Sport players nowadays have their own strict guidelines to cope with. During my high school years, I watched the sport matches that the school offered: football, soccer, and basketball. I always arrived early to the matches, and noticed that most of the players devote their time and effort to their warm-up practices. Their practices involved performing leg, arm and throwing exercises for about an hour or two before their matches started. I watched those players struggle to complete their brutal exercises, which made me think about tennis. I was a tennis player during my last 2 years of high school, and I had to deal with intense physical exercises during my practice courses. Unfortunately, as a tennis player, I had more guidelines than the other high school sports to cope with. Those guidelines evolved over developing skills such as a comfortable hand grip, accurate hand-eye coordination, footwork and formal arm swinging techniques; and they all require time and effort to achieve.
I enjoy using my tennis racquet during practice, but to use one requires the correct hand grip. There are many ways to hold a racquet, but I usually stick to one grip. As a right-handed player, I find it helpful to grip the racquet’s handle at an angle that has the strings facing side to side. At that point I slightly tilt the racquet’s handle counter-clockwise using my right hand. I use this type of hand grip, because it allows me to have more control over the racquet when I play on the court. I feel like my hand and fingers are stuck to the racquet’s handle showing just how strong the grip is. With this strong grip, there is no worry of holding the racquet loosely. The hand grip also provides comfort for my arm. I am able to move my arm with the racqu...
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The rules that all tennis players must deal with have one similar motive. I found that the motive is to put time and effort into one’s work. From my experience, I had to devote myself to the amount of work needed to improve my attributes on the tennis court. I put effort into adjusting my hand grip, because it takes time to adapt to new hand techniques. It took time for me to train myself to multitask the dual skill of hand-eye coordination. It took many footsteps to fine tune my leg and foot muscles to improve my sprinting mechanics. Choosing and practicing an arm technique took time to adjust to. Meeting with these types of demands shows just how much discipline I put into improving my playing performance. Although being a good tennis player is a milestone, it is achievable if one is dedicated to sacrificing their leisure time and hard work.
Gawande talks about how he came up with the idea of hiring a coach to watch him perform surgery after an experience he had playing tennis. Years of playing the game and not improving, Gawande incidentally finds himself play tennis with a young man who is a tennis couch. The young man gives Gawande a tip about keeping his feet under his body when hitting the ball. At first he is uncertain, stating, “My serve had always been the best part of my game…..With a few minutes of tinkering, he’d added at least ten miles an hour to my serve. I was serving harder than I ever had in my life” (Gawande, 2011, p.3). Gawande is so greatly impacted by this experience that he decides to hire a coach to help him with is professional endeavors.
The physical demands of tournament tennis players can be and usually are very grueling. The body is using both anaerobic and aerobic metabolism along with anaerobic and aerobic muscle fiber types. Tennis is a high intensity sport requiring hundreds of short bursts of activity. Most points only last around 10 seconds(anaerobic) but there is only 25 seconds of rest in between points and 90 seconds of rest in between games which requires the player to have endurance(aerobic). Tennis matches can be long and drawn out, lasting hours or they can be fast, intense and only last an hour. This means having adequate nutrition along with an efficient metabolism is key to being able to compete at the highest level.
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To sum things up, the teacher showed a lesson towards the book “The Inner Game of Tennis” has more than the lesson of playing tennis. This book show the process of having the basics thing done and just continue to evolve your skills with it. Techniques and skills that are the key point is very important in life involvement. My teacher told us that keeping this mentality will help you continue to have a successful life if you keep this
Some people may think that tennis is just a blow off sport, that it doesn’t take any talent, and anyone can do it. I started playing tennis about 4 years ago and I remember how hard it was to learn. One of my best friends and I started playing together and his dad had taught him how to play, when he first started teaching me I got really frustrated because I would keep hitting the ball out and I found out that playing and coaching tennis was much harder than it seemed.
