If you're wanting a drill to really help you with your footwork, this is it, it's going to help you with explosiveness and getting down on your strength. So let's get started. It's really simple. Set up a box around you and all you're going to do is get down in a nice low position, making sure that we're really accessing the quads now. 

With this, it's really important that as we get low, we're not bending our back to touch the ball, but we're staying nice and low and reaching now, depending on your fitness level. Make sure you do what works for you. If you're at a high level of fitness, you can probably do this 12 times or 12 touches if you're at a low level fitness, no problem. Try four and go slow. And if you're in the middle, just find some range between six and eight. 

There's no real number that you have to stick to, but this is a great drill to work on your leg strength. And the reason leg strength is so important because tennis is a game of movement. If your legs go out, there's nothing else that's going to help you, and this is a great drill to do it. So how we're going to start off, I'm gonna start off really low, really slow.

At first, I'm going to start from the base level. So all I'm going to do is go out. Shuffle, boom, touch. Ok, shuffle, boom, touch, shuffle, boom, touch, shuffle, boom, touch and stay low. Now here's the mistake a lot of people make when they're doing this drill, they go touch, get up. Ooh, feel good. Touch, get up.

 You don't want to do this. You want to feel the stress in your legs because when you're playing a long match and your legs start feeling tired, you need to know you can stick with it. So the next level will be get down and get low when you do six times, but even faster. So when you go touch and then you might do random and go out and stay low and stay low and come back. And then obviously, if you want to take it to the next level, you could do 12 of these.

 This is stressful. I'm already breathing hard and I haven't even done that much. So it really, really takes the breath out of you, but it helps you keep your legs really strong. Now you're probably asking, how many times should I do this? How much should I do this? I recommend you do this three sets of whatever number you choose after you do those three sets.

It's really important that you do it probably three times a week, and that's what's really going to help you to be more explosive when you're on the court. Now, if you really want to take this to the next level and you have a friend, it just wants to torture you, then you can have them come out and actually point and you can go back and forth with your friend.

 This is a great partner drill. If you have a partner that wants to get fit, this is something you can do with them. Just get them out there and you're both going to point in different directions waiting for as you point, they touch, they get back in, you point in a new direction. So it's a great drill you could do with a partner as well.

 And also you can increase the box or if it's really hard, decrease the box. But definitely start with this and then slowly work your way up where it's a little bit bigger and it'll really help you with fitness and conditioning and strength.