Send me footage of you actually playing and I will watch it properly, then talk you through it on video. You see the same point I do, at the second it happens.
The hard part is already done: you played the match. Everything after that is mine.
Ten minutes of real games is enough. It goes up in pieces, so a big file and a slow connection are both fine, and there is a link option if it already lives on YouTube or Drive. Tell me which player you are and what you want looked at.
Not a skim. I sit with it, mark every moment worth talking about, and work out which one thing is costing you the most points. That is usually an hour on a half-hour clip.
Usually a video of me talking over your own footage, pausing and rewinding to show what to do instead, with every point written up against the second it happens. Then you can reply and ask.
Every note is a button. This is a real one — press “0:11” below and the clip jumps straight to the shot being described, so you are never hunting for it.
You serve and hold the baseline instead of following it in. Drifting forward here is the most common way to lose a point before it starts: the return lands at your shoelaces and you are hitting up from the transition zone. You never do it. That is already a habit, so leave it alone.
You let the return bounce, hit the third at 0:03, and move in behind it rather than standing back to admire it. By 0:05 you and your partner are both on the kitchen line, side by side. The shot is not what wins this - arriving together is. Drill it as one motion: hit, three steps, split-step, ready.
At 0:12 the ball drops below the net tape and you sit down into it - knees bent, chest up, paddle out in front of you. The habit to avoid is dropping the paddle head instead and scooping, which floats the ball up and hands over the point. This one shot is why the rally is still alive fifteen seconds later.
A worked example on Michael’s own footage, marked up the way your review comes back. Your clip and your notes are private to the two of you.
Every tier gets the same attention. What changes is how much of your play I get to see.
One clip, the three things that matter most.
A real lesson, on your own match footage.
A full hour of footage, taken apart properly.
You pay the same way you would for a lesson: Michael invoices you once the review is with you. No card details are taken on this site.
None of this needs equipment. A phone on a fence post beats a camera in the wrong place, and a bad angle is the one thing that can waste a review.
Real games, from behind the baseline, high enough to see the whole court. Ten minutes of rallies you actually played tells me far more than an hour of drilling. Where you film from matters much more than which way up you hold the phone: the worked example on this page is an ordinary portrait phone clip shot from behind the baseline, and all four players and the full court are in it. A phone propped on a fence post behind the court is plenty.
Usually as a video: me talking over your own footage, pausing and rewinding to show what to do instead. Every point I make is also written up against the second it happens, so you can click a note and jump straight to that rally. Some reviews are better answered with notes and stills, and those come back that way.
The turnaround on each tier is written on its card and shown to you the moment you submit. You can see exactly where your review is at any time in your account.
Yes, and it takes about a minute. Your footage is private to the two of us, so it has to live somewhere only you can open. Your reviews, notes and replies all stay in there for as long as you want them.
No, and it is worth knowing the difference. The Video Analysis Session on the lessons page happens in person: we film you, watch it back together on the spot, and I coach you between takes. This page is the version for a game I was not at. You send the footage, I watch it in my own time, and the lesson comes back as a video you can replay as often as you like.
The same way as a lesson: not through this website. I invoice you once the review is with you, and you pay however suits. No card details are taken here.
Upload it anyway - it is sent in pieces, so a big file and a patchy connection are both fine. If it is genuinely huge, paste a link to it on YouTube (unlisted), Google Drive or Dropbox instead and I will watch it there.
Creating an account takes a minute, and it is where your footage, your review and everything Michael writes about it stays. Nobody else can see any of it.