"3 Reasons To Be Teaching Yourself Tennis"!!

[thomas daniels]

WARNING!!!

Don't even think about taking another tennis lesson until you read this post!!!

I'm serious too!!!

Did you that...

90% of all tennis students, never really improve in their development, in their lessons?

That's a fact too,so with that being the case.

Here are 3 reasons why you should be teaching yourself tennis.

One.

Bad tennis coaching.

It pains me to say this...

But.

The tennis coaching industry as a whole, is at an all time low.

And the reason is simple.

Most coaches have no coaching philosophy and they never work on upgrading their coaching methods monthly or daily.

Just read the stat above again, that I dropped on YOU at the start of this post.

(Also, read some of the comments on most of my post, because most of them are tennis coaches.)

Which is why I ignore most of them.

That tells you all you need to know right there.

Doesn't it?

Two.

Save yourself a lot of money.

With inflation rising daily as it is now.

You can save yourself a ton on cash by teaching yourself tennis.

Stop wasting money on bad coaching.

I wonder do students ever ask themselves.

"Am I getting better under his/her coaching?

And with YouTube out there to leverage for them.

They can do it better than most of these coaches can or will.

Me and my ex-teammates was talking about this the other day.

We wish we would have had YouTube when we were playing back in the day, because this is the main reason why you should be teaching yourself tennis.

"There are tons of great videos out there and there are tons of free ebooks that you can read while teaching yourself the game."

Which makes this concept of teaching yourself tennis a no-brainer.

Doesn't it?

Last reason.

You can start playing more competitive matches.

Whether that is playing in leagues, tournaments or round robins.

Your goal is to develop all your strokes first, then your matchplay game and then you want to start competing on one of those levels above, so you can reach your full potential as a player.

I mean.

That should be your end goal as a tennis student.

Wouldn't you agree?

I thought so.

Anyway.

The main coaching point that I am making here is this.

YES... any tennis students can teach them self the game of tennis and not only that, the can do is better than anyone of these terrible coaches could!!!

Okay.

You should be sold on this idea by now!!

Let me say...

Merry Christmas!!!

Happy Holidays from Kansai!!

 

[LeeD]

Disagree.
What is potential?
Players who quickly take lessons are often less athletic...sometimes mental...than those who just play.
At a certain level, around 4.0, some formal instruction is needed to improve past 4.5.

 

[RyanRF]

Many of your main points are correct. Coaching is not a prerequisite for playing tennis. Improvement without coaching happens all the time.

However at some point real coaching is needed to get to higher levels of play.

When you get to that point, if all of your technique is completely home-made you will have a hell of a time making corrections. The effort to change might not feel worth it, because you will get worse before you get better.

The better way would be to have some coaching at the beginner levels to set you on the right path. Then once you hit the 4.0-4.5 wall, you can get more serious coaching and not have to make radical changes.

 

[thomas daniels]

Many of your main points are correct. Coaching is not a prerequisite for playing tennis. Improvement without coaching happens all the time.

However at some point real coaching is needed to get to higher levels of play.

When you get to that point, if all of your technique is completely home-made you will have a hell of a time making corrections. The effort to change might not feel worth it, because you will get worse before you get better.

The better way would be to have some coaching at the beginner levels to set you on the right path. Then once you hit the 4.0-4.5 wall, you can get more serious coaching and not have to make radical changes.

Of course, but, did you know the great Poncho never took a tennis lesson?

Then he study the greats and mentally model his mental game after them. Coaching is over rated because at the end of the day, it's all about self-leadership, self-correction and self-coaching...

 

[BlueB]

WARNING!!!

Don't even think about taking another tennis lesson until you read this post!!!

I'm serious too!!!

Did you that...

90% of all tennis students, never really improve in their development, in their lessons?

That's a fact too,so with that being the case.

Here are 3 reasons why you should be teaching yourself tennis.

One.

Bad tennis coaching.

It pains me to say this...

But.

The tennis coaching industry as a whole, is at an all time low.

