Hose-down after flood

Liquid Sunshine, bah humbug.  Flooding was actually the cleanest, least muddy one in quite some time, and even though the moat overflowed the south wall, the total depth never got to the level of the floor in the new shed.  Crew did great job, and thanks to Marian for the home-baked biscuts.  If this rain ends, should have dry courts mid-Sunday.

4 Guys, 2 Jacks plus serve Slo-Mo video

Mike, Brian, Kevin, Jim

Kevin & Jim won it!

Hey have you ever seen this play?  Server tries serve-volley, receiver lobs over server's partner for the point.  Hmm who's supposed to be standing where, and when?

Doubles strategy Brent Able

Here's a 5 min video discussing unforced errors from the deep player trying to make put-away shots, ie the setup vs put-away teamwork.  Well worth thinking about, IMO, YMMV.
http://www.webtennis.com/players/whats-the-right-shot-36-doubles-who-are-you-out-there/

Making your own post to the blog

Right now, anyone with a free google account (including a gmail account) can post or comment.  I've not yet set up a membership list, which will restrict it to Towerpoint members, but that may come in time.  Click Login and New Post in the top right corner, or just comment any given post (but those comments have to be clicked to be seen.  You can click the envelope icon, and then whenever there's a new post, you'll get an email notice.  You can also post without going to the blog, by email, I'll post how to shortly.  You can post a request to get a 3rd or 4th player for some reserve court time, to share a lesson with Hurley, a good instructional video,or anything else Tennis.  No corny jokes, chain-emails, or other off topic stuff, please.  Ideas, suggestions, tournament postings, all welcome.

Lynn after a summer off

Yep, there's lots of moving parts in a serve, getting them all stitched back together takes work and concentration...and maybe a little extra insight from watching yourself.  Lets see what a week or so can do to get those first serves working like they did last season.

Bob W serving, Klein at net

Click the icon for full screen.
I thought I'd need a tripod to pan and cover court action between serves, but now I think not.  Better positioning (baseline, directly behind, and from receiver's position) would help, but it's still only one camera position at a time.
If I can just get the editing vs portrait/landscape mode thing to work, this would be much better.
Suggestions and other ideas welcome.  Rus