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Tennis Rackets & Maintenance : How to Buy a Tennis Racket

December 6, 2019

Hi, my name is Lincoln Ward, I am the director
of the Austin Tennis center as well as a USPTA Certified Teaching Pro here in Austin, Texas.
Today we’re going to talk to you about how to buy a tennis racket. There’s a couple of
different factors you need to consider when buying a tennis racket. One of them would
be cost of course, another one would be the level of player you are and three what you’re
willing to invest, how much time you’re willing to invest. One thing I tell everybody, is
you’re not going to go buy a car without test driving it first, the same thing goes for
your tennis racket. Don’t just go to some store and choose a racket because of the color.
Color is always nice and graphics are cool, but it’s how the racket plays that makes the
big difference. Rackets… there’s so many different types of rackets out there you really
have to pick one up and just play with it and hit around with it so you can tell it’s
flexibility, it’s power, it’s weight. Some things you should go check out, is go to a
local tennis center. If you’re here in Austin come to the Austin Tennis Center and check
out one of the demo programs. Most tennis centers or places that you can purchase on
the Internet will have a type of demo program, demo service for you to pick up the racket,
go to the backboard and hit around with it just to get a feel for the ball, for the racket.
Also if your racket comes with strings or if it doesn’t come with strings usually higher
end tennis rackets will not have strings on it and you could choose the particular string
your want for the racket. If you’re a beginner player, I would recommend not going for something
expensive. You wanna, you want to get something and learn with it. Over time, the stronger
you get, the faster you’re going to want, you’re going to figure out what kind of more
advanced racket you’re going to want to get. As a beginner you want something that’s both
light and flexible to give you some leeway in your stroke development. The stronger you
get, the more you can go for a head heavy racket or a smaller head size. The larger
the head size on your racket, the easier it’s going to be to hit the sweet spot and get
more instant success. Also, if you have a longer stroke or a shorter stroke, we’ll help
you choose your racket. A shorter stroke you’d want a wider body racket. A longer stroke
you can use a smaller racket a heavier racket, a lighter racket , pardon me. That’s a little
bit about how to purchase your tennis racket. Thanks a lot.

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Tennis Rackets & Maintenance : How Do You Serve a Tennis Ball?

December 6, 2019

Hi my name is Lincoln Ward, I’m a USPTA certified
teaching pro as well as the director of the Austin Tennis Center here in Austin, Texas.
Today we are going to talk about how to serve a tennis ball. Basically when you serve a
ball, you want to hit the ball without it touching the ground and send it into the service
box on the opponent’s side of the court. Now the majority of the times you are going to
toss the ball up into the air in front of you, using your non dominant hand, you are
going to swing your racket back, reach over your head, make contact as high in the air
as you can at the apex of your toss driving through the ball. Following through, taking
your racket across your body, don’t put on the brakes. Just let your racket stop where
it stops. The ball will come off your racket, driving through, going straight on an angle,
downward angle into your opponent’s court in their service box, come up and that’s your
serve. Another type of serve is the underhand serve. You see Michael Chang doing it at the
U.S. Open back in his heyday. Instead of tossing the ball up, all you are going to do is undercut
the ball, skimming it over the net. When you are learning how to play tennis it’s ok to
drop the ball and bounce feed the ball over. It’s not legal in a tournament but it’s certainly
fine to start the ball off that way for beginner and novice players. A little bit more technical
into the serve, you really want to toss the ball over your front foot. You want all your
weight over your front foot before you release the ball. That gives you a more accurate ball
toss. The more accurate your ball toss, and consistent your ball toss, the more consistent
your serve is going to be. So if your tossing the ball in different spots in the air, you
are going to make contact in different areas giving you an inconsistent serve. To get that
consistent tennis serve make sure your boss toss is nice and consistent so when you are
swinging through the ball you could make contact in the same spot every single time. Every
time. That’s how to serve a tennis ball. Thank you.

