Court level view of Japan's No.1 Yoshihito Nishioka practicing in 2023 4K 60FPS with slow motion clips to see his unique extreme western grip technique better! With Ben Mclachlan

Here we see Nishioka practicing his groundstrokes, volleys, overhead smashes and serves.

My observations:

From the other practices I've seen of Nishioka he usually makes a full split step before each shot.
Possible reasons why he isn't doing much here is because they are playing half court so doesn't need to react quick to reach the ball or maybe he is feeling lazy or saving energy.
Lots of potential reasons but he definitely could be split stepping more.

An interesting observation I made was to see how his grip affects his footwork. More specifically his weight transfer. If you watch his legs during and after his forehand you can see how his bodyweight is not only going forwards but more to his right side as a result of his loopy swing and western grip.
Players with a semi western or eastern grip don't really transfer their weight this way but more linearly forwards towards their target.
I thought this might cause more errors but he seems to time the rotation and watch the ball really well!



0:00 - Groundstrokes
0:53 - Slo-mo Forehands
1:17 - Groundstrokes
2:02 - Slo-mo Backhand
2:11 - Groundstrokes
3:09 - Slo-mo Backhand
3:19 - Groundstrokes
4:17 - Switch sides (Groundstrokes)
7:32 - Volleys & Overheads
10:32 - Serves
11:50 - Thanks for watching!

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