Our teachings, Modern Tennis Methodology, MTM for short, are totally natural, efficient, and non intrusive. After all, it is you, the being, the spirit, who plays tennis, not the mind (read THINKING) with a bunch of ideas that complicate the process and your performance in the game. The hands and the feel of the ball…
Roger is back on track for his comeback in 2017. Two things will be the clue to his success, provided he regains his speed of foot: FIRST, his extreme technical simplicity, which most observers call his incredible fluidity. SECOND, his forehand open stance, which was compromised by an unfortunate one year stint, an intense training…
There is an intimate relationship between simplicity and the quality of your game. Actually, by actual survey, the top pros get to that stage by eliminating as many complications as possible from their game. This process, for them, becomes so extreme that they favor coaches that make them FEEL they are playing a simpler and…
For most people, tennis being easy is a difficult concept to agree with. So let me ask you a few questions: Do you like applying your own physical makeup, slow, fast, strong or delicate, easily when you play? Or do you adjust to strict ideas as to how to perform (i.e. conventional)? Do you like…
Conventional tennis coaching is grounded on the premise that you must think about your feet. In contrast, Modern Tennis Methodology frees you to move in a totally natural, instinctive way. Tennis is, as you may have noticed, a game of emergencies: you are compelled to run to get to the ball! What would be the easiest…
It’s about time to drop age-old misconceptions about this wonderful sport. Tennis learning and therefore coaching is much easier than most experts assert. It’s been made difficult, complex, complicated. Modern Tennis Methodology is simple and based on hand-eye coordination, leaving the feet free to move as naturally as possible. MTM is not footwork stance dependent….
Humans have an inborn desire to know themselves. Sports have become not only a discharger of accumulated energy but also a vehicle to show one’s mastery over a simple task, in most cases, of controlling and placing a ball, and a tool to learn controlling one’s body as well. Whether baseball, basketball, tennis, football, soccer,…
Humans have an inborn desire to know themselves. Sports have become not only a discharger of accumulated energy but also a vehicle to show one’s mastery over a simple task, in most cases, of controlling and placing a ball, and a tool to learn controlling one’s body as well. Whether baseball, basketball, tennis, football, soccer,…
The ideal kinetic chain for tennis for a human body is rotational, not linear as commonly taught. Simple changes of motion and direction transform into force. Bruce Lee found that out for Martial Arts. Oscar Wegner did that for tennis. Open stance and topspin are becoming the major basics of the modern game. Furthermore, ideal footwork…
How to hit a forehand: Get near the ball and face it as if going to shake hands. Meet it in front and from below in an open stance (facing the net), stroke it gently and lift it over the net. Loading on the right foot, let the body turn to the left (for a right-hander)….
