Advice on Teaching Footwork

Key Points

• To teach footwork effectively, you need to use a “language” so that players have verbal cues and can work on and remember the moves
• When working on shadow tennis, you need to call out the cue words that correspond to the 5 R’s
• Step 1: Shadow Tennis - master shadowing the specific footwork moves before moving on to ball feeding
• Some players will be visual learners and can watch Dave’s videos and replicate the moves, while others will prefer the verbal cues
• Step 2: Isolating each move
• Step 3: Combining the moves