ATTA Tennis League in Atlanta Georgia

Hello Atlanta Tennis Group, One of my Tennis clients brought this tennis league to my attension and thought you guys might be interested. The Atlanta Team Tennis Association (ATTA) is the longtime Atlanta affiliate of the Gay and Lesbian Tennis Alliance (GLTA) and in 2005 became a Community Tennis Association of USTA Georgia. ATTA strives to promote social, recreational and healthy competitive tennis through activities including open tennis play, mixers, clinics, singles/doubles tennis ladders, league team play (ALTA** and USTA) and tennis tournaments & tennis matche.
Tennis is played year-round weather permitting and ATTA welcomes all participants
http://www.atta.org/ ***regardless of sexual orientation.****

Tennis tip for forehand and backhand Nov 12, Swing track, important to the tennis swing

Hello Atlanta Tennis: My weekly tip is to find your swing track, this is the natural curve that you make during your swing, the idea is to be able to re-create over and over the same track of your arm. The idea is to move your feet into the track of your arm on your backhand and forehand tennis swing, most people adjust mostly using there swing to make adjustments, this does not work very well causing all kinds of errors. When you get a chance just swing the rackey in your hand over and over again using the same track. If you do this and find your track I'm sure you will improve your percentage of balls in and where you want them.

Tennis instruction tip, keep the wrist back

Hello Atlanta tennis group, here's a tip for you. Always keep your wrist back though your entire tennis swing, both forhands and backheads, very common for clients to be coming to be and there ball doesn't come straight toward me but for the right handers in particular on the forehand tennis swing for the ball to sail way wide to the left. What is happenning is the wrist is openning to early causing the player to pull the ball. What should happen is not to turn the wrist but rather to extend the arm keeping the racket flat to the ball for as long as possible. This goes for the forehand and the backhand tennis swing. From there really concentrate on hitting straight back to your partner or find a target to hit to develope the propers tennis ball placement, good luck and good hitting. http://www.fitnesswithjeff.com Atlanta

Little Tennis, great for little tennis players

This article came from my certification body: USPTA Little Tennis®, I thought my Atlanta Tennis group would enjoy:

Little Tennis is the nation's tennis equivalent to Little League Baseball, soccer or basketball. The program was designed by the United States Professional Tennis Association – the world's largest and oldest organization of tennis-teaching professionals. It includes a structured program of lessons and play designed to move children ages 3-10 quickly through the transitional stages of graduated equipment to full-court tennis.

Little Tennis has more than 2,000 participating professionals and sites around the nation and is the fastest growing tennis program for children in the world.

Visit the Little Tennis Web site at www.littletennis.com for tips, drills, games and more.

Tennis Match evaluation of one of my Players, Tennis Theory and practice of one of my tennis players in match play,

My general evaluation and thoughts about one of my tennis players, lets call her Cory in a match and during tennis practice and drills that I observed, even if I was for a very, very short period of time talking to her team mates and eating her snacks, which she told me I was able to, guess she forgot about that, but again that is neither here nor there. This was developed for Cory but could be used to talk about most tennis players that I come in contact with. Don’t get me started on THEM!
Cory has Overall good swings and natural athletic ability, with somewhat lazy feet and maybe slightly slow ones at that.
The largest issue for most tennis players and Cory is no exception is taking to ball to low making her hit to many balls in the net or turning the racket under the ball causing it to fly long. We will continue to work on these things and hopefully with this evaluation give her a black and white view of the things that I feel are important to her continued development. I will work towards having her simply take the ball higher (simply not let the ball drop below the knees), not giving ground and have the confidence to move up on the ball, moving vertically on the court (most players move just fine horizontally across the tennis court but moving up; in particular for most players including Cory is a problem). The second part of the equation for Cory is not bending her knees enough, I was watching her during the match taking practice swings concentrating on getting the racket low (which I like very much), but not bending the knees, it really looked more like a golf swing with the straight front leg then a tennis swing, again a very common problem. Most people are more comfortable with the straight leg but again it leads to either hitting the ball in the net or coming under the ball and sending the ball out long.

