Tennis Has To Be The Hardest Sport To Play

[Motife43]

 

[tater]

I play tennis. I just started getting back into it after a few years and joined a tennis ladder. I went to practice the other day and got my ass handed to me...it's going to be a long three months

 

[YaBoy]

Hardest to watch too

Wildly inaccurate post.

Tennis is one of the 3 sports that lends itself best to HD formatting. If you have even a modicum of knowledge of the sport it is incredibly entertaining.

Damn, he said you aint got no modicums, breh

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Just some science behind the point @Draje made about starting young:

"What do good athletes do when they train?" George Bartzokis, a professor of neurology at U.C.L.A., had told me. "They send precise impulses along wires that give the signal to myelinate that wire. They end up, after all the training, with a super-duper wire — lots of bandwidth, high-speed T-1 line. That's what makes them different from the rest of us."

Myelin is a fatty substance which wraps itself around the axon of neurons over time which are most frequently used by the body, meaning that the messages sent from the brain to the part of the body you wish to move are sent quicker and more efficiently.

If you are a frequent tennis player from a young age, over time you will have sent thousands of messages from your brain to your arms, hands, legs feet in order to return a serve. [This develops increased myelin or can even create myelin lining due to rapid eye movement and brain signals]

I have it in both eyes based on recent eye graphing picture at doctor. Most have it in one eye if at all and most who have it in one or both eyes need heavy prescription glasses or are legally blind. This development goes for all sports during childhood growth but especially for those in fast paced hand eye sports.

 

[Lakers Offseason]

Hitting a baseball going 80+ MPH is gotta be the hardest thing in sports. I can't imagine a breaking ball going that fast or a fastball going 90+.

I taught myself how to play golf. I can shoot in the lower 80's and drive it past 280 yards and I'm only 5'9". It ain't that hard.

 

[live it to the limit]

it makes no sense to me how people can get so good at this game.



The agility...

The eye to hand coordination...

The stamina...

 

[live it to the limit]

Yes. I agree. I tried playing a few years ago and it was one of the hardest things I've ever tried to do. And don't even think about playing when you're stressed. The foot work, hand eye coordination, conditioning, stamina, Etc. the Williams sisters deserve every dollar they make!

 

[dem bath salts]

I played Tennis all thru high school. Its not that hard with proper coaching. You start to get a feel for it and once you start hitting shots with top spin your good. Serving over a 100mph is hard as fukk tho.

Other than golf id say baseball. Its so fukking hard to hit good pitching no matter how long u been playing

 

[Jparker]

it makes no sense to me how people can get so good at this game.



The agility...

The eye to hand coordination...

The stamina...

Been playing since I was 5. USTA ranked in the state

I just wish more black people would play we could dominate this sport easy

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Been playing since I was 5. USTA ranked in the state

I just wish more black people would play we could dominate this sport easy

How high did u get?

 

[Jparker]

How high did u get?

Finished #1 in the state when I was like 19 im like top 5 right now.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Finished #1 in the state when I was like 19 im like top 5 right now.

well done sir

i was 1 in new england as a kid but quit for a while then came back and won states in doubles in hs

you might be the only one here that would take me out

 

[Jparker]

well done sir

i was 1 in new england as a kid but quit for a while then came back and won states in doubles in hs

you might be the only one here that would take me out

I'm 6'5 with an isner like serve
And I'm left handed

 

[Draje]

Finished #1 in the state when I was like 19 im like top 5 right now.

Cool shut, breh. I was ranked pretty high in my state but I think I started too late. I could never crack that next step into elite level. I was also a huge pothead though so that prolly didn't help.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I'm 6'5 with an isner like serve
And I'm left handed

thats not a good matchup for me..especially being a lefty

i have a partially torn labrum and my UCL stays fukked up in my elbow but i can still toss around 120-130 when i dial it up. for 6'0-6'1 thats pretty much my limit unless i hit the weights again and get surgery

youd prob win 2 and 2 right now

id probably spam drop shots to test out your agility but that can only go so far lol