Tennis

[Archie Swivel]

Is there a TGM equivalent for Tennis? I'm much better at tennis than golf, but have never really thought about my tennis stroke in years. I do keep a bent right wrist on my forehand.

 

[njmp2]

quote:Originally posted by Archie Swivel

Is there a TGM equivalent for Tennis? I'm much better at tennis than golf, but have never really thought about my tennis stroke in years. I do keep a bent right wrist on my forehand.

same stroke. It's the right hand flying wedge you have with that tennis swing. Add a flat left wrist for the left flying wedge. Go to an aiming point with it. Feel PP#3 hit the ball. And since PP#3 can't reach the ball, use a club !
The clubface is the left hand and the clubhead is the right hand.

 

[Archie Swivel]

Thanks njmp, but I really meant for Tennis, not golf. I know this is a golf forum, but I was wandering if there was a tennis book written by a Homer-like author.

 

[EdStraker]

Back in the 70s, Gideon Aireal(sp) from Israel along with some tennis instuctors did some scientific study of tennis strokes but not to the extent that TGM covers the golf swing. Vic Braden also has done some research. I remember at a tennis teaching seminar, seeing Gideon's computer generated stick man based on John Newcombe's serve being shown. The interesting part was changing the body positions and seeing the effect it had on the speed or spin generated by a serve.

 

[mb6606]

There is no tennis book similar to TGM. The games are totally different. Tennis does not require maximum compression of tne ball. Most tennis shots are hit with the intention of spin plus speed. You use spin to control the ball and to fool the other player(s). The similaritys/imperatives would be the bent right wrist on all forehands and the on plane to the ball forearm.

 

[bts]

"Swing" or "hit" (the racket), "sustain the lag and line of compression" with "pivot-controlled hand(s)" to create the desire momemtum and spin of the ball.