DRILL TYPE: Playing Skills FOCUS: Groundstrokes Progressions SKILL LEVEL: Red/Orange Ball 1 EQUIPMENT: Youth Racquets Foam/ Red/ Orange Ball SETUP: Players and coach are on opposite side of the net with a ball and racquet. DRILL: Player and coach will rally the ball back and forth, each player and coach will count how many times they can keep the ball going between them. They hit until someone missor hit the ball into the net, the player will keep their hits. The players with more rallies will win the drill ( examples, Tom has 2 rallies, John has 4 rallies and Jim has 8 rallies,so jim with the most rallies is the winner.
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