Tips for the over 60 crowd by the over 60 crowd!
A friend asked, “now that you are not working full-time, how do you spend your spare time?” Well the answer can be capsulized into this simple statement: Filling and then emptying both the body and the mind.
Well, this is the last day of competition. And three months of conditioning (+ a double dose of Aleve every morning and night!) seems to have really helped; because I am not tired and nothing hurts. The morning’s clinic was given by John Newcombe and Woody…
A sunny and nice Texas day for our second round of team play against the Davo/Case Musclemen; while yesterday’s other winning team, Newk’s (Willy Hoffmann) Kangaroos played the Stockton/Woodforde Dunnies. The morning clinic (which I have on video) was an excellent one of Mark Woodforde and Ross Case on doubles positioning and movement:
I feel good on this third day; but the weather forecast was ‘spot on’… chilly, with a huge north wind. Before the morning matches, Emmo and Marty gave the clinic on the return of serve:
The morning started off cool; but the temperature warmed up to near 90 for our day of training, positioning, and drills. After breakfast, Dick Stockton and Davo Davidson gave a short clinic on hitting the volley:
It is that time of year again for the start of the “best tennis week of the year!” The travel to Camp this year was NOT on the private “AirBerry” NetJet (John Berry could not go to camp this year); so I picked up Willy Hoffmann at 5 a.m. (!) and we were forced to [...]
We had the pleasure of playing some good doubles with newly-returned Naples native and 1977 Wimbledon Women’s Doubles Champion, Joanne Russell (who is now teaching at Grey Oaks in Naples).
Thanks to Ian Westermann, EssentialTennis.com for this tip on tennis toss consistency. He suggests that the key to a good serve starts with the toss; and the key to a good toss starts with the correct “hinge.”
Nick Bollettieri and many other coaches say you should choose a tennis doubles partner who plays a DIFFERENT style from your game. I am not sure I totally agree.
For those who are getting ready to migrate from the cooler north to the sunny south, or going to Newk’s Camp in Texas, or will be coming south over the winter … you should be ready for the challenges of playing in the heat and humidity the body is not used to.