Human Kinetics Tennis Anatomy

very detailed and practical. a must read for the serious tennis players!

Very usefull for a man in his 50s to work out stiffnesses.

Footwork:a) A concept universally accepted as extremely important for consistently efficient effective tennis.b) A concept universally misunderstood on what makes footwork good or bad and more importantly, how to improve it. Any chance for a person to have good footwork relies on; 1. The feet have to be strong & flexible enough to support the action being asked of them. 2. The signals from the feet to brain and back have to be accurate & timely. These 2 concepts form the basis of "Foot Function" that is, good foot function leads to good footwork.This book is the cutting edge of tennis mechanics, 230 odd pages in length and is a magnificent resource on tennis mechanics and guess how many pages were dedicated to the foot?1, only ONE!!!Just about every illustration in the book has the athlete with a pair of shoes on covering up what the foot should be doing in the action.If the information above does anything, it ought to convince you that there should have been an entire chapter dedicated to the foot.Here is the thing though that most people do not know. In the tennis industry for those that do know what they are doing, Mark Kovacs is the go to guy for tennis bio-mechanics. He did his PhD. on the bio-mechanics of the serve. If you want to know what to do bio-mechanically properly, well or better, then Mark is the guy to ask.A lot of the knowledge I know is due to him, so it pains me to even bring this up, but my point is, a guy as knowledgeable about tennis mechanics as Mark Kovacs is does not deem it important enough to incorporate it into his book that good coaches will use as a coaching resource, how on earth will anybody know about this information?I wonder and hope that the authors read this comment.If the authors need help on foot function they need to get in touch with Irene S Davis at Harvard Medical School, she will be able to help them, and then the authors will be able to help us and then all of us will have better Tennis outcomes in our coaching and playing.Hopefully the 3rd edition rectifies this problem. 3 stars for the moment.Sorry

Ottima la grafica, molto pratico. Le illustrazioni sono molto esaustive. Consigliato a chi intende migliorare il proprio tennis con esercizi specifici per ogni colpo.

Dimostra i muscoli coinvolti per ogni colpo, come rafforzarli per prevenire infortuni, aumentare forza, velocità, ecc...