VOLLEYS:
On Volleys, still not moving up to cut off angles and taking the ball to low and either again coming under the ball and sending long, or driving the ball in the net or just as bad sending a weak ball back to your opponents who get easy winners, which in my opinion is worse because it expends energy and demoralizes your partner.

DOUBLES PLAY:
This leads me to Doubles play, a lot of doubles play is the interaction and confidence that you have with your partner, yes both players need good skills to win but if you don’t have confidence in your partner, that skill won’t be able to shine through. A lot of this comes with practicing and playing together for a long period of time, to know the other persons strength and weaknesses and what they will do in various situations. The other part is verbal communications for switches and out calls and court responsibility. The other part of doubles play is to know when and how to pickup your partner, both with encouragement, saying or not saying something. But nothing works better then great shots to keep the pressure on your opponents. When I was playing competively, I and my partners won lots of matches just because we were able to shake off a couple of bad points which is inevitable during a match, the key is to make those periods as short as possible and again put the pressure on your opponents. Again if you can work with your partner and play in non league matches to build confidence and can make all the difference in the world. Cory’s partner Brittany is also a very good player but does a lot of the same things that Cory does, and I don’t know Brittany as well Cory but would be willing to guess that like Cory, she has been away from the game a few years.








The Tennis Service:
This section will discuss the tennis serve and again Cory like most of my players does not practice serving enough, I have urged her to keep some tennis balls in a bag in her car, better yet a hopper with say 50-70 tennis balls to practice serves a couple of times outside of tennis
practice and games. This will work on honing the skill for the serve more then anything. Also recommend doing ball toss drill at home, even can do in your home, just recommend tossing the ball to a set target on the ceiling of your choice, for the Right handed tennis player the toss should be at what if you had a large clock would be 1:00, for the leftie would be 11:00, if your on the court in addition to the 1:00 or 11:00 rule can use the for the right hander the right post for the left handers the left post, this works both on the Duce and the Add sides of the court. The other observation is while watching Cory both in practice and in her Double match was that she would not catch the toss if the toss were not in the right position, I still will catch the ball a couple of times per service game especially on my second serve. Just don’t want to give away points, also puts pressure on your opponents who are hyped up anyhow.

Other Tennis leagues and competition:
With Cory the other part that she does not do enough is play matches outside of her ALTA (Atlanta Lawn and Tennis Association) season. There are other leagues like K-Swiss, USTA, Round Robin tennis matches. The more your in game situations the better able you will be to handle the stress and make no mistake even in the lowest intensity league there is pressure to perform and especially in doubles play where the players are so tide to together to win. One of the key problems with Cory’s game is a lack of confidence, she plays great against me, but put her in her league where there is some pressure, what I see is going for shots she probably shouldn’t, simply trying to go for winners where she should just try to make a good solid shot and put the pressure on your opponents, lets face it most people don’t win matches, most people simply lose matches. The other part of the time Cory is very tentative on shots that she should hit with more authority, this does not mean going for winners but just make good solid shots, again let your opponents go for the winners which usually turns into losers

Beginning tennis lessons for the 1.0 level player, 6 week tennis program

Beginning tennis lessons for the 1.0 level player, 6 week tennis program

Beginning tennis lessons for the 1.0 level player (there are 7 levels of skill in tennis with pro tennis players being level 7) 6 week tennis program.

I have people ask me from time to time, what should I shoot for to learn when they start playing tennis. This is a six week program of things that I feel would be important to the new tennis player.

First lesson: Short intro of student ability and expectations, from the instructor short intro and certificates and experience and what I plan to cover both for this session and what I would plan to do for the first six weeks.

Lesson starts with Grip, Eastern hand shake tennis grip for forehand, Continental grip for the backhand.

The first thing that is important is to get the right grip: on the Forehand side you would want to use what is called a hammer grip otherwise known as a handshake grip, stance is side to the court and a little wider then shoulder width a part, wrist back, keeping the wrist back throughout the entire swing which will keep the ball going straight.

