Training – Page 6 – Play Smart Tennis – MIND YOUR GAME

ANTICIPATION IN TENNIS AND WHY TENNIS CHAMPIONS ARE CHAMPIONS

October 10, 2021 play.smart.tennis

Through the course of tennis history, players’ performance enhancement evolved around the strokes and its effective application for the purpose of winning points in the competitive environment. Players’ stroke execution is surely one of the most researched field in the game of tennis as all tennis players, no matter of the level of their game or competitive involvement, are mostly attentive to the stroke mechanics and consistency of their body parts movement in space and time. Players usually try to be mostly aware of their own hitting space, with a tendency to underestimate the fact that tennis is a game of movements and interactions.

BRAIN FUNCTIONS and OUR PERFORMANCE

July 14, 2021 play.smart.tennis

To be able to produce consistent level of performance at the physical (visible to eye) level, athletes are in need of the rested and productive brain, prepared to create mental images and connect them to the muscle fibers producing the most optimal movement

NeuromoTor generation of oUr movements in tennis

March 22, 2021 play.smart.tennis

Before we activate our muscle fibers to begin our movement, there is an order of things that should be done inside of our brains. No matter how it sounds, although our brain is a perfect machine that enable us to do impossible things it can inhibit us from doing things as well

HOW HITTING STANCE INFLUENCE THE MECHANICS OF YOUR FOREHAND

January 27, 2021 play.smart.tennis

Direction of the stroke is related to the timing and angle of the impact point. The unwritten rule is that the ball will be following the direction to which strings of the racquet are directed to at the point when racquet intercepts the ball. Usually, in order to perform at their best, the players change timing of torso rotation to the ball while changing direction of the stroke

SPECIFIC TENNIS MOVEMENT TRAINING

October 18, 2020 play.smart.tennis

The movement as a task and its outcome can be influenced by multiple factors as players interact with environment adjusting, creating and coordinating their own psycho-physical responses and body movements depending on the task in hand (perception) and spatio-temporal constraints (action potentials)

Attention in tennis. Transition from an external to the internal focus

June 3, 2020 play.smart.tennis

Tennis game relates to the changes from external to internal focus. Incoming ball with all the changes in intensity and pace should be recognized as soon as possible so the prediction of the ball bounce would quicken the preparation for the technical-tactical execution.

Players focus externally to determine the properties of the incoming ball and make a decision of the preparation and timing of their set-up for the stroke. As the ball is external object to which trajectory and intensity a player responds, players are in need of the recognizing the external stimulus – ball. As soon as the spatio-temporal characteristics (intensity, pace and court area where the ball will bounce) of the incoming balls are recognized, player can transition the attention to creating internal (own) responses. Internal responses are determined by the decision of the movement response and the technical-tactical execution