This tennis season, spring ’06, I’ve initiated with the boys’ tennis team at MVHS what I call the Fusion Tennis Project.
I always begin a session by saying, “Don’t believe a word I say but do me the favor, as your coach, of finding out for yourself if there is any merit to what I say.”
This comment usually grabs their attention and I offer the club members the same comment.
The biggest obstacle that I’ve encountered thus far is the method and the vernacular to use to assist others in activating wide vision. In some tennis publications that I receive and at a recent tennis conference I attended at a local university I noticed that there is a budding industry that deals with improving vision that utilizes technical equipment to aid in training and developing of vision at no small expense. I say this, there is a new visual world out there waiting to be discovered by anyone willing to look and see. With wide vision a player is able to be more exclusive and less inclusive on where one directs attention.
Attention as mentioned in earlier articles is a type of mental energy by which we fortify the primary elements.
The court is the first of elements where wide vision is activated.
At the high school we have begun with some simple drills at the net to begin implementing wide vision and to become comfortable with it.
I’ll close for now and pick it up next month with a drill and a definition of the operating principle of Fusion Tennis. Club members are encouraged to email me with questions and/or get on the LATC Fusion Tennis Project for some demonstrations at no charge. Thanks |