I like to start with for the beginning tennis player work on Volley’s about 20 feet apart from the players, for the truly beginner, I do a bounce feed where the tennis ball will bounce once, this is the easiest ball for the beginner to handle. I stress the volley because it is the basis for the basic groundstroke which will come later. For the 1.0 level player I will pretty much stay on this for entire first lesson and into the 2nd lesson

Home work to the Tennis student
1 to 2 lessons per week with a certified instructor
1 to clinics or hitting sessions with as many different players as possible, level not as important as just getting out there. Duration: about 1 to 1.5 hours.
1 to 2 hours per week reading about the game of tennis with special emphasis on rules and scoring.
1 to 2 hours watching tennis either in person or on TV.

Solo sessions works where you don’t have another person to workout with:
I also recommend my clients purchase a tennis ball hopper (about $30 for a ball hopper that holds about 75 balls, used to pickup balls and has legs so that it is convient to the player to grip tennis balls out of and hit. Practice when ever you have time, great to work on skills and meet other players, great strategy to meet other players who are coming out to do the same thing or waiting on partners, don’t be shy about asking other tennis players if they might want to hit either again while waiting for partners or just practicing on there own. If you don’t find a person the best way to practice is start out by working on what the coach worked on during the last sessions. For this example short volleys, this can be done quite well using a tennis wall, just pushing and hitting the ball back to yourself, great for 1 person practice for all kinds of tennis strokes. The wall does get boring after awhile so I would suggest moving to the court practicing ground strokes, forehands and backhands, later serves and overheads, trying to recall what the coach had instructed the player to do.

Practice with a partner
Using the tennis ball hopper, one player is the feeder, feeding the other player the agreed upon shot, for this article: short volleys, but it could be any kind of groundstroke. Having the basket and the balls allows the most consistency for the player to work on one stroke at a time without having to worry about the ball going to both sides and different heights and angles, for the feeder it is very important to put the ball in about the same spot every time, this allows the hitter to work on there stroke without having to change from stroke to stroke. For the feeder it will help that person gain consistency with where there hitting the ball. Each person taking turns being the hitter and the feeder, maybe switching each time the hopper is empty and picked up.

Week 3-6
Start off again with Volleys for about a quarter of the lesson
I would then add a drill called called small ball, this would be at a distance just beyond the service box line working there way back to the base line for both backhand and forehand.
I would introduce the serve for about the last 10 minutes of the tennis practice.

In short the within the first six week session, the player should be able to volley from both the forehand and backhand side, should be able to have a basic forehand and backhand ground stroke. Should have a basic serve and be able to score a game and basic rules of the tennis court and the game.

Atlanta tennis centers, Atlanta round robin tennis matches at Bitsy Grant Tennis Center

Hello Atlanta, I went though some of my achives and found some articles that I thought you guys might like, please let me know if you like it.

In the the archived articles about Atlanta tennis centers including Peidmont Park Tennis Center, Chastain tennis Center, Atlanta round robin tennis matches at Bitsy Grant Tennis Center.
http://atlanta-tennis-instrutor.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html

Create your Dreams tennis Night Atlanta, Tennis round robin, pro-am tennis tourney and Party

Create your Dreams tennis Night Atlanta, Tennis round robin, pro-am tennis tourney and Party.

Love means nothing to a tennis player but everything to a child's success.
The long-term goal of Create Your Dreams is for all of our students to graduate from high school, pursue a higher education, and become self-sufficient adults.
http://www.createyourdreams.org/index.html

Help us CREATE THE ADVANTAGE at the First Annual
TENNIS PARTY at Bitsy Grant Tennis center 2125 Northside Dr NW Atlanta, GA 30305 404) 609-7193, Please only call for directions.
Register and info about the tennis event:

http://www.createyourdreams.org/tennis/Players.html
Phone: 404.249.9166, please call this number for questions about the event not covered in this email!!
E-mail: createyourdreams@bellsouth.net


to benefit
Create Your Dreams

Round-Robin Doubles (Social and Competitive) Skills Clinics & Contests
Rolling Bones BBQ Party Drinks Music Raffle

With your support, Advantage: DREAMS will raise over $15,000 for the programs and students of
Create Your Dreams. Register today!

