Feedback on Tennis Lessons by James Jensen
- Thread starter Sentinel
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cyrosceals
New User
Yeah. They are ok. I bought the first 5 at $5 each at a cd sale. I must warn you though, there is a LOT of reiteration and repeating. So for 1hr of talking, you only learn 5 min worth of stuff. But where do you download them?
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
They are available on the tennistorrent site. My disk is running short of space, so 3-4 GB is a big deal. I have already gone thru the FYB site and am wondering if they add any more value.
Thanks for the quick reply.
cyrosceals
New User
FYB is probably the better choice. The worst cd(in my opinion) is the serve. It just talks about flat, slice and topspin and basic hitting (7-1 etc). It doesnt tell you about things like pronation etc.
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
haha, the serve is the one I had in mind. Thanks a LOT. You've saved me a great deal of bother
lethalfang
Professional
Agreed. When I was watching that video, I was so tired of hearing the same thing over and over and over, I stopped watching.
however, this same concept may also apply to a Jenna Jameson tennis video.
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Winky
Guest
Funny, I have the Jensen serve vid paused in another window. FYB is way better,.... waaaaaay better. All the FYB progression vids are, IMHO, the best video tennis tutorial out there, and I've watched a lot. My serve went from laughable to respectable in less than a week with the FYB serve vid. I wasn't keeping my palm face down at the beginning of the backswing... couldn't tell in the vids I took of myself.. once I saw Hamilton say "palm down!" on the serve progression vid I had an epiphany and my serve got 5x better overnight.
thebuffman
Professional
the best serve video that i've seen is pat dougherty's "The Serve Doctor". FYB is a close second. Dougherty is definitely #1 in my book.
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Winky
Guest
Interesting, I checked him out online and found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixx-MCC7D88
Don't really care for it. It's very, very different from serves of the modern era and looks strange to me. Might be genius, but I'd have to see more of it to really want to serve like that.
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Winky
Guest
These instructors don't have the ultimate everything. But they do have it well enough that they (most of them) can teach it. Instructors are rarely great players, and great players rarely can teach.
GetBetterer
Hall of Fame
"Ultimate" is a strong word, and in my opinion is sort of an arrogant word and once I see it, unless they're a professional player somewhere in the top 20's in today's game, I...I just can't respect them.
adlis
Professional
I agree. Who is this James Jensen anyway? A random country club coach who decided to teach the world his Ultimate "pro strokes"??
There's 20 minutes of tennis footage in each Video the rest of the DVD is made up of James chatting excessively and over complicating the simplest strokes. That clown explains the art of tossing a ball for ten minutes...
Does he need to break down the serve into a Heart bypass procedure.
Nick Bollettieris video collection is better. I brought the tapes back in 02 because i couldn't afford a coach.
Simple clear explanations with smart graphical visualizations NOT a lord of the rings trilogy.
Ask yourself who would you listen to? Nick who coached the greats such as Aggasi, Sharapova, williams sisters or a nobody who chats more than Brad Gilbert and plays with a tweener racket ?
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Winky
Guest
Just watched the Jensen forehand vid and it was all right. I think I'm going to do an abbreviated backswing like he suggests. All the youtube vids, including FYB, show a long looping backswing which is what I've been using since I started. But I think I'll try the abbreviated one because it looks like it's something that can be grooved easily and my forehand needs work.
