Tennis Improvement Memo 144. How to easily push your opponent to the back of the court?

▶ Even with the same approach speed, the "flight distance" is completely different

How to improve your long jump record.

Many junior high students who aren't even on the track team try to jump as far as possible by taking off forward.

However, if this consciousness of "forward, forward" is too strong, it backfires.

No matter how fast your approach is, if your consciousness of "forward" is too strong, your jump trajectory tends to be low and parallel to the ground.

If that happens, you won't be able to gain much flight distance.

In the long jump, it seems that if you try to jump "upward" while also going "forward," it becomes easier to improve your record.

When I was in junior high, my advisor told me to "go higher, higher!" and although I was skeptical, thinking "this isn't the high jump, is it?", when I tried it, my record certainly improved significantly.

That's right,to get distance, you must seek height.

Even with the same approach speed, the flight distance should be completely different.

▶ Tennis is the same

The reason I am talking about this is that since it is a movement performed on Earth where gravity acts,"tennis is the same".

In other words, if you want to hit a deep ball with your stroke, you don't have to put in effort and try hard to hit it forward;if you hit it high, it will fly deep easily.

As you know, deep balls make it easy to push your opponent to the back of the court.

Moreover, because it flies easily without having to try hard, you retain mental and physical leeway (related article "Activating the courage to 'not do' something").

And such balls are less likely to result in net errors, and in doubles, you can also expect the effect of being less likely to be caught by the opponent's net player.

Of course, even if you hit it high, it depends on the balance, and as statedhere,if you hit it straight up above your head, no matter how high you hit it, the flight distance is zero meters.

▶ The complicit relationship between height and depth

When people talk about tennis control, they tend to imagine left-right directionality, butif you establish an image of controlling height, it becomes easier to stabilize your shots.

I am not saying, "Let's always hit lobs."

Even when hitting basic strokes, you should vary the height.

And tennis is a sport wherecontrolling the distance of depth is more difficult than the left-right direction.

As mentioned earlier, although it depends on the balance,the height of the trajectory tends to be complicit with depth, so you will cultivate a sense of manipulating the difficult distance perception.

Just like in the long jump example above, if you are conscious of "forward, forward," the sense of depth is hard to understand, and you are also prone to net errors.

Furthermore, if the ball power is weak, it becomes easier for the opponent's net player to catch it in doubles (it goes without saying that if you hit it shallow and floating, it will also be caught).

▶ Because the "hitting point perspective" and "your own perspective" are different

Also, in the case of tennis, since you look at the opponent's court from your "own perspective" located at eye level, rather than from the "hitting point perspective" where knee-to-chest height is often used,you must also be careful of the assumption that easily leads to a trajectory image of hitting "forward, forward" (related article "What is the 'reason' for repeated back-outs and net errors?").

Since the brain recognizes the scenery from a higher position than where the ball is actually hit, there are many cases where it is difficult to have the image of hitting upward that is originally necessary to make the shot successful.

▶ Tennis will become easier!

To summarize this talk, there are two points.

1. Implement an image of varying the height.

2. Implement spatial cognition of the scenery seen from the "hitting point perspective" rather than your "own perspective" (actually crouch down and look at the opponent's court from knee, waist, or chest height).

If you acquire the "sense of distance control" that is difficult when playing tennis, tennis will become easier.

▶ In javelin throwing, "35-36 degrees flies the furthest"

By the way, I forgot which track and field competition it was, but I remember a commentator explaining in a scene where javelin thrower Haruka Kitaguchi was throwing that"35-36 degrees flies the furthest".

That is probably a fact, but instead of understanding it as a number,you should grasp the sense of distance with the feeling of controlling the height yourself.

▶ "About this much" with your own sense

As introduced here, following the advice to 'learn to cook without looking at recipes' means controlling things with your own intuition—'about this much'—rather than calculating 'how many grams of what to put in' in your head.

Whether that is a pinch or two pinches is likely up to the preference of the person eating, but tastingit, or being able to cook relying on the texture (the five senses), which is explained as being even more important than the taste, seems to lead to delicious results (which is why I believe the author, Yoko Arimoto, explained that she uses thick-cut meat more often than thinly sliced meat).

This is the reason why we can share the worldview where the 'Meat from Hajime Ningen Gyatoruz' looks so delicious, isn't it?

I live a 'one meal a day' lifestyle, and I cook almost all my dinners myself, but I think I am able to make dishes that satisfy me well and deliciously without looking at recipes (and perhaps even better without looking at them) (related article: 'You cannot diet by counting calories').

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