Tennis Drills

[flea]

Thanks for all the great articles on strokes and strategy. What about developing a section on actual drills that can be done with a hitting partner to develop certain shots or tactics?

[johnyandell]

Flea,

You are one step ahead! That is slated for 2006. Some of the article, such as Scott Murphy's in Classic Lessons do have a lot of suggested drills included.

[s_morris]

Ball Machine Drill

Hi John/Flea

I am thinking about all the great stuff here and how to use it to make ball machine drills fun (i.e. especially for kids). You know - learn by repetition (many). What about ball machine drills with music sync? I am thinking along the lines of mixing music (like in John's Music Videos) and programmed music like cardiotennis/aerobics and ball machine drills/partner drills. It would make a great music tennis drill video - you could learn the drills watching/listening to the music (say 45 mins flat out?). Anything like this available?

[johnyandell]

Nothing that I'm aware of--that's too much info to stream on the site--but as I've mentioned we are going to have more drills--check out Dave Hagler's upcoming article for an interesting approach called "Exaggerated Learning."