Event Schedule*

Healthy Snacks from 6 - 9pm.
Dinner will be served hot from 7:30 until 10pm.
Drinks and Desserts are available all night long to keep the party going
6pm: Warm Up Events, Skills Clinics and Contests

7pm to 9pm: Doubles Round Robins Sets - Each player will enjoy two sets of tennis, split into two rounds. In each round, players will enjoy meeting and playing with a new partner with similar skill level and interests.
9pm: Playoff Set - The scores of competitive players will be tallied and the top mens and womens players from each skill level will play a third set.

10pm: Finals and Exhibition Matches

Players, Raise Your Racquet

Register today as a Dream Maker or Player to attend Create Your Dream's first annual Tennis Party. You do not need a partner to enter; we'll pair you with partners in each round based on playing level and mutual interests. Click here for a tentative event schedule


Dream Makers, $100 Contribution
Players, $50 Contribution
Dream Makers and Players Levels include tennis, dinner and drinks, and all other festivities
Dream Makers and Players will get a great Goody Bag, Thanks to our Sponsors
Dream Makers will also enjoy special benefits
Special activities for children (ages 4-12) of fans and players while parents play or watch ($15)

Share a tennis lesson, with your kids!

Many people ask me if it's Ok to share a tennis lesson with there kids whether they are young children or adults, I also suggest it to my clients. For adult Children the answer is a very simple: yes. Sharing a session with adult child or even a another un-related adult gives the combination of advantages of sharing the cost, for my clients at Fitness with Jeff can save more the 40% on the cost of a regular session per person. Secondly and more importantly builds a level of support for yourself and the other person, on days where I’m not coming and where your not thrilled about playing tennis and might just say I won’t do it today the other person will hopefully step up and say lets hit the gym or the tennis court etc. The more support a person has in there tennis or workout routine, diet or life style efforts the better. For tennis instruction I recommend at least once per week, now you should hit at least 3-5 times per week, especially when your first starting to play tennis.
Now getting back to whether to do tennis instruction with your children under the age of 18 really depends on the relationship. Is there any tension in the relationship, this can usually manifest itself in the teen years and can be difficult to work though, but baring those kinds of issues, it can really be a win-win, for related family members living under the same roof, I usually will charge only a nominal amount more, maybe a couple of dollars more and if they purchase a package, I usually won’t charge any more, most personal trainers and tennis instructors won’t either, so your kind of getting 2 for the price of 1, your learning the same things which hopefully will build a better foundation for doing the exercises or sport movements correctly and hopefully doing them more. Again you’re also building your self a level of support both for you and your child. For Sports like tennis, if your child takes lessons and you don’t, there getting better and you’re not, so if you go to play with them, you might play them once and they will be much better then you and never do it again. Some of the happiest times I watch families together is out on the tennis court or basketball court, ball field etc. Good athletic fun builds good health habits and I feel stronger families. Also if you have the knowledge and can share it with your child that truly is a win-win, Remember you are the best coach, instructor, teacher your child can have. Have a great tennis Match!

Group tennis lessons for Kids

Group tennis lessons for Kids
In my last article I discussed the pleasure I get from working with young tennis players, and things to think about as far as what to think about before you sign your child up for Tennis instruction. In this Article I would like to talk about group tennis and fitness for kids. In the last article I spoke about the right age for private sessions, and I think the age that seems to me to be the most appropriate is 7-8 is about as early as I recommend for the average child from the terms of maturity and physical and psychological development for private tennis instruction. That being said there are kids that will benefit and grasp the techniques at a very early age, even as young as 3 or 4. I have seen a lot of parents through away there money, having there 6 year old taking privates lesson. It turns into a very expensive baby sitting. For kids 4 and over group tennis and fitness classes makes the most sense to me. For real young children (3-5 yrs of age) a lot of the group tennis sessions are spent doing non tennis skills, doing exercises like jumping jacks, lunges, arm circles, stretching, throwing balls etc to work on motor skills. I then would move on to mock tennis swings and only then move onto hitting tennis balls to the kids, I also tend to use soft foam tennis balls, they come in slower and if they get hit or stepped on don’t cause any harm. For the groups I like to keep the kids separated by no more then 2 years within the same group, just too much variation based on age of the players. The smaller the group the better, I like to have groups of around 3-5 kids, allows me to give each player the attention they deserve. This keeps the cost reasonable for the parent and gives the child the good degree of attention. From there is the child seems to enjoy the group lessons, and hopefully shows promise, Private tennis sessions along with group classes make a lot of sense. Have fun!

