Thursday 11 June 2015

The Real History of USA Tennis Instruction: What Happened When and Where by John Carpenter « Official Website of Oscar Wegner and Modern Tennis Methodology MTM - LS

The Real History of USA Tennis Instruction: What Happened When and Where by John Carpenter « Official Website of Oscar Wegner and Modern Tennis Methodology MTM - LS

[...]The great USA tennis boom occurred. But millions would find the conventional teaching too difficult and unless you were a gifted athlete or liked clim[b]ing mountains (figuratively), tennis got pushed aside. In 1984, Gallup 1 in 5 men listed tennis as one of their favorite sports. By 2005, the same poll found 1 in 20 USA men considered tennis a favorite sport while tennis boomed all over the rest of the world who adopted the simple techniques prescribed in a 1989 ["Tennis in 2 Hours" in December 1989.] book that has been virtually ignored in USA media for the last twenty years.