Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.342019
EAN num: 9780918535115
ISBN number: 0918535115
Label: Warde Publishing houses
Manufacturer: Warde Publishing houses
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 155
Printing Date: 1991-06
Publishing house: Warde Publishing houses
Sale Popularity Level: 1168972
Studio: Warde Publishing houses
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Brief Book Summary:
This book is for players who feel they may have stalled at a plateau below their potential and for the coaches who strive with their athletes to help them achieve new levels of performance. Breakthrough Tennis enlists the player to serve as his or her own teacher while focusing on three essential components of more advanced play: balance, timing, and concentration.
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This is a great book to have if you have the basics down and want to improve your game. In my case, I was being stymied by a lot of "tips" that I had collected. Based on the suggestions in the book, I began becoming more aware of balance and timing -- and trusting my awareness more than all those tips. The book uses the great imagery of a pendulum for improving your swing.
The book could have more on the serve, which is a strange and unnatural stroke. But I am happy with what I was able to get from this book.
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As an intermediate player with a good grasp of technique but less than successful implementation I found this book very refreshing. I just wish it had been available when I was a learning junior many years ago. The book does not deal in detail with technique, and therefore may not be the best for an absolute beginner. It rather concentrates on some basics of the game that are not usually the focus of tennis teaching, which concentrates mostly on "proper" technique and stroke mechanics. The author argues that pros usually don't have problems with the basic elements of the game with which other mortals, like myself, have to struggle with: balance, timing. In my experience this is soooo true. These basics and how to address them may seem obvious...once you've read the book. Clearly, for advanced players this may not be so useful, but most of your average tennis club players (and buyers of tennis books) will fall in the intermediate category. For them, I think this is a very good buy.
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As suggested by the preceding reviews, this book offers some "irrational" techniques (from a teaching pro's point of view). From my perspective, there is much that can be gained by reading this book which, when added to basic fundamentals, can produce excellent results - if the reader is willing to experiment with their game a bit. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking to improve their game and has not been able to take the subsequent step via conventional methods.
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Most amateur atheletes who are looking for a breakthrough are stuck at an intermediate plateau and want to get to an advanced level. This book won't help someone like that. The book might possibly help a frustrated beginner become less frustrated. The book would be best appreciated perhaps by seniors and by people who don't play for points but just to get some exercise knocking the ball around. Some of the advice in this book would be harmful to a beginner who is serious and wants to progress to a strong game. I was disappointed in the book, I found it repetitive and simple minded and just plain wrong in places.
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Breakthrough Tennis made me think in a more simplified way, and aided me in seeing and hitting the ball better. Phenomenal!
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