Tennis lessons for Kids

Tennis lessons for Kids.
I teach all kinds of people, all of which I love of course, but for pure enjoy and a sense of accomplishment there is nothing like teaching tennis to young people. Young people come to the game with a thirst for knowledge and tend not to bring in as many bad habits as adults. If you learn something correctly if not the first time but with in a short period of time of having learned, those habits aren’t as in grained as they are with adults or even older teens. Kids tend not to be so invested in there game and are more willing to make drastic changes. Adults by contrast have much more time and effort invested in there tennis swing and are much less likely to make those changes. There is a tremendous sense of accomplishment and getting a kid started and see them catch on to what I’m telling them and then finally demonstrating the proper Tennis technique. All ways good to start playing as early as possible. For formal tennis lessons I recommend and of course this depands on the child, Andre Agassi started at 4, probably to young for most kids to be a able to grasp the consepts and motor skills necessary. I would ususally recomment around 8-9 for privates, please check out my article on group tennis classes for kids.

Tennis serve technique

Tennis Serve: Tips and tricks of the proper serve
Stand side on to the court, hold the ball between thumb and first two finger tips and toss the ball a little higher then the high point that you can hold your racquet up to. On the toss I tell my clients to picture the your self as the Statue on Liberty and toss the ball at the highest point that you can hold up your toss hand up to and release the ball like you might let go of a small bird.
One thing to watch out for is not to stretch to far and simply toss the ball about 8-10 inches in front of your front foot. For the Right handed tennis player picture a giant clock in the sky and toss the ball at 1:00 or off the right post for both the Duce or the AD side of the court. For the lefty tennis player just the opposite, toss the ball at left post or at a giant clock, this time 11:00. I like to finish my tennis server like a Football quarterback where again for the Righty the right foot should follow the right arm over finishing into the tennis court.

Fore hand tennis Ground stroke swing tip and things to think about

Groundstroke tip, Forehand tennis swing
Don’t wait to long to get your tennis racquet back, you want the racquet back by the time the ball crosses the net, I prefer a setback swing rather then a loop swing, the above tip works for both tennis swings.

Don’t snap the wrist over; topspin is not created from here but rather by the hitting the ball out in front of the front foot in a low to high tennis swing.

On the finish I like to complete my tennis swing looking much like a golfer with my racquet resting on my opposite shoulder, for the right handed tennis player, finishing on the left shoulder and depending on how much time a player has to hold the finish remain there for a second or two. In practice I like to have my players hold this for several seconds to exaggerate the proper finish.

Workout program for Cardio Tennis clinic

Cardio Tennis Check list:
This program was developed for my Cardio tennis program
****4 to 5 minutes of stretching and limbering start slowly and build up.******
Hitting stations hit 4 balls across to courts pickup 6-8 balls quick time and then jump back in line, on other side 2 people returning shots—volleys hitting away from players (Volliers would stay there for 5 minutes then return to the line) in line waiting to hit, run in place lunges also fine. This station 15 minutes

*50 lunges, can be done in 2 sets _____
*Arm circles, 20 forewords, 20 backwards_____
*50 Jumping Jacks,can be done in 2 sets total = 100_____
*20 close grip tricep wall/fence or regular pushups_____
*Leg lifts 30 reps, can be done in 2 sets______
*Jump rope, 100, advanced person 200 reps____
*20 wide grip wall/fence pushups or regular pushups____
*50 good low to high forehand swings, for 1 minute____
*Crunches 50 reps, can be done in to sets____
*Calf raises 40 reps, 2 sets, and 20-second break_____
*Reverse Kicks, 25 reps_____
*Volley station with foam balls, partner up anywhere there is space, no net required, 5 minutes_______
*Regular volleys again with partner______
*50 good low to high backhand swings, 1 minute_____
*50 overhead swings, about 1 minute_____
*Squats, squat is done by pretending to sit in a chair and looking at the sky 25 reps____
*50 basketball pass and catch with partner (partners stand 5 feet facing each other and while moving side to side keep the ball moving at all times) quickness and agility can either bounce ball or pass in the air______
*Juggling station, hand eye coordination_____
*Tricep dips on bench 10-20 reps______

