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Sonic Serve Video (Copyright 2001) (VHS) $24.95 Now you can learn from the most famous and successful coach in tennis! Nick Bollettieri has developed and coached many of the world's top players, including Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, Boris Becker, Mary Pierce, Tommy Haas, and Anna Kournikova. His teaching techniques and effective coaching methods have formed the foundation for these videos, letting you share in his world-renowned knowledge. This video studies the biggest and best serves in today's game and analyzes the common attributes that every player can use to improve. Sonic Serve outlines correct technique for powerful and reliable spin, flat, and kick serves. Drills to develop your serve are presented using Bollettieri's unique coaching style. About the Author Nick Bollettieri is the most well-known and successful tennis coach in the world today, and his training program is recognized as one of the best systems for developing top players. He has trained and coached some of world's top players including Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, Anna Kournikova, Jim Courier, Tommy Haas, Mary Pierce, and Boris Becker. Bollettieri has built one of the best training facilities in the world, the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, which he founded in 1977. Now known as the Bollettieri Sports Academy, the facility covers 158 acres and has become the most successful and diversified multi-sport training complex in the world. The success of his academy can be seen in the success of his students. His training system is recognized worldwide as one of the best. Bollettieri started out as a club tennis coach in the 1950s and once worked as a private coach for the Rockefeller family while serving as the director of tennis for all Rockefeller-owned hotels and resorts. He founded his first tennis academy, the Port Washington Tennis Academy on Long Island, New York, in 1969. In 1999, The United States Tennis Association (USTA) named Nick Bollettieri the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) National Coach of the Year. He is a regular contributor to Tennis magazine. Bollettieri resides in Bradenton, Florida. |
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Biomechanical Principles of Tennis Technique $15.92 The science of tennis technique is explained in this guide that practically applies the lessons learned from studying the forces and motions of tennis strokes... |
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USTA's High-Performance Tennis: The Serve Video (Copyright 2001) (VHS) $29.95 Great servers dominate the game of tennis with consistency, accuracy, power, disguise, and variety. Learn the technique of the top pros and apply it to your game! USTA's High-Performance Tennis: The Serve video features the top servers in the game: Pete Sampras Venus and Serena Williams Marat Safin Richard Krajicek Lindsay Davenport Lleyton Hewitt Shot with a high-speed camera capable of producing super-slow-motion images, the video gives you an unparalleled ability to analyze every facet of serving. With this footage you'll be able to see precisely how top players deal with each phase of serving. You'll learn how to study the serve and improve your ability to analyze serves for yourself or your players. The Serve takes you through the four phases of the serve: preparation, loading, hitting, and follow-through. Super- slow motion, stop action, graphics, and superb instruction help you analyze every facet of the stroke and see exactly what elements are needed for a dominating serve. Replays from numerous angles during U.S. Open television coverage allow you to see the servers' technique and see how to transfer that technique to the court. About the Author The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the governing body for tennis in the United States. The USTA's membership consists of more than 500,000 individuals and nearly 6,500 organizations, including schools, park and recreation departments or community tennis associations, and tennis clubs. The USTA is widely known as the owner and operator of the U.S. Open Championships, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments in worldwide tennis competition. The U.S. Open annually attracts more than a half-million fans, awards more than $9 million in prize money, and is broadcast on television to 125 countries. The USTA also sponsors amateur tennis competition ranging from events for children 12 and under to national tournaments for those 65 and older. More than 5 million schoolchildren are introduced to tennis each year through USTA school programs, and opportunities for further instruction and play are provided by a menu of USTA entry-level programs. A full range of player development, sport science, and youth tennis programs is offered at the USTA training facility in Key Biscayne, Florida, at 120 area training centers throughout the country, and through local Excellence Training Programs. In addition, the USTA emphasizes coaching education and development through an ambitious offering of coaching seminars, |
