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December 28th, 2009 | 
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Learning how to play tennis can be either a wonderful or a very frustrating experience. It depends on whether your approach and expectations to the game are realistic and whether your coach and his way of teaching the game of tennis are the best for your starting level of play.
When you start learning how to play tennis you probably don’t know much about it. You’ve seen how good players play and they seem so effortless and the game seems easy. You decide that you want to try it too and enroll in one of the lessons at your local club.
There are 2 main areas when you are still learning how to play tennis:
- Technique (footwork, body, arm action)
- Tactics
And here are the main mental points for these two areas of your beginning lessons:
1. Be aware – when you learn how to play tennis you are soon overwhelmed with lots of information. This can cause you to lose focus on most important things – depending on your coach’s instructions. Listen to your coach and do as he/she tells you to. Sometimes it’s your arm movement, sometimes focusing on the feel of the racquet, sometimes on your movement. Be aware of what is happening so that you may correct that.
We coaches often come to the situation when the player wants to hit the ball in court while our main concern is correct form. And sometimes we don’t care about form and just want the player to develop feel and put the ball in court but the beginner is still focused on the correct form. So stay with your coach’s instructions and be aware of the outcome.
2. Don’t take the game too seriously and don’t try too hard – it’s only a game. You are already too tense at the start since you don’t feel which muscles you need and which you don’t. So you use too many of them. If you add to this a too serious approach and you try too hard to hit the ball in or to please your coach, you will slow down your improvement and lose all the joy and fun when learning how to play tennis.
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The materials in a swimming pool can be damaging to your hair. However you can use some helpful swimming tips to help you protect your hair in the water. These include things to do before and after getting into the water.
Before getting into the pool you should be sure that your hair has been properly cut. Damaged ends in your hair can easily become worse in the water. By getting a haircut you can get these ends removed so that it will be easier for you to get your hair taken care of for swimming.
Getting your hair saturated is also helpful for preparing to get into the pool. Using water with conditioner on your hair can help. With this your hair will be properly saturated so that it will be harder for chlorinated water to keep from getting into your hair. Your hair will be well protected with this process.
When in the water you will need to keep your hair in place. The use of a hair cap will be important. This is due to how your hair could get in the way when swimming. It helps to get your hair wet with water from outside of the pool before putting a cap on. This is so that it will be easier for your hair to be able to fit into the cap.
If your hair is not long enough for the use of a swim cap it will help to at least do something to keep it intact. The use of a swim ponytail band can help out. A swim band will help to keep your hair in place while in the water without falling off.
After you get out of the water you should wash your hair with shampoo as soon as you can. This is so the chlorine in the water will not cause your hair to get damaged. The use of a comb on your hair will be important too so that you can be sure that strands of your hair do not stick together.
It will help to get all of these processes handled for your hair before swimming. You can get your hair properly protected when you have it cut and saturated. The use of a swim cap will be a necessity when in the water too. Be sure to keep your hair washed after getting out of the pool as well.