coach, and former top 100 ATP player, and in today’s Tennis Evolution tips and strategies podcast, we are going to talk about the swinging volley. Yes, the swinging volley: the shot that recreational players are not supposed to use, right? The shot that is banned on all tennis courts all over the world by coaches teaching recreational players. Well, guess what? Today, I’m going to give you permission to use the swinging volley.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">About a month ago, I had a client that reached out to me, and she asked me if… what I felt about the swinging volley, because she had one coach that said on high balls, she should never hit a swinging volley. And she had another coach that said she should. So, she was confused, and so, she wanted me to break the tie, and I did. Empathically.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think everyone should learn how to hit the swinging volley. It is such an important critical shot in the game of tennis for so many different reasons. For one, if you practice it, you’re going to be able to be more aggressive at the net, and you’re going to send your opponents a message. We want to send a message to your opponents that you mean business at the net. It’s easier to put balls away, high balls away, if you practice the swinging volley. It also gets you to a more aggressive mindset, you feel better, when you swing at that ball and you execute it, it feels amazing.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now of course, you do need to spend time practicing it, because hitting a swinging volley out of the air is not the easiest thing to do, but I do recommend, especially on the forehand side, that you really master that swinging volley.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another story that I want to share with you real quick: at the time, a 14-year old student of mine, I’ve been teaching her swinging volleys for years since the time she was 10. She went down to the USTA and was working with a player development coach out there. And by the way, I love many of the coaches on the USTA staff, but this particular coach, who I actually don’t know very well, said that she should not hit swinging volleys anymore. So, she got confused as well.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And so, there is kind of this misconception out there in the tennis world that only the pros sh</span></p>
