Tennis Improvement Memo 491. The Cult of Form!?

▶ Mr. Takuro Morinaga and Mr. Tadashi Kakihana

Since I was a regular listener to this, and inspired by the book "Zaimu Shinri (Finance Cult) - A Giant Cult with 80 Million Believers" written by Takuro Morinaga (published by Sangokan Shinsha, sold by Forest Publishing), I have recently been thinking about advocating for a "Cult of Form" to overturn the common sense of tennis instruction. I reflect on Moritaku-san's way of life, which was not bound by common sense and did not pander to authority.


What I liked even more was his
sense of humor.

The "bickering" with Kakki, or Tadashi Kakihana, was, needless to say, "love" backed by mutual trust.

▶ Are you being brainwashed!?

Once again, the "Cult of Form".

To use strong language, couldn't the way many tennis enthusiasts blindly believe that "if you fix your form, you will get better at tennis" be called "brainwashing"? (Related article: "De-brainwashing from the 'Cult of Form'").

As far as I know, the "Myth of Form" has been rampant in the field of tennis instruction in Japan for over 30 years.

And the "end of self-denial" where you end up thinking "it's because I'm no good" when you can't improve despite working hard on form correction.

No, this has been rampant not only in tennis but in the entire field of sports instruction, including physical education in schools.

Because they instruct you to "swing your arms and lift your legs," themovements of children who were running around freely and energetically became awkward (Related article: "When you 'become conscious' of it, you get awkward").

▶ Just like the geocentric and heliocentric theories

Even so, the relationship between conventional tennis instruction and Tennis Zero isas if it were the geocentric and heliocentric theories (Related article: "The sorrow of Galileo Galilei who proved the 'heliocentric theory'").

Living in the modern age, I would also believe in the geocentric theory if I weren't told otherwise, so I can well understand the feelings of the majority of people who support the "Myth of Form" (Related article: "Nightingale said").

▶ People who improve quickly

Not only is form instruction and form correction ineffective, but most tennis players, with a few exceptions, have not yet realized the shocking fact that being conscious of itactually makes you worse.

The "time, money, and effort" spent are not free.

That is why the more serious, studious, and research-oriented people are about things like how to hit, the morethey suffer.

Conversely, the people who seem less serious, who let the coach's words go in one ear and out the other during lessons and just do things quickly based on their own intuition, are the ones whoimprove quickly.

Looking around, it is undoubtedlythe "bullseye" (Related article: "Did you succeed with form instruction!?").

Only when you look back on your own tennis (sports) life, where form correction and swing modification did not work, with an open mind andfirst realize that "it might be different," will a "revolution" occur.

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