Is “Snap Your Wrist” Good Advice?
Well… no. Not empirically, anyway. Just look around at your local courts, club, or league, and you’ll see plenty of “wrist snapping,” despite seeing precious little, you know… good serving. The cue just doesn’t...
“You Can’t Teach That”
What is a “forehand,” really? For many, it’s simply a tennis stroke, but for us, it’s something else. We consider “the forehand” to be a class of related movement patterns. The entire class constitutes...
Develop Your Coaching Immune System
Due to modern information technology, you have literally thousands of hours of tennis coaching at your fingertips, at all times. Go on YouTube and search for something as simple as “tennis serve,” and you...
The Forehand “C” – Myths vs Reality
The “C” swing path on the forehand does exist, but I’m not a fan of its current mainstream classification as a first principle of the forehand, because it isn’t one. The shape and manner...
5 Goals for 5-Year-Olds
The primary goal of a tennis lesson isn’t to make your student a better player in the single hour you have with them. If that happens, great, but it’s a secondary bonus, not the...
What is Proprioception, Anyway?
Proprioception is a sense, like sight or smell. A person’s sense of proprioception is their sense of where their limbs are in space. You might be wondering: isn’t that just a subset of other...
Free the Foot, Free the Hips
At Fault Tolerant Tennis, we teach fundamentals. Today, though, we’re going to dive into a detail. Why? Because this detail, specifically, messes up so many players that it’s worth addressing on it’s own. In...
Yelling Isn’t Coaching
Let’s start with a funny story, told by strength coach Matt Reynolds, detailing the absurdity of how Baylor football players are “coached” during their strength and conditioning. Here’s the link to the clip (timestamped...
5 Signs of a Great Coach
A great lesson is worth infinitely more than a bad one. And I mean that literally. It isn’t worth double, or triple, or quadruple its less effective counterpart. No, the difference in value is infinite. With...
Dynamic vs Static Positions
While there are numerous different teaching mistakes that lead to ineffective coaching, many of them stem from the same fundamental misunderstanding – confusing cause and effect. Some body movements are actively, volitionally caused by the...