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What my Doctoral Thesis Taught me: Tennis Training for the Future Champions

August 20, 2022 play.smart.tennis

Coaches teach tennis from the point of “racquet-ball” rather than movement and timing. Interception has two aspects, movement towards the ball to intercept it and create an impact point. This can differ from the concept of the hitting in which player can wait for the ball to approach before the impact. Even with the perfect contact point in which the ball lands at the string bed at the sweet spot, if the momentum of the hitter’s racquet movement does not match the movement momentum of the incoming ball, the stroke will not be satisfactory in intensity and direction

Tennis Skill Acquisition and Long Term Development

August 16, 2022 play.smart.tennis

We are not teaching tennis players to be automative machines but intelligent athletes that can recognize and adapt to the constantly changing environment. From acquisition to stabilization phase, we can not teach technical skills separately from the tactical skills

SPLIT STEP OF THE EXPERT TENNIS PLAYERS

January 27, 2022 play.smart.tennis

IN THE NEXT TWO POSTS WE WILL EXPLAIN WHY SPLIT STEP IS NOT SIMPLY MUSCULAR REACTION. AS ITS A PREPARATORY STEP, THE NEUROLOGICAL ASPECT IS OF HIGHEST IMPORTANCE IN PREPARING THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM TO CREATE TIMELY AND ACCURATE RESPONSE

Pillar number three of PST methodology: Creating your own stable psychological game

February 23, 2019 play.smart.tennis

1. Face the fears 2. Win-win environment 3. Play in the moment 4. Playing without the errors 5. Playing safe vs playing your own game 6. Expectations and abilities

Situational awareness- the now and future of tennis practice and match

November 15, 2018 play.smart.tennis

The main purpose of learning is to be able to predict what is coming. Eventually through learning, we become experts through changes in our brain to perform so well but also to predict what would be an outcome of the particular movement

Non functional overtraining prevention measures-importance of the Recovery

November 6, 2018 play.smart.tennis

Imbalance in the training to recovery ratio (high training and competitions loads and not enough recovery) is the most decisive factor of developing the overtraining state of the athlete. Recovery strategy, as the opposition to the high performance training load strategy should be equally understood and applied as the part of the training process, rather then considered just as a day off the practice

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