Strength Training

Hardserve

Rookie
It is not safe to beef up your own game like the pros unless guided to do so under a professional coach and had the strength training to apply those techniques or you leave yourself open to injury if you apply those techniques without guidance of a pro or had the proper strength training as I got injured minor when I applied one of Federer's techniques to my game. Keeping the head down when hitting the ball. So its not safe to try to hit like the pros unless you guided by a professional coach.
 

WBF

Hall of Fame
I once got sick from water. So its not safe to try to drink water.

Your logic. It does not work.

Who the heck tries to emulate pro's anyhow? Seems like a terrible way to learn tennis vs. using a solid foundation of basics and building your own strokes from this.
 

Hardserve

Rookie
The Injury occured when I changed my contact point from looking in front of the ball to looking behind the back of the racquet (ground) when i hit my strokes which tilts the head to the side and stops it moving around.

Yes the technique of Federer's worked and was more stable and all that when hitting, but because I did not have the strength training, as this change makes you hit from the stomach muscles, so I got injured because I've not used those muscles before to hit the ball that way....

I read about this on Revolutionary tennis website about that looking down technique and now I realize that these things are not safe to apply unless you've had the proper guidance from a coach and strengthened your body to use these techniques....No I did not hit my head with the racket....

Yes unbelievable but I suffered a minor tear in the abdomen area just from
keeping my head down during my stroke.... It has now put me off the
court for a week.

It's prob safe to slice like that, but unless those muscles are strengthed, it is not
safe to topspin the ball like that....
 
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EricW

Professional
The Injury occured when I changed my contact point from looking in front of the ball to looking behind the back of the racquet (ground) when i hit my strokes which tilts the head to the side and stops it moving around.

Yes the technique of Federer's worked and was more stable and all that when hitting, but because I did not have the strength training, as this change makes you hit from the stomach muscles, so I got injured because I've not used those muscles before to hit the ball that way....

I read about this on Revolutionary tennis website about that looking down technique and now I realize that these things are not safe to apply unless you've had the proper guidance from a coach and strengthened your body to use these techniques....No I did not hit my head with the racket....

Yes unbelievable but I suffered a minor tear in the abdomen area just from
keeping my head down during my stroke.... It has now put me off the
court for a week.

It's prob safe to slice like that, but unless those muscles are strengthed, it is not
safe to topspin the ball like that....

Wow you must be pathetically weak. Maybe you should work out or something
 

wihamilton

Hall of Fame
Heh this is obviously not accurate. I know 10 year olds that have fantastic technique... they possess the same fundamentals as the pros... and I assume -- or at least hope -- that you are stronger than a 10 year old.

Sounds like you didn't warm up properly or tried to rip the ball w/incorrect technique. Hitting w/correct technique actually reduces your chance of getting hurt. But your general point that being in great shape reduces your chance of injury is accurate.
 

Hardserve

Rookie
I don't think some of you guys here who call yourselves tennis players are being very nice or understanding with insensivitity like that, because I have been taught correct technique...It did happen and it has me puzzled as well, so I write it off as just one of those things that tennis players sometimes get for even those of my training partners who are taught correct technique still from time to time still get injured or pull something and we do the correct things like stretching, ect...I didn't think looking down at the ground during the hit was going to do that but it did as I hit with the sit and lift technique and maybe that was why I pulled something, maybe I had to be standing upright to use this technique.
 
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wihamilton

Hall of Fame
Well injuries do happen, even if you have proper technique. Don't assume that trying to hit like the pros will lead to injuries if you aren't in amazing shape. As I said before, hitting w/proper fundamentals, which pros obviously have, is safer than the alternative. Sounds like maybe you had a freak injury.
 
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Alex132

Guest
injuries is part of game.....if you don't get injured you don't get better.
Strength Training is always good, as long as you know what you are doing, its always good to not do everything by yourself, but i can't for example, so you just do what you gotta do.
 

Hardserve

Rookie
Yes I do have the proper fundamentals, for I was taught the fundamentals of the pros. I did have a freak injury but am recovering. It occured on the forehand hitting a crosscourt, it happened as soon as I changed from keeping my head up to keeping the head down during the stroke and it stretched, caused a slight tear soon after I had made that little minor adjustment..... I was also playing with a guy who was using a semi-western grip and was pounding the ball with hard fast deep drives.
 
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