Only in America, all teaching have to be fun...Technique is considered one of the most important aspects in tennis. This opinion has a long tradition in the Czech Republic.
Stupid rest of the world starts tennis with fun
My associate Martin Baroch has had a big influence there for well over a decade and his big message is how to use the core loading and unloading much like we teach in Congruent Tennis. He has endorsed our system and the new book featuring our work.
Thank you! I post every week about how when your weight shifts forward it negatively affects bringing the racquet to contact.
This doesn’t sound right. With throwing mechanics, weight shift is usually forward. With tennis serves and many, if not most, volleys, weight shift is forward.
This doesn't contradict what I said. A lot of shots here with Novak hitting way behind the BL. A lot of them are defensive or neutral shots. But there are a number of shots where he shifts his weight forward prior to contact -- w/o negatively affecting his forward swing to contact.
Do we consider right side of the body going back and forward (in coil-uncoil) as a type of weight transfer? Because that seems to be what’s occurring mainly.
Lower body weight is to balance and stabilize whatever the upper body does you would say?
Not looking so much at the coil/uncoil as much as which direction his CoG is moving during the forward swing.
What I see is almost only rotation on both his backhand and forehands. No linear weight transfer.
Not what I am seeing on most of his BH shots here. Loads up on his back foot for his takeback but shifts his weight forward when he starts his forward swing. Don't see much weight on his back foot at contact for a lot of these shots. In fact, his back foot is off the ground in many cases
I guess I consider that a hip drive, part of the uncoiling action. Is it some sort of weight transfer? Maybe. I’m not sure.
If I see his weight start primarily on his back leg and it shifts forward during his fwd swing, I see that as a shifting of his weight forward. It often is a weight transfer. But if both feet leave the air, there might have been a shift forward but it might not qualify as a transfer since their is no longer weight on his feet.
You have to create the stretch that allows you to pull the racquet to contact on a bh stroke. So yes, you move from one foot to the other. It has nothing to do with moving the weight through the shot. Moving the body forward while swinging the racquet is detrimental to rhs.
Translation can kill angular momentum. You tend to see some translation in most racket sports followed by a shift to angular momentum through the shot.
I agree with you but try getting 7 and 8 year olds to consistently focus on technique and get back to me. There may be the very rare one predisposed to reach high levels
Environment and culture. Take them to a club where all the other kids are focused and working hard and they’ll more than likely fit right in. Most clubs in North America run fun tennis programs, so if they see other kids goofing off they will as well.
I am not sure what you are saying. I only watched the first 3.5 minutes and in every single forehand, the hips rotate forward. Basically, it is a pivot motion with the hips and shoulders moving forward.
Why not at 1?7 and 8
We started technique with 4!
Not that simple. There are no other kids in a private lesson and what other kids are doing is not the solution.
Kids group lessons is not for learning any type of advanced technique only privates.
again, it's the culture. In Europe and Asian, you are much more likely to find kids do what seniors and coaches ask them to do. In America, parents have little "authority" over kids. Kids are given reward after reward in order to do small things that are good for them. graduate students in universities are encouraged to think independently and not "listen" to their professors/supervisors at some level. There are always pros and cons for each approach.
My club's tennis director's son who is in high school is now studying and training in an academy in France and hopes to go pro.
Yep, I am 49 and confirm all the details already shared. The thing here is, parents wants their kids to learn as many sports they can and usually let them pick the one which they like. Of course there are traditions in some family generations that somehow narrow the variety and such parents may choose a sport for their kid. But important is the club and couches approach (regardless of sport) - they don't want lazy kids and are not afraid to say them (or parents) to not come next time, it is a waist of time. Or they choose the hard way and let the lazy kid do extra workout and see if the kid hangs on or quit.
So wrong lol so you think you can stop and work with one kid while the others are sitting there twiddling their thumbs
No as mentioned, in the beginning you seldom stop to work with one kid. You show them all.
How did you misunderstand “see for yourself?”
I never said 4 to 6 i said 7 to 8
7 and 8 years old in a private session is usually a bad idea unless they are already very skilled. Otherwise group lessons make much more sense. Not surprised they lose interest.
You don’t teach 7 and 8 year olds “advanced” technique, whatever that is in your opinion. You teach kids that age contact point, ball control, balance, movement etc. all which can be done in a group setting. Kids at that age are usually not strong enough physically to execute technique perfectly let alone “advanced” technique (again I’m not sure what that is in your opinion but I can guess). Even the most talented 8 and 9 year olds have flawed technique because of their size and strength.
I meant more advanced the simply making contact with the ball for example topspin.