And the reason is simple.

Most coaches have no coaching philosophy and they never work on upgrading their coaching methods monthly or daily.

Just read the stat above again, that I dropped on YOU at the start of this post.

(Also, read some of the comments on most of my post, because most of them are tennis coaches.)

Which is why I ignore most of them.

That tells you all you need to know right there.

Doesn't it?

Two.

Save yourself a lot of money.

With inflation rising daily as it is now.

You can save yourself a ton on cash by teaching yourself tennis.

Stop wasting money on bad coaching.

I wonder do students ever ask themselves.

"Am I getting better under his/her coaching?

And with YouTube out there to leverage for them.

They can do it better than most of these coaches can or will.

Me and my ex-teammates was talking about this the other day.

We wish we would have had YouTube when we were playing back in the day, because this is the main reason why you should be teaching yourself tennis.

"There tons of great videos out there and there are tons of free ebooks that you can read while teaching yourself the game."

Which makes this concept of teaching yourself tennis a no-brainer.

Doesn't it?

Last reason.

You can start playing more competitive matches.

Whether that is playing in leagues, tournaments or round robins.

Your goal is to develop all your strokes first, then your matchplay game and then you want to start competing on one of those levels above, so you can reach your full potential as a player.

I mean.

That should be your end goal as a tennis student.

Wouldn't you agree?

I thought so.

Anyway.

The main coaching point that I am making here is this.

YES... any tennis students can teach them self the game of tennis and not only that, the can do is better than anyone of these terrible coaches could!!!

Okay.

You should be sold on this idea by now!!

Let me say...

Merry Christmas!!!

Happy Holidays from Kansai!!

You write and sell tennis books.
Correct?

 

[Friedman Whip]

What a load of crap. This opinion is coming from a completely self taught player who never had a lesson of any sort. I did eventually reach the level of a 'bumped up' 4.5 NTRP in my mid 50's. Being 'bumped up' by league officials based on previous won-loss records as opposed to 'having been told by somebody that I'm probably about a 4.5 player'. Getting there only took me 30 years of correcting bad habits that had been formed and a serious back operation for a self induced (from tennis) herniated disc problem that will hamper my movements til the day I die.

Learning how to play tennis with superb technique is hard enough with an excellent coach standing right next to you watching and directing you. I would say learning how to play correctly by yourself or from internet coaching is a very unlikely proposition.

 

[thomas daniels]

What a load of crap. This opinion is coming from a completely self taught player who never had a lesson of any sort. I did eventually reach the level of a 'bumped up' 4.5 NTRP in my mid 50's. Being 'bumped up' by league officials based on previous won-loss records as opposed to 'having been told by somebody that I'm probably about a 4.5 player'. Getting there only took me 30 years of correcting bad habits that had been formed and a serious back operation for a self induced (from tennis) herniated disc problem that will hamper my movements til the day I die.

Learning how to play tennis with superb technique is hard enough with an excellent coach standing right next to you watching and directing you. I would say learning how to play correctly by yourself or from internet coaching is a very unlikely proposition.

Good thing my case studies here in Kansai don't support that comment you just made...

 

[soft_manatee]

u need feedback 2 learn

if that feedback can come from within great

however, many (most) people cannot accurately gauge their own performance much less make technical corrections by themselves

which is where a coach comes in...

 

[socallefty]

3 Reasons To Be Teaching Yourself Tennis

1. You can dominate at 2.5
2. You can dominate at 3.0
3. You can dominate at 3.5

If you are happy with low 4.0 being your ceiling, follow the OP’s advice. Otherwise if you have higher aspirations or just want to shorten the learning path to advanced tennis, look hard for a good coach with a track record of developing juniors and adults.

Don’t you want people watching your matches to think that you look like an actual ‘tennis player’? In that case, don’t listen to the OP.

Disclaimer: I’m not a coach and neither do I play one on TV, but I do coach people in my family.

