Set Your Tennis Engines To Warp Speed

You know what modern life is like – Ipods & Ipads, Android & I-phone, Broadband & Blackberry, 2 zillion Cable & Satellite channels and so the list goes on.

The desire for technology gets quicker by the day and seems like it’s only going to get quicker.

Is it the technology driving or is it just human nature to want more, right now and………..all for less effort?

Well, this desire for access to results at warp speed is not just in the domain of computers,technology & Star Trek.

     “Set Your Tennis Engines To Warp”

I often get asked by people…”what’s the quickest way to improve my tennis game?” And that is quickly followed up by…..”oh, and I can’t spend 6 months working on it because there is this tournament I want to play in and it starts in 2 weeks!!”

Seriously, I get several of these questions every week and of course it’s obvious….people want to improve their game but don’t have 4 hours a day, everyday to do it.

Even the kids that I know who are “serious” about their tennis have to go to school, never mind the rest of us that have jobs and families and maybe even other interests……….I know just where you are coming from.

In fact, here is what I have found after digging deeper into the players who are going backwards versus the players moving forwards. The players staying static or going backwards are just playing tennis to improve and the ones going forwards are the ones doing “other” things to advance their games.

And we can take this on a stage further and be more precise…….the one’s on the up and moving forwards are working on their footwork & movement!!

Makes sense right??

Let’s do some basic maths to prove the point

1. You Don’t Move Well (DMW) + you get to the ball in the Wrong Position (WP) = Poor Shot (PS)

2. You Hit the Ball Well (HBW) + you Don’t Move Well afterwards (DMWa) = Poor Next Shot (PNS)

So you can see you will ALWAYS end up with a poor shot if the thing that happens BEFORE EVERY SHOT you play is sub-standard – YOUR FOOTWORK!!

This is the first of the 2 main reasons so many people lose to the dreaded PUSHER (the second is patience) but what’s worse is that it can easily be overcome and over the next few days I’m going to show you how easy it is when you know how.

You will want to see this because you won’t believe the results.

Mastering The Kick Serve – My Wicked Bonuses

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The 3 Letters To Avoid If You Want To Win Big Tennis Matches

Sometimes I look back and thank (insert your own object of worship here) that I learnt one of the most important lessons in tennis & life early on!!

This lesson is so easy to take on board yet is something many many people struggle with on a daily basis. It’s also a lesson most people find embarrasing to admit to and the number one lesson all tennis players have to learn to get anywhere their full potential as a player.

But what am I talking about?

Admitting you are wrong, you are not as good as you think you are and that there are others who are better and know more about some things!!

In fact, if you’re not winning and not playing as well as you think you should be you probably just need to go over to the mirror for the solution.

Michael Jackson was right all along with his song “Man In The Mirror”. “If you wanna make your (tennis) world a better place take a look at yourself and make a change”.

The culprit is often your EGO because it stops you looking in the eyes of someone and saying……”you are right, you have been there before so you know about it”.

Now, I studied karate from quite a young age and as all kids in the martial arts came across Bruce Lee who had a very famous saying – “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own”.

I didn’t have a clue what it meant at the time but a bit later on got taught a lesson on the tennis court by a man who was a pro footballer/soccer player at the time (we’ll call him J). Now, I was still fairly young at the time (teens) and he would have been early twenties (and a pro athlete) so physically I was easily outgunned but instead of accepting these facts I made up a whole heap of excuses about it “not being my day, the sun being in my eyes etc”.

The problem was, I was so used to beating all the players in my immediate circle my ego was telling me I was unbeatable. It was only when J pulled me aside and told me to stop making excuses, I had played well and how I should learn from the experience that a light came on in my head……..Bruce Lee……Adapt/Absorb what is useful!!!

It was from that moment on that I looked at each situation I was in and took out of it whatever I thought might be useful for me going forwards….even if it meant me eating some good old humble pie in the present.

If I look back now, every single performance jump I have made has been as a direct result of falling at a hurdle, admitting what I had done wrong, analysing what happened and taking the experience onto the next journey.

If you allow your ego to get in the way each time (men we need to man up to this and supress the ego at times) you will miss all the opportunities to learn what you will need to know for the bigger battles that lay ahead.

And this came into sharp focus yesterday when I was pulled aside by a couple of players who had both lost to “a pusher” in the club ladder league.

Their ego had got in the way and did 2 things that almost guaranteed losing the match.

1. It refused to allow them to see that this “player with no shots” needed respect on the court.

2. It also told them to show him how to hit the ball “properly” – which really meant smash the ball hard and make lots of unforced errors!!

Aside from that, neither of them would admit that losing to him twice now meant that the problem was all theirs and that “the pusher” was the better player…..because the scores don’t lie.

Until they sort this out by shifting the ego from their eyes and learning the lessons, they will not be moving on and will no doubt be losing to the same player for some time to come.

Don’t make the same mistake! We all learn from others along the way and the people/players that take the attitude of “they know more than me about that so I will listen and learn” more often, learn the most, move on quickest and win the BIGGEST!!

This Is How To Hit A Heavy Serve

Check out this “HEAVY” serve by Andy Roddick after he gets a dodgy call from the officials.

Can anybody give me a ruling on this point??

Let me know in the comments section below!!

This Is How To Hit A Heavy Serve

Check out this “HEAVY” serve by Andy Roddick after he gets a dodgy call from the officials.

Can anybody give me a ruling on this point??

Let me know in the comments section below!!

 

Li Na & Ons Jabeur: the First Asian and Arab Women to Win a Grand Slam Title

Li Na is the first Asian tennis player to win a singles Grand Slam event.

The director of China’s tennis program says more athletes should follow Li Na’s lead and break away from the country’s sports system.

