Breakthrough Tennis: A Revolutionary Approach to the Game

by Rolf Clark

Book Overview

This book is for players who feel they may have stalled at a plateau below their potential and for the coaches who strive with their athletes to help them achieve new levels of performance.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918535115
• ISBN13: 9780918535115
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Warde Publishers
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Forget the "tips." Read this book.

This is a great book to have if you have the basics down and want to improve your game. In my case, I was being stymied by a lot of "tips" that I had collected. Based on the suggestions in the book, I began becoming more aware of balance and timing -- and trusting my awareness more than all those tips. The book uses the great imagery of a pendulum for improving your swing.The book could have more on the serve, which is a strange and unnatural stroke. But I am happy with what I was able to get from this book.

Very good read for intermediate players

As an intermediate player with a good grasp of technique but less than successful implementation I found this book very refreshing. I just wish it had been available when I was a learning junior many years ago. The book does not deal in detail with technique, and therefore may not be the best for an absolute beginner. It rather concentrates on some basics of the game that are not usually the focus of tennis teaching, which concentrates mostly on "proper" technique and stroke mechanics. The author argues that pros usually don't have problems with the basic elements of the game with which other mortals, like myself, have to struggle with: balance, timing. In my experience this is soooo true. These basics and how to address them may seem obvious...once you've read the book. Clearly, for advanced players this may not be so useful, but most of your average tennis club players (and buyers of tennis books) will fall in the intermediate category. For them, I think this is a very good buy.

This book was amazing.

Breakthrough Tennis made me think in a more simplified way, and aided me in seeing and hitting the ball better. Phenomenal!

calls it a wonderful, thoughtful presentation of insights.

It is my considered opinion that this little book offers much to gain and little to lose. 'Breakthrough Tennis' provided for me several new insights and renewed hope for my game. It imparts ideas in warm, good humor to boot.I decided to read this book as one of a handful of last-ditch efforts to improve my game, and without very specific expectations. The material recalled for me truly useful past tennis lessons that integrated thoughts on movement and balance in much the same manner. Having just completed the book for the first time, I am practicing the recommended approaches (both literal and figurative). The material has also inspired me to develop a new awareness of my inner attitudes both on and off the court.As result of growing up in a large family of wordsmiths, I easily lose interest in much of today's written material. This book conveys useful information in a manner that greatly appeals to me.A friend, to whom I spoke of Breakthrough Tennis during the first few chapters, asked me to pass it on to her. I have decided she will have to buy her own. I look forward to referencing my copy well into my own tennis-playing future. I smile and look forward to both playing and rereading this book soon.Margaret Anne

This book helps simplifies the mechanical aspects .

The instruction the author has written is very easy to get a mental picture of whats going on. He describes the elements of the strokes as a fluid motion. He gives you excellent mental cues to help focus on, for example, having the butt of the racquet faced towards the oncoming ball.