The trick with the towels ...

[hockeyscout]

Love what these pro tennis players are doing with the towels these days! Maybe we can discuss this phenomenon more. My young one plays men, and I want to train her right from the start on how to use this to her advantage right from day one, so she's playing the game the way it is meant to be played.

[gzhpcu]

Could you be more specific? Are you referring to asking for a towel between every single point?

[hockeyscout]

Could you be more specific? Are you referring to asking for a towel between every single point?

Yes. Its brilliant. These guys have made a science out of it.

[lobndropshot]

They are using performance enhancing towels. The towels were first developed by spanish doctors during the last world cup.

[GeoffWilliams]

Towels are a way of controlling the pace of the game, nothing to sneer at> See Nadal and his misuse of the injury time out/bath room breaks to change momentum. He who controls the pace of the game usually controls the outcome. I use my towel a lot during matches, which drives a lot of these young guys nuts as they want to see me tired and out of breath on a fast paced match. They say, "You have to play to the servers' rhythm~!" I say:

"This is not Wimbledon son. If you want, call a ref and he will tell you I have 20 seconds regardless. Sun screen is blinding my eyes and I have to wipe it out. Or do you want to win at any cost? We are playing for fun, not for money."


It's a psych battle out on the sands of the arena, as the shots fly, so will your mind. Nadal is the best abuser of mind games who ever played the game. Makes Nasty look like Mc enroe, the guy who was fond of cheating stringers. Cheating a few stringers, and staging anger bursts, does not match Tilden's abuse of young boys as a precursor to hell.

[hockeyscout]

Towels are a way of controlling the pace of the game, nothing to sneer at> See Nadal and his misuse of the injury time out/bath room breaks to change momentum. I use my towel a lot during matches, which drives a lot of these young guys nuts as they want to see me tired and out of breath on a fast paced match. They say, "You have to play to the servers' rhythm~!" I say:

"This is not Wimbledon son. If you want, call a ref and he will tell you I have 20 seconds regardless. Sun screen is blinding my eyes and I have to wipe it out. Or do you want to win at any cost?" It's a psych battle out on the sands of the arena, as the shots fly, so will your mind. Nadal is the best abuser of mind games who ever played the game. Makes Nasty look like Mc enroe, the guy who was fond of cheating stringers. Cheating a few stringers, and staging anger bursts, does not match Tilden's abuse of young boys as a precursor to hell.

You can add in names like Pete Fisher, Bob Hewitt, Claire Lyte, Peter Jeschke, Gavin Hopper, James Huskey, David Kimmet, Jason Bettuo, Pierre-Ludovic Duclos-Lasnier and Jonathan DeLaura to the list of Bill Tilden want to bee's. What is it that attracts so many pedofiles to tennis? They always talk about bad tennis parents, however, the list of questionable coaches is longer by a mile. Its so troublesome.

[GeoffWilliams]

Sampras's coach: Pete Fischer. Wonder if he went after Sampras? If so, Pete's not talking.

[hockeyscout]

Sampras's coach: Pete Fischer. Wonder if he went after Sampras? If so, Pete's not talking.

Be wary of coaches who want parents to sit behind a fence.

I really wonder about some of these other coaches who are controlling athletes, dictating their schedules and being given way to much authority by mom and dad. Inexperience I guess. The thing I really took away from the Sampras book was how much of a team he had in place, and how he picked specialists from a very early age (one guy for serves, one for volleys, one for groundstrokes, another for sparring and yet another for movement). It was actually a rather brilliant developmental setup.

[10splayer]

Love what these pro tennis players are doing with the towels these days! Maybe we can discuss this phenomenon more. My young one plays men, and I want to train her right from the start on how to use this to her advantage right from day one, so she's playing the game the way it is meant to be played.

Fascinating question and thread. You've really gotten to the heart of junior development on this one. How many of your players have played professionally? Numbers and names please.

[hockeyscout]

Fascinating question and thread. You've really gotten to the heart of junior development on this one. How many of your players have played professionally? Numbers and names please.

I see you are trolling me on four or five threads now. Good for you. I have no problem responding to you, however, when you going to answer my five questions?

Link to my response:

http://www.tennisplayer.net/bulletin/showthread.php?p=31281&posted=1#post31281

[stroke]

Hockey, you ought to consider concentrating your efforts on bottle's threads.

[bottle]

How about you? What do you think about my new strokes?

[gzhpcu]

How about you? What do you think about my new strokes?

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