Atlanta Tennis Instructor

Jeff Michaud is a Atlanta basesd tennis instructor and personal trainer, who can improve your physical condition as well as your tennis game.

 
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

League tennis, Atlanta, play tennis free for the winter

League tennis, a new tennis league here in Atlanta is waiving the fee for the winter session, League tennis offers Singles and doubles coed, mens & ladies league tennis matches,tennis tournaments & a feature called find a partner: http://leaguetennis.com

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Friday, November 16, 2007

League tennis Atlanta, tennis league Atlanta, buckhead tennis

LeagueTennis.com is a new flexible tennis league in Atlanta! The league offers singles, doubles tennis, and mixed doubles 4 times a year. It is really easy to play, just signup for singles or with a partner for doubles, choose a home facility and a playing level and the league will provide you a 5 to 7 match schedule of incredibly fun, competitive tennis! Top players in each division then compete for the City Champion Title! Also, if you would like to play but don't have a partner, the league offers a Find a Tennis Partner feature on their Website! All leagues are free this Winter, so don't waste a minute, sign up at www.leaguetennis.com!

Hello Atlanta tennis, I was very impressed with this new league and thought that you guys might like.

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Sunday, November 11, 2007

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

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Sunday, September 23, 2007

kwiss tennis, USTA Tennis and Visionary tennis leagues and matches in Atlanta

Hello Atlanta Tennis these are the main leagues for Singles tennis play, they are all excellent and give tennis players the opportunity to find Tenni Match play in the Atlanta area. The best way to go about it is to simply go out to these web sites and register, they will help you though the process, even assisting with establishing a tennis rating. These are in no particular order: http://www.visionarytennis.com/ http://secure-apextennis.com/V3/index.php
http://www.usta.com/leagues/custom.sps?iType=930&icustompageid=1145.

These leagues are very popular with my tennis clients at fitnesswithjeff.com, hope that you enjoye them as well

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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

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Tennis Court Positioning

Court Positioning

Hello Atlanta Tennis group and Friends, I was referred by a client to a very cool online tennis magazine that I thought my readers would enjoy, I have enclosed a short passage from an article that I thought you might be interested, seemed like a pretty cool article, I enclosed the tennis article and the link to tennis player.net below, enjoy...www.fitnesswithjeff.com

David Ferrer and Rafael Nadal delivered a breathtaking performance at the US Open, with both players scrambling across every inch of the court and trading thunderous topspin forehands. And though they finished many points at the net, the overwhelming impression was that both favored forehands over court position, and then scrambling to recover again and again. Could either of these guys sustain this style of play for years to come? Jim McLennan thinks it will take a toll.

http://www.tennisone.com/club/lessons/jm/positioning/court.php


http://www.tennisone.com/

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Friday, September 07, 2007

Hitting tennis balls on the run

Hello Atlanta Tennis group and Friends, I was referred by a client to a very cool online tennis magazine that I thought my readers would enjoy, I have enclosed a short passage from an article that I thought you might be interested, seemed like a pretty cool article, I enclosed the tennis article and the link to tennis player.net below, please enjoy...Jeff

Pat Dougherty

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Nicole Vaidisova lunges and transfers her weight in a semi-open stance.
Hitting effortlessly and powerfully on the run is one of the hallmarks of tennis greatness. Slow reactions, sluggish recoveries, and moving with the center of gravity too high, can make the quickest athletes appear slow.

On the other hand, when your intensity and pulse rate is at performance levels and your movement is synced with the tempo of play, the strokes flow seamlessly with the movement.

In this article we will take a look at how you can develop this same ability for yourself. To do this we will explore several techniques for moving through the strokes and also building recovery footwork into the follow through of your strokes.
The rest of the article is out on: http://www.tennisplayer.net/


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Sunday, August 26, 2007

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!

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Atlanta Tennis Matches, Atlanta Round Robbins, Co-ed Tennis

Atlanta Round Robin Doubles tennis matches
Atlanta tennis centers offer Round robin co-ed double tennis matches
Bitsy grant tennis center Friday 7:00-9:00pm at the tennis center, mention www.fitnesswithjeff.com and she will take $2 off the regular price of $8, Mary Craven770.662.6162, Tennis center 404.609.7193
Chastain Tennis Center, off of Roswell road 404.255.3210, Friday’s 7:00-9:00pm

BlackBurn Tennis CenterTennis Coaching and instruction, Round Robins 770.451.1061, Friday’s 7:00-9:00, Sunday’s 6:00-8:00

Peidmont Tennis Center Midtown Atlanta 404.853.3461Tennis instruction and Alta Leagues, not sure if there doing a round robin right now.

All a person has to do is call the numbers above and check and see if the round robin doubles matches are happening and they will take your reservation. They will ask for your level of play, if not sure just tell the person what you can do and they will plug you into the appropriate slot in the latter. Generally a expert player is a double AA player and a player just starting out would be a C level player.

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