Dink is a game you can play while waiting for a court to become available. It is a replacement for boringly, uselessly staring, longingly from the wrong side of the fence, wishing that you were the lucky bastard actually playing tennis instead of waiting for tennis. Waiting stinks. You should play dink instead. There are [...]
Archive | 2011
QuickStart Tennis is the Best Way to Learn
If you haven’t heard of QuickStart and you have a kid who wants to learn to play tennis, listen up. QuickStart is a program that the USTA is promoting to get more kids involved with tennis. In an effort to make tennis more enjoyable and to re-energize America’s youth to the sport, the USTA is [...]
Tennis is the Gentleman’s Sport – Except When it Isn’t
There are few sports who’s participants are themselves entirely responsible for keeping track of scores and deciding, on their own, the quality of play (are the shots in or out?). Soccer, football, baseball, basketball, hockey, rugby, cricket, racing sports, and even boxing have umpires and judges to ensure fair play. But tennis, at every level [...]
Playing Tennis at Any Age
Becoming a professional tennis player is a long and arduous journey. Anybody wanting to go that route needs to start young. However, becoming a pro is not what tennis is all about; there’s more. In fact, tennis is mostly all about not going pro. Sure, being a great player is a dream for a lot [...]
Tennis on Vacation
I write “Tennis on Vacation” but I might as well be talking about any activity you like to do and which you don’t want to give up when you travel. The most popular vacation exercise that people do is obviously running. That’s easy. You pack some shoes and, after you are wearing the shoes, move [...]
Tennis in the Gym: A Golden Opportunity
Tennis in Boulder Colorado is a year round activity. That fact notwithstanding a lot of people will say, rightfully, “What about the snow and cold?” That’s true, it does snow around here, and that presents some down days for tennis on the rare occasion that the snow accumulates and doesn’t melt in a day or [...]
Playing Tennis Without a Court
Pelé, the greatest soccer player ever (according to many), was so poor as a youth that his parents couldn’t even afford to buy him a ball. What did he do? Since he’s Pelé, and Pelé is awesome, we know he didn’t let poverty get in his way. Instead of using a real ball he used [...]
Tennis Footwork: It’s more Important than you Think
I‘ve seen it thousands of times. A parent wants to teach his kid to play tennis and all he talks about is how his kid can’t hit the ball. He’ll talk about how the child’s swing isn’t quite right, or he’ll ask for tips about how best to teach topspin, or he wonders just how [...]
Boulder Tennis: Helping to Keep us Fitter than the Rest of the Country
If you don’t know by now that the U.S is in the midst of health crisis (namely health complications associated with obesity) you haven’t been paying very close attention. However, if you happen to live in a place like Boulder, Colorado, I forgive your ignorance; we are among the fittest people in the Country. In [...]
A Tennis Thinking Drill: Hit the Gates
Playing tennis effectively means hitting the ball where you want to hit the ball, not simply getting it over the net and just generally, somewhere, on the court. No, the ball has to go to a place where it is both likely to arrive safely and which presents your opponent with an appropriate level of [...]
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