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James Jensen is one of tennis' most respected and sought after coaches. As a certified USPTA Pro with over 20 years experience as a player and coach, Jensen's innovative approach to the game will instantly improve your strokes and game strategy! The game of tennis has evolved into a powerful, aggressive sport with exceptional shot making as seen in the styles of such Superstars as Hewitt, Safin and Agassi. Pro Jensen teaches you the techniques of this winning style of tennis in his dynamic new DVD instructional series. Don't Wait! Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced player immediately bring your skills to a higher level by ordering James Jensen's "Pro Tennis Lessons" DVD instructional series today!
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In this valuable lesson USPTA Tennis Pro James Jensen teaches you all the techniques needed for developing a killer flat, slice and kick serve. When performed properly the serve can become your biggest point winning weapon in a match. Many players serves are weak and inconsistent because they lack correct body mechanics for striking the ball properly, putting the plalyer at a great disadvantage during competition. In this sensational DVD Pro James Jensen will instantly improve your serves power, speed and accuracy by teaching all the techniques needed to execute a winning flat, slice or kick serve consistently throughout play regardless of your level. The flat serve is heavy and flat, the slice has tremedous side spin to run away from your opponent or into their body, the kick serve hits and twists causing a difficult return. The techniques taught to master these killer serves include proper serve grips, correct height and placement of ball toss, the 4 stages of the serves: 1. preparation 2. loading 3. exploding or uncoiling 4. follow through, how to use your legs and upper body to get optimum power and accuracy, the three target zones, how to develop consistent accuracy, reading your opponent and what target to aim for during a match, ways to follow your serve in to set up volleys, how to perform your second serve as a winner, serve strategy during singles and doubles play, training drills for developing the ultimate serve and much, much more! By applying the techniques in this important DVD your serve will be an unstoppable weapon in club and tournament play. Order Now!
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35 of 40 people found the following review helpful
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The skills and ideas demonstrated in this video constitute basically complete and correct knowledge for the low to mid-level player. So, a junior player twelve and under or fourteen and under might very well profit from seeing these skills demonstrated properly. In the same way, a very low level club player might correct his form in this way. The author claims to have simplified this material so that everyone can do it. His claim is true, but misleading. He has simplified it so much that a part of the effectiveness is eliminated.
The author is quite powerfully built in the upper body. He has very strong shoulders and arms, good hand-eye coordination, and quite excellent timing through the ball. For these reasons, he can consistently hit quite a powerful and crisp serve with sub-optimal body mechanics. In actual fact, people of less powerful natural build who emulated his form very exactly could well end up with a shoulder as sore as poor Pammy Shriver's. His own body mechanics put a lot of stress on the shoulder. While he says quite clearly that the leg action is important, he under-demonstrates the details of coordinating the legs. He himself does not use the legs as effectively as he could and should, at least in these demonstrations.
The DVD is under produced. While of a little better quality than your home video cam, it is basically a filming of a chatty pseudo-lesson the author is giving. There is a lot of repetitive chat ("brush Up the back of the ball, UP the back of the ball"). The skills as he demonstrates them would make him a good low level college player or a decent middle of the road club player. They would not let him threaten to play at a high spot on a good college team (e.g. Pepperdine or UCLA). They would not let him threaten to take his own club championship very often unless, of course, he can produce on court better form than he demonstrates in the video. (He probably can.)
Finally, the editing is sloppy. We watch quite a number of successive examples when he pushes the ball long on serve, dumps a couple straight into the net, and misses his mark consistently. We would learn better if we saw super-slow-motion of the finest servers performing at the peak of their skills. The notion of whether the author has the form to compete for his own club championship is unknown from this video. Certainly this is not it. If you want to perform as an elite junior or tune your game to play at a good college, this isn't your ticket. If your skills are substandard, this is one of many places (all more or less equally good) where you can actually obtain basically decent body mechanics.
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. This is made simpler than you will need to get your place on the team at UCLA.
