Pro Tennis Lessons "Ultimate Serve"

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.

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.

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. I never have this problem with any of my dvds. Tried to clean it several time and was able to view the dvd for a few mins. I really like the coach but watching the dvd was a torture. The disc was so dirty that the pictures kept freezing on me. I finally had to give up. Two months later I bought the Ultimate Serve dvd and guess what...exact same problem..."dirty disc". I played hundreds of dvds with my dvd player and NEVER have this problem. I really would like to watch Coach Jensen but I don't think it's going to happen with the Pro Tennis series.

My husband improved his tennis skills watching James Jensen teaching Ultimate Serve. Great for tennis lovers who wanted to play better tennis.

The Ultimate Return of Serve met my expectations.

teaches the basics through advanced techniques. he is a great teacher. very thorough. helped my tennis game tremendously. have the whole series of instruction from him.

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. He is always interesting and keeps your attention throughout each program. I really thought I had a decent game until I went through each of these DVDs. It was nothing but eye opening about how off my techniques really were. With the help of this set I've made numerous simple adjustments to my strokes, footwork and court strategies that have brought my game up many notches. For example the simple punch stroke as he calls it in the Volleys DVD has made me a much more consistent and accurate net player. This simple stroke keeps my ball in play where before I was constantly over swinging and hitting my Volleys out. This technique alone was worth the price of the series. I have easily come away with 5 or more game improving techniques from each DVD and when added up make for 50 plus improvements to my game. I am elated with my better play and all I can say is get the set and see for yourself how fast you can improve.

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. As a certified 38 year old 4.5 Tennis fanatic who plays an average 5 days a week the DVDs have given me a tremendous resource for improving my overall play. I refer to the DVDs constantly especially if I played poorly in a match, by viewing the lessons I can discover what I was doing wrong and quickly learn the techniques needed to improve my skills. It's an astounding set of lessons which covers all the important details for better play and match strategies. Pro Jensen is charismatic and a true expert of the game who does all the instruction while performing each technique in a flawless easy to comprehend motivating manner. A true master work and treasure chest full of techniques for anyone whishing to advance their tennis skills as a single or doubles tournament competitor.