 

[thomas daniels]

3 Reasons To Be Teaching Yourself Tennis

1. You can dominate at 2.5
2. You can dominate at 3.0
3. You can dominate at 3.5

If you are happy with low 4.0 being your ceiling, follow the OP’s advice. Otherwise if you have higher aspirations or just want to shorten the learning path to advanced tennis, look hard for a good coach with a track record of developing juniors and adults.

Don’t you want people watching your matches to think that you look like an actual ‘tennis player’? In that case, don’t listen to the OP.

Disclaimer: I’m not a coach and neither do I play one on TV, but I do coach people in my family.

But none of these guys are going to be trying to win the US Open, are they? (Some of you guys are really a joke man)

With YouTube and the free ebooks that are out there, anyone can do this,... and again, I have case studies here Kansai of tennis students who have done this, what do you have?

 

[BlueB]

With YouTube and the free ebooks that are out there, anyone can do this,...

Are your books free?

 

[sureshs]

Lessons are a waste of time and money for recreational players.

 

[lefty10spro]

But none of these guys are going to be trying to win the US Open, are they? (Some of you guys are really a joke man)

With YouTube and the free ebooks that are out there, anyone can do this,... and again, I have case studies here Kansai of tennis students who have done this, what do you have?

Please provide links to the case studies. I'm interested - you sound like quite the zen master.

 

[slipgrip93]

I would agree in general that it's possible there are plenty of lousy couching out there going on. An example is myself, where I had lessons from the "local" coach at 9 that my mom paid for to get introduced to tennis. What a waste of time it was. My strokes turned out bad , little pace, and only flat, and I had no direction confidence. I would practice on a wall for hours on weekends, but would still suck in control when playing other kids. After about 6 months, where obviously the "coach" preferred other students when we had a group session, I gave up on it. I would still watch tennis on tv occasionally, but by high schools years, I had no confidence to even try. Some jerk of a middle school friend told me I had to be as "good" as so and so junior who was trying to compete in the state blah blah, when I voiced considering trying for tennis highschool team. So I stupidly instead went for school music band, and cross-country running which I still sucked at in highschool. And this was before the web really started and youtube came around. I should have went for the high school team anyways looking back, at least I could have maybe learned something more substantial than from that lousy local coach. And then the state college elective in tennis which I took. The coach/teacher filtered us out on who would go into "advanced" vs. "beginner/intermediate" separate time class sessions and of course to my embarrassment I got put with the beginners even though I had spent maybe a thousand of hours hitting a ball at least by then. So it was just tooling with absolute beginners. And I would "win" among the mini-games among the beginners, but still never getting there with the real 3.0+. I had also taken a tennis class again when I transferred to another college, and pretty much the same thing happened. I would be slummed around the beginners (this class didn't have different levels, just combined), but then embarrassed by the reigning seeming 4.0 level student of the group. I would be playing rec in the park, or community college courts, and plenty of times I found others to play with if I wasn't hitting the wall, but then I'd be embarrassed as usual to the 3.0's and 4.0's I hit with.

Now it's been decades since my first lessons, but I didn't really feel like I substantially improved until the last few years or so. I guess because back during early youtube, tennis videos still sucked. Like you had that token video with Chris Evert demonstrating the forehand on a Wilson Profile(!) and still showing a 70's flat eastern linear stroke. So yeah videos sucked then on real instruction. And I guess I refused to pay for real coaching or try to find one. I probably could have found a better instructor outside of my high school county area, like when I worked at a more metro area. But I had given up on playing tennis pretty much at the time, or wasn't interested as much for years, except watching occasionally on tv.

What's changed in recent years for me? Better videos, the discussion here on ttw which I should have paid more attention to up to a decade ago , and better more comprehensive instruction in some of these videos, but also some are just out of context tips as these ITF level or better, pros posting these videos are often doing it as a channel side-business or as an ad leading to a paywall for more "premium" content on their site. So one has to sift and pick and choose and find good foundational stuff and details that shockingly, local lousy instructors probably never cover or are too lazy to teach without a higher compensation level and structure.

