Teaching with the Eye Coach

[johnyandell]

Phil,
Something strange is going on with your email. I heard from Juliana several times and she sent you a few emails at gzhpcu@bluewing.ch

That's correct right?

Anyway your post above only proves my point regarding the will of a champion!

[gzhpcu]

Phil,
Something strange is going on with your email. I heard from Juliana several times and she sent you a few emails at gzhpcu@bluewing.ch

That's correct right?

Anyway your post above only proves my point regarding the will of a champion!

It is gzhpcu@bluewin.ch win not wing.

I heard just this moment from Juliana, but she was too late, since I ordered it elsewhere... thanks for you help John... (I am still like a little kid, very impatient when I want something... )

[gzhpcu]

I will show the Eye Coach to our 80 year old lady friend. She might like it, since she is taking a break this winter (hall is too cold and drafty for her...)

[johnyandell]

Ah! OK I am the same way. Let's get your review!

[gzhpcu]

OK, it arrived today! I was like a little kid waiting for Christmas. Looks very solid, will try it out and report...

[johnyandell]

Hopefully you will like it after all this...

[bottle]

I await the report too. But in the meantime, why couldn't a player fill his opposite side pockets with tennis balls and intersperse self-feeds into a hit with a highly sympathetic rally partner?

Personally, I don't know any such person, but maybe one could do blackmail by promising to work on whatever the person desired after both had gotten their fill of topspin angles.

Then one could hit the angle with a self-feed then try to hit it off of five rally balls then hit another self-feed, etc.

This will work best in cold weather when one has more pockets.

[gzhpcu]

Well, for one thing, I like doing it at home without a tennis court.

[bottle]

I can relate to that. For serving, I need more often to use my ball on a cord device (at home where nobody can see if I hit my knees or anything else).

But here in the pages of TP is a great article that seems very germane to these subjects and it's Thanksgiving (http://www.tennisplayer.net/members/...nt_of_contact/).

[gzhpcu]

So, I have started using the Eye Coach in my living room. I like it. Very solid, good quality. Great to be able to practice shots at home.

It is a good training for keeping the head still and watching the impact point after contact (since you are not tempted to look to see where the ball is going, but only on hitting ball).

This will be part of my daily workout: 20 minutes abs and back excercises, 10 minutes weights, 10 minutes stretching and, now, 10 minutes Eye Coach.

And, of course, tennis three times a week, and walking 20 hours with my wife and our Jack Russell, Picollo...

[klacr]

Picollo loves the workout.

Kyle LaCroix USPTA
Boca Raton

[gzhpcu]

Picollo loves the workout.

Kyle LaCroix USPTA
Boca Raton

Picollo is fascinated by the Eye Coach, because he loves tennis balls. He keeps pawing the stem, but can't reach the ball...

[johnyandell]

The two of you and Picollo have a great life! He's a lucky dog.

[stroke]

I should also mention that you can practice everything you need to on the Eye Coach without blasting away at it. Kids are the biggest offenders but adults seem to want to go bombs away on it too. My feeling is if the base lifts off the ground with weight on it you're hitting it too hard.

I got the Eye Coach. myself now. I think Scott is correct, I think the benefit to this aid is best realized not blasting away. The instructional piece on the forehand suggests hitting the ball, let it recoil back and forth for one cycle, and on the 2nd recoil cycle, time your swing and footwork to hit the ball again, for a series of 15 hits. This seems to really help with shortening your swing, not overhitting, and just making solid contact with the ball. To me, the way the ball is attached on the eye coach, if you overhit or blast away too much, you tend to hit the ball mounting bracket, not a clean hit.

[gzhpcu]

I got the Eye Coach. myself now. I think Scott is correct, I think the benefit to this aid is best realized not blasting away. The instructional piece on the forehand suggests hitting the ball, let it recoil back and forth for one cycle, and on the 2nd recoil cycle, time your swing and footwork to hit the ball again, for a series of 15 hits. This seems to really help with shortening your swing, not overhitting, and just making solid contact with the ball. To me, the way the ball is attached on the eye coach, if you overhit or blast away too much, you tend to hit the ball mounting bracket, not a clean hit.

Right, came to the same conclusion...