The motivation behind this section is that all people, children and adults, don't want to make mistakes, particularly in front of others, and since beginning tennis players often take group lessons, beginners find themselves in exactly the environment they want to avoid, making many mistakes in front of their peers.
Studies have shown that one of the primary reasons that adults and juniors quit activities they are learning is because of the stress or anxiety of failure. You will find that the tips in this section meet this challenge and more. I call the concept you are about to see Shot Sequences without Interruption.
Players will see mistakes as part of the journey and become more self sufficient learners. This concept virtually eliminates the possibility of players dwelling on mistakes and makes tennis more full and fun and successful for the advancing player learning shot combinations. Take a look.
Shot combinations and we tell them to do serve and volleys for example that's what we will demonstrate, but instead of doing serve and volleys, they do a serve, they make a mistake, the return doesn't go over, they never really get practice. So here is the typical thing, you tell the players to serve and volley. They miss the serve and if the serve goes over, here the return doesn't go or does go and then they come in and they are not really getting it going, and in maybe 20 minutes, they will get one time perhaps to apply ball sequence. After all our goal is to do this.
Serve, return, first volley, second, and then the winning volley, okay, that's the idea is to get into the net and put the ball away, but they don't get that form. So a situation that we can create self is dilemma -- because when you think about it, now you can use a person's big pockets to you can use a pouch, that is up to you. Think about all the intermediate players who think they are intermediates but they can't do shot combinations yet, think about all of your advanced beginners who would like to be intermediates but you know, unless they can do serve and volley sequences, our approaching volley sequences, or return of serve, chip and charge sequences, can they really get to that 3.5, 4.0 level and beyond, not really.
So we go through this sequence, and I missed the serve and she hits, and now I get my volley and she misses. Now I am into the net, now I move in and I hit my angle volley, now I have completed a five ball sequence. Well, the mentality change is drastic. So every time they do a sequence you have them complete it, and this is completely different than what is commonly practiced in lessons across the country.
Alright, we are ready, so I serve and she returned, I missed, you can see this, and my winning volley, I have completed the sequence, and in a half hour every single time they begin the sequence, you want them to complete it. This is the difference between this kind of practice and warming up at the net, working on volleys, going at the base line, hitting some serves and then saying, let's say a match and expecting them to put it together. That's a big difference. So I would like to you all try that with your students also.
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