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Tennis Rackets & Maintenance : Tennis Racket Reviews

December 6, 2019

Hi, my name is Lincoln Ward. I’m the director
of the Austin Tennis Center and a USPTA certified tennis pro here in Austin, Texas. Today we’re
going to talk about racket reviews. With all the tennis rackets out there, all the different
designs all the gimmicks and bells and whistles, it’s really great to have a racket review.
It’s a great baseline to help you choose what racket works for you. You can find tennis
racket reviews in places such as Tennis Magazine, TIA which is Tennis Industry Association magazine
or the RSI Racket Stringer Industry magazine. The things they test in these reviews is playability,
whether or not a racket is flexible or stiff, whether it’s powerful or doesn’t have a lot
of power. It will also talk about price factors which is really important when considering
a tennis racket. It also talks about what kind of strings work well with that particular
racket. Pretty much they’ll take eight to ten, eight to twenty different testers and
they’ll send them out to the court and play with each of these rackets, and those testers
will give you know their opinions on the racket played. There’s no exact science on racket
reviews but it is a great baseline to start with if you’re thinking about choosing a racket.
That’s tennis racket reviews.

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Tennis Rackets & Maintenance : What Are Tennis Rackets Made Of?

December 5, 2019

Hi my name is Lincoln Ward. I am the director
of the Austin Tennis Center as well as a USPTA Certified Teaching Pro here in Austin, Texas.
Today we are going to talk about what your tennis racket is made out of. Tennis rackets
back before 1970 were generally made of wood. After a little while they used instead of
one entire piece of wood they would layer wood on top of itself to create a layered
racket. After that time they started making aluminum and steel frames too that were lighter
and more flexible than their wood predecessors. Soon after that they started playing around
with graphite. Then, nowadays they are still using graphite but mixed in with a variety
of different materials such as kevlar, fiberglass and materials such as that that will help
make rackets lighter as well as either stronger or more flexible. That is what your tennis
racket is made out of.

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Tennis Rackets & Maintenance : How Do Tennis Balls Lose Their Bounce?

December 5, 2019

Hi, my name is Lincoln Ward. I’m a USPTA certified
teaching pro also the director of the Austin Tennis Center here in Austin, Texas. Today
we’re going to talk about how tennis balls lose their balance. Every tennis ball has
a nice little bounce to it, but they get that bounce from a combination of their rubber
interior as well as a pressurized core. The only thing that’s inside the middle of this
tennis ball is pressurized gas. Its actually pressurized to 12 PSI. That’s 12 pounds per
square inch. That gives a little bit of a push out. When the ball hits the ground, it
compresses on the ground and then the greater air pressure inside causes it to bounce out.
However over time, some of that air, that gas escapes giving it less of a pressure and
eventually it has very little pressure at all and you can squeeze it nice and easily.
Once it gets to that point, the ball is not going to have much of a bounce. That’s how
tennis balls lose their bounce.

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Tennis Rackets & Maintenance : Tennis Racket Reviews

December 4, 2019

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Tennis Rackets & Maintenance : How to Correctly Hit a Tennis Ball

December 3, 2019

Hi my name is Lincoln Ward. I’m the director
of the Austin Tennis Center here in Austin, Texas as well as a USPTA Certified Teaching
Pro. Today we are going to talk about how to correctly hit a tennis ball. The general
rules to correctly hitting a tennis ball is making contact in front of your body over
your front foot, watching the ball bounce up and move into your strings, making contact
in the sweet spot of your racket and following through. When you hit the ball you are going
to start with your racket back, swing in to make contact, following through up above your
shoulder. A general rule of thumb is starting low and finishing high. You don’t necessarily
have to hit the ball hard as long as you make contact in that sweet spot, your racket acts
as a trampoline setting the ball skyrocketing back. It is good to use your opponent’s power
against them. You don’t have to generate your own power, just ricochet the ball back. If
you have ever hit against a back board, nobody ever beats a back board, it is stationary
you are the one hanging the ball back at it, the ball bounces off the wall and comes right
back every single time. So again you don’t have to swing hard to correctly hit a tennis
ball, you want to make sure you watch that ball, have it come up to the sweet spot of
your racket, follow through low to high and finish your stroke up here. That’s how to
correctly hit a tennis ball.

