Contact Moves: The Front Foot Hop

Front Foot Hop: an aggressive contact move when you come forward. The Contact Move is a new concept I have developed that unites all the components of footwork. These components include the movement to the ball, the hitting stances, the athletic movement of the feet during the hit, the balance moves after the hit, and also, the recovery steps. The Contact Move is a breakthrough concept because it allows us to make sense of the bewildering variety of complex movement patterns in high level tennis. Based on my study of pro tennis and the video resources of Tennisplayer, I've identified almost 20 different pro Contact Moves, covering every aspect of the game. In these articles we are breaking the Contact Moves down into three categories. These are offensive, neutral, and defensive contact moves. The player steps in, hits, kicks the leg back, and lands on the front foot. We already looked at the first two aggressive contact moves, the Step Down (Click Here) and the Transfer (Click Here). Now in this article we'll look at the third aggressive contact move, what I call the Front Foot Hop. In future articles, I'll progress to the analysis of neutral and defensive contact...