Why Tennis Lessons Are a Waste of Money (Unless You Train Like This)

Hi and welcome to Olivari Tennis, the first online tennis academy. My name is Julien Olivari, I've been coaching for more than 20 years ATP, WTA and top junior players around the world. Today I'm going to explain why we are capable to get 100% success on any stroke through Olivari Tennis and why others can't. I'm going to tell you exactly how I'm doing it and why it's so successful. Let's go! So you're going to say I'm arrogant. Maybe I'm a little bit arrogant and it's possible, but it's not, it doesn't come from arrogance. It comes from knowledge and from your artwork, how to figure it out, how mechanics should work and why all the world, all the coaches are not successful by fixing any stroke. Yes, you can improve but most of the time you will improve by your own. You will watch videos, you will practice hours and hours and not because the coach points you exactly where the problem is and you can see it especially when you go on matches. So you can practice with your coach, he's giving you some rhythm, he's correcting you, shouting on you, your footwork, your distance, everything and then when you go to the match and you're by your own, nothing is working. You're getting tight, you're getting a pusher, you're pushing high balls and you don't really know why you're not capable to perform exactly like in practice. So it's not about arrogance, it's about telling the truth and today I'm going to tell you why and I'm going to give you some example on so-called huge coaches or big coaches are false because they are just pointing at the problem. They can analyze your shot, tell you listen, you see your racket is going too far back, you see the contact point is not in front enough, correct this. You can't correct the contact point just by trying to hit the ball in front of you, you cannot correct the backswing by shortcutting the backswing, you cannot correct the serve if your elbow is close to the body by telling you lift up the elbow. These are just pointing at your mistakes without knowing root cause of the problem. So today I'm going to explain you and I'm going to show you the proof that they don't know what I'm talking about and it's time to move and to change completely the way you think about the game and to move to mechanics. The most obvious and you can try this by your own and it's going to prove you a lot about what I'm saying. If you catch tomorrow morning your racket and if you are a righty and you catch your racket with your left hand automatically you will feel more comfortable because nobody mess up with this hand. So now I challenge you to go at home and try your forehand with your left hand, record it, watch yourself and tell me that it doesn't look more natural than your right hand forehand. I said more natural in terms of the body motion about how you engage your body, you will see that automatically you will see a big difference between your right hand and your left hand. You can try it also in the one-hand backhand. Let's say you are a two-hander and now you take the one-hand backhand and you never play and you play just one-hand backhand. You will see it will look more natural to you when you use your body. You will feel more comfortable coming to the ball than if you go with your two-hand backhand because so many knowledge and so many bad mechanics have been already engaged in this shot. So this is the obvious part and nobody pays attention to it. For them it's all about the ball technique, technique and technique and footwork. If you struggle with your footwork, it's because you have a mechanical problem. You don't fix the footwork before you fix the biomechanics. It's going the other way around. So if I give you the best footwork pattern, if your mechanics are not aligned, you will struggle to do it. It will help you for sure if you do correct exercise, mechanical exercise on the footwork. But in terms of playing tennis, it will be also difficult to do this right pattern if your mechanics are wrong. Why? Because you're engaging the wrong muscle at the beginning. Everything starts the second you split step. After the split step, your motion has already started. Tennis is a game of timing. It's not one forehand. It's one forehand with the anticipation of the other side to split on time, to recover. This is one shot. Forehand is one shot. He's hitting. It's the same shot. Recover is the same shot. Everything is one motion. It's one music. If you break the music and you go, you hit your forehand and you stop and now you focus on the next, you have break the rhythm. Everything should be harmonious. Everything should work as one. So the second the split step starts and the point of start, you are in one motion. Timing is working for you and for your opponent the same way. One more simple point that you can pay attention by your own. If you play a pusher, somebody that doesn't play your same rhythm or if you play somebody that is aggressive, there is a timing. What does it mean? If he's pushing and you try to attack, you are not in the same rhythm. If you're off rhythm, you will lose rhythm way before he's going to lose rhythm because slow and fast decide the rhythm of the court. If he's playing way slower than you and you try to play way faster than him, you will be off rhythm. That's why you cannot attack a pusher. You have to attack at the right time, at the right moment but in the beginning you have to be in the same rhythm as him. So you don't try to push back but you don't try also to accelerate. You find the same rhythm and now when you feel that he's in a weakness time, now you take the ball early and you accelerate slowly. You don't over accelerate and over slowing down. It's not gonna work because now if you try to push like him and now you push slower than him, then if he's capable to attack this ball, he will attack because he understands the rhythm of the game. Same when you play with somebody that's playing faster than you. When you play with somebody that's faster than you, it's easy for everybody. You are not the only one that's not struggling with fast ball. It's fun, it feels more natural. Why? Because it forces you to move your legs and after 6, 10, 20 balls, you find your rhythm and you start enjoying your game and you feel that this is your level. But it's not. Your level is your capacity to adapt to any timing on the court. Slow, fast, in between. This is the genius of tennis. If you are a good player, you have the possibility to adapt yourself and if you have not the right mechanics, now you are able to change rhythm, you are able to attack in each situation and especially under pressure. But now if you understand rhythm and your mechanics are not aligned, then okay, you can still fight and win matches because you understand the core of the game. But if you have the right mechanics and also understand the core of the game, then you win and you can win over your level and lower your level. It doesn't matter who's standing in front of you. So what's the difference between Olivari Tennis and other coaches and why, as I said before, maybe I sound arrogant, is because I learned the core of the game. It wasn't enough for me to just pay attention and to say, okay, this guy has a problem in the front because this motion doesn't look natural, his elbow is too close. I want to understand why it is happening because I tried. I was also one of these coaches in the past, trying to fix only the little problem that they have. Listen, I feel you are too stiff. Relax your arm. And then I saw them under pressure, stiff back. Why? Why they're not capable of getting loose in practice and now getting loose in tournaments? Because the core of the problem wasn't that they weren't loose. They are not loose because they don't generate power from the right element of the body. Same on the elbow. Why the racket is going behind the back? Not because they have a big backswing. Not because they put the racket here and then go right. This is a huge mistake. I understand why, because I've tried when I was younger and I was in this journey of discovering the core of the game. I tried with hundreds and hundreds of players to see if it's possible to hit like this. And it wasn't possible. And I saw the result wasn't good enough. So if you are in this position, that the coach, a friend or a YouTube video help you with one tip and 10 minutes after that, it's just go away. Or when you go and play matches with friends, you like forget. There is no such a thing as forget. If you forget, it's mean it's unnatural to your body. You are doing the wrong thing. Simple as that. On my program, after seven sessions and five weeks, one session a week, people transfer them forehand, backhand and serve something that was struggling for 10, 15 years. They're able to work under pressure, to win under pressure. It's a completely different dimension of game. So if you still feel that something doesn't go right, you're right. You are not the problem. The problem is the method you are using. You need to find the core of the problem. Hope you enjoy the video. And if you feel this way and you're tired to struggle the same way I explain it, there is a solution. Don't forget my program MFX is a hundred percent result. A hundred percent result. I never failed until now to fix a forehand, backhand or serve biomechanics. If you want to work with me, there is the link below. Hope you enjoy the video. Work on your mechanic. Let's go.