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When you learned how to read, you didn't start with shakespeare or Kafka.
You walked before you ran. Used training wheels on your bike.
To talk, potty training, a different language, tying shoes, or velcro if you grew up in the 80's.
All these things started slowly and very tough to learn, but once learned became natural. When you learned to read it was so slow, but now you don't think about it. Or walking, riding a bike. These things became natural to you.
In reading your article on the Myth of the Tennis Tip, are you saying that the pro never went to the other side and showed the player visually how the stroke should look? Didn't physically touch and guide their hand through the motion?
When advanced players hit a forehand, they don't think, grip, turn, racket up, drop level or below ball, swing upwards, finish near shoulders, recover.
But these are all things the beginning player thinks about. And will continue to do until it becomes natural. And that's done through repetition.
Now here is where the tennis tip comes in. It should be a verbal que(reminder) of something shown and guided. So when we say to our students, finish your swing, or swing up, or pronation on the serve, keep the edge, all these are ques used after being shown or physically guided through that motion.
Where it goes wrong is with teaching pros who would rather be in the bar than on the court teaching. Some pros get discouraged, don't care, are burned out, or just simply lazy. Other pros just are not informed, they are teaching from their experience playing or things they were told when they were learning. Many of these things are out dated or just plain wrong. These are the pros your describing.
We learn best when we use a combination of all these tools.
To develop a player it takes three things
A dedicated student
A dedicated parent
A dedicated knowledgable teacher
James
You walked before you ran. Used training wheels on your bike.
To talk, potty training, a different language, tying shoes, or velcro if you grew up in the 80's.
All these things started slowly and very tough to learn, but once learned became natural. When you learned to read it was so slow, but now you don't think about it. Or walking, riding a bike. These things became natural to you.
In reading your article on the Myth of the Tennis Tip, are you saying that the pro never went to the other side and showed the player visually how the stroke should look? Didn't physically touch and guide their hand through the motion?
When advanced players hit a forehand, they don't think, grip, turn, racket up, drop level or below ball, swing upwards, finish near shoulders, recover.
But these are all things the beginning player thinks about. And will continue to do until it becomes natural. And that's done through repetition.
Now here is where the tennis tip comes in. It should be a verbal que(reminder) of something shown and guided. So when we say to our students, finish your swing, or swing up, or pronation on the serve, keep the edge, all these are ques used after being shown or physically guided through that motion.
Where it goes wrong is with teaching pros who would rather be in the bar than on the court teaching. Some pros get discouraged, don't care, are burned out, or just simply lazy. Other pros just are not informed, they are teaching from their experience playing or things they were told when they were learning. Many of these things are out dated or just plain wrong. These are the pros your describing.
We learn best when we use a combination of all these tools.
To develop a player it takes three things
A dedicated student
A dedicated parent
A dedicated knowledgable teacher
James
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