Test to see how post without title appears.
To Do List: Find way to make "New Post" more prominnent.
Hmm spell checker a bit sketchy, did not pick up extra "n" in prominnent.   Maybe does at save or publish? will see.
well.  spell checker only checks.  yellow highlight of misspell, but no correction offered. bummer

Win 8 and explorer

looks like it is working with this combo now.

Logged in post

HI Rus, I have logged in. I am sitting here with my right big toe imflame from over eating something causing a gout flare up. Hope to be back out soon. Bob

this week's pairings & assignments 4/15/13

Joe & Frank R1C4
Sam & Pat  R1C2

For all the people that left before April You might want to stay longer next year as you missed a lot of good tennis The courts were full every day. Good fun

Phil

Hi All Towerpoint Tennis Players.
Check out the www.towerpointtennis.org as Rudy has been doing a fabulous job or getting the website set up and making it very informative.

Phil

Senior Tennis Players get Free Lessons

[The reality of this is TBDL.]   TowerPoint players already get a great discount  rate for lessons ($20/hr),but now, (Based on Blog revenues from Adsense) TowerPoint tennis players can get free lessons!  Just by occasional visits to the blogsite, we generate sufficient ad revenues to award at least once-a-week, a free hour of lessons with our resident Tennis Pro, Pat Hurley.  Every Blog visit will earn that player 1 chit, every post will earn 5 chits, and every comment will earn 3 chits.  Any report, article, or active link in a post or comment will earn 3 chits.  Every week 1 player (more if the participation is greater) will be drawn at random from the accumulated chit bowl for the "Free 1 hour lesson (for up to 4 players)".

So far looks good Rus

Hi Rus
This looks like it should be very informative for our tennis club.
Good Job

Seniors Tennis Mesa AZ

TowerPoint has one of the best and most welcoming Seniors Tennis clubs in the region.  At some resorts, play has to be scheduled, and there is no "drop-in" play.  Not at TowerPoint RV Resort.  Other than league or Toournament play, 3 of the 5 lighted courts are open to all, on a "round robin" basis so there is a mix of the best players and those just learning or looking to improve.  During the off season, TowerPoint is the destination location for dozens of players from surrounding resorts because of the welcoming atmosphere and opportunity to find both men and women at virtually every age (55+) and skill level.  Here, 6 players  from 2.5 to 3.5  have great fun as they play in rotation.

Here's another way to post it, as a video rather than a link.  Can be from You Tube, or a file on your computer or phone.  Note that you can post here as an email without even going to the website.

Baseline Topspin Forehand

Racket back, bend your knees, that'll be twenty dollars, please.  The $30 lesson includes "follow the ball with your nose (AND  eyes) the last 3 feet into the strings." Notice how every time he turns his head to follow the ball into the point of contact.
Fed super-slo-mo topspin drive

techie issues

Internet Browser compatibility is always an issue for general access blogs, I guess.  Here,  http://tptennis.blogspot.com couldn't consistently be found by IE9, although IE8, Firefox, and GoogleChrome had no problems.  So I changed the way to access the blog, since no fix for IE9 seemed in the near future.  The blog now has its own internet address: www.tennis4seniors.com a name which also may help tennis players (headed to Mesa) find TowerPoint rather than one of the competing resorts.  The key however, is still to have the blog serve a really useful purpose for club members.  If the blog doesn't do that, it's not going to last no matter how many new visitors find the site, so all ideas and suggestions are welcome.  I chatted briefly with Bill E and he said "Let's see if anyone wants it" [before discussing how the blog might, or might not,fit in with the official TowerPoint Tennis website, www.towerpointtennis.org].  So if I can get 10-12 interested players who think one or more features are useful, we'll give it a shot this fall.  In the meantime, I'll do a little tweeking and solicit ideas from everyone.  If it catches on, fine, if not, nothing ventured, nothing gained, and I learned how to blog. :-)

FW: Towerpoint Tennis - Two Buck Tournament

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From: Bill's email
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 5:54 PM
To: TP - Bill Echert
Subject: Towerpoint Tennis - Two Buck Tournament

Two Buck Tournament at the Courts

Fridays   4 – 6 pm

April 12

April 19

April 26

Please sign-up at the courts for each Friday you want to play

Following tennis, gather for a Tennis Social hosted by Jeannette Laven at J-XX

Bring a beverage and a snack to share

Everyone is welcome

Jeannette Laven

218-XXXX

can post directly by email!

Here’s a neat feature, you can post without even going to the blog site, just send an email.  If this posts, that’s how it was done.

Lost & Found

There's a pair of sunglasses on, or above the bench on court 2.  There is a brown, zipper jacket/sweatshirt on the bleachers outside court 2, both have been there since Friday or Saturday

Rolling at MonteVista

(from a Pat Cramer email, thence via Bill's email list.  With a Blog, this could be posted directly.)

Towerpoint’s 2.5 and 4.0 teams are in the finals of the Monte Vista Team Tennis Tournament!

The 2.5 team starts play at 11 AM on Saturday.

The 4.0 team starts play at 1 PM on Saturday.

We still have teams playing in the round robin section today.

We will let you know if we have more teams playing on Saturday.

Thank you for your support.

Wind Screens

(from a Rich Junkin email to Bill Echert, then Bill email to list.  This could be done directly on the Blog)

It’s time to take down the wind screens at the courts.

Please meet at the courts on Tuesday at 8 AM.

Bring gloves, pliers and a step ladder.

Remember, many hands make quick work.

Thanks,

Rich Junkins

posting to check appearance as get more posts on page.

Testing, testing testing. Copied and pasted the web material below to see how it would work, including video clips.  Seems OK, in all 3 browsers, except IE9 has issue loading sometimes.

Many elements are combined to produce the serve – and one of the secrets is to have all the elements firing in the appropriate sequence.

Timing – we have all felt the effortless hits and unfortunately we all have at one time or another, felt the effortful hits.

One of the most important sequence during the serve occurs with regard to the racquet drop and the knee bend.

In general, on the serve, one must fire in quick sequence large muscles first leading to smaller and then smaller muscles, culminating in a whip at the top of the swing.

As regards the racquet drop and knee bend, the best one I heard on this was from Vic Braden, who said, “Fire the extensors baby!”

Check this one out – it makes sense and will help – guaranteed.

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Looking for match 4/8/13 7pm

(Find players, do a Ladder Challenge, share a Hurley session, identify a court maintenence problem, ask for new balls in the ball machine, whatever...blog makes it easy)

Rus & Marty (3.5) for an hour or so, we have court 5 reserved.

Need better interface for easy new posts

Page needs lengthening, added sections for Tourney schedule/results, Tennis Ladder, and daily coaching comments/video clip are located.  Captain's corner s/b reduced to heading rather than listing all pages on homepage.

minor refinements

cleaned up some unwanted features, but need to add page selections to left margin.

just starting out

Well, seems clunky from a design standpoint, but if the right elements canbe located and assembled, this may be the cheapest and easiest way to get a players' Blog underway for next season.  JMO, YMMV