The United States Tennis Association or USTA has been around since 1881. Originally the USTA was known as the United States National Lawn Tennis Association. The group was started by a minor cluster of people in New York City. The present USTA is an organization with more than seven hundred thousand members. It invests one hundred percent of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, from the novice to the professional levels. There are many people who have trained with this organization and became great successes. An example of this is the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, or the Brian brothers, Bob and Mike.” In 1916, National Junior and National Boys’ Championships were added and Girls’ Championships were instituted in 1917. A year later juniors, boys and girls, were ranked for the first time. It was ten years later that the Junior Development Program was instituted.”(USTA) The USTA has developed young athletes by starting them young, identifying their talent by “Talent ID”, entering competition to produce skills, and encouraging the parents to support their children.
Tennis is cruel and challenging, it’s a sport of variety. Tennis is a component of ranking, trust, partnership, teamwork, hardworking and much other knowledge. It teaches me how to build up trust with my partner, and also, recognize the dark side of this world, countless competition in everyday life. Everyone is trying to take your position, and only thing you can do is let them take it or fight for it.
Creative new training methods, developed by coaches, athletes and sport scientists, are aimed to help improve the quality and quantity of athletic training ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). However, these methods have encountered a consistent set of barriers including overtraining ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). Due to these barriers, the need for physical and mental recovery in athletics brought an increasing attention in practice and in research ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1).
The ILTF drops the word 'lawn' to take on its present name, the International Tennis
Hearing the loud “thump” as the ball hits the racket is extremely satisfying, especially if your life now revolves around this fast-paced and exhilarating sport. Tennis is an outdoor game played by two individuals or pairs of players on a clay or grass court that’s divided by a low net. Each game is played with tennis rackets and small, yellow elastic balls. Tennis was first introduced in Wales and the United Kingdom in 1873 by “Major Walter Wingfield” (tennistheme.com). While most sports are easy to pick up, tennis takes extreme dedication to learn how to play the game, to perfect the amount of technique it takes, as well as its great impact on one’s personal life.
She has been practicing the game ever since she was a little girl, by trying to improve in her weak spots, completing vigorous training programs with her fitness coaches, and perfecting her serve until it hits consistency. The Journal of Sport Behavior states that “when task-oriented, an individual focuses on learning, improvement, and meeting the demands of the activity” (Eisenbarth & Petlichkoff, 2012, 388). Williams refers to herself as a student of the game, telling reporters that she is “always yearning to learn more”. The Journal of Sport Behavior also states that “task-oriented athletes believe sport success stems from working hard, exerting high levels of effort, and improving skills. Moreover, task-oriented athletes tend to select challenging tasks that require effort for successful completion” (Eisenbarth & Petlichkoff, 2012,
The first thing and it is one of the most important factors in sports is physical fitness. Tennis players pay special attention to cardio vascular and running speed trainings to keep their bodies in good shape, and not be out of breath after the first game. Speed is necessary to change direction and reach the ba...
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My love for tennis blossomed at the young age of eleven. During middle school my peers knew me as the boy who was remarkably talented at tennis and I savored that title. Butterflies floated throughout my youthful body whenever someone complimented me. As the years passed, my dad nurtured me into a top player. Before I knew it high school arrived and it was time to compete at a higher level. My excitement was out of this world, but I knew my dad could no longer push me forward and my future was up to me. However, the ego I developed over the years blocked what lie in front of me. I wasn’t looking at the bigger picture; the hard work demanded of me, teamwork, and the motivation to reach an ultimate goal. Throughout my four years of participating
Do you ever think your sport is getting tough? Think again, whatever sport you're playing is easy peasy compared to table tennis! Table tennis is by far the biggest challenge for athletes that want a real challenge. What other sports can compare to table tennis's blood pumping adrenaline rushing one on one challenge? Table tennis is extremely difficult to be at a professional level that's why you hardly ever hear anyone going further than the recreational level, the hand-eye coordination is insane! The reason why table tennis is so hard is because it is easy to play but hard to master. This is by far the hardest sport to play!