So I guess my main bone of this debate is that absolutely good instruction/coaching is needed for starting out early, or it could be going to years and potentially a big chunk of a lifetime trying to move past bad habits and getting a better idea of how to hit functional strokes. For older teens, or adults just beginning tennis, today's videos seem to be a lot better for self-learning than the useless crap instruction outside of good coaching before, then. Otherwise, yes, maybe a relative few toddlers and pre-teens are child geniuses or prodigies who can learn to imitate the pros on tv, and figure out and self-learn on their own to hit like them, but I'd bet plenty of actual pros did not get where they're at without good professional instruction and formative foundations from when they were grade-school age..

 

[sureshs]

I play 4 racket sports, all at a sucky intermediate level - tennis, table tennis, badminton and very recently, pickleball. I can assure you that in table tennis and badminton, most rec players do not believe that lessons are of any use or worth the money. I play badminton and table tennis at smaller facilities as well as the city-run massive sports centers, and only juniors take lessons. Improvement in adults happens only by practice, fitness, observation of better players, and observation of the occasional pro or semi-pro match.
In tennis, some female rec players are intimidated by the strength they think is required and take lessons, and then continue them needlessly due to habit. Tennis also has a long tradition of the dashing young teaching pro mansplaining the game to giggling females and the tradition is still continuing. In pickleball, which is dominated by women, the female tennis belief of requiring lessons has spilled over, but as the sport becomes more common, I expect that to change.

 

[FiddlerDog]

Lessons are a waste of time and money for recreational players.

.....says someone who never learned how to play tennis correctly

 

[antony]

There is definitely a quality vs quantity aspect when it comes to coaching

 

[antony]

Of course, but, did you know the great Poncho never took a tennis lesson?

Then he study the greats and mentally model his mental game after them. Coaching is over rated because at the end of the day, it's all about self-leadership, self-correction and self-coaching...

It helps to have those personal attributes coupled with great high quality coaching

 

[Enga]

I'm not really sure what people seek in a coach. A lot of coaches are certified pros paid by the hour with many students. But to me, the idea of a coach seems more beneficial if they can actually spend time with you, watch your games, give direct feedback. I'm not into that mass produced stuff.

If I'm gonna bring someone in to help with my game because I'm srs bsns about tennis, I feel like I should be looking at players around my level to help bounce theories off of, work on the physical game, and review tactics with.

 

[ChaelAZ]

Did you that...

90% of all tennis students, never really improve in their development, in their lessons?

That's a fact too,so with that being the case.

Source of this fact?

 

[antony]

Source of this fact?

It happened with me. Until I found the right coach who could coach in an effective manner, I only marginally improved even with privates with other lesser coaches

 

[bertrevert]

Balderdash.

Disagree.

Get some good coaching, try out different coaches, see what works, look at video of your own play.

Take the lessons occasionally, not slavishly. Work on what they tell you. Go with open mind and a childlike attitude of being hungry for learning.

 

[thomas daniels]

I'm not really sure what people seek in a coach. A lot of coaches are certified pros paid by the hour with many students. But to me, the idea of a coach seems more beneficial if they can actually spend time with you, watch your games, give direct feedback. I'm not into that mass produced stuff.

If I'm gonna bring someone in to help with my game because I'm srs bsns about tennis, I feel like I should be looking at players around my level to help bounce theories off of, work on the physical game, and review tactics with.

WELL SAID...

I can't believe it either, a insightful comment for a change!!

Happy New Year From Kansai!!

 

[ChaelAZ]

It happened with me. Until I found the right coach who could coach in an effective manner, I only marginally improved even with privates with other lesser coaches

We just had another thread about exactly the same ridiculous sentiments about coaches being crap in general. But you kinda hit the nail on the head, where a LOT of the responsibility of progression lies with the student and their report with a coach. Not all coaches are a good match anyway. But meh...

Just pulling stats out of one's own...experience does not a stat make. Sounds like someone is selling their books or YouTube channel videos.

