Top 10 Reasons To Sack Your Tennis Coach

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[goldyuk]

How does that work exactly?? This is exactly the kind of thinking that KEEPS players a generation behind!! How do you think players progress over the years?? They grow up following the icons of day and take on and then move on.

Surely this is obvious??

[hoyoungone]

in my opinion, u NEED a closed stance on the approach shot becuz with the open stance on the approach...THE SHOTS R LESS EFFECTIVE!

[goldyuk]

At times yes of course.

My point is that I see so many coaches teaching the forehand ONLY as a closed stance shot!!

[hoyoungone]

yeah i had a coach that wanted me to do that so i quit him :P

[goldyuk]

Good Job!!

[hillsong1004]

Where do you see this? Majority of the coaches in California teach Neutral stance.... I can't imagine a coach making the forehand limited to only a closed stance....

The coaches you refer to probably read some 30 year old book and treats that like some manuscript.

[goldyuk]

My point is this - if someone only teaches this as a closed or even neutral shot, it is wrong. I think you need all but the most natural and therefore my starting point is open/semi open.

[TeppTennis]

"because pros do it" is not a valid reason. Teaching the close stance will help give the student feel the drive of the shot better. TOO many people TRY to emulate the pros with western grips and windshield wiper motion, and they don't hit through the ball. Open stance or close stance, there are more important things such as teaching shot selection, hitting out in front, and actualy driving the ball instead of slapping the side of it.

[ProfessorFatts]

@goldyuk pros hit semi-open stance, the slide you showed was of a return forehand. Look up my coach Elson Longo's channel @ELSONLONGOJUNIOR the itf contract him to give courses around south america concerning technique. Any tennis coach can learn quite a lot from him and his books.

[Tony07UK]

@nickslickington ... are they only at State Championships? There's your answer!

[Tony07UK]

@TeppTennis .. - lazy coaches opt for 'beginner' stances and contrived strokes ie. only focusing on the 'over-the-shoulder' follow-through from a sideways stance which really looks stupid especially when they start feeding balls by hand and the student (often ladies) really look even more like a beginner. They are not developing the shoulder turn, or hip turn or any basics in setting up the racquet correctly. They look for every ball by getting the feet sideways in a normal rally.

[Tony07UK]

@TeppTennis You're obviously confused about the issue from the teaching perspective. If the pros do it, then the reason for them playing a particular shot in a given situation has sound technique which has been developed through practise and also their experience from playing at a high level. This is the VERY reason that we do want to copy them and learn from them. Some coaches don't have the confidence or are simply too lazy to teach and explain the correct principles ...

[nickslickington]

@Tony07UK Thanks for the advice LMAO I'll tell that to my students next time they go to State Championships, how are your students preforming?

[Tony07UK]

@nickslickington How can the top half of the body be rotated to a closed stance position? There's no such thing - it's called a unit turn, not closed stance. As the weight transfers to the outer foot the shoulders and racquet arm move back together - there is no closing of anything. The term 'closing' is never used for the shoulders - the racquet face is referred to as being either open or closed. Leave the feet alone - players should focus on finding the ball first and develop natural footwork

[Tony07UK]

@iclejames Wrong concept! When throwing and catching a ball two people naturally face each other and don't get into closed or neutral stances with their feet. They naturally learn to turn their shoulders. Beginners should not be playing rallies from closed stance positions - it looks ridiculous and doesn't work. Why change? Learn properly from the start and then you don't have to change and learn something different all over again.

[Tony07UK]

@dura1mater Would you pay good money for a painter & decorator that does a sloppy job? A mechanic that rips you off for poor workmanship on your car? Same goes for bad tennis coaches - they charge high prices for faulty and lazy teaching .. it's one of the biggest cons going.

[Tony07UK]

@Li4oaf Why waste time with ineffective teaching? Why would teaching the wrong basics help kids 'be adaptable to changes in techniques & playing styles.'? If they have to change something then they have been taught wrongly in the first place. The techniques used by the top pros all have similar common features - students learning the game deserve to be shown these basic key concepts from the very start. Whatever they do, they will have to learn the form of the stroke and its associated timing.

[Digimonking101]

@Li4oaf HAHAHAH, i taught myself tennis, then later went to a pro tennis coach, in lakeland academy, and i they told me that my forehand had the best from since i always hit in semi-and open stance