Getting Rid of Weaknesses (Part-2)
The trouble with beginners is that they like to play instead of practice at the start. Then when they play they return the ball "any old way," so long as they get it back. Thus one acquires faults and bad habits. Learn your strokes well first; you have a life-time in front of you to play. You cannot learn your strokes and play at the same time, for the reason that your adversary is out to beat you and is forcing you on all of your strokes. Some faults and habits that a beginner acquires through playing before he has learned his strokes are:
1. Covers his weak strokes instead of playing them.
2. Does not learn to anticipate where the ball is going to drop and hence cannot judge it correctly to hit at the right time.
3. Hurrying his shots, which makes him overrun the ball.
4. Not taking proper swing.
If a beginner would only have the patience to practice more from the start, he would learn to make his strokes correctly, to judge the ball, and to meet it at the right time and distance from him. His stroke is also corrected, as he is not being hurried. He soon gets so he can put the ball in any part of the court he wishes.
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