The Contact Moves Revisited: Counter Attacking

The Two Foot and the One Foot Pivot: the two predominant counterattacking Contact Moves.

In the last two articles, we looked at Contact Moves used for attacking, (Click Here) and Contact Moves used for building points. (Click Here) Now let’s move on to a third category: Counter Attacking.

Counter attacking means answering a forcing shot with a forcing shot of your own.

There are two Contact Move variations for counterattack.

These are the One Foot Pivot and the Two Foot Pivot. These counterattacking moves are executed with one or both feet on the court. Rather than exploding upward into the air, the player stays lower and rotates through the swing.

As we have seen in other articles, it’s important to understand that a Contact Move has many components. The movement of the feet before during and after the hit is all critical, varied and at times complex.

This is nowhere more true than with counterattacking moves, as we’ll see. After the hitting stance is established, there is substantial movement in both the feet and the legs, as well as changes in the angles of the knees.

Players usually use Pivot Moves on relatively low, hard hit balls, and also, when…