by pstokstad | Apr 1, 2023 | tennis
Overview There’s always the bleeding edge, what you are reaching for and hope to stabilize, and then there’s what you can actually do on court. What works against the wall or the ball machine doesn’t always directly translate to game play, due to the...
by pstokstad | Oct 22, 2021 | tennis
Not to diminish in any way the often fraught decisions that people make in deciding to publicly declare a new sexual orientation, but there really is a sort of resistance to be overcome at times in making major changes to your tennis game. In my case I’m...
by pstokstad | Sep 30, 2021 | tennis
You may think that after almost 60 years on court you know all there is to know about the serve but of course that’s not true or at age 70+ we’d all be serving like Djokovic (slow motion): Even without watching that video you can see in the screen shot the...
by pstokstad | Sep 15, 2021 | tennis
Starting with a limp wrist has all kinds of baggage as a phrase, but in tennis it turns out to have some high-level adherents in terms of serve technique, namely Novak Djokavic , who lifts the arm in his serve prep with the racket more or less dangling straight down....
by pstokstad | Sep 3, 2021 | tennis
The hazard of following my advice in How to Be Your Own Best Tennis Pro is that you have no one but yourself to come up with ideas on what to work on next, plus you really can’t effectively evaluate your own strokes because there is almost certain to be an...
by pstokstad | Aug 20, 2021 | tennis
I’m on vacation today, and so had a lavishly lengthy amount of time of time to work on various strokes this a.m. with my friends Big Red (ball machine) and Basket Case (ball hopper – filled with a boxful of Infiniti pressureless balls). Adding to that my...
