Whether you've access to a simple tennis ball machine or a programmable 'bells and whistles' deluxe machine, you'll improve your tennis quicker by following tennis drills designed to build your game with shot sequence repetition.
Then, when you come to play your next tennis match, you'll be able to recall your tennis practice sessions, and access the 'unconcious' area of the brain, we all use when we're familiar with a process. This is the unthinking area of the brain that allows us to perform tasks well - a bit like the difference between how we drive after years of motoring, and our first driving lesson.
As we practice or drill over time, the 'competent' area of your brain will gradually take control of more and more of your performance, until you don't think a shot anymore - you just do! This is the level the top players play at, day in, day out.
The advanced machines from Lobster, SAM, Tennis Tutor and Playmate all have programmable shot sequence features, allowing you to 'key in' shot patterns that will work on any areas of weakness you choose to isolate.
Depending on the complexity of your ball machine and the level of your skills, you'll be able to introduce more complicated shot sequences to your drills that mimic real play. Even if your ball machine is a basic model, you should be able to string together simple 2 - 3 shot patterns as the building blocks of more complex combinations of tennis play.
If you're daunted at the prospect of programming your ball machine, most premium models come pre-equipped with tennis drills based on shot sequences drawn from real play. They can mimic the styles of certain players like 'aggressive', 'baseliner', 'defensive' etc, or the expected play according to level of ability - a beginner will tend to play weaker shots with less spin towards the center of the court, for example.
A few ball machines even allow you to program your drills from your computer at home or work, and then upload your carefully considered routines to your tennis ball machine. With this ability, you won't have to waste a second of your productive time on court.
Nick Bollettieri is legendary in the world of tennis for being one of the best Tennis Coaches around. He founded the Bradenton Tennis Academy in Florida in 1978, and soon after his teaching techniques bore fruit with top players like Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Maria Sharapova and Jelena Jankovic -passing though his groundbreaking tennis boarding school.
He's recently spent two years bringing all his extensive tennis teaching knowledge together, condensed into a 10 DVD 2 part course. The initial 4 DVD segment is crammed full of drills to illustrate his concept of 'Control' 'Hurt' and 'Finish' phases in the construction of winning a tennis point.
It's inconceivable that this important body of tennis teaching will not markedly improve the tennis game of anyone who chooses to be enlightened!
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