3.About the difference between Soft tennis and Tennis

This time, I think that I will write about the difference between tennis and soft tennis. It is first of all about the difference in service. Since operation of service is emphasized, service of a soft tennis player is characteristic. By contrast, the player of tennis has very smooth operation of service.

There is a difference also in how to grasp the grip. As for soft tennis, it is common to grasp between Eastern grips from a western grip. As for tennis, grasping in Eastern continental Buck's Eastern is common.

Next, I would like to explain a stroke. In soft tennis, the general player did the big backswing and has struck the ball to Flat. There are few people who have applied the strong spin. In tennis, there are various strokes, such as a flat, a natural spin, topspin. The backswing also has various styles, such as those who pull straight, and a form of 8. Every backswing is compact if beginners are removed.

Next, I explain the difference about the instrument of tennis. First, it is intensity and weight that it is different with the racket of tennis. The size of a racket is also somewhat large at the relation of a ball. A soft rubber ball is used in soft tennis. Since a soft ball does not fly in the distance easily, the racket is designed rather than the hard racket to fly more. Of course, the gut is also made so that a rubber ball may fly more compared with tennis. Even if you do soft tennis with the racket for hard balls, although a ball flies, it cannot fly easily clearly. In tennis, we express with a "pound" the power which a gut stretches. The gut is firmly stretched, so that the number of the pound of the gut of a racket is high. The strength of the tension of a gut is 20 to 35 pounds in soft tennis, and is usually 45 to 70 pounds in tennis. Thus, there is a big difference in the tension condition tennis and soft tennis of a gut.  Incidentally, if you hit a hard ball with the racket of soft tennis, a racket will break. Since the racket of soft tennis is soft compared with a hard racket, if it hits a hard ball, it will break.

 A junior high school is more prosperous in soft tennis than a high school. Since the expense for playing tennis is cheap, a junior high school is prosperous in soft tennis.

2.Origin and history

I think that this report will explain the history of soft tennis.

It was presupposed that tennis was mainly born by the religious event of Egypt, and it was performed as indoor athletics at first. Then, tennis spread all over the world including the Roman Empire.  Lawn tennis was produced in Britain late in the 1800s. Lawn tennis was a sport for an upper class. Lawn tennis has been crossed to Meiji Era in Japan. Since the value of yen was a very low time then, it was difficult to buy the ball of hard tennis. Since it had to import from the United States or Britain whenever it lost the tennis ball or exhausted, only the person of the upper class who can pay the expense was able to play tennis. Gendo Tsuboi who is a father of a Japanese athletic club having thought around 1884 was playing tennis with the rubber ball of the German import. It is said that this was obtained comparatively freely at one sixth of prices compared with the hard ball.

Soft tennis spread because the teachers to whom it is the Tokyo higher normal school (next University of Tsukuba) which mainly performs gymnastics in Tokyo, and rubber ball tennis came out of fashion and a school spread in each school. And Mr. Tsuboi made the Japanese contractor make a rubber ball in 1890.

Although soft tennis began to be in fashion from these days, it was a form of a back's members of parallel at first. Since the rally was important, soft tennis was performed for the pleasure which carries out a rally. It is said that the rally might say that no less than 100 balls continued since the victory or defeat of the game were not so important. It is said that the tennis player of those days has often connected out with no bound. When ten year has passed from this, the player who does a volley and a smash began to appear. The game of soft tennis comes to think victory or defeat as important, and the confrontation game between schools also came to be held briskly.

The player of soft tennis won the silver medal in tennis for the first time in Japan in the Olympic Games then. Why could the soft tennis player leave results like this at the Olympic Games then? The player of this Europe of those days hardly used a drive ball.

I hear that the foreign player was bewildered very much by the drive ball which it lets out from a soft tennis player's western grip.

Reference: ｗｉｋｉｐｅｄｉａ, "ソフトテニスの歴史" http://www.mutayama.kurume.ed.jp/bukatu/tenis-boy/rekisi.htm

1.About soft tennis

I would like to explain what kind of game soft tennis is in this blog this time. First, soft tennis is a sport which deprives an enemy player of the point using a racket and a ball. I think that soft tennis is just a little bit different although we think that we are what becomes more interesting as any sports are played. It is written to a certain book that soft tennis is a sport which is not completed. There are control of tactics, mental diplomacy, and control of feeling, etc. as the real thrill of soft tennis. When these come to be known, it grows older and the body stops moving freely. The language mentioned previously has such implications. Furthermore, in the case of soft tennis, there are doubles and singles, and since the half of a game is a psychological warfare, the contents of a game are completely different by whether you make what conscious a player. There is not only an enemy player, but your pair is also, and we consider how your pair is harnessed. It is considered how we rally your pair by understanding the specialty and the non-specialty of your pair. Thus, soft tennis is a sport with the deep back unexpectedly. The soft tennis of the 1970s was the most popular sport at the junior high school and the high school. It is said that there are a game population of about 600,000 and estimated 7 million lovers in Japan even now. However, as for soft tennis, the minor feeling has been become very strong also in a lover's consciousness because of being recognized as that it is not an Olympics item, that a professional player does not exist in Japan, a junior high school, and a high school being in the mainstream, the tennis popularized quickly in the 1980s, etc. There are four kinds of main makers of soft tennis, Mizuno, Yonex, Prince, and Dunlop. Mizuno has had a variety of shoes in stock quite abundantly, and there are a type both for the Omni coat and clay court, an all coat type, a sandals type, an object for ladies or juniors, etc. Yonex sells many accessories and there are a grip guard, a head guard, etc. The prince which famous as a foppish sport maker is proud of share No1 of a gut in the United States. Dunlop is a sport maker which is popular among the student who is playing soft tennis at the junior high school and the high school. Moreover, soft tennis also has the side as a lifelong sport. Although it is a fundamental rule that soft tennis strikes back the ball which the enemy player hit to my coat, there is no scene which becomes the situation same as once. These various change stimulates the muscles of the whole body, and it activates a brain.