… and I think that worked in my favor. Also knowing how to manage/pace yourself in a match. Always take your changeover time … even early when you aren’t feeling it yet. Stay ahead with water on changeover … often too late later.haha, i get triggered when folks make "mini tennis is pointless" comments when they can't do it.What would these entertaining mini threads be without the “you just can’t f***ing do it because you suck and your mom doesn’t love you” comment.
How you doing? Hope you survived this last year of Walrus.
) through this covid-year... popularity of tennis has really picked up.
I hit with a top 100 female during the lockdown, my friend. She sat down for a cigarette after her match. They are people like us who have no idea what they are doing.
Of course, you can. the ball is flying 20 km per hour and you do not decelerate.
I suppose I did not look like I could handle such advanced drill. : - )that's impressive.
what was her opinion of mini tennis
mini tennis concoction). We warm up serves from where we serve, and should warm up baseline strokes from where we hit them.
haha, i get triggered when folks make "mini tennis is pointless" comments when they can't do it.
i'm doing well bbp, been playing/teaching quite a bit (teaching 6h/w is "alot" for me
Well yeah ... even jello has a point for some people.
1,000%This is for brother @nyta2 :
The reason many "modern" rec players can't warm-up with easy baseline strokes is they ... wait for it ... "they can't do it". They got suckered into the "spin" Nadal holy grail ... hitting big spin to safe targets. They never learned arm/rhs control ... being able to control targets, trajectory and pace with advanced skills. They are left only with a poor man's rec player version of Nadal only able to hit one pace spinny balls to the middle of the court. It is simply unfair to ask these players to have enough control to hit 25-50% warm up rallies from the baseline ... they just can't do it.
Don't think it's a matter of knowing better. Could be that they advance past the point where they are driving benefit from it. How about the other version of mini-volleyball = "peppering" (no net)? Did you outgrow that as well?
Doubt that. Just because she has a bad habit doesn't mean she doesn't know what she's doing. If she is/was truly top 100, she was doing a whole lot more right than wrong. Top players will still have some flaws, but for the most part, they know what they're doing... and they often have a coach who knows even more.
Yes, we pepper. Everyone in the world peppers. At 9 metres apart, because that is the correct distance for volleyball. 9 metres, not 4.5.
). True ... but I can warm up from baseline with speed and trajectory control from first swing ... even if wife was yelling at me when I left the house. Whatever my "mindset" is ... it gets better the moment I step on a tennis court. A chat with three other guys at the net for 5 minutes of mini can swing both ways on mindset/mood. 
She does not have a bad habit. Someone offered, and she said yes.
Disclaimer: I just enjoy these mini debates ... for fun ... not serious, just right.
Nah ... the analogy to warming up serve with easy serves is hitting easy warm-up baseline shots (which we did fine for decades before the evil
… I find that to be real match mechanics where I do not in mini.
What? Don't know what you are trying to say here. You should not be dinking balls for mini tennis. If you are decelerating your swing into the ball, you are doing it incorrectly.
Had never paid attention to Henin’s forehand. What a beauty! Doesn’t need to close the racket face on take back unlike the majority today.
Perhaps you regularly pepper at 9m but I only rarely have ever seen anybody doing it at that distance. In watching pro, varsity players and top collegiate players, I have usually seen them peppering at 6m (20 ft) or less. Frequently, intermediate and advanced players are peppering at distances less than 4.5m. Sometimes, it's even a bit less than 2m (5-6 ft).
Are you people blind?
Once again, man, this is the third time in this thread only that you are explaining to someone who has been paid to play volleyball how volleyball is done. : - )
Nope. She is not decelerating the racket until after contact. They are not dinking or severely truncating their follow thru. Plain and simple. Ditto for videos of other pros hitting short court (mini). These are not their fastest swings but their follow thru is still complete (fairly full).
You cannot assume that your experience is the same as everyone else's.
Do you not get that we are primarily talking about the utility of mini tennis fo rec / amateur players? Not elite players. (Even tho some pro players still use it)
people who do mini, and insist they are decelerating their stroke (which is bad),... well they are
Condescending much? Disingenuous criticism.
I guess some people would go crazy if they followed this advice:people who do mini, and insist they are decelerating their stroke (which is bad),... well they are
folks who need to decelerate are still taking the same backswing they take from the baseline... which i think is bad (i don't want to decerlate the racquet through contact, that's a bad habit IMO)
the key point they miss is to take an abbreviated backswing, which allows you to still accelerate with the hands through the stroke,
which is really \ the part i'm trying to warmup during mini (the "brushiness" {windshield wiper, "release", etc...}, feel for the ball at contact)
No, an abbreviated backswing is not a bad habit. One should be taking a backswing appropriate for the speed and depth of the incoming ball. Shorter backswings for fast serves, for half volleys and for taking other "deep" balls on the rise.
I may not have played at your level, but I was a spiking force of nature in my junior high lunch hour league.
personally I learned to take an abbreviated backswing after coach pointed out I was missing my approach shots because i was taking a backswing appropriate for the baseline
