Don’t Train Like a Tennis Professional
The post by Allistair McCaw
Don’t Train Like a Tennis Professional
The biggest mistake tennis coaches and players can make is copying what professional tennis players do.
Allistair McCaw
The problem with copying what the tennis pro’s do:
When I see a video or piece that says: “Train like Roger Federer” or “Play like Serena Williams” I want to hide it from anyone who plays tennis.
I’ve just seen a clip on JM Del Potro training.
Sure, it’s nice to see how the pro’s train and what they do. But the problem is this:
We get tennis coaches and parents taking those same drills and exercises and implementing them into their kids training programs thinking this is what they should be doing.
What they fail to understand is that this particular tennis professional has been through years and years of progressive training to get to that level and capability. They are an adult, they have fully grown. They are also of a different genetic type.
Giving a child what these professionals are doing in their routines is like having them drive a formula 1 race car before a cart – It’s dangerous – Period.
By copying programs, you aren’t being smart and getting the best exercises, you are being careless, increasing the risk of injury and jumping the vital stages of a tennis player progression.
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thank you, i have told parents and coaches this for years, i have been a certified wta tour coach for years working with several top 30 players and ITF jrs as well including an Orange Bowl winner. Physically, it takes time to prepare and do what these top pros do and to imitate will not make you better but it can make you injured or frustrated at the least.
TENNIS INTO THE FUTURE
Most tennis players would love to play like the top pros.
Some copy Federer, others Nadal or Serena, or Sharapova, or Djokovic, and many more.
It can be hard to sort out, isn’t it? Or perhaps you have more than one favorite to copy from.
In order to decide what the best for your own game would be, it is recommendable to make a full list of the differences and similarities between those players you like, including your own tendencies.
With this in mind we arrived at Modern Tennis Methodology.
We discovered not only the simplicity of the basics that benefit the top pros, but also the basics that would apply and benefit any athletically inclined human being.
To increase the ease and simplicity we put special care in removing from teaching all the misconceptions, all the “weird” ideas that have been considered as “musts” in conventional tennis teaching which don’t help your better game. We actually found out that they impede it.
You can read all these misconceptions for FREE in this online book: tennisteacher.com/eBook.html
Please let me know your “wins” with it.
every thing is in the head
I disagree. It’s outside of your head!
Style is muscle memory. If you learned the mechanics correctly you’ll do the same most of the time, adjusted by your instinct. So this first part is physical, simple, easy, especially if you learned tennis the modern way.
Who controls your disposition? Again, you, yourself. You are you, not your brains or your head.
Timing is spiritual as well. You are playing a game, you have the tools, you take your time, you perform the usual way.
Feel is even more spiritual. The mind does not feel. It may record it.
Instinct is even higher. It is a computation that uses all of the above.
It may be necessary here to say that tennis is easy to perform, provided the tenets contained within our teachings are followed in full, which those who find it difficult would gain to learn.