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World-Class Tennis Technique Book (Copyright 2001, 288 pages) $27.95 Let the game's most brilliant players and coaches teach you World-Class Tennis Technique! You'll find the most up-to-date information, based on solid scientific principles and presented in a practical, easy-to-understand manner. No other book on the market offers the level of world-class instruction and expertise found here. World-Class Tennis Technique is written by some of the world's top experts in biomechanics, tennis technique, and coaching, including: Patrick McEnroe Jim Loehr Mary Joe Fernandez Stan Smith Tom Gullikson Pam Shriver Former world-class players National coaches Past or current Davis Cup Captains Together these venerable tennis pros present a detailed, comprehensive look at the optimal biomechanics and technique for playing tennis. Each chapter features an expert with a scientific or technical background matched up with one of the top internationally known coaches. They explain the modern game and share their research, knowledge, and experience. Their explanations are succinct and to the point, making the best techniques easy to learn. You'll learn to improve your technique in every aspect of the game, including: perfecting your strokes, improving your footwork and positioning, training the appropriate muscle groups, choosing the right racquet and equipment for your style of play, adjusting to different court surfaces, maintaining proper technique under pressure, and analyzing your own game. You'll find an in-depth analysis of the proper fundamentals of each stroke -- forehand, backhand, volley, overhead, serve, return, and specialty shots -- presented with an incredible selection of full-color sequence photos. Learn the science behind the strokes to hit the ball with greater force, accuracy, and consistency. Then master and fine-tune your execution to excel in competition. With World-Class Tennis Technique, you'll soon play better than ever. About the Author Vic Braden is one of the most recognized tennis instructors in the world. Braden has authored five books, produced countless videos, and hosted several television series. He is a licensed psychologist, author, sports educator and researcher, videographer, and television commentator. Braden got his start as the head tennis coach at the University of Toledo in 1952. After a stint as an elementary school teacher and psychologist, he served on the management staff of the Jack Kramer Professional Tennis Tour and co-founded the Jack Kramer Tennis Club in 1961. He founded the Vic Bra |
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Tennis $9.95 Did you know that tennis was once called sphairistike? Serve up an ace to tennis fans with this introduction to a popular sport, complete with historical trivia, rules for play, tips on proper ... |
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Tennis Fundamentals $11.91 Learn proper execution of the sport's essential skills and tactics. Forehands, backhands, lobs, volleys, overhead smashes, drop shots, serves, and returns of serve are covered to provide a base for solid technique. Instruction in singles and doubles match |
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A Correlation Between Core Strength And Serve Velocity In Collegiate Tennis Players. $90.95 A Correlation Between Core Strength And Serve Velocity In Collegiate Tennis Players. |
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Table Tennis For Beginners (DVD) $20.93 This DVD is a great resource for new players and has more than enough detail to be beneficial for experienced players or coaches. Christian Lillieroos and Eric Owens provide students with a wealth of important tips to establish a solid foundation and significantly improve their skills. Among the topics covered are: grip, off table drills, games for large groups, timing, technique, serve, serve return and the rules and strategies for doubles and singles. Christian Lillieroos is the former coach at Texas Wesleyan University. He is certified by USA Table Tennis as a National Coach. He was nominated USATT Coach of the Year for 1997 and 2002. Eric Owens is a multi-time member of the US Table Tennis team. He is a US Men’s Singles Champion, Pan American Gold Medalist, North American Doubles Champion, and four-time College Men’s Singles Champion. |
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Tennis Magazine April 2010 $5.95 Tennis Magazine April 2010 The Gear Guide The '10 Racquet Guide - Should you jump on the hybrid bandwagon? We did the testing to help you find out. Plus: How the pros trick out their sticks, and what you can learn from a wood frame. By Bill Gray Looking for a Clue - Nicole Vaidisova was once ranked No. 7 in the world. Now she's out of the Top 150. What happened to this sure-shot prodigy? By Peter Bodo Tennis on Old Tobacco Road - The game has found an unlikely home in the hills of North Carolina. By Ross Kenneth Urken Hitting Their Strides - By winning in Melbourne, Roger Federer and Serena Williams showed that change is going to have to wait a little longer on both tours. By Stephen Tignor Double Clinic - A new ready postion will help you with hard-hit returns. By Roy Barth Great Shots - Samantha Stosur's powerful kick serve. By Lindsay Davenport 5 Minutes with Nick - Why you can't live without a slice backhand. By Nick Bollettieri Health & Fitness - The best ways to boost your metabolism. By Alyssa Shaffer |
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Holding Serve $14.4 Often characterized as David facing Goliath on the tennis court, at 5''''9 and 150 pounds Michael Chang is used to playing with the big hitters... |
Having A Mental Muscle Memory
When I was actively training at the Karate Dojo, every workout included time spent repeating individual techniques over and over and over and . . . well you get the idea. We would stand in a circle and count off by tens and twenties, punches, chops and kicks, as the Sensei and senior students came around correcting our form. During one of these sessions, a senior student explained the concept of Muscle Memory and why it is important to repeat the movement so many times.
