Tennis: Steps to Success - 3rd Edition: Steps to Success

by Jim Brown

Book Overview

Learn and master all the essential skills of tennis to take your game to the next level. Tennis, Third Edition: Steps to Success provides in-depth, progressive instruction and accompanying illustrations for each stroke: the serve, return of serve, forehand, backhand, volley, lob, drop shot, and overhead smash. Practice and improve those techniques with 80 drills that feature a scoring system to gauge and accelerate your progress. After building a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736053638
• ISBN13: 9780736053631
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Well done

Book is in a good condition. It was send, however, a bit tool ate. Everything else is wonderful.

Provides a solid foundations of basic skills

It is hard to learn a game like tennis from a book but this book does the best job on communicating the basic skills and concepts. Jim Brown helps new players develop confidence through the well written instructions. When a family member wanted to learn about tennis, this is the book I had them read.

A good activity book for teaching fundamentals to 1-8 pupils

This book is useful to teach people the fundamentals of the game without the aid of video or trained personnel. I've read many books on the subject and found very few printed resources that can communicate as effectively as this book. The chapters are well-organized, pertinent, and clear. I haven't seen my copy of the book in 3 years, as a co-worker I loaned it to refuses to return it. My recollection is that the chapters take the reader, or more appropriately the coach/instructor, through the steps to accomplish each outlined task. The introduction/overview, demonstration, drills, and review of each topic is handled quite well. I've been an accomplished player for 29 years and a teaching professional for the last 21 and I learned some helpful drills that are very appropriate for most levels of players. I use this guide as a training manual for my newest assistants. Additionally, I place copies of lessons at each court for a circuit-type, self-learning/drilling workout for many of my teenage intermediate/advanced player workouts. The drills are easy to follow.While I don't advocate all of the drills, I'm impressed by the layout of the learning structure created. I recommend this reference book for virtually all instructors. I believe many learning individuals would benefit from reviewing the contents, as they could easily follow the steps.