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STROKES ARE BASED ON 'FEEL' NOT MECHANICS!
 
Remember the basic principles for learning tennis with my system is to develop a 'feel' for different strokes along with developing mental skills through REPETITION.  Repetition of simple procedures create that 'feel' NOT an over emphasis on the technical skills and mechanics.  Click here for an article that I wrote on 'feel' vs 'mechanics' in April 2001

Welcome to Tom's Online Tennis Lesson, sponsored by TennisWarrior.com, "Where you can learn to think like a pro!"

When I am teaching tennis I do not try to improve players by focusing on the excellent shots that they make. Instead, I improve their core game and let the excellent shots take care of themselves. There is a dynamic principle in this concept of first improving their core game then letting the excellent shots take care of themselves.

Cause and result relationships like this have always fascinated me. They  exist everywhere: in sports, the military, business, the arts, or any sphere of endeavor where excellence is the goal. If you can figure out the real causes that lead to success, then you will be way ahead of your competition on the tennis court .

For instance, remember how I taught you in past lessons that the technical is a result, not a cause, of your playing well. The cause for a player being technically sound is MASSIVE REPETITION. If you make the technical the cause, then you have the dilemma that exists today in tennis clubs all over the world. It goes like this, "bend your knees, keep your eye on the ball, elbow in, stay still, stay balanced, don't look up, weight forward and wrist firm." Now you are expected to go out there and play perfectly relaxed, instinctive tennis!

Well now, all the technical skills I have mentioned above are the results of many, many, many hours of practice hitting tennis balls without overly focusing on each and every technique. Understanding the true cause/result relationship will speed up your progress in the tennis arena. The cause/result relationship is king! 

Think about this. In any given match you have a certain number of swings at a ball. Out of those swings you make a certain number of shots. Whatever amount of shots you make during your matches is your core game. My goal is to raise a player's core game, not to improve a player's perfect winners. When you raise the core game you will be hitting more balls back with the same amount of swings! This results in a core game improvement that is subtle, yet powerful. How powerful? When the core game improves, your wins will go up substantially. Now that's powerful! Your focus should be long term. That means you practice hitting the ball again and again and again - repetition, repetition, repetition!

If today you take 300 swings at a ball and 200 land in the court, 4 months from now that same 300 swings will produce 220 in the court. This does not seem significant but that simple change could take a 6-0, 6-0 lost and turn it into a 6-0, 6-0 win. This is powerful!
 
Now, do you have to give up your winners or excellent shots? Of course not. They will come naturally. You will find yourself hitting more winners. Why? You are hitting more balls back. Your control has improved. You will find more opportunities to go for it! The key is that these exhilarating shots have become relaxed results and are NOT being forced. You simply just play your game and when the shot is there you take it.

Your tennis pro,

Tom Veneziano



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TESTIMONIAL

Tom,

I love your book, "The Truth About Winning." I have a philosophy called "automatic tennis"and it focuses more on execution than mental work, but the concepts work great together. I like how you say: CHAMPIONS do the simple things better than anyone else....

GREAT BOOK!

Mike Henderson
Lititz, Pennsylvania

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ADDENDUM:  I teach a total system of thinking in regard to stroke production and mental attitude which I cannot explain in one email.  Although each lesson can stand alone you will derive tremendous physical and mental benefit by understanding the total philosophy.  These emails, my web site, books, and tapes are part of a course in tennis, not just isolated tennis tips.  They all fit together into a system.  A system that once understood can help you not only learn tennis at a faster rate, and develop mental toughness, but also give you the knowledge necessary to help guide you and your children to a better understanding of the developmental process.

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