Please keep this program and use for your workouts and find other info on my web site at www.fitnesswithjeff.com, 404.451.8872, thanks Jeff! Group Tennis Schedule: Sat’s 11:00, Sun’s noon, Tues’s 5:15 & 6:15pm

Atlanta Cardio Tennis info, schedule and dirctions to tennis Court

Atlanta Cardio Tennis info and dirctions -->
By Jeff Michaud
Cardio tennis is a blend of a boot camp style and fast paced hitting session w/instructoin, with a USPTA, GPTA and AMFPT certified tennis instructor and personal trainer. http://fwj1.com
Schedule:Saturday's 11am and Sunday's 11:00am Monday's and tuesday's 6pm
For right now all sessons held at Frankie Allen park on Pharr rd in Buckhead.
Directions to Frankie Allen Park. As a land Mark, it is just outside the bar district in Buck Head, on the same side and street as Atlanta Fish Market, on Pharr Road. From peidmont if your coming the city take a Left on Pharr Road, The park is on the left about a mile down, there should be a red Sign for Baseball and a Sign for Frankie Allen Park.Please let me know if this works for you
The park is behind a building at 485 Pharr Road. just go beyond that building the entrence is right ther.
Cost is $15 for the hour, 5 for $60.
For more info about cardio tennis please go out to www.cardiotennis.com
Jeff Michaud is a member of the www.uspta.com, www.gpta.com, please contact me at 404.451.8872 or www.fitnesswithjeff.com, or jeff@fitnessiwithjeff.com

Atlanta Cardio Tennis info and dirctions to tennis Court

Double forehand, aka 2 handed fore-hand, tennis stroke

For tennis players that love there two handed backhand and or seem to have problems with the one handed forehand: power and accuracy would be the 2 biggest problems. I think I have solution for you and it is called the 2 handed fore-hand aka The double forehand, two-handed forehand grip puts both hands in an Eastern forehand grip (Eastern forehand is the hammer or handshake grip) grip position. The left hand's position is strong and on the bottom for the right hander, but the right's is weak and on top much like a baseball player or golfer, The biggest disadvantage: changing from forehand to backhand, this requires the player to change there hand position completely, turning the hands over in mid-play, otherwise creating a very awkward swing if they do not change hand position. On the back hand side the right handed player should shift there grip to a continental, (I call it knuckles top or big knuckle on small top edge of the grip) with the two-hander it is not as important to change the grip as it is for the one-hander and can allow the player to use the easier to master eastern grip aka hand shake grip, one advantage of this is additional lift. Now the hands most completely flip over with the right hand now on the bottom and strong with the left hand on top in a weaker position to complete the backhand stroke.
For the left hander the hand positions would be reversed.

I would normally only suggest this radical approach to new players, perhaps someone who lost strength or became injured and needs to make a radical change to there game. Example: a great candidate would be a lady, young girl with not much tennis playing experience and maybe limited arm strength, also very good for young children of both sexes.
Having said that, I’ve heard lately about very strong young men using the double handed forehand, the two handed back hand started out being only used by ladies and young girls 30-40 years ago, today the two handed backhand is the standard for both men and woman, within a generation it could be as normal for both men and women to use 2 hands on both sides.

Advantages more power and greater accuracy, more control.
contact slightly farther back, allows more time for player to react and make adjustments.

Disadvantage, very big one: having to flip hands over during the point, to much reliance on using two hands, could lead to problems on net game, volley’s are best when done with one hand, just quicker.

For the right player this could be a great stroke to improve and master your game. Have a great game. www.fitnesswithjeff.com Atlanta Tennis Coach, Personal Trainer.

Advance level tennis drills & doubles match play Atlanta

Advance level tennis drills & doubles match play Atlanta.

These Advance programs are broken up into 2 different programs.

