Are you learning tennis right now? Cool!! You are into the most beautiful game in my opinion. Looking at how Roger Federer executing each shot to perfection is simply most awesome thing to watch.
I am been playing tennis for a few years now and I can understand the number amount of information and instructions when I first started as a beginner. I have to process many inputs in order to execute a right stroke and sometime my body did not do exactly what I wanted it to do. That’s frustrating.. Sometime you just need some good useful instructions to follow. And Picture illustration definetly speaks a thousand words. You have to watch someone illustrate the technique to you in order to follow exactly. It will be so tedious and hard to follow cues in written form.
So I search for some valuable information and video guides in the internet to assist my learning. And I come across this step-by-step video instructions which truely are comprehensive and most importantly EFFECTIVE in helping beginners mastering the basic strokes, techniques and fundamental of Tennis.
Here is an example of one of the information
The Origin Of Forehand And Backhand Tennis Technique
Developing Tennis Technique Step 1: Angles
In order for a player to control the ball flight they need to control direction (left – right) and depth / distance which is closely related to height of the shot.
This means that the player controls the ball with the angle of the racquet with which he directs the ball left or right and up or down. He also controls the ball with the force / speed with which he hits the ball and with the angle of the path of the racquet.
The racquet face may move towards the ball in a straight line or with an angle – for example the racquet may be moving upwards when contacting the ball.
o in a very simple way of saying, we have a flat surface with which we direct the ball towards the target. We can control the left – right angle and the top – bottom angle and how much force / speed we use to hit the ball.
Developing Tennis Technique Step 2: Swing
We can also move the racquet at a certain angle towards the ball. Of course as you can see from the video, holding the racquet in this way does not give us enough power so need a way of accelerating the racquet more.
That’s the second factor and it’s the biomechanics of our body. We need to hold the racquet in the hand and swing on the side of the body. That way we can produce a lot of speed and transfer the energy from the racquet.
Developing Tennis Technique Step 3: Drive Through The Ball
The third factor that determines tennis technique is the limited ability of the human mind and body.
If we swing towards the ball with a racquet in our hand, we will move the racquet in a circular way since the arm acts as a lever attached to the body.
If we had a perfect computer in our mind and perfect judgment of speed and distance of the ball, then this technique would work great. It would give us the maximum speed of the racquet face.
But we don’t.
To give you some idea about the difficulty of hitting the ball at the right angle to direct it towards our desired target, here are some numbers:
If you change the angle of the racquet by 1 degree (left – right), you will change the landing spot on the distance of the tennis court by 40 centimeters.
If you rally with a friend at a slow speed, the ball may be coming towards you with the speed of 40 km per hour. A typical swing speed towards the ball with your racquet is about the same.
For the sake of easier calculations let’s say that the combined speed of the ball coming to you and your racquet going towards the ball is 72 km / hour or 20 meters per second.
That means that the ball travels 1 meter in 0.05 seconds. If your arm and racquet together are 150 cm long, then when you move your racquet forward for one inch (2,5 cm), you will change the racquet angle for 1 degree.
The ball travels one inch – 2,5 centimeters in 0,00125 seconds.
So if you don’t wan’t to miss more than 80 centimeters (40cm left or 40 cm right), you must hit the ball within 3 thousands of a second of the perfect timing!
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Picture: Note how different points of contact determine where the racquet face is pointing if we just swing the racquet around our body.
This makes you wonder how we are actually able to play tennis.
Since this is impossible for a human brain and body to calculate every time perfectly, we can compensate with our body and especially the arm since it is not straight like a stick, but it can bend.
What we want to achieve is to move the racquet face pointing towards the target in a straight line, so that even if we mistime the ball for a few thousands of a second, it will still go in the right direction.
With this we effectively compensate for our imperfect ability to judge the ball speed, distance and swing at the right time.
To see the rest of the instructions for executing a good Backhand and Forehand Stroke for Beginner and even for seasoned player, click here at Learn Tennis Basics
TESTIMONY
This is one of the many testimonies that individuals from all over the world have benefited from this package.
Hi Tomaz,
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I have been taking lessons every week from my local club pro for over 1 year. I wasn’t getting any better and about to give up the game as my groundstroke’s and serve were poor.
I put a lot of time into practising but never seemed to get any better. Now I believe I was reinforcing my poor technique!
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I went through all the drills you suggest and now I am hitting the ball with much more spin and penetration. My ball flight is more of an arc now and I am no longer hitting balls into the net or going long as frequently.
Your half court drills really helped me develop the correct feel and I slowly extended that to the full court. I still cannot believe that my new half swing produces as much power as my previous one with twice the accuracy!
My biggest area of improvement has to be my serve – I rarely landed my serve in and when I did it was weak, and hence I Lost the majority of my own service games.
I had never been shown the mechanics behind the serve before and your idea of practising the serve in parts and then putting it all together over many weeks really helped me.
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Thank you so much for turning the light on with my tennis. I can now trust my swing and just focus on where to hit the ball, rather than how to hit it.
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