Prince of Tennis: The Strongest Teacher

Chapter 8 Start teaching!

Back at the dojo, Long Ze brought Xiaojin to a court. Considering that Xiaojin challenged himself and wasted a full two months, Long Ze didn’t waste any time and started directing Xiaojin training!

“Choose a racquet from above!”

Long Ze pointed to the few racquets on the wall and asked Kintaro.

“I have racquet?”

Xiao Jin asked blankly.

He doesn’t understand that he already has racquet, why the teacher still let him choose!

“Although you have a net racquet, the quality is not good enough. If I guess right, your racquet should cost less than 10,000 yen, right?”

Long Ze asked Xiaojin.

“Um… well, it cost 7,000 yen!”

“That’s right, the 7000 yen racquet is basically a low-quality racquet, and the hand feel is very poor! The power of the shot will also be reduced a lot.

For a tennis player, having a good racquet is very important, just like a swordsman owning a good sword! ”

Long Ze explained the importance of racquet.

“Is that so?”

Xiao Jin suddenly realized.

It turns out that having a good racquet is so important!

Raising his head, Xiao Jin glanced at the wall, then set his gaze on a handful of red racquet.

“Then I choose this one!”

This red racquet was exactly the one that Xiaojin chose when he challenged Long Ze on the first day.

“Are you sure you choose this one?”

Long Ze asked.

“That’s it!”

Xiao Jin nodded.

“Since you have chosen this red racquet, this one will be your exclusive racquet in the future, and this racquet also represents your identity!”

Having said this, Long Ze took Xiaojin to an empty court.

“The first training today is to hold the racket!”

Long Ze said lightly.

“Grip?”

Xiao Jin looked at Long Ze with a puzzled face.

“Yes, it’s just a grip!”

Long Ze nodded: “A strong player requires not only a strong physique and superb skills, but the way of holding the racket is also very important! A good way of holding the racket can enhance at least 30% of a tennis player’s hair. In the same way, if the way of holding the racket is not correct, it will greatly affect a tennis player’s serve and the strength of the shot, and the power of the shot will also be greatly reduced!”

“If a person keeps the wrong way of holding the pat for a long time, the wrist will even be injured!”

“Isn’t it?”

Xiao Jin looked at Long Ze with shock.

Is the way of grip really so important?

“Don’t believe me? Then open your palm and have a look!”

Long Ze smiled.

Opening his palms, Xiao Jin found that his palms turned out to be a little red and swollen. Although it was not very obvious, he could still see his eyes.

“this is?”

Xiao Jin was shocked.

How did your palms change like this?

“This is because you have maintained the wrong way of holding the racket for two months. Now do you think a good way of holding the racket is not important?”

Long Ze asked with a smile.

“call!”

At this moment, Xiao Jin finally believed in the importance of a good grip posture. Isn’t he a good proof himself?

The grip posture is wrong, causing the palms to appear red and swollen!

“Now that you know the importance of a good way of holding a racket, then I will teach you some ways of holding a racket one by one!”

“There are several ways to grip the racket, among which the two most commonly used methods are Eastern and Western grips!”

While talking, Long Ze showed Xiaojin a grip.

“This kind of grip is an Eastern forehand grip. The V shape formed by the index finger of the thumb is aligned with the upper right side of the racquet handle and the upper right inclined plane. The palm is close to the right vertical plane, and the first joint of the thumb is buckled. On the left vertical side of the handle, the index and middle fingers are slightly separated!”

“It’s like me now!”

Long Ze pointed to his hand gesture and said to Xiaojin.

After the demonstration, Long Ze asked, “Do you understand?”

Xiao Jin nodded: “Understood! This way of holding a pat is like shaking hands!”

“Yes! It’s like shaking hands!”

Seeing Xiaojin, he understood it all at once, and Long Ze was also very pleased.

Later, Long Ze demonstrated the Eastern style backhand grip like Xiao Jin: “The Eastern style backhand grip is based on the Eastern style forehand grip and rotated 90 degrees to the left!”

“like this!”

Xiaojin stood aside, watching while imitating Long Ze’s hand gesture.

“Teacher, isn’t it actually difficult to hold the pat?”

“These are the most basic things, naturally it’s not difficult!”

Long Ze smiled.

“I just demonstrated the Eastern forehand grip to you, and then I will demonstrate to you the Western grip!”

After that, Long Ze demonstrated like Xiaojin.

As for Xiaojin, he is also very quick to learn. Long Ze only demonstrated it once and Xiaojin learned it!

After learning to hold the racket correctly, the next step is to practice naturally.

Long Ze said towards Xiao Jin: “Now you can hold the bat and hit the ball in the Eastern way!”

“it is good!”

Xiao Jin nodded, then picked up a tennis ball from the ground, and struck it out with an Eastern grip.

boom!

There was a strong hitting sound, and the tennis ball seemed to shoot the opposite side with a sharp sword.

Regardless of speed and power, it is much stronger than Xiaojin’s previous serve.

“So powerful!”

Xiao Jin was startled.

Although he learned about the importance of the grip posture from the teacher in advance, he did not expect that a correct grip method would increase the power of the shot so obviously.

The serve just now was better than every ball he hit in the past!

There is a qualitative improvement in speed and power!