EASI Tennis, where Science Gets Down to the Business of Tennis

In the past 100 years, science has dramatically advanced every human enterprise and the countries that have had access to the best science have also enjoyed the highest standard of living in history. Science has demonstrated how rapidly a athletic skill can be advanced in sports such as gymnastics and football. While there have been some spot efforts to advance tennis science, the full weight of science has never been applied to player development. WHY? Because, top scientist have never seen a value in using tennis as a venue of research. EASI Tennis has made the necessary breakthroughs to bring top scientist into the field of player development.

Where has science been applied and where is it lacking? Conditioning, biomechanics, and nutrition are some areas that science has been applied to tennis serendipitously, mainly through borrowing ideas from other sports. Significant areas of science that have not been effectively applied to tennis are neuroscience (the mechanics thought applied to action), dynamical systems analysis (the study of complex motion), and neuropsychology (the foundations of the learning process). These are precisely the areas that EASI Tennis has incorporated into tennis training.

Like any science class there are three parts to a tennis "course".

In the on-court instruction, the student learns new concepts or learns new ways to understand known concepts. The homework assignments are usually implied. These are the things you must work on, on your own, before the next lecture. In particular, you must go over the material of the lecture and be sure you understand it. Also, you must be prepared to ask question at the next lecture for further clarification. Typically in the lab you must (1) practice specific targeted exercises to improve your motor control system; (2) study video of top players to better relate what you are learning to practice; (3) experiment with ideas of your own. Next Slide