For as long as Geezer can remember, tennis coaches have been advising students to stay low and move fast. Now comes a volunteer assistant coach from the Harvard tennis team who sticks with the advice about moving fast, but tells his players to strive for a high center of gravity. In this piece in Harvard Magazine and in the video below, Bruce Wright explains how standing as tall as possible can make tennis players quicker to the ball, improve their stamina (as it is
less
fatiguing than a “low setâ€Â), and put less overall strain on the body,
making injuries, especially knee injuries, less likely.
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There might be something to what he says, but it is not true that your center of gravity has to move outside the stability position to move. One can keep the center of gravity continually in a stable position and yet run and jump all over the place. I think perhaps the center of gravity thing is an attempt to scientifically explain what he feels in his gut to be true, but I think he missed the mark.
He has his own mark, and your center of gravity depends of your physical attributes. which change according to them. Nothing is same. In tennis each one has a different skill. He is right with his idea.
Me
Just a tennis player.
Nice to hear Craig Lambert – I thought he was all about sculling.
Yo Peter,
Tell ya what dude. Don’t let your cog get outside of your base of support — either foot — and lets see ya take a step.
(As it has been said, ‘Opinions are like belly buttons… etc.’)
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