CONNECTING OUR EYES, BRAIN, AND ARMS CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE
The Secret Skill That Can Help Make You a Tennis Winner
A hack that Will definitely level up your game
What if I told you there was one exercise you could do that will have an incredible impact on your tennis game?
What if I told you that this doesn’t require a tennis racquet, a tennis court, or an opponent?
And what if you can practice that skill rain or shine, day or night?
The skill is juggling and let me explain how it can supercharge your tennis game.
The science behind juggling
A recent scientific article highlighted the effects of juggling on the brain. The research highlighted three main findings.
Learning to juggle improved the brain in the areas of:
1. Visual motion perception/ball tracking
2. Anticipation of moving objects
Juggling in general is an excellent way to train and coordinate your mind and body to work in sync. If you have ever tried to juggle you can appreciate that the moment you lose your concentration (I.e. let your mind drift), your hands no longer work correctly and you drop the ball(s).
Juggling helps train you to keep mental focus and coordinate your subconscious mind and your body to work together!
Along the same lines — juggling improves the connection between perceiving the motion of an object and coordinating a visually directed hand movement
Does this sound familiar — sort of like moving your racquet to strike the oncoming ball perfectly.
Juggling trains your ability to maintain focus on a target while still paying attention to your surroundings without looking at them directly.
It’s never good to look at the balls as you juggle them, doing that will quickly lead to dropping the three (or more) balls — instead, the juggler should look at a point in front and use their peripheral vision to track the multiple balls as they ALL move.
This skill is also critical to tennis success, when hitting the ball to return a shot, you will have the most tremendous success if you keep your eye on the ball as it approaches and don’t switch where you are looking between the ball and your target on the court.
Switching back and forth will lead to a poorly hit or even missed shot, using your peripheral vision to recognize your target and your central vision to track and anticipate the oncoming ball will lead to maximum success.
Its no doubt that tennis is a very visual game, with just this one skill you will be able to train and improve many different visually-based abilities that are critical to tennis performance.
Have you learned to juggle?
If not, pick up three tennis balls and get practicing — there is no time better than the present to level up your tennis game!
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