Monday, December 13, 2010
A Future Tennis Pro and Prodigy!: Emira Stafford
Thanks for posting this Tommy!!! Good Luck and good wishes to all!!!
Sunday, December 12, 2010
NYC Handball!!!
What does this have to do with Tennis? Well let's look into the roots of Tennis, here's an excerpt:
"The History of tennis game was developed from a 12th century French handball game called "Paume" (palm). In this game the ball was struck with the hand. After some time "Paume" game produced handball "Jeu de Paume" (game of the palm) and there were used racquets. The game was first created by European monks for entertainment roles during ceremonial occasions. At first, the ball was hit with hands. Later, the leather glove came into existence. This leather glove was replaced with an adaptive handle for effective hitting and serving of the ball. That was a birth of tennis racquet."
Check out the points played in this series, you can see a LOT of aspects of "Serve and Volley", "counter punching", "aggressive baseline", and "change ups" regarding the serve. Try to incorporate some of the aspects of what you see below into your tennis game and examine your results.
"The History of tennis game was developed from a 12th century French handball game called "Paume" (palm). In this game the ball was struck with the hand. After some time "Paume" game produced handball "Jeu de Paume" (game of the palm) and there were used racquets. The game was first created by European monks for entertainment roles during ceremonial occasions. At first, the ball was hit with hands. Later, the leather glove came into existence. This leather glove was replaced with an adaptive handle for effective hitting and serving of the ball. That was a birth of tennis racquet."
Check out the points played in this series, you can see a LOT of aspects of "Serve and Volley", "counter punching", "aggressive baseline", and "change ups" regarding the serve. Try to incorporate some of the aspects of what you see below into your tennis game and examine your results.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Tennis Lesson Syllabus
FOUNDATION (Fitness, Stretching, and Footwork) (CLICK ON EACH CATEGORY)
Basic stretches
Footwork warm up
Tube exercise
Side to side movement,use racquet
Footwork, without using the elastic band.
FORM (Basic Grips, Strokes, and Progressions)
Basic grip explanation and it's application.
Basic forehand and progressions, in the beginning more time will be spent at the service lines, so more control and timing is developed, and the progressions will evolve like it did in the video.
Basic backhand and progressions, same as above.
Two handed backhand technique.
Forehand volley and it's function.
Backhand volley and it's function.
FUNCTION (Applying the basic footwork, grips, strokes, spins and strategy)
Topspin forehand technique
Topspin backhand two handed and one handed.
Slice backhand.
Serve technique, after progressions
Basic stretches
Footwork warm up
Tube exercise
Side to side movement,use racquet
Footwork, without using the elastic band.
FORM (Basic Grips, Strokes, and Progressions)
Basic grip explanation and it's application.
Basic forehand and progressions, in the beginning more time will be spent at the service lines, so more control and timing is developed, and the progressions will evolve like it did in the video.
Basic backhand and progressions, same as above.
Two handed backhand technique.
Forehand volley and it's function.
Backhand volley and it's function.
FUNCTION (Applying the basic footwork, grips, strokes, spins and strategy)
Topspin forehand technique
Topspin backhand two handed and one handed.
Slice backhand.
Serve technique, after progressions
Tennis Footwork Analysis: Work the pocket
This is a nice tip from Rick Macci, courtesy of my friends over at Tennis Resources
Click below for the video.
Work the pocket
Click below for the video.
Work the pocket
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Tennis Lesson Syllabus
FOUNDATION (Fitness, Stretching, and Footwork)
Basic stretches
Footwork warm up
Tube exercise
Side to side movement,use racquet
Footwork, without using the elastic band.
FORM (Basic Grips, Strokes, and Progressions)
Basic grip explanation and it's application.
Basic forehand and progressions, in the beginning more time will be spent at the service lines, so more control and timing is developed, and the progressions will evolve like it did in the video.
Basic backhand and progressions, same as above.
Two handed backhand technique.
Forehand volley and it's function.
Backhand volley and it's function.
FUNCTION (Applying the basic footwork, grips, strokes, spins and strategy)
Topspin forehand technique
Topspin backhand two handed and one handed.
Slice backhand.
Serve technique, after progressions
Basic stretches
Footwork warm up
Tube exercise
Side to side movement,use racquet
Footwork, without using the elastic band.
FORM (Basic Grips, Strokes, and Progressions)
Basic grip explanation and it's application.
Basic forehand and progressions, in the beginning more time will be spent at the service lines, so more control and timing is developed, and the progressions will evolve like it did in the video.
Basic backhand and progressions, same as above.
Two handed backhand technique.
Forehand volley and it's function.
Backhand volley and it's function.
FUNCTION (Applying the basic footwork, grips, strokes, spins and strategy)
Topspin forehand technique
Topspin backhand two handed and one handed.
Slice backhand.
Serve technique, after progressions
Thursday, February 11, 2010
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