About Total Dynamic Movement

Understanding Total Dynamic Warm up Movementand Proper Footwork After years of playing, coaching and studying tennis, I’ve developed a hybrid approach that will allow anyone to develop their game at a quicker pace. Melding what I call Total Dynamic Movement (TDM) with specific aspects chosen from other teaching methods, I place an emphasis on using the proper footwork to create striking space, and couple it with modern stroketechnique. Let me explain.

Modern Footwork Patterns from the start:

The way TennisApproach defines foot work is the actual movementof the feet that gives us the setup time and balance to hit the shotoptimally. Footwork patterns are repetitive and rely on our initialdynamic movement to the ball.

What is the difference between Dynamic Movement and footwork?  Is this always natural or can you teach it?

It is simple. Dynamic movement is not static. It  is your initial explosive movement to to the ball based on angles and directions like a compass. In tennis , when you leave your neutral hop or split step  to attack the ball or react from any shot hit to you and explode to the ball, that directional movement is dynamic ,quick and explosive.    The footwork, which is how your feet actually move in various patterns is how you arrive at that optimal point to be in the right space at the right time to hit the ball. Typical types of footwork we teach at Tennisapproach are: Side step. Crossover. Skip step. Box step. Hybrid steps. Spanish two step. Karaoka. Cha Cha Cha. Side step kick out. Split step

Dynamic Movement:

The initial proactional and reactional explosive movement to the ball to hit it optimally. This is generally di-angular as in most of the X pattern movements we see in tennis but can be linear depending on your position to the ball. In tennis, you must not only dynamically move to the ball but you also have to create the correct space around the ball to strike the ball optimally. TennisApproach teaches every student the fundamentals of dynamic movement so students understand how to move to the ball and around the ball correctly.