The inside game of tennis is very important to your success. Timothy Gallwey wrote the "Inner Game of Tennis" many years ago and it was a book at the time. You should read the game of tennis indoors, if you have not.
Tim said that the players must reach the mastery of skills in the first place, which means that you must learn the fundamentals of your sport. When you play your best tennis, it seems your mind is calm, without interference from self-criticism or analysis of more like "keep your eyes on the ball" or "bend your knees."
Inside tennis game theory states that the two opposing attitudes battle for supremacy. A quite mind tennis helps your performance to the flow of creativity. However, if your mind is too much tennis, you force your game.
Gallwey summarizes his theory of the inside game of tennis:
Auto: the "branches" of tennis filled with the spirit of self-judgment and criticism. This mentality is more control of your performance.
Two self: The "actor" of mind is the best state of mind for peak performance in tennis and that happens when you are free to react to your game. This mindset allows you to let happen.
Gallwey aims to help students to stop the attack of self independently One can be free to hit shots freely. He used an example in "The Inner Game of Tennis. He would have students repeat the cue words such as" back-hit "to suspend judgment / analytical skills (self-1) if the creative spirit (auto 2 ) could do the job without restrictions.
"The key to a better tennis - or rather something else - lies in improving the relationship between the conscious ATMs, Self 1, and the unconscious, automatic acting, self-2."
~ Tim Gallwey
Most tennis players will do their best when the mind is quiet (not too) and focused. You will both excel in this state of mind and have the most fun. I call the Inner Game of Tennis principles with my students. I teach my students about two attitudes: a spirit of learning and a spirit of performance.
Where, in a spirit of learning or practice, you want to improve your shots, what is necessary to improve your game Here is a big problem with this state of mind: the tennis players perfectionistic are "stuck" in 'practical and fall in love with perfecting their technique.
When you play with a spirit of trust or execution, you allow your skills to "get" instinctively based on what you learned in practice. Performance is the mind that the spirit speaks Gallwey self 2, which allows you to perform instinctively. When playing in the way of confidence, your performance is on autopilot.
With center Thursday at the tennis, the lesson is to take away what you have to play in the performance of spirit. Do not get trapped by the practice of mind during tennis matches. You spend more time in training and analyzing your shots, so you slow down to the court. You want to have a good balance between performance and spirit to practice the fundamentals of a good game of tennis indoors!
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You mean there are more of a title? Yes, it exists, and yes, you can really beat a tennis player who is supposed to be "better" player than you are. Before you say how, though, I want you to imagine this:
Imagine if you could stop time at the exact moment that your opponent hit a tennis ball to you. Is this a large or very large? Let's see what we could discover what our opponent will do and to exploit if we could stop time magic. First, we discovered the following:
• We could tell where the ball was in progress, allowing us to take a stand, and once we were in perfect position, we were able to 'start time' and again struck a huge blow because we are loans.
• You can analyze the position of our opponent on the ground, and decide where we wanted to hit the ball - obviously, at a place on the ground that make it difficult for our opponent to return the ball.
• We have seen what kind of spin on the ball and be ready for it.
• We have seen that our opponent is the body position from the center of the base, and perhaps try to "wrong foot" of our opponent.
There are all sorts of things you could do, and this "magic" scenario they all help us win a game. There is, however, one thing that this scenario would allow us to "steal time". What I mean is that even when the magic began on time, the same number of seconds continue to tick, and we would still plans to complete all the 'analysis' has enabled us to be ready to strike.
However, there is a way to steal time from your opponent. What I mean by "stealing" time is your enemy, giving less time to react than normal. If you and your opponent are both on the baseline, hitting slugging ground and comes to another, hitting the tennis ball on top of its bounce, the advantage will always be the player with:
• More powerful and more accurate rockbursts
• Improved circulation
• Best Fitness
It is a given. Just watch a couple of early round matches on the slow red clay at the French Open and all the doubts you have will be quickly removed in May. However, there is a way that the "best" players can be beaten, if you can learn to "steal" the time they need to plan their next move. There is a time tested, proven game, the Grand Slam of proven way to steal your opponent's time. The way to do this is to roll ... drum please .... ready ?.... hit the ball on the rise.
This is a better way to reduce your reaction time of the adversary. Most players, however, back when a tennis ball is hit deep into their hearts. Their logic is to get into position to hit the ball after reaching a maximum, while the ball is moving downward, and in their "wheelhouse" (about waist level). They are more comfortable doing so because:
• This is how they learned to do, so they will not "miss-hit the tennis ball
• They have been fed thousands of tennis balls in this way by their pro tennis when they were first learning to hit ground strokes.
