Tennis Strokes and Tactics: Improve Your Game
Tennis Strokes and Tactics: Improve Your Game
A tennis tune-up for players of all skill levels. From the serve, ground strokes and volleys to the smashes, lobs and drop shots, this unique coaching manual illustrates each stroke from five angles: front, back, left, right and above. In this all-around skills guide, tennis pro John Littleford delivers expert guidance to identify accurate positioning of feet, body and the racquet — just like having a personal pro watching, correcting and coaching every swing. Tennis Strokes and Tactics features step-by-step analysis and multi-angle photography that illustrates how to: Track the ball to the racquet head using hand-eye coordination Maintain correct posture and good footwork Establish correct and comfortable grips Hit a forehand
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Cape Dory
Tennis is Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, a husband/wife duo from Denver in Colorado. For fans of Best Coast, Dum Dum Girls and Real Estate.
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A very good and unique tennis instruction book,
I am a USTA 4.5 level player and I found this book very helpful to my game. The photos from different angles really show you how to accurately position your body and racket. It is really an excellent book to tune up your game. I think the book is well written and very easy to understand. Most of all, it is fun to read.
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|Very Good For New Players,
I just purchased this book to help improve my tennis game. I have been playing just a few months with my roommate (who was a professional tennis instructor). He is good at demonstrating different techniques and shots, but I needed to have something to help me when he was not able to be around to instruct me.
The book is very nice, paperback, with full color pictures on quality, glossy paper. I often toss it in my tennis bag, so it’s durable too.
The book shows each shot in a succession of four to six photos from four angles. It then goes in depth detailing what you should be doing at each moment of each swing. They cover most of the basic forehand, backhand, drop shot, overhead, and volley shots. They also have a couple of service demonstrations (though I would recommend watching some youtube slow motion videos for learning service technique).
The book also includes a few pointers about the game, such as touching briefly on scoring, serving (which side, etc), sportsmanship, conduct, doubles formations, and a glossary. Overall an invaluable book for a new player, but one that I think will only be of great use until a 4.5 to 5+ level. Great for the developing player, and it has helped my forehand topspin quite a bit!
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|Very good material,
Very good book. Packed with explanatory illustrations, easy to understand for various levels.With very clear explanation of the mechanics of movement. I recommend.
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|Fantastic!,
This is a great album. It has the airy, summery feel that you would expect from a band that had been out to sea for months on end, inspiring the songs included on this LP. Definitely worth checking out. Plus Alaina Moore’s voice is intoxicating.
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|Better recording can be found.,
I could not agree more with the reviews that talked about how sterile this cd is. They inspired me to look for the original recordings which I found cheaper at the Rough Trade shops website in London, where they sell the cd as put out by Carmen San Diego records. Heavier base and drums and edgier and Alaina Moore’s voice blends in perfectly. The album holds your interest throughout, unlike the Fat Possum version which loses it’s way halfway through and ends like a dated mid-70s album. Also the latter one shows up the weaknesses of Alaina’s singing. The RT version also has a bonus cd of the first 4 singles which are rawer again. The plus of the FP cd is that ‘Take me somewhere’ and ‘Bimini bay’ are actually slightly better in that they have a late 50s, early 60s Shirelles type sound.
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|What happened to the spunk of the originals?,
This album is pretty sweet. Totally awesome songs, only a few that are weak.
I was totally pumped about this album after hearing their singles this summer. They were the best part of my summer soundtrack. This year’s “The Sky was High.” The songs were just so chill and poppin’. There was bit of punk and spunk in them. They were lively. Just like the summer.
I was surprised that when I heard them on the album they were remixed in a way that took the punk and spunk out of the songs. It’s like they lost all their energy. It was like when you buy that oldies album and you find out the songs aren’t by the original artists. It’s like they remixed them or re-recorded them to make them sound more “professional.” Two songs in particular stood out to me. “Marathon” looses all it pop and brightness. It sounds like mud as compared to the single this summer. The vocals don’t float above the music, but are bogged down below it. “Baltimore” also looses it’s drum poppin’ intro and also sounds like it was dragged through mud. Such a shame. Especially for people who have not heard the singles.
It made me wonder what the other songs on this album that I had not heard yet would have sounded like if they were not blandly produced.
Why did they have to take away the magic and the energy? Are they trying to get on Fallon or something? Was it not their decision or was it some label guy that wanted it more mainstream and less punk?
The same thing happened to Best Coast. They had some sweet 7 inches and I was totally pumped for their debut album. But the magic was gone. The punk and energy was gone. Now Best Coast is like Nora Jones. But she was on Fallon…
So basically…
Tennis, you had some sweet songs. Why did you have to go and make them all wack? Believe in yourself. Don’t try so hard to fit in. You were beautiful like a bird. Now you sound like all the rest. Go on another boat trip and reflect on your mistake. And never make it again.
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