Tennis Lessons

Today I had tennis lessons with coach Doug. I had to start off with three laps around the court. Then I had to jump rope. I learned a lot of things. For example, I learned to have a better ready position. My old ready position made me slower and took me longer to prepare to return a serve, forhand, or backhand. This position made my shots better and more powerful. I believe that this position made me better at tennis. First, he told me to do a practice swing of my backhand. Another thing that I learned was to relax when I hit my backhand. He told me a couple of the mistakes and I fixed them. I used to hit it too hard or slice it too much. I noticed that the new position helped me with this part of the lesson. The third example is on my forehand. First, he told me to show a practice swing on my forehand. He told me a couple of the mistakes and I fixed them. I learned to bend a certain amount to do a good forehand. The new ready position helped me with this as well. Coach Doug didn't do volleying yet. Then I had a couple of serves. He told me that baseball could help my tennis game, and we did some catching and throwing. I had to start off with the fundamentals so I couldn't do my jump serves. I enjoyed the lesson and I think coach Doug taught me very well. He made me understand what he was saying.