Thanks guys! This is the best tennis podcast on the internet!

@GreatBaseTennis

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Carl! Appreciate the kind words and support!

Love this!!! Simple, clear, articulate. Verbal and non-verbal communication. More positive signs of great coaching

That was the best tennis podcast I’ve ever listened to! Thank you!!!

Thank you so much Great Base for the free educational opportunities! I don’t agree with all of its principles, few professional tennis coaches do. But you’ve put a lifetime of work into the system. Thanks. I’m still learning.

Thank you. You have made my teaching career a breeze. Greatbase Tennis forever!

@GreatBaseTennis

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it, Brad!

@swalterstennis

3 жыл бұрын

What were you teaching before Great Base? How has Great Base helped your teaching career?

@tennispunk2

3 жыл бұрын

@@swalterstennis I am a PTR Professional and I teach the PTR discipline.

Love this content many intresting comments 💪

This is some good stuff.

I love the perspective. I've never known anyone who copied federer and ended up doing anything but hurting themselves. I, on the other hand, copied jack sock and ended up with a forehand that I was very satisfied with. sock definitely more copyable than fed haha. To be clear though, my perspective is a recreational perspective. This podcast is talking a lot about developing adolescents and juniors into potential pros, so two different worlds.

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@GreatBaseTennis

3 жыл бұрын

Danke, Lio!

Petr Korda, Guy Forget forehand, Edberg backhand, Rosewall under spin, Edberg Volley, These players. Stich serve, Lew Hoad had good strokes Borg serve

Okay so Steve Smith says its good to teach youngsters the two-handed forehand. In instructional videos he says to slide the off hand to bevel two to close the racquet face on the two-handed backhand. Should youngsters do the same with the two-handed forehand's off-hand (that would be on the bottom of the racquet grip)? Thanks Great Base!

Ed Faulkner’s Tennis the green book

Nick Bollettieri a factory, and the players look it. VIC BRADEN class and technique

I actually never knew thay jack sock's hero was Andy roddick. My hero was also Andy roddick growing up, and when jack sock had his glorious year that lead him to top 10 in the world, I fell in love with him too. To find out that he also idolized Andy roddick, as I did, made me a little emotional.

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Tennis teaching community is probably the only sport that encourages people “don’t “ copy pros. You don’t teach kids swim freestyle with head lifting up and tell them side breath is for Olympians only. You teach them flip turn even though an open turn will do and a lot easier. Same thing with golf and baseball, instructors teach the latest skill used by pros. Only tennis, you keep mention don’t copy Federer, don’t do windshield wiper while every atp pros are doing it. Sure when Federer, nadal first came on scene, their swing is considered radical, but 20 years later, you still say don’t copy their swing. Maybe that’s why Americans haven’t won slams for almost 20 years?

@Sickbishric

3 жыл бұрын

I get where you’re coming from but they’re saying tennis kids and people copy pros when they haven’t even got the basics down yet ala the up down up, inside out swing path like figure of 8, low to high, shoulder unit turn etc.... and it’s very easy to have an inefficient or flawed forehand swing when you don’t even have the basics down yet and copy pros. I think most players develop their own style once the basics are rock solid ala the idiosyncrasies

@swalterstennis

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. But Great Base is 100% linear method. Baseball, golf and most the tennis world is rotational method. Pros are rotational. I think the best method is a linear/rotational hybrid for juniors. Great Base is based on Vic Braden’s mostly 65-square inch wooden racket linear method. Rackets are so big now, like 50% larger than when Braden wrote his 1977 book “Tennis For The Future,” which I used in my teaching at Harry Hopman/Saddlebrook international academy and Gorin Academy. I also taught at Peter Burwash International and John Newcombe’s Tennis Ranch. Now I use a combination of all the methods I’ve learned through my 40 year of coaching. It’s nice to be traditional but you don’t want to completely ignore advances in the sport. As Vic Braden would say, “Teach them right the first time.” I agree.

@swalterstennis

3 жыл бұрын

I mostly agree. Great Base has a lot to offer and help beginners. They should tweak it and keep improving it though. Vic Braden was possibly the greatest coach ever but Vic was a scientist. He was a lifelong learner. I think you’ve seen some of the research and KZread videos I’ve studied. Keep tweaking, keep learning. You don’t want to be the last guy to make the changes to the modern game. At the USTA High Performance program I’ve been selected to four years, we are told, “Tennis changes every six months.” I don’t know about that, but it definitely changes every 43 years. Great Base is great, but let’s modernize it a little.

@bournejason66

3 жыл бұрын

@Richard Han well said and I agree with you. But one can also learn the basics from pros, right? If you watch the big 3 forehand analysis on YT, unit turn, racket drop below the ball, low to high...etc were all mentioned. What’s not to copy ? On top of that, many analysis videos pointed out modern pros swing rotationally as opposed to old school linear swing. That, to me is the key and not every local tennis coach teach that. To say something like: get inspiration from pros on YT but don’t copy it, or even said if you copy, copy Jack Sock forehand rather than Roger’s. That just mind boggling to me. I know they are American and want to put an American face to it. But at least suggest Agassi. Sock’s convoluted, unnatural motion with extreme western grip is the furthest example you would suggest people to copy.

@bournejason66

3 жыл бұрын

Steve Walters I admire your growth mindset. Your students are lucky to have a coach like you. There’re tons of similarities between big 3 in terms of their forehand or any shots actually. And any players can learn the mechanics from them. A 100% linear method is definitely outdated IMO, I am curious how you find the balance between linear and rotational to teach juniors? And why not teach them rotational directly? Don’t they have to “unlearn” some of those linear part later? Cheers!

Interesting but that guy needs testing for dementia, repeats the same stories constantly