The Future And The Past Of Ball Control Tennis

Ball Control Tennis has been developing from the "push tennis" of Oscar Wegner almost thirty years ago to Acceleration Tennis of Doug King to the current jerk tennis, where jerk is the rate of increase of acceleration, with Roger Federer demonstrating jumpulse tennis of Ta-You Wu, where jumpulse is a sudden increase of force and is a word coined by Dr. Wu.

The future of tennis belongs to jerk tennis and jumpulse tennis, the most advanced form of Acceleration Tennis. The difference between jerk tennis and jumpulse tennis is in the timing of the start of acceleration. When the timing is precise at the outward half cycle of the impact, prolonged contact of jumpulse tennis will result. When the timing is not perfect, the dwell time will improve due to the jerk. Currently, only Federer can consistently demonstrate jumpulse tennis, but as more and more young players start to understand and train for jumpulse tennis, it will become the main coaching goal in tennis. Prolonged contact in ball control tennis achieved through the precise timing of jumpulse is the secret of consistency in sports.

Generally, in terms of the styles of play, the block is good against the topspin, which is good against the ball control, which is good against the no spin or slice, which is good against the block. Thus, each major style should be accompanied by a minor style which compensates for the weakness of the major style. For example, Federer should perfect his block style, especially, his backhand, which is a weakness on clay. He should not used the ball control stroke for returning strong topspin shots; he should block back strong topspin shots and ball control all the other shots.

A historical note of caution for block players: the block style could not reached the world class in table tennis because they could not beat all other styles; it is the weakest of all styles, and it is good against the strongest. Tennis players are still not familiar with the block style, and for the next ten years, topspin will most likely become the most popular style. However, we believe that the combination of the ball control, which is key to consistency, and the block, which is needed against the topspin, will be the real formidable style.


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