Sunday, September 28, 2008

Learning To Play Tennis

By Richard J. Larkins

Get Some Tennis Lessons Online - Grip, Strokes and Footwork.

Good footwork is in fact about weight control, and that is shown in tennis for beginners coaching. It is getting the best body stance for each stroke, and from there most all strokes can progress. In explaining the distinctive types of strokes and footwork I am writing as a right-hand player. The left-hander must basically reverse their feet.

Racquet grip is an vital ingredient of your shot, since a n inferior hand grip can spoil the finest serving. A natural hold for a top forehand drive is essentially flawed for the backhand.

To obtain the forehand hold, clasp the racquet with the side of the frame toward the deck and the facial expression vertical, the handgrip toward yourself, and "shake hands" the tennis racquet, just as if you were greeting your friend. the handle seated comfortably and relaxed into your hand, the general line of the racquet, arm and hand are one. The swing brings the racquet in a line with the arm, and the full tennis racquet is merely a part of the arm.

The backhand hand grip is a 1/4 circle turn of hand on the handle, bringing the hand over the grip and the knuckles directly up. the hit travels across the wrist.

This is the recommended arrangement for your grip. I do not recommend copying this hold precisely, but model your natural style grip as closely as possible on these lines while not losing your own comfort or distinctiveness.

Having once picked up the racquet in the hand, the following challenge is the position of your body and also the sequence of mastering hits.

All tennis strokes, need be achieved with the body at right angles to the net, with the shoulders parallel to the line of path of the ball. the body weight should at all times travel forward. it need pass from the rear foot all the way to the front foot the exact moment of hitting the ball. On no account permit the weight to be heading away from the shot. It is weight that regulates the "pace/pace" of a stroke swing that, regulates your "speed/momentum."

Allow me explain the import of "speed/tempo" and also the "pace/tempo." "Speed" is the actual velocity with which a tennis ball travels through the air. "Pace" is the rapidity with which it springs from the deck. Pace is weight. It is the "sting" the tennis ball has as it springs upward from the court, giving the clueless as well as inexperienced athlete a shock of strength which the stroke or swing did not exhibited.

A good many sports persons hold both "speed" and "pace." A few shots may well have both.

The general order of learning strokes should be:

1. The Drive. Fore and backhand. This is the starting place of all tennis, since you simply will not develop a net charge until you bear the ground hit to open the move. Nor can you combat a net attack with any real effect excepting you can drive, for that is your only effective passing stroke.

2. Your Service.

3. The Volley and the Overhead Smash.

4. The Chop or Half Volley and other incidental and ornamental strokes.

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