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oh hey guys i'm doing a little bit of research for my channel
biomechanics very important i don't know that much about biomechanics that's why i have a
the biomechanics for dummies but the question is is it important to know about biomechanics whether
you're a coach or a player so here's the thing i do think it's very valuable for coaches to know
about biomechanics or any other subjects that can help you become a better coach see i think it's
important to know about biomechanics i think it's important to know about physics it's important to
know about psychology it's important to know about how the human body works so you can be
the best coach you can be now do you have to be a genius in those subjects absolutely not now the
beautiful thing about youtube is that we have all this super slow motion footage available for free
and anyone can do their own research you can make the slow motion footage even slower if you have
some kind of software editing software that you're using so everybody has the evidence how high level
tennis is played on their own hands they can do a lot of research and apply it to their own teaching
methodologies so yes i do think for coaches biomechanics is important as are the other things
that i mentioned previously but here is the super important question how about you guys the players
do you need to know anything about biomechanics to be able to improve in tennis or if you're a
beginner do you need to know about biomechanics in order to learn tennis absolutely 100
not now think about this scenario you come to me for a lesson and i tell you hey we're not going to
hit any balls first you got to read this book for a half hour and then we get started and you would
leave you wouldn't even take the lesson you would say nick you're crazy i'm not in school i came
here to play tennis and that's exactly what tennis is it's a game intuitive game for that matter
that you don't learn by studying about physics or biomechanics you'll learn it by
playing tennis come back to me right down the middle come on good work a beautiful job good
good now if you happen to take lessons the coach will be super important to you because the coach
needs to be able to explain the technique that you're trying to learn in a simple
manner so that even a five-year-old can understand it if i start reciting things out of this book
you're also going to leave the court you're not going to take any more lessons with me because
it's going to go right over your head you're not going to understand it so the tennis coaches
need to make it very simple for you to understand tennis technique so when you start hitting balls
and you're applying the correct technique and also what's very important is how the ball is
behaving that's coming off your string so that relationship needs to be there the technique
that you're applying and if the ball is going consistently over the net and inside the baseline
and now you're going to start developing muscle memory because you're going to start repeating
these movements over and over again as you keep practicing as you keep repeating these strokes the
more reps you get the less you're going to be thinking how you're making a stroke happen the
less you're going to be thinking about technique and as you keep improving as you keep getting more
reps in the less you're going to think about how you're making a stroke happen or in other words
you're going to think less about your technique eventually you're not going to think about
your technique at all and you're going to play automatic tennis what i call possessing automatic
strokes or in other words playing intuitively and as i said in the beginning of the video you don't
need any knowledge of biomechanics to be able to become a high level player how do i know this well
i know this because i taught a lot of juniors some started at five years old and of course you can't
teach a five-year-old biomechanics everybody knows that and yet some of these five-year-olds turn
out to be professional level players so what that means is that when you start tennis you shouldn't
preoccupy your brain with these complicated terms tennis technique should be simple for example you
need to have the correct grip you need to have the correct timing you need to have the correct
take back these are fundamental elements of tennis strokes this is what you absolutely have to learn
when it comes to biomechanics complicated terms this is something that you have to get out of
your head and if you don't this can halt your tennis improvement or even worse if you're a
pretty good player already you start obsessing on biomechanics this can actually make you worse and
guys you know what the beautiful thing is about having automatic strokes or playing intuitively
is you have this pride inside of you because you know you put in all the work i spent my life
playing tennis i invested my entire livelihood into playing tennis every day and that's why i
turned into a high level player and it's all the repetitions that i did on a daily basis
that allow me to play tennis intuitively without thinking about anything for example i'm going to
line up to hit a serve and i'm going to take you through my thought process i don't think about
anything technical at all i'm not even warmed up and take a look i'm going to rip this serve
and i'm most likely going to get it in why because i've hit millions of them
okay guys i actually missed that one and you should definitely not do what i just did
hit a hard serve without warming up i do feel it in my shoulder so make sure that you warm up
before you play tennis don't be dumb like i am but to prove my point i'm gonna do it another time i'm
gonna hit a serve i'm not going to think about anything except where i'm going to aim to serve
and there's a high likelihood that this serve is going to go in why because i hit a million of them
all right there you go and that was an ace so there's the proof guys absolutely no thought
process went into this serve i didn't think about anything except where i was gonna hit it
how am i able to do that is because i did all the work as a junior now my dad taught me the
right fundamentals on the serve and once the fundamentals were set it was all about repetitions
now some of you guys know that i'm from split croatia my dad was the coach at
tennis club split and he had the privilege of coaching goran ivanisevic in my opinion
the greatest server of all time and i asked my dad once hey dad what is the secret to gorans serve
why is his serve so much better than everybody else and my dad told me there's absolutely no
secret whatsoever goran would simply practice more serves than anybody else so every single
day goran would go on the court with a basket and he would practice his serve interestingly
ivo karlovic did it the same way so guys learn the fundamentals whatever the stroke may be
and what tennis is all about is repetitions and hard work
and guys the beautiful thing about it is that not only are you going to be really proud of yourself
your confidence is going to be sky high because you put in all the reps but also you're not gonna
have to think about absolutely anything it is the most beautiful way to play tennis and the
only way you're gonna get there is if you set the right fundamentals and work hard and biomechanics
they're gonna confuse you they're gonna make tennis more complicated and therefore
you shouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about complicated things such as biomechanics
remember tennis is simple if a five-year-old can turn into a professional level
player without knowing anything about biomechanics or about complicated things
that five-year-old learns tennis in a very simple way if that is the case this is an
undeniable fact then you should approach your tennis improvement in the same way.