Tips for the over 60 crowd by the over 60 crowd!
If you would like to improve your volley (which is my goal for the year), take a look at some key notes and a short video of Roy Emerson.
Well, this is the last day of competition; and three months of conditioning (+ rain-shortened matches) seems to have really helped; because I am not tired and nothing hurts. But it was raining again this morning; so we went inside to play abbreviated doubles matches against Newk’s team.
It must have rained during the night; because after my breakfast (cheese omelet + toast + cereal + bacon + juice) I see the courts are all puddled and the staff is rolling them to be playable (if the rain stays away). So they changed the schedule for our Wanker team to play doubles [...]
Another beautiful day in Texas – and I feel good! Before the morning matches, Owen (Davo) Davidson talked about some key pointers to focus on:
The morning started off cool; but the temperature warmed up to a perfect 80 degrees for our day of training, positioning, and drills. After breakfast, Emmo gave a short clinic on hitting the volley:
This is the start of the “best week of my tennis year;” which, after five consecutive years of attending, I had to miss last year due to a bad shoulder (Luxilon strings). The travel to Camp this year was “in style” thanks to Pelican Bay friend John Berry, who invited three of us from [...]
Over the summer, I went back to using the Luxilon strings that I liked so well last year; but hurt my shoulder (so that I had to miss Newk’s camp). But this time, the racquet was strung as what they now call “hybrid”… a combination of two different strings on the crosses and mains.