DARE TO DISCIPLINE There is time in the summer time. The Great Base course, found on tennissmith, is free. It will take just over an hour. Please spread the word. Do tennis a favor and tell at least one tennis person you know about our effort to help tennis. Tell your tennis friends the price is right. It makes cents. (sense) Make time. Take time. Players need a Great Base. Steve Denton, a Grand Slam champion went through our program. Steve said, Its no fluff, just the right stuff. The Great Base with the Great Base Backboard will help. Chris Gilmore, a long time friend ( I have known him exactly fifty years) and fellow tennis parent once told me, Tennis parents have 100 bills falling out of their pockets. So, much money is spent. Lessons, equipment, stringing, clothes, shoes, tournaments, hotels, restaurants and much more make the list for local players. Then when your kid climbs the ladder you add the airlines to the list. Our backboard is one of many types. For fifteen years, I ran Tennissmith School in Tampa. Basically with no marketing we had students from all over the world travel to rehab their game. For the most part, my former students that teach and coach tennis recommended that their players visit me. I always told their parents that they would be better off to build a backboard in their backyard than to visit me a second time. Why? Each student was given a take home tape that was a narrated technical lesson. Once you are given the directions for quality skills, one needs quantity. Lots and lots of it. Fifteen minutes on the backboard is equivalent to hitting an hour of balls. Our backboard if, used everyday for the first year, is about a dollar a day. After the first year, it is free. No cost day by day. Do the math. Our free Great Base Course and Great Base Backboard is easily one of best deals in tennis. If is the biggest word in the world of athletic achievement. If one were to hit the backboard just a half hour a day, with proficiency, one would hit over 1200 topspin ground-strokes per day. Our practice board forces a player to have the necessary upward angle to be competent. A point of interest, a player with ATP/WTA points will not hit anymore more balls per hour than a well trained twelve year old. The design of the board slows the ball down enough to groove strokes. Rule number one, do just the opposite of what you want to do. Parents get your kid off the computer games and on the backboard; whether it is our backboard or any backboard. Tennis parents dont put the pro in procrastinate. Dare to Discipline, the title of one of James Dobsons books sums it up. Before you sign your kid up for another tournament, make a list. Rod Lavers first coach, Charlie Hollis, had tennis parents make sure their kid did a thousand skips (jump rope) before school each day or their one weekly lesson would be canceled. Add household chores and hitting the backboard to the list. It is all about breaking comfort zone. Get your kid off the couch and on the backboard. A short clip is attached from the Great Base course. Thanks for supporting our cause, the Great Base Initiative. https://youtube/watch?v=bA1PR2PLon4
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:10:28 +0000
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