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Hi, Brent Abel
here, WebTennis.net, and here is a follow-up to what we talked about
last week in terms of incorporating some sprints into your training
program, and specifically what do you do when you're sprinting.
Another thing I
want you to do is every time you go out in the court, either in your
warm-ups, or it could be that you actually have a drill session or
practice session with one of your friends, is that you take five or
ten minutes and all that you do is you think about the stillness
that you're keeping your head at as your moving.
So, what I'll do
sometimes when I go out and I warm up either for practice or a
match, I'm not thinking about anything other than, as I'm moving, am
I keeping my head really still?
Am I not tipping
over from side to side, or am I tipping over front and back? I want
you to try to - think about ballroom dancers. Ballroom dancers move
and glide and they are so graceful on the dance floor.
Not that that's
the way that we play the game of tennis, but I want you to start
doing some training to where you really are focused on the stillness
of your head.
Now, if you think
about keeping your head still as you move in relation to your eyes,
the more you pound the pavement when you move, the more jarring you
have in your movement on the court, the more that your eyes are kind
of jarring and jiggling up and down. You don't want that.
So, what I want
you to do this week, be aware of how quiet, how still can you keep
your head, not only as you move, but as you perform your forehand
and backhand ground strokes, your volleys.
Even on your
overheads, try to keep your head still and quiet so that it helps
you do what?
Well, it helps
you track that moving tennis ball. Back to the oldest cliché ever
in teaching tennis, "Watch the Ball.".
It's absolutely
vital.
All right. I
hope this has helped. Any questions,
Brent@webtennis.net. Thanks very much. |