Drill and skill improvement, this class would be a fast paced tennis drill and strategy class for the more advanced player. 1 hour and will be limmited to about 3 people maybe going as high as 5(4 or 5 people cost would be $25), the cost for this would be 1 or 2 people would be no more then $30, even if it is just one person. RSVP only

Program 2
Drill and play, One hour, 30 minutes, this would be made up of about 20-30 minutes of drill and skills work about a hour of play, breaking down points and situations. cost for this would be $40. this is designed for 3 to 4 people, if 4 come out the cost would be $30 per person, Again RSVP only

Schedule and times
Times 9am or 10amSaturday's and Sunday's,

Also this week have a offering for Wednesday at 6:00 or 6:30 at Grady high school.

After noon 5 or 6pm sat's and or a Sunday's

RSVP Required for all these program's because of the limited numbers of people and time commitments.
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Other Tennis programs that I offer here in Atlanta

!!! Semi Private Group
Teaching Sessions !!!
Saturday's 9 am and 10 am
Sunday's 9 am, and 10 am
Monday's 5 pm and 7pm, and a 8-9:00pm
Tuesday's 5 pm and 7pm, and a 8-9:00pm
RSVP reguired for this program
These semi-private classes are limited to 3 people, $30 if 1 person comes out, $30 per person for 2, $25 per person for 3 or 4, this class will be limited to 3 people, please RSVP due to limited numbers. This is designed to really work technique!
Frankie Allen in Buckhead behind office
at 485 Pharr Road 30305
near the Atlanta Fish Market.

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!! CARDIO TENNIS SCHEDULE !!
Saturday's 11 am
Sunday's 11 am
Monday's 6:00-7 pm
Tuesday's 6:00-7pm
COST
$15 per, or 5 classes for $60.

RSVP requested but not recommended.
SEMI-PRIVATE CLASS
Tuesday at 5:15 (2-3 pple)
LOCATION
Frankie Allen in Buckhead behind office
at 485 Pharr Road 30305
near the Atlanta Fish Market.


RSVP 404-451-8872

Losing is OK, Sometimes Even Good!

Losing is OK, Sometimes Even Good! I found this article out on the web at a site called tennis4you alot of very good information, thought it was very good, happy reading, Jeff, http:www.fitnesswithjeff.com Atlanta tennis instructor and personal training.
By: Scott Baker | http://www.Tennis4you

I don't know about you but I absolutely hate losing a tennis match. I am one of the most competitive people I know and when I do not come out on top I sometimes do not think straight enough to be able to appreciate the match for what it was. So what is so bad about losing? I have lost matches in every situation, tournaments, leagues, finals, school matches and matches against my friends. What it boils down to is that I am a much better tennis player because I have lost all of those matches.

Whenever you play a tennis player that is better than you there is a lot to be learned. I often tell players not to just play people all the time that they know they can beat. To improve your tennis game you must play against better players! When I left for college I met tennis players that were much better than I was. By playing these better players day in and day out my game improved by astronomical amounts, and I was losing everyday.

A lot of times players will join a club and stick with the same group of players. That is perfectly acceptable, tennis is fun and should always be fun. However, if you are the best player in the group and you consistently win and you want your game to improve, you may need to play elsewhere against better players.

When you play stronger players you get to see a variety of tougher tennis. You quickly learn that you can not get lazy or lose focus. They will hit better passing shots, deeper ground strokes, better volleys, faster serves and execute their overheads better. They will wrong foot you more often and possibly just out-power you. This requires you to improve to be able to keep up with these types of players. Playing better players is a great motivator to help you play better tennis. If you are beating players that you play every day there is little motivation to get any better.

I will admit, losing to someone you know you can beat, and maybe regularly beat, really sucks! However, maybe you need to look at why you lost, look at what you need to improve, look at where you fell short, and most importantly, think about how you can do better next time. Losing is a motivator to play better tennis plain and simple.

Losing a tennis match means you that you were not the better tennis player that day. That is OK, take it for what it is worth, let it motivate you, and keep on trying. Continue to play the better players when you get a chance and watch your game improve. To me, allowing my tennis game to improve is more important than winning a weekly match against the same group of players.


Good Luck on the Court!
Scott Baker
Tennis4you.com