• It is easier to hit the tennis ball on the "path" of the peak of its bounce, because the ball has slowed down, making it easier for the player to hit at their current level of eye-hand coordination.
• Since they have "saved" well behind the baseline to await the tennis ball to fall in the wheelhouse, the chances of hitting a ball 'long', past the opponent's reference minus .
You can call all the reasons above "logic", but they will not help you beat a "better" player because of the following:
• Just to get the ball over the net is not enough to beat a "better" player.
• While you were "saving" behind the baseline waiting for the ball fall into your wheel you hit, your opponent has been the recovery of their tours and return in a position to prepare for your next move. This will not help you beat a "better" player.
• Now that you're well behind the baseline when you hit your shot, you will need more time to re-position your opponent for the next shot - and remember, they are already in position for your next move (which is one of the reasons why they are the "best player")! Again, will not help you beat a better player. "
Do not worry, however. If we are on our soil or just behind the baseline (6-12 ") to the ground during rallies and stroke hit the ball on the rise suddenly, a world of possibilities opens up for us. If you check your position on the ground and not back up, and then what happens is: When you receive your opponent's shot, the ball will be traveling through your gateway, but this trip from the base and it moves faster than it would if we let it reaches its peak and start down again. Here's how you get your opponent and suffers (Doom on them):
• Since you're actually hitting the tennis ball when it bounces off the court, you give your opponent less time to react to your shot. (The players are human beings too, and most humans to study the "easier" to do something, rather than the "efficient". It is human nature, so most players, including the so-called "best" players that you wait for the tennis ball to bounce back and return again before reaching it. Since this is the case, your opponent will not be used for playback of the people who hit the ball on the rise. They are not prepared for a tennis ball that comes to them quickly. This will help you beat a "better" player).
• You are now in a better position to react to your opponent for the next shot, because you're not six feet behind the baseline trying to get back into position, you're already there! Your "best" is used opponent to hit winners and force them again because of errors, most of the 'best' players opponents are behind the baseline waiting for the ball to fall into their wheelhouse. By being proactive and hit the ball on the rise, you make your opponent work more and more difficult to pull themselves out of position. This will allow you to beat a 'better' tennis player.
To give you an idea of the importance of hitting the ball is rising and the spectacular results you can get by doing so, here is a list for you to watch. Though not a complete list, here are some examples of current and former male Grand Slam singles winners who could - and did - always hit the ball on the rise:
Pete Sampras (7 Wimbledon, 5 U.S. Opens, 2 Australian Opens)
Roger Federer (5 Wimbledon, 4 U.S. Opens, 3 Australian Opens)
Jimmy Connors (5 U.S. Opens, 2 Wimbledon, Australian Open 1)
Andre Agassi (4 Australian Opens, 2 U.S. Opens, 1 Wimbledon, 1 French Open)
Over the past 33 years (since 1974), there were 132 men of the Grand Slam singles winners, and the four men above account for almost one third. If you add the 20 Grand Slam singles combined Runner-Up, they have done, you're looking at 62 Grand Slam finals for singles between these four players. Nearly half of the final four years of the Grand Slam in singles, for a period of 33 years, shared by four players - all of which have hit the ball on the rise. This statistic should open our eyes.
Why not hit the players tennis ball "on the rise? Answer simple: it takes practice and timing, and faith, and perseverance, in short, it must work. But you can do . The persistence is the key. If you can commit to him, and not rest until you get the results you want, you earned 90% of the battle, and a whole new - and better -- game you attend. There are several techniques I use to teach my students the "how" to hit the ball at the place that I have no place to enter in this article. Remember that you do not to do it perfectly, just make progress. Start hitting the ball on the rise, and practice, practice, practice! Then ensure that "best" players just wonder why you worked so hard to beat these days!
Tennis massive success,
Coach Kyril
Kyril Popoff is a former NCAA div1 All-Conference tennis player, instructor, coach and author.
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However, concrete and asphalt, where the players do not slip and slide as much, with no dimpling with extended play, and where they have a game can prosper faster, have a couple of serious drawbacks due to extreme hardness - which means an intense wear and tear on joints and muscles, and blisters on their feet - and thei dramatically noticeable absence of resistance. Then there is the increased heat from the surface in the summer ...
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