 

[socallefty]

There are always going to be a lot of bad coaches, average coaches and good coaches with a few great ones. That is how it works with any profession where there is a Gaussian distribution of competence or quality. There are also a few charlatans who don’t even have the education or experience to be allowed to do the profession who still do it unlicensed anyway.

Usually the better people in a profession charge more for their services and also have a waiting list for clients or work in some kind of exclusive setting. No different for tennis coaches - getting the best coaches to give occasional lessons to an adult beginner instead of juniors who train more long-term that they have as their usual clientele is very tough. Also private clubs allow coaches to make more money by charging more for lessons from their more well-heeled members and so you are going to find coaches with a good reputation working in those settings rather than public courts.

So, if you are trying to find a good coach giving adults inexpensive lessons on a public court, your chance of finding a good coach with a defined method/process to develop his students long-term are pretty slim. That may be why many of you rag on coaches as those might be the ones that are easy for most rec players to meet. Unfortunately, the harsh reality of life that ‘you get what you pay for‘ doesn’t stop outside the lines of a tennis court.

 

[J D]

3 reasons you might NOT want to teach yourself tennis:
1) If you are not self-motivated (most people aren’t). A big part of teaching is motivating a student to want to learn and practice. Group settings also provide peer pressure in a positive way. You won’t get that from one on one sessions with yourself.
2) If you don’t video yourself, it will take years to figure out all your issues (what is your back foot doing when you serve)? If you do video yourself, you can quickly become discouraged (see #1).
3) Not everyone has the analytical skills to self-teach. A decent coach sees a flaw, knows what the underlying cause is, and has 5 different ways to fix it since there is no one way that works for everyone. Are you going to watch 20 different videos on upper body rotation on the modern forehand before you find the one suggestion that clicks and fixes your problem? Probably not.

If you are below 4.5 and serious enough about tennis that you are going to practice and not just play all the time, you will benefit greatly from the input of a competent teacher. It can save you years of frustration.

I used to feel guilty about what I charged because it was hard to quantify the value of a better serve. Now I don’t think I charged enough because I was teaching life lessons about persistence, the value of working harder and smarter, and the importance of teamwork.

 

[thomas daniels]

3 reasons you might NOT want to teach yourself tennis:
1) If you are not self-motivated (most people aren’t). A big part of teaching is motivating a student to want to learn and practice. Group settings also provide peer pressure in a positive way. You won’t get that from one on one sessions with yourself.
2) If you don’t video yourself, it will take years to figure out all your issues (what is your back foot doing when you serve)? If you do video yourself, you can quickly become discouraged (see #1).
3) Not everyone has the analytical skills to self-teach. A decent coach sees a flaw, knows what the underlying cause is, and has 5 different ways to fix it since there is no one way that works for everyone. Are you going to watch 20 different videos on upper body rotation on the modern forehand before you find the one suggestion that clicks and fixes your problem? Probably not.

If you are below 4.5 and serious enough about tennis that you are going to practice and not just play all the time, you will benefit greatly from the input of a competent teacher. It can save you years of frustration.

I used to feel guilty about what I charged because it was hard to quantify the value of a better serve. Now I don’t think I charged enough because I was teaching life lessons about persistence, the value of working harder and smarter, and the importance of teamwork.

"If your students are improving, that's great, but, the stats don't lie... less than 10% of all tennis students never really develop in their lessons, and you may actually be charging too much my friend, because you sound like you are over coaching in your lessons!!!"

 

[J D]

People have asked for the source on your quoted statistic. I would like to see that - the people conducting the study, the group(s) being studied, criterion for analyzing development, parameters for testing, etc….

BTW, I’ve never had a student not improve. If only 10% of someone’s students are improving, then they are under-coaching big time.

 

[TennisDawg]

Of course, but, did you know the great Poncho never took a tennis lesson?

Then he study the greats and mentally model his mental game after them. Coaching is over rated because at the end of the day, it's all about self-leadership, self-correction and self-coaching...

