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I have used many of the tennis drills and as a result my two High...
Linsent, Tennis coach

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hands on thighs. Ball come into players peripheral vision. Feeder drops both balls and calls

COACHING POINTS

try to only take the colour being called not just reacting with both hands

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Back Stop Reaction Drill | Back Stop

Back Stop Reaction Drill:

Set Up:

4 players - bowler, batter, back stop, and 1st post. Rounders balls, post, cones.

The Drill:

Bowler bowls the ball to the batter (batting with a cone). They attemt to tip it through to the back stop to take.

The backstop reacting to the tip off the cone sends the ball to 1st post.

Bowler bowls 6 good balls then the players rotate.

Back Stop
Reaction Take (Backstop or Fielders) | Back Stop

Reaction Take (Backstop or Fielders):

Set Up:

1 feeder, 1 catcher, 2 tennis balls (different colours), cones.

The feeder and the worker stand opposite each other 3 metres apart.

The Drill:

Feeder holds 2 different colour balls at arms length, and calls out the colour of the ball they want the the worker to catch.

The worker reacts and moves forward to catch the ball after just one bounce.

The worker retreats to the starting position and the drill is repeated.

The feeder can aslo call for both balls to be caught.

Back Stop
Reaction wall practice | Back Stop

Reaction wall practice:

2’s Feeder bounces the ball onto the floor from behind the worker to come off the wall for the worker to catch

Back Stop
Back Stop Stance | Skills

Back Stop Stance:

Receiving a ball from the bowler and sending to 1st Post  

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