Global Sports: Learning To Play Tennis

Friday, April 1, 2011

Learning To Play Tennis

By Richard J. Larkins


Footwork, Grip and Strokes - Tennis Lessons Online and Downloadable.

Great footwork is essentially about weight control and tennis for beginners reveals that clearly. It is getting the most effective body position for each stroke, and from there pretty much all shots will develop. In presenting the distinctive sorts of hits and footwork I am writing as a right-hand athlete. The left-hander should simply reverse the feet.

Racquet grip is an imperative aspect of your stroke, because a mediocre hold will mess up the finest serve. A natural grip for a top forehand shot is essentially unsound for the backhand.

To acquire the forehand grip, hold the tennis racquet with the side of the frame toward the court and the face perpendicular, the handle toward the body, and "shake hands" the racquet, just as if you were greeting your friend. the grip settled easily and naturally into the hand, the general line of the hand, racquet and arm are one. The swing brings the racquet in a general line with the arm, and the full tennis racquet is basically an extension of the arm.

The backhand grip is a 1/4 circle roll of hand on the grip, bringing the hand over the hand grip and the knuckles directly up. the shot travels through the wrist.

This is the very best arrangement for a grip. I won't advocate replicating this hand grip absolutely, but learn your natural style hold as closely as possible on these rules while not giving up your own ease or distinctiveness.

Having once mastered the tennis racquet in the hand, the next challenge is the stance of the body and plan of mastering strokes

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."

Let me clarify the heart of "speed/speed" and "pace/tempo." "Speed" is the genuine momentum with which a tennis ball moves through the air. "Pace" is the pace with which it bounces off the deck. Pace is weight. It is the "sting" the ball delivers as it bounces off the deck, leaving the clueless along with unaware competitor a stun of fierceness which the shot or swing did not displayed.

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

The order of learning strokes should be:

1. The Drive. Fore and also the backhand. This is the bedrock of all tennis, since you cannot build a net charge excepting you hold the ground hit to create the technique. Nor can you match a net attack successfully unless you thoroughly can drive, as that is the only successful passing shot.

2. Serving.

3. The Volley and the Overhead Smash.

4. The Chop/Half Volley and various secondary and ornamental strokes.




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