Breakthrough Tennis: A Revolutionary Approach to the Game ANNOTATION
This book is for players who feel they may have stalled at a plateau below their potential and for the coaches who strive with their athletes to help them achieve new levels of performance. Breakthrough Tennis enlists the player to serve as his or her own teacher while focusing on three essential components of more advanced play: balance, timing, and concentration.
SYNOPSIS
This book is for players who feel they may have stalled at a plateau below their potential and for the coaches who strive with their athletes to help them achieve new levels of performance. Breakthrough Tennis enlists the player to serve as his or her own teacher while focusing on three essential components of more advanced play: balance, timing, and concentration.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Clark (engineering, George Washington Univ.), teaches ``systems thinking'' and applies the principles of physics and mental discipline to the game of tennis. He emphasizes the components of ``balance, timing and concentration'' as keys to improved playing and writes ``to really learn tennis you need to explore it in your mind.'' Appropriately, the first half of his book is about the mental aspects of the game. The second half covers basic and advanced techniques and provides drills with accompanying photos. While comparable to Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis ( LJ 6/1/74) and John Yandell's Visual Tennis ( LJ 5/15/90), Clark's book is more helpful for the advanced player who has reached a playing plateau. Recommended for sports collections.-- J. Sara Paulk, Concord P.L., N.H.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"Rolf Clark's approach to tennis allows people freedom from having to play the 'right' way or trying to find the answer that will finally fix their game. His concept of inquiry leaves people powerful in their own development. How they play becomes part of them rather than something a coach told them." - Jonathan Clark, President Tennis Professionals Foundation (and no relation to the author) — Jonathan Clark
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