The great Pancho was rare. He was very gifted and could analyze if a stroke was efficient and probably just relied on his own feedback. He was basically playing chess while his competition played checkers. Your average recreational player doesn’t have that natural physical and mental ability. The average recreational player can’t execute advanced level strokes let alone world class strokes nor do they have the time to practice 10000 hours on a specific stroke. I do agree that online teaching is a game changer, but you need apriori knowledge because those coaches also can steer you in the wrong direction. If you can self analyze your strokes and determine what works for you then online coaching is great. But I seriously doubt you can become a world class player without a credible private coach.

 

[S&V-not_dead_yet]

Did you that...

90% of all tennis students, never really improve in their development, in their lessons?

That's a fact too,so with that being the case.

Evidence? Sample size? Sample randomness?

Also, even if true, it's not necessarily the correct conclusion. You have to compare what % improve with lessons to what % improve independently. If 10% improve with lessons but only 5% improve using DIY, lessons produce superior results.

Here are 3 reasons why you should be teaching yourself tennis.

One.

Bad tennis coaching.

If coaching is bad, then that doesn't mean all coaching is bad; maybe I need to seek out a better coach.

Also, what if I'm a worse learner than if I had a coach?

It pains me to say this...

But.

The tennis coaching industry as a whole, is at an all time low.

Evidence?

And the reason is simple.

Most coaches have no coaching philosophy and they never work on upgrading their coaching methods monthly or daily.

Just read the stat above again, that I dropped on YOU at the start of this post.

Without providing evidence which means we can't judge its accuracy.

Also, just because a coach has no philosophy and doesn't work on upgrading their skills [daily?] doesn't mean he can't help the student make tremendous strides.

(Also, read some of the comments on most of my post, because most of them are tennis coaches.)

Which is why I ignore most of them.

You ignore most of them because they disagree with your thinking, not necessarily because they're wrong.

Save yourself a lot of money.

You have to ask yourself what value I'm getting out of the money I'm spending. if the value isn't there, find a better coach or perhaps try DIY.

However, DIY is no guarantee of success either. If you're not self-aware enough to realize what you're doing wrong and self-motivated enough to fix it, you're wasting time and since time is money, you're still wasting money.

You can start playing more competitive matches.

That assumes that DIY > coaching. But that's not necessarily the case.

YES... any tennis students can teach them self the game of tennis and not only that, the can do is better than anyone of these terrible coaches could!!!

There are terrible coaches, no doubt. there are also terrible students. Stopping lessons and switching to DIY is no guarantee of improvement.

Okay.

You should be sold on this idea by now!!

Let me say...

Merry Christmas!!!

Happy Holidays from Kansai!!

I'm not sold but Happy New Year to you as well.

 

[sureshs]

In the future, all tennis coaching information will be programmed into a robot. It will observe, teach, feed balls, and hit with you. It will constantly update its knowledge through information from pro matches.

 

[J D]

In the future, all tennis coaching information will be programmed into a robot. It will observe, teach, feed balls, and hit with you. It will constantly update its knowledge through information from pro matches.

Great idea, but how much would said robot cost? Maybe as much as 20 years of lessons, LOL?

 

[sureshs]

Great idea, but how much would said robot cost? Maybe as much as 20 years of lessons, LOL?

First one will be costly. Then rest will be clones.

 

[socallefty]

I wonder if the OP will soon notify us of an ebook or online course for those who want to learn tennis on their own without the help of real live coaches.

Also, If he is a long-time tennis coach, is he implying that his whole professional life has been a charade? Or is he such a good coach that he is exempt from the 10% stats he cites?

 

[BlueB]

I wonder if the OP will soon notify us of an ebook or online course for those who want to learn tennis on their own without the help of real live coaches.

Also, If he is a long-time tennis coach, is he implying that his whole professional life has been a charade? Or is he such a good coach that he is exempt from the 10% stats he cites?

All of it ^

 

[sureshs]

What a timely thread! Yesterday I hit with a guy who asked me to return while he practiced his new "faster" serves that he is learning from lessons with a pro.

