Jim McLennan's Essential Tennis Instruction
Jim McLennan’s Essential Tennis Instruction is for tennis players of all age and ability, who love the game, and who want to play better.
Instructional materials cover strokes, strategy, court position and more. Learn how to get more spin on your forehand, more power on your serve, and more consistency off the ground.
Jim has played tennis his entire life. He has studied with some of the game's greatest coaches, he is a featured seminarian at international
tennis teacher conferences, the editor of TennisOne.com, and formerly (in the good old days) a nationally ranked player.
Experience his lucid, basic, accessible coaching – and your game will be the better for it.
- Update frequency
- every 51 days
- Average duration
- 1 minutes
- Episodes
- 13
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2016
ETI 047 | Will Staying Sideways help you hit up on the serve!
The common problem I see at the club, as well as on television, is where the server flexes at the waist at the hit - more or less jackknifing to create a little more ball speed.
And this action crea…
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Wed 24 Aug 2016
ETI 046 | Gravity Motion
ETI 046 Gravity MotionDownload this podcast – You may need to right-click and select Save Link As to download the file to your computer
Agility = moving quickly and easily. We know when we are glidi…
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Wed 15 Jun 2016
ETI 045 | Sidespin Serve
Pete Sampras, "I won 7 Wimbledon titles because I had the best second serve in the game."
The second serve is about spin that will make the ball curve down as it crosses the net. Yes it may corner …
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Tue 08 Mar 2016
ETI 044 l Topspin and the Racquet Drop
ETI 044 Topspin and the Racquet DropDownload this podcast – You may need to right-click and select Save Link As to download the file to your computer
Consider the critical 24 inch hitting zone when c…
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Wed 03 Feb 2016
ETI 043 | Point of Contact Area of Contact
ETI 043 Point of Contact Area of ContactDownload this podcast – You may need to right-click and select Save Link As to download the file to your computer
Ball control – ours is a game of accuracy, of…
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Wed 11 Nov 2015
ETI 042 | Measure Twice Cut Once
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The carpenter measures twice to cut once, to make sure the cut is accurate, for if too much is cut off that mistake…
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Mon 12 Oct 2015
ETI 041 | Quantum Tennis/Golf
Many interesting parallels have been drawn between the tennis serve and the golf swing. Once the tennis player (or golfer) gets the feel for the mechanical elements of the serve (or golf swing) then …
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Thu 23 Jul 2015
ETI 039 | Improvise (when necessary) on the tennis court
A few years ago I was encouraged to take a class in improvisational theater. It took me months to find the courage (stage fright and more) but I finally enrolled and then thoroughly enjoyed this cla…
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Mon 11 May 2015
ETI 038 | Dead Hands
The 3 R's of tennis - ready, read (where the ball is going) react!
As to your reaction - what precisely is your first move? What moves first, what initiates your preparation?
Really an important q…
00:02:47 |
Wed 08 Apr 2015
ETI 037 | The Art of Winning
80% of the points in professional end with an error, 20% with a winner.
As regards unforced errors, if your opponent never misses and is patient as the day is long, would you consider missing a rout…
00:02:58 |
Tue 17 Mar 2015
ETI 036 | Spin – Changing Two Things at Once
Three factors control your tennis shot - not your feet, not your eyes, not your balance (though all of those do help) but the only three elements are; Angle of the racquet face, Swing Path and Tempo.
00:02:29 |
Mon 23 Feb 2015
ETI 035 | The Dead Spot on the Racquet Face
Swing path, type of spin, power, 3d playback (with Zepp) but perhaps the most interesting as well as the most useful is the data that shows where you make contact on the racquet face.
And before goi…
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Thu 08 Jan 2015
ETI034 | Creating your own Report Card
Take a few moments with the following report card - a method to either evaluate your own skills, or use this with your coach or regular practice partner.
The idea is to take a deeper look at your "U…
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Tue 09 Dec 2014
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