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Recycle Tennis Balls into Tennis Courts with Laykold, Ace Surfaces & reBounces

December 2, 2019

Can you believe it?!! Over 325 million
tennis balls and produced worldwide each year! And being used for only a few
minutes in professional matches to several games for recreational players,
all of these tennis balls eventually end up in landfills. Advanced Polymer Technology’s Laykold is working to reverse that problem. In partnership with reBounces and Ace Surfaces, Laykold is taking those tennis balls that were once
thrown away and recycling them, eventually turning them into new Laykold court surfaces. Here’s how it works: After play, the balls are collected in
bins, shipped to a recycling facility where the fuzz is separated from the rubber and chopped into tiny pieces. Next, they are mixed with recycled tires, pressed and bonded together to create five-foot cylinder which is cut to lengths and shipped to the job site. Once on-site, the mats are installed,
coated with Laykold and you have a new court ready
to play on for years to come. Better yet, these Laykold courts
provide 21% force reduction reducing the impact on joints and
making overall playmuch more enjoyable. Finally, a cradle-to-grave solution for the
millions of tennis balls produced annually. Just another green initiative by Advanced
Polymer Technology.

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Tennis Rackets & Maintenance : How to Select a Tennis Racket

December 2, 2019

Hi my name is Lincoln Ward and I am the director
of the Austin Tennis Center as well as a USPTA Certified Teaching Pro here in Austin, Texas.
Today we are going to talk about how to select a tennis racket. There are many different
things you need to consider when choosing a tennis racket ranging from the weight of
the racket, the head size of your racket, the strings you are going to use in your racket,
the composition of your racket and the flexibility and power of your racket. The first one, the
length of your racket is all going to be pretty much standard. The weight of your racket goes
from very light to very heavy and head light to head heavy and that is going to depend
on how you swing your racket. If you have long stroke it is o’kay to use a heavier racket,
the shorter your stroke the lighter your racket wants to be and more powerful. The type of
string you use will help determine what kind of spin you have as well as how powerful and
how consistent or how much control you have on your shot. Your string you control by the
mount of tension and the type of string you use. The composition of your racket will help
you determine how much give or take the racket has as well as some of the vibration dampening.
You can use an aluminum based or aluminum racket or a graphite racket or a graphite
mixed in with a variety of other materials to increase or decrease the tension strength.
The overall power and flexibility of the racket will be a huge consideration when you are
choosing your racket. Some players who like to hit the player really hard need a little
more control so they need to go for a more flexible racket. Some players don’t really
have a lot of zing in their pop so they want to go for a little bit heftier of a racket,
one with a little more bit power. That’s how you choose your tennis rackets.

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Tennis Rackets & Maintenance : Hitting a Tennis Ball

December 1, 2019

Hi, my name is Lincoln Ward. I’m a USPTA Certified
Tennis Pro as well as the director of the Austin Tennis Center here in Austin, Texas.
Today we’re going to talk about how to hit a tennis ball. A tennis ball is a pressurized
ball that has a nice bounce. When… to hit the ball is not incredibly difficult, hitting
well and hitting it accurately is a little more technical. The basics of hitting the
ball… as the ball bounces and comes up, you want to move into the range of the ball
with your tennis racket connecting the ball to the center of your strings. When you make
contact with the ball make sure you’re looking directly at the ball with your racket so again
you can hit the sweet spot of your tennis racket. The further away from the sweet spot
you make contact, the less power and less control you’re going to get. Basically, when
that ball bounces and comes back up, again, you’re going to take your racket back, go
up to contact point, usually over your front foot, the ball will come up to your racket.
You’re going to collide the ball compresses on your strings as you follow through sending
the ball off of your strings rocketing across the court. The main important part, the most
important part, is driving through the tennis ball, it’s… you don’t want to rush to get
to the finish line. Keep the ball on your strings as long as possible, it’ll compress
on the strings and create more of an explosive shot right across the court. That’s how to
hit a tennis ball. Thank you.

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