Are backboards good practicefor a tennis beginner.?

Answer 1

Best practice you can get.

Answer 2

A good backboard is great practice for a beginner. A mediocre backboard can also provide decent tennis practice, but it will be a lot more frustrating.
The problem with most backboards is that they're much too small for beginners, who end up hitting the ball over every few minutes. Depending on how many balls you have and what's on the other side of the backboard, you can end up spending half your time retrieving balls.
If you lack a good backboard in your area, try to find a nice, high brick or concrete wall (with no windows!) facing a parking lot. You'll get unpredictable bounces off the rougher surface, but having a few stories of height to hit against will often be worth it. Avoid one-story buildings with flat roofs, though, unless you have quite a supply of tennis balls.

Answer 3

"I'm looking for a fish that doesn't need an air pump or filter or any of that jazz" So you want a fish that thrives in ammonia and doesn't need oxygen? Happier in a tiny "beginner" tank? No such thing. If you want an "easy care' fish, then you set up a large tank, with "all the jazz". Then the filter, heater, lights, plants etc all work together to form a little mini-ecosystem that functions with little input from you at all. Drop a pinch of food in there etch day. Each week do a part water change and gravel vac, a 5 min job on a small tank. That's it, the "jazz" looks after the water conditions in between times, and you only have to do the basic care as you describe. Now a tiny tank with no filter, the ONLY thing keeping the water clean is YOU. Probaly need to change the water every day. Stressful for the fish, hard work for you. Eventually one of you gives up. A really easy care beginner set up would be a betta in a 10gal tank. A little air powered filter, a heater and some gravel, ornaments, silk plants. Pretty much bullet proof, and the fish should live for years. You could add a snail to eat algae, and with the right lights you can grow easy care live plants, both of which can cut down the maintenance that you need to do. Because the tank is large, and set up properly it becomes very easy care. Ian

Answer 4

They are good because it is like playing with an imaginary person who will always return the ball, you don't have to get frustrated that your practice buddy is hitting everything long and into the net.

But of course the flip side of that is you are just practicing your forehand and backhand, you don't have the experience of reacting to where someone hits the ball.

It's good practice, but don't neglect hitting with real people and playing actual games.

Answer 5

they are awesome. every time i am not doing something, im hitting against the wall, whether it be at home or waiting for my turn to practice. i love them to death (better than my real partner lol! )