Muscle Memory, or, if you like technical terms, Neuromuscular Facilitation, occurs when you have repeated an action enough times to have etched the pattern into your brain. The action becomes automatic, requiring no conscious input on your part.
Neuromuscular Facilitation or Muscle Memory allows you to walk, get dressed, tie your shoes and start the car without thinking.
Many, if not most of the activities in our daily lives are run by Muscle Memory. This is usually a good thing. But what if the pattern is holding us back or contributing to poor health. For instance, what about a muscle memory that causes you to slouch or clench your jaw when you're tense?
If you golf, you know that a Muscle Memory that causes you to slice your drives is extremely difficult to shift. It involves coaching, constant awareness, and lots of repetition to break that original, inefficient pattern and create a new, more beneficial pattern.
The same is true with our thoughts. How many habitual thought patterns do you have that hold you back? I call these patterns Mental Muscle Memories or MMMs. Here are just a few common Mental Muscle Memories that hold people back from success and contentment:
• Negative thoughts such as: I can't do it, I'm not smart enough, I don't have the money, I'm not attractive.
• Inefficient patterns including: Procrastination, consistent tardiness, working under stress, disorganization, lack of focus.
• Faulty beliefs like: You can't make a living doing what you love. You have to do it alone. In order to win, someone has to lose.
All of these thoughts, patterns and beliefs are learned, usually at a very young age, and become MMMs that FEEL true. In other words, they seem so integral to who you are that you cannot imagine yourself without them.
So how do you shift these patterns? Here are a few techniques that can help shift MMMs:
• Acknowledgement and Acceptance: Obviously you have to acknowledge the pattern to begin shifting it. But, while it may seem counterintuitive, you also need to accept the negative pattern in order to begin the shift. Acceptance brings patience and compassion for yourself during the transformation process. It's sort of like a 12-step program, "Hi my name is Edward and I'm a web surfaholic." Once you acknowledge it you open the door for consciousness and choice to enter into the pattern.
• Coaching/Mentoring: This can involve a relationship with a professional coach, a mentor, a trusted friend (co-coaching) or your own inner wisdom (self-coaching). When I was in college, a friend and I noticed that we both used "like" far too often in our speech, as in, "Like, what do you mean, you don't, like, want to skip class." We decided to "coach" each other. Whenever we noticed the other person using "like" in its non-dictionary usage, we would punch their shoulder (lightly!). It worked. We both stopped using "like" within a month. One caveat here: make sure that anyone you enlist to help coach you is truly interested in helping you shift out of the old pattern. Sometimes the people who love us the most don't want to see us change.
• Logic: For you left-brained folks out there, sometimes, pure old reasoning works wonders. Let's say you have a belief that you can't make a living doing what you love. Ask yourself, is it true? Can you think of anyone who DOES make a living doing what they love? I bet you can. Once you find examples that disprove the belief embedded in your old Mental Muscle Memory, you can begin looking to those examples each time you feel that old believe come up.
• Affirmations: I know, affirmations got a bad rap thanks to Stuart Smalley and Saturday Night Live. (If you're not of the SNL generation, then nevermind!) But affirmations work! They begin to shift the neural programming by replacing the negative belief or pattern with a positive belief or pattern or your choice. Here's an example you could use to shift that old work/love MMM:
In an easy and graceful manner
In a healthy and joyous way
In its own perfect time
And in the highest good of all
I am now Being my True Self and Doing What I Love in order to create all the money required to live comfortably and securely.
You can use any or all of these techniques, or make up your own. Whatever method you choose to shift your old patterns and beliefs, repetition is the key. If you're a tennis player and want to improve your serve, what do you do? You have someone coach you on the most effective technique and then you go out and practice your serve. Over and over and over. If you spent one-hour a day for 30-days practicing your serve do you think you would see some improvement? You bet.
It's the same with Mental Muscle Memory. Practice really does make perfect. So get out there and start practicing!
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