How Should You Hit the Tennis Ball and Where

By Gavin Dye If you are wanting to improve your tennis game then the following tennis tips on how to hit the tennis ball and basic tennis tactics should help you improve your tennis game, and start you winning more games.

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Tennis Footwork – 5 Big Ways it Helps You Play Great Tennis

By Paul Gold Great tennis footwork is the key to great tennis, which is a fact that so many players overlook. Here are the top 5 reasons why improving your tennis footwork improves your game!! 1. GREATER SHOT POWER Developing your footwork skills results in greater power in your shots for the following (and very important) reason

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How Nadal and Federer Use the 5 Fundamentals of Tennis Technique to Rule Tennis

By Paul Gold Mention the names Roger Federer & Rafa Nadal in any tennis circles and you will normally set people off to wax lyrical about how great they both are. And rightly so – they are two of the greatest tennis players of all time! These guys gave us two of the greatest ever matches with the Wimbledon final of last year and the Australian Open of this year (2009)! Now whilst we all get plenty of opportunity to marvel and chat about their shotmaking, their insane levels of super-human mental toughness and all the other qualities that go to make up a tennis champion most people get it wrong when asked to name the number 1 thing these guys do every single point! The reason why you and nobody else seems to get it straight away is because it is so ……easy!!! Apart from being ridiculously easy, it is also No1 on the list of what we call technical fundementals that govern good tennis playing and note I am not saying that every player must play a particular way or the same way, BUT every good player can/must have these fundementals in their shot production. The good news is that SO CAN YOU!! You can start working on it (and them) RIGHT AWAY and improve these 5 fundamentals and improve your stroke play and your tennis game dramatically.

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Ping Pong for Beginners: What You Need to Start Paddling Away

Ping Pong is a simple game that everyone can play. Because of the fact that it doesn’t demand as much as other sports do, ping pong is very popular. You can play it in any weather, indoors, and you can also play it with minimal space. Playing ping pong doesn’t require you to be [...]

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Getting To Old Or Too Tired To Play Sports? Start Collecting Instead!

I played football from the age of eight years old until age twenty and then continued in bodybuilding to this day at the age of 45. Even though I look younger than my age and younger guys approach me all the time to play rugby or sandlot football my knees and hips just can’t take [...]

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