Gotta do what you gotta do. 2 years ago my son was so nervous in a 3rd set deciding tie break at national claycourt he had to underhand serve 2nd serves for a game.
Hahahaha!!!
(your response: you were depressed because you knew you would never obtain that level of talent and skill)I think that 10 years from now, OP will look back at this thread and think that this TenFanLA guy wasn't so crazy after all.
Maybe, maybe not. He's taking tennis seriously enough to post a video. After I played for a year, I looked around for all the hacker tournaments I could find. I remember that my opponent asked me "P or D?" and I gave away what a noob I was by not understanding what he was asking. But I felt more like a real player by entering them, even though I was losing. I feel bad for the people who come on here and believe that they are elite tennis players and then lose badly to someone's pattycake game.
Thanks. Check's in the mail.
Here's the beef I have with it. When you hit out, your chance of hitting a winner goes up, so does your chance of hitting a loser. Sometimes, going for it is the right thing to do, win or lose. But since errors outnumber winners at all levels, and way outnumber them at the amateur levels, then doesn't it make a lot of sense to make a strong effort to keep the ball in play?
I guess I didn't really give any useful advice. I mostly commented that I was horrified at my own match videos when I saw them for the first time.
in tournaments your coaches can't teach you They invented s&v to beat all of you pretty coached baseliners.
@FiReFTW ... good hitting ... put away pace on the FH this early is a good sign.
On the issue of "when tournaments" , perhaps the question is do you ever want to play tournaments. I know your goal is to become a high level player. This typically implies testing that level in some way. If you have access to high level players outside of tournaments, playing them will test your level. You would never need to play a tournament. IMO, tournaments are the best test because you are playing a variety of styles, but one could enjoy their tennis without them.
That said, two opinions:
1) you will learn tennis stuff
2) tournaments will not delete/erase technical training
If my goal was to be the highest level player I could be, and the choice was 1) constant coaching OR constant tournaments, it would be the tournaments. I never had coaching, but I know how my game jumped in the first two years of tournaments.
But the best option is coaching and tournaments. Heck, have the coach watch some tournament matches. You are right that we revert back from recently aquired techniques under pressure, but I don't believe you lose the new things as long as you go back to them as standard coaching/drilling. I hit endless 2hbhs with ball machine, but pulled out the 1hbh slice instead every singles match last year. Next ball machine session hit the same 2hbh... didn't lose it. I think you could make the case that it actually takes something like tournaments to learn whatever technicals you are learning at a higher level. It would be like getting a law degree, but never practicing law.
It's rec tennis ... it's a game for fun. I would have never played a tournament if I didn't love them. I absolutely loved the competition, the two hour matches in the heat, the one on one contest (no coach picking starters). For me, the second match on a hot summer day blew away going to the frickin lake.
I also don't think the 2 years thing matters. I had played probably 6-8 years before my first tournament, but you might of matched my hours on court in two years. Not the matches ... I lived on the singles court. Add to that, you have had coaching. Maybe my advantage was I didn't risk much with my lack of technique.
There are a couple guys that do groundstroke rallies / points exclusively. They look AMAZING when they hit with each other. But they lose to pretty much everyone they play.
I don't know where you live, but where I am it's USTA territory and they have leagues starting at 2.5. If you do well they move you up.
I was going to ask if golf is a sport, but I see you put it in quotation marks. Not much exercise walking slowly around a course. Even less driving around in a golf cart.
My coach wanted me to have a decent 2nd serve before playing matches because if you don’t have a reliable 2nd serve, you may resort to dinking it instead just to stay in the match. When I stopped dumping my 2nd serves into the net using the motion he was trying to teach me, he told me it was time to start playing matches.
I would like to open a discussion but first want to say that I have absolutely no ill intention against Fire who is a nice young excited man and we like him to be here. Now I will make some bold and very honest claims. And the idea is to help him although he may not find this believable.
By the way these are based only on observation, gut feeling and feedback from some other posters here. They may not be true, it might be me being wrong and delusional and I would accept it if I didn't get support from others and the case will be closed.. Now this is just me trying to read your mind freely, please don't get angry yet. I'm trying to stir up a storm, it will settle down eventually. Anyway that's the first impression I get, the second one is your defensiveness which is most likely linked to the first one. So what's wrong with it? The problem is that that self image of a potential another Federer will take you to a distance but will also be the biggest hindrance to your improvement. You will keep being defensive, you will keep avoiding the reality by not playing matches, you will not be very open to suggestions, miss opportunities to see your weakness etc.
Yeah but I want him to wake up.
I want him to play matches, get beaten, be upset, angry, then compose himself, go back to practice, work harder, beat more people, be more happy, enjoy the game even more etc. I swear that's my only intention. I don't want him to muck around and waste time in a dream bubble.
Open stance forehands derive power from the outside leg and from the unit turn coil. If he didn’t lift his left leg he wouldn’t be able to uncoil properly.
