Download PDF TNNS LSSNS Filling the Gaps in Your Game Marcus Paul Cootsona 9780578418780 Books

Product details Paperback 202 pages Publisher Pro Tennis Press (March 9, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 0578418789

TNNS LSSNS Filling the Gaps in Your Game Marcus Paul Cootsona 9780578418780 Books Reviews

• TNNS LSSNS is appropriately titled and excellently written. As a long-time student and fan of Cootsona, I am perhaps a bit biased, but the book is telling you that you know a lot more than you might think about tennis, and what you need is to refresh those things (both the good and what needs to be corrected) and to fill in the gaps. Psychologists (myself included) call this “active cognition”, “analysis by synthesis”, “metacognition” and all kinds of fancy other names. Cootsona calls it “FOING” (he is not a psychologist) but it is all the other stuff besides the basics that you need to challenge yourself to improve your competitive game. In many ways, you already know a lot that allows you to fill in the gaps. Throughout the book, there are so many tips and realizations that most students of tennis may have heard before, but haven’t been able to implement or to integrate into their match play (find your opponent’s weakness, and make them do it over and over again). Some of this is in his other terrific book Occam’s Racquet, but this is so much more. Cootsona motivates you to consider all this, and takes you through the pre-match preparations, during-match focus and adjustments, and the post-match routines and reflections. Through all this, he sprinkles great anecdotes wrapped in his unique sense of humor. His clarity, vision, and warm personality come through clearly. Probably the best compliment to be paid to this book is that you can open up any page, and it will immediately speak to you, make you want to read forward and backwards, and most importantly want to make you play and play.
• Marcus Cootsona "brings it" all here--a lifetime of acquired tennis wisdom. As he says, there's no such thing as a "god-gifted, natural tennis player"--we all have to learn technique. There's no technique per se (e.g. stroke) in the book, but plenty on how to acquire it and then what to do with it. Just one of its target audiences is match players who want to win more matches. But there's more here too--for beginners wondering how to choose equipment or how best to condition; the importance of finding the right "coach" or instructor, and how best to use him or her. It's all here. I've read a lot of tennis books and watched a lot of videos, but none as complete as this book. And in some of the most playful prose you'll find anywhere. Highly recommended.