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

Klein serving, Dick at Net

OK, another Slo-Mo service study.  Click the icon at the bottom right to go full-screen.  Soon as I find a better and more dependable way to get these uploaded, and after editing out the between-the-serve footage, fixing formatting hassles, and improving the camera angles, these will hopefully become a feature useful to everyone who's interested in improving their game.  Rus

Bigger Serves With A Fluid Motion

Bigger Serves With A Fluid Motion

Lots of us have a serve motion that starts out looking like a Japanese bow at the waist to our opponent,followed by straightening up and tossing the ball at the same time, followed by a quick swat at the ball .  That's one reason I started taking slo-mo's of our players serving.  Karla mentioned this video, which plays for about 5 minutes, from a pro who shows how to get the hang of a smooth toss-swing action.  Thanks Karla!  Great stuff.

Brian Slo-Mo Serve 10/12/13

What would you like to work on in your game?
Would some slow-motion clips help?
I know I've always wondered if what I thought I was doing right/wrong was ANYWHERE near my actual performance.
With slo-mo I can begin to see what I'm actually doing and work on improvements.
Now for TowerPoint Tennis, we can do both slo-mo (this is 1/8x), and relatively high-speed stop action photos for a frame-by-frame action slide show.
Just for the asking.  (And sometimes without)
Here's Brian, just a couple days back from a summer off, looking pretty good. (click the icon for full-screen)
Then scroll down to see more taken over the summer.  Let me know if you want to try it out! Rus

So here we have it, nifty, roomy, and electrified equipment shed, concrete ramp in place and ready for action.  As long as the new anti-flooded court pump wiring, newly plugged holes in the wall, and some reasonable weather holds, we're golden!

Pearly Gates, yes, it's them Pearly Gates for TowerPoint Tennis Players (and guests, too!)

This week we got a start on the long-awaited gates at the back of the courts.  I'm tempted to say "What a boring topic" but I'll resist, and simply acknowledge that Joe and I had all the fun we could have drilling holes for the gateposts for all 5 courts.  DJ's current plans are to have gates in courts 1 and 2 by the start of the season, and hopefully more, if not the rest, later in the season.  Coupled with some of the other improvements (shed with ramp, re-wired pumps, and a night-light (soon), plus new visiting signage and score board, the to-do list is making headway for sure.