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Tennis beginners you are in luck!  By teaching you one basic physics concept, momentum, we can break your tennis instruction down into three simple bite size pieces. Now don’t flip out if you failed physics in high school, what we are going to show you is super-duper easy.  All you need to know is one basic equation.

Momentum = Mass X Velocity

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So how do we get the tennis ball to achieve maximum momentum? There are 3 things to consider:

A. The speed of your racket swing (it is best to have a continuous looping swing!)

B. The speed and direction your body is moving (it is best to be moving forward!)

C. The speed of the approaching ball (it is best to get the ball on the rise!)

a.) loop the backswing b) move forward c)get the ball on the rise

a.) loop the backswing b) move forward c)get the ball on the rise

By controlling these three factors, you can control the MOMENTUM of the tennis ball and constantly put your opponent on the defensive. Learn everything about momentum in minutes. Get “Tennis Lesson #1″ right now! It’s FREE and will teach you “the forehand” in 3 EASY STEPS!

Picture a bullet in your hand. To keep the math easy, let’s say the “mass” of the bullet weighs 1kg. Now imagine that you throw the bullet at a big tree and the bullet travels at a “velocity” of 10m/s (meters per second.)  What is the momentum of the bullet?  Let’s plug the numbers into the equation.

Mass X Velocity = Momentum

1kg   X  10m/s  =  10 units of momentum

Big deal right? You throw a 1kg bullet at a speed of 10m/s toward a tree. It bounces off the tree and probably doesn’t even make a dent in the bark. Why? Because the bullet hardly has any momentum. However, what if instead of throwing the bullet, you shoot it out of a rifle? The 1kg bullet now travels toward the tree at a “velocity” of 1000 m/s. What is the momentum?

Mass X Velocity = Momentum

1kg  X 1000m/s = 1000 units of momentum

Big difference right? The same 1kg bullet traveling at velocity of1000m/s is definitely going to blast a hole into the tree. Obviously, the faster the bullet travels, the more momentum it has. The same principal applies to a tennis ball. The faster the tennis ball travels toward your opponent, the more momentum it has, and the more difficult it will be for your opponent to get it back. (You can also think of the ball’s momentum as the force, or power, or energy of the ball. All of these concepts are closely related to momentum because they all incorporate mass and velocity.)