Basis of all court movements begins with the Split Step
CANCUN, Mexico, Dec. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — 900 tennis coaches met and exchanged ideas on Developmental Progressions of junior tennis athletes. Gordon Uehling's talk (How to Develop and Maintain World Class Balance Control and a Properly Executed Split Step) encapsulated the 'Why, How and What' of modern day teaching tools.
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Athletes learn to use their eyes, ears and proprioceptive senses to synchronize their body to the required movements with what some call sensory-motor development.
Understanding the movements required between hitting consecutive tennis balls can be described with these 5 segments:
Segment 1 – Recovering & Centering
Segment 2 – Loading & Preparing to Hop
Segment 3 – Reading the Ball Direction
Segment 4 – Landing on the Offside Foot
Segment 5 – Moving & Hitting the Ball
Developing these movements requires isolating each segment and performing multiple repetitions correctly; as Daniel Coyle says, in his Best Seller 'The Talent Code', "build the desired pathways in the myelin of the brain."
Gordon Uehling of CourtSense appreciates these concepts and developed cutting edge progressions for junior athletes using the latest state of the art technology.
Developing correct movement in Segments can be accomplished using various mobile devices and the unique SW Applications developed for IOS and Android devices. With these tools the coach and athlete can spend quality time developing each of the movements within the various drills.
Contacts:
Gordon Uehling III, a former ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) world-ranked player both in singles and doubles, is the visionary behind the CourtSense program. At a young age, Gordon excelled in multiple sports which helped prepare him for his true passion in tennis. Gordon believes deeply in developing children to be fit, agile, responsible, and in their earlier pre-teen years to be trained in a variety of sports.
Court Sense LLC at Tenafly
195 County Rd.
Tenafly, NJ 07670
Tel: (201) 569-1114
Fax: (201) 569-1143
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Vic Borgogno, a 20 year USPTA tennis coach with 35 years of engineering background in HW and SW design and development. His intrigue or 'obsession' with the split step started when teaching this to younger players; during the last 5 years different methods and tools have been created to develop sensory-motor movements in younger players.
Sports Split Step LLC
12566 Lazy Acres Crt
Nevada City, CA 95959
Tel: (530) 272-7345
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