The author is quite powerfully built in the upper body. He has very strong shoulders and arms, good hand-eye coordination, and quite excellent timing through the ball. For these reasons, he can consistently hit quite a powerful and crisp serve with sub-optimal body mechanics. In actual fact, people of less powerful natural build who emulated his form very exactly could well end up with a shoulder as sore as poor Pammy Shriver's. His own body mechanics put a lot of stress on the shoulder. While he says quite clearly that the leg action is important, he under-demonstrates the details of coordinating the legs. He himself does not use the legs as effectively as he could and should, at least in these demonstrations.
The DVD is under produced. While of a little better quality than your home video cam, it is basically a filming of a chatty pseudo-lesson the author is giving. There is a lot of repetitive chat ("brush Up the back of the ball, UP the back of the ball"). The skills as he demonstrates them would make him a good low level college player or a decent middle of the road club player. They would not let him threaten to play at a high spot on a good college team (e.g. Pepperdine or UCLA). They would not let him threaten to take his own club championship very often unless, of course, he can produce on court better form than he demonstrates in the video. (He probably can.)
Finally, the editing is sloppy. We watch quite a number of successive examples when he pushes the ball long on serve, dumps a couple straight into the net, and misses his mark consistently. We would learn better if we saw super-slow-motion of the finest servers performing at the peak of their skills. The notion of whether the author has the form to compete for his own club championship is unknown from this video. Certainly this is not it. If you want to perform as an elite junior or tune your game to play at a good college, this isn't your ticket. If your skills are substandard, this is one of many places (all more or less equally good) where you can actually obtain basically decent body mechanics.
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. This is made simpler than you will need to get your place on the team at UCLA.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
This DVD helped my Serve more than the lessons I have taken trying to improve it. Taking lessons can be frustrating because some coaches are not great teachers and I have walked away wondering, what did he say? Not so with this DVD from Pro James Jensen. He is an exceptional teacher and I quickly understood every thing he taught on improving my Serve. The improvements I made with my slice and kick serves were immediate and I was able to Ace more than I ever have before in my weekly club matches. All I can say is this is a great learning tool and I will be purchasing more from Coach Jensen's Tennis DVD series.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this hoping the instruction would offer something different than the Nick Bolleteri and Vick Braden videos I have, but mostly it was just Mr. Jensen serving himself.... over and over and over again. I found nothing instructive nor entertaining in this video. I may try watching again at some point, but compared to the other videos I seen at least 15 times I really don't think it is worth the time or the money.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great lessons.
A lot of times, group lessons do not go in such a detail. My daughter watched seriously, and improved her skills a lot. Anybody interested in playing tennis should watch them.
Published 11 months ago by J. Fu
Couch James is great in every way
If you are looking for an easy to understand yet great tennis lesson, this DVD is a must have. Couch James takes you step by step. Read more
Published on September 22, 2008 by Nakary Shams
Difficult to Stay Awake
You could read Jensen's words and get just as much from it as you can from this DVD. There are no slow motion videos of top players. Read more
Published on December 6, 2007 by Michael Perine
Super Instruction for Beginners and Advanced Players
This 10 DVD Tennis series offers terrific insight into the game. I like Pro Jensen's teaching method of building your game from the ground up. Read more
Published on April 4, 2006 by Ned
A Treasure Chest Of Tennis Techniques
I recently received the James Jensen Pro Tennis Lessons 10 DVD Boxed Set as a Father's Day Gift and it is surely one of the best gift's I've ever received. Read more
Published on July 17, 2005 by Dean Esterberg
Serving More ACES
An exceptional lesson that has improved my first Serve's accuracy, power and consistency at least 40%. Read more
Published on May 21, 2005 by Lisa Westford
Excellent DVD Quality and Information!
I have recently purchased 4 of James Jensen's Pro Tennis Lessons Instructional DVDs including the Serve, Forehand, Backhand and Volleys and have been very impressed with the... Read more
Published on February 21, 2005 by Brad Compria
Bought two discs; both have the same problem
I first started the Pro Tennis Lessons with the Ultimate backhand a while back. The disc quality was poor. The "dirty disc" light flashed on my dvd player. Read more
Published on February 19, 2005 by Peppy
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