In 2008, Li opted out of the state system and set up her own training team.

Ms Li and 3 other players were able to choose their own coaches and decide which matches to play. They also received a much greater share of their winnings.

Will other players follow their lead??

Ons Jabeur is the First Arab Tennis Woman to Win a Grand Slam Title.

Tunisian Ons Jabeur (16 years old) won the Roland Garros tennis juniors girls singles tournament after defeating Puerto Rican Monica Puig 2/0 (7/6 and 6/1).

Apologies this is not in English but if enough of you are interested, we will get it translated! So send in your comments soon!!

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Don’t waste your time protecting your tennis weakness

Everyone has one (or 2 or 3) of them. Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Andy Murray, Del Potro, Sharapova, Wozniacki, Venus & Serena have them, so surely you will have them.

The area of your game where you feel and indeed know you can be hurt. For some people, it’s a particular shot, for others it’s maybe something like poor tennis fitness or a weakness at the net.

So, it’s natural that you want to defend it and surely that’s the best way isn’t it??

Keep opponents away from it or them so that you won’t get hurt too much. I call this “damage limitation”, but is this the way for you to play your best tennis?

For too many players this is the way they approach the matchplay situation but it’s WRONG! Instead of asking the question, how much will my playing of a “protecting” game actually make it more likely for me to be hurt? You should be asking yourself the following 3 (progressive) questions…..

1. What can I do to create situations for me to use my strengths?

2. What can I do to create situations that expose my opponents weaknesses

3. What can I do to create situations that don’t play into my opponents strengths and/or expose my weaknesses.

Because the fact is that the more you try to protect your weak spots, the more likely it is that you will expose them and get hurt. All the time and effort (energy) you will put into hiding and protection will not only send dangerous (for you) signals but could be better used to make sure you use the shots and situations that will cause your opponents the biggest headaches and problems.

The sooner you understand that this effort is probably making the problem worse, not better, the more success you will have on the match court.

Do you think top WTA player Sam Stosur wastes too much time trying to cover her weak spots or is she better served (no pun intended) using this time to further improve her big weapons of her serve and follow up game??

Always try to play the game on “your” terms by moving towards “your” objectives rather than trying to avoid and move away from stuff you may think will cause you problems and watch how your results change along with your enjoyment of the game.

Nadal And Verdasco Practice but make sure you watch for the right stuff

I got access to this clip of Rafa Nadal & Fernando Verdasco practicing together in the lead up to the Masters tournament at Indian Wells.

Apart from being a cool clip, the thing I want to point out is explained in the video below.

It’s all in what you choose to focus on…and if you focus on the wrong things you actually get the wrong information no matter how good the model is that you choose to study.

It’s all about PERCEPTION and all the best tennis players have it in abundance as it’s this that “tells” you when to step it up as well as when to just hang in there and ride out the storm. (The people on the Tennis Turnaround Toolkit course should recognize the error in this point as being down to a misuse of the rules in the Power Control Continuum)

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Novak Djokovic At Indian Wells 2011 Answers Questions From Fans

Australian Open Champ Novak Djokovic set aside some time in between practice for the upcoming Indian Wells tournament to answer some questions posted to him through the Head (his racket sponsors) website.

If you like Djokovic or are just interested in the questions people sent in and his answers then take 5 minutes to watch the video below.

Also, remember if you have any tennis doubles questions you want answered by one of the Worlds top Doubles players who I am meeting this week just go to this post HERE and get it in!!!

Indian Wells 2011 And Improving Your Tennis Doubles

The 2 big American Hard court Tennis Masters events are just around the corner, starting with Indian Wells and the big boys and girls get to slug it out in the same event once again.

I am really looking forward to them for a couple of reasons.

1. On the mens side, I want to see if Djokovic can maintain the form he has been showing where it looks like he has closed the gap on the top 2 (Federer & Nadal) and has Rafa recovered from the injury that stopped him at The Australian Open.

2. On the womens side I want to see who is going to step up to the plate and start dominating now that Venus and now Serena seem to have some physical issues. Henin has retired again, Sharapova seems ok but has lost that edge and Jankovic & Ivanovic never really stamped any authority on the position when they got up there. Will it be Wozniacki???

Also, through a friend of a friend I am hooking up with a couple of players this week, 1 of who made a ranking around 100 singles and top 50 doubles (he also coached his country to victory in the junior Davis Cup…..pretty good then).

They are from the other side of the World but we are gonna hook up play a bit if we can and have a couple of beers. Now!! He knows what I do and because he saw & liked my Tennis Turnaround Toolkit stuff we have agreed to sit down and talk about the one thing you read these posts for…….my sparkling personality!!

Ok, apart from that…playing better tennis!!

So, we are going to chat about how you can do that. NOT, from the perspective of “top 100 player tells you to do stuff that you can’t do and may never be able to do”, BUT from the perspective of “these are the things that work at whatever level you play at”……..because believe me the stuff that works in the game works at all levels and doesn’t differ too much.

Anyway, I am going to start with the doubles stuff because I have noticed that many people have jumped onboard recently and everybody plays (or should play) doubles at club level even if you think you are a singles player…it really helps your game.

So, if you want to know anything about the game of doubles and how you can be a better more successful doubles (tennis) player, just comment below with your top 2 questions.

Just imagine you were having lunch with us and you could ask any 2 questions when chatting to one of the top doubles players in the World.

If for some reason the comments section isn’t working or you want to ask a question about anything else drop an email to tennis_central@yahoo.co.uk (just put doubles in the subject line).

I look forward to asking him YOUR questions!!

P.S. The Tennis Toolkit will be opening up for another intake very soon, so if you think you are a good fit for some simple strategies that give you some BIG results pop over HERE