They were the same as his past serves.

I had to burst his bubble. I pointed out that his grip was not continental and he had a big glitch in his forward swing and was always trying to hook the ball late from way out to the right, making a slow slice the only option.

I stood behind him and made him maintain a continental and had him serve in a smooth motion with a more overhead toss. Then he said he wanted to hit flatter once in a while but still hit with spin. I told him to start on edge and pronate and hit squarely before impact and practice it by serving from the service line.

He was so happy that he wouldn't let me go. Finally he took my number and said I should already be paying you $100 for what you showed me today.

I am only a USPTA Tennis Instructor who doesn't even teach. I am not sure what the pro was doing with him.

 

[tennishabit]

What a timely thread! Yesterday I hit with a guy who asked me to return while he practiced his new "faster" serves that he is learning from lessons with a pro.

They were the same as his past serves.

I had to burst his bubble. I pointed out that his grip was not continental and he had a big glitch in his forward swing and was always trying to hook the ball late from way out to the right, making a slow slice the only option.

I stood behind him and made him maintain a continental and had him serve in a smooth motion with a more overhead toss. Then he said he wanted to hit flatter once in a while but still hit with spin. I told him to start on edge and pronate and hit squarely before impact and practice it by serving from the service line.

He was so happy that he wouldn't let me go. Finally he took my number and said I should already be paying you $100 for what you showed me today.

I am only a USPTA Tennis Instructor who doesn't even teach. I am not sure what the pro was doing with him.

well done m8, u shouldv raised to 2x $100 for bursting dat 'pro's bubble n saving the idiot's 000s bucks aft dis. it's so called 'enlightenment'............

 

[Purestriker]

WARNING!!!

Don't even think about taking another tennis lesson until you read this post!!!

I'm serious too!!!

Did you that...

90% of all tennis students, never really improve in their development, in their lessons?

That's a fact too,so with that being the case.

Here are 3 reasons why you should be teaching yourself tennis.

One.

Bad tennis coaching.

It pains me to say this...

But.

The tennis coaching industry as a whole, is at an all time low.

And the reason is simple.

Most coaches have no coaching philosophy and they never work on upgrading their coaching methods monthly or daily.

Just read the stat above again, that I dropped on YOU at the start of this post.

(Also, read some of the comments on most of my post, because most of them are tennis coaches.)

Which is why I ignore most of them.

That tells you all you need to know right there.

Doesn't it?

Two.

Save yourself a lot of money.

With inflation rising daily as it is now.

You can save yourself a ton on cash by teaching yourself tennis.

Stop wasting money on bad coaching.

I wonder do students ever ask themselves.

"Am I getting better under his/her coaching?

And with YouTube out there to leverage for them.

They can do it better than most of these coaches can or will.

Me and my ex-teammates was talking about this the other day.

We wish we would have had YouTube when we were playing back in the day, because this is the main reason why you should be teaching yourself tennis.

"There are tons of great videos out there and there are tons of free ebooks that you can read while teaching yourself the game."

Which makes this concept of teaching yourself tennis a no-brainer.

Doesn't it?

Last reason.

You can start playing more competitive matches.

Whether that is playing in leagues, tournaments or round robins.

Your goal is to develop all your strokes first, then your matchplay game and then you want to start competing on one of those levels above, so you can reach your full potential as a player.

I mean.

That should be your end goal as a tennis student.

Wouldn't you agree?

I thought so.

Anyway.

The main coaching point that I am making here is this.

YES... any tennis students can teach them self the game of tennis and not only that, the can do is better than anyone of these terrible coaches could!!!

Okay.

You should be sold on this idea by now!!

Let me say...

Merry Christmas!!!

Happy Holidays from Kansai!!

You clearly have not tried the Suresh teaching method.

 

[TennisDawg]

In the future, all tennis coaching information will be programmed into a robot. It will observe, teach, feed balls, and hit with you. It will constantly update its knowledge through information from pro matches.

Fantastic, I’ll get to play more then once a week.