Archive of: tennis holidays
Consistency.....How To Achieve It
19 July 2015
What do you think is the most important element of tennis that makes the ball consistently land IN on the other side of the net?
Is it unit turn or top spin or swinging low to high?
How about watching the ball or hitting well in front?
None of these actually.
Have You Yet Reached Your Level Of Competency
12 July 2015
Players who excel at tennis not only use ‘skilled’ tennis strokes or techniques, they usually play within a mental ‘competency level’ that often occurs at or near a subconscious level of thought.
In any sport, when a performer is playing or executing at superior levels of play, they are often quoted as playing ‘unconscious’ or ‘in the zone‘—a reference that they were operating at a level that required very little thought. I call this playing at one’s ‘competitive intuitiveness.’
Become More ProActive In Doubles
22 June 2015
How does one become a proactive doubles player?
The answer is simple. MOVE !
I can offer you this suggestion. Go out and move in your next ten doubles matches! Don’t hesitate. Move often and with purpose. That is, move in when the ball is headed past your opponent’s net man and look for times to move across the net to poach on your opponent’s crosscourt shot.