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CBS, Panasonic & DirecTV add US Open Tennis to 3D Demo Days lineup

This is Panasonic’s second 3D tennis event of the season, but likely the first many of us will have a chance to put eyes on, especially if there’s another epic Isner/Mahut three day, 11-hour match. …

Publish Date: 08/25/2010 18:37

http://gadgetmania.com/2010/08/cbs-panasonic-directv-add-us-open-tennis-to-3d-demo-days-lineup/

Hi folks:

I haven’t posted for a little while because I have an extremely heavy workload right now in my business. I’m working early morning till late at night building a new Internet marketing school and speaking around the country on Internet Marketing. In case any of you ever wondered who the heck I am here’s one of my training websites. http://www.GreatInternetMarketingTraining.com

The Internet has been good to me and I recently did a speaking engagement with 3 other star speakers at the http://www.CareSpeakersTour.com . One guy is a really nice guy. He was secret service agent Aaron Pierce from the hit TV show “24″.

Check this video out of us horsing around in Los Angeles doing a spoof of the opening of the 1960 Andy Griffith show.

And then I shot a message for my public speaking students at http://www.AmazingPublicSpeaking.com

So I’m practicing forehands and backhands against the ball machine and it’s hot as He**. I was thinking, “I wish I had a fan with me so I could cool off without leaving the courts.” I remembered seeing someone on TV in the stands of a tennis match spraying themselves in the face with water while a little battery operated fan turned the water into a cool mist.

Misting Fan sold anywhere it's hot. I got mine at Sports authority and got a different one at Walmart

You can put ice water in it and take it with you to the courts. This model takes two AA batteries and it’s a great refresher at breaks of practice sessions and changeovers of matches.

Special Trick: Put lemon water in it and only shoot yourself in the lower face, neck, back of neck, etc. When your buddy wants you to give him/her a few squirts shoot them right in the eye. I guarantee you’ll win the next ten points hahahhaaha. I’m just kidding……or am I?

Hi Folks it’s Tom Antion here with another trick to keep our extra large bodies cool. It was 99 degrees here in Virginia Beach over the weekend with my car reading 105 when I got in to it. Just too hot for me to get in a good practice session.

I called my local club and I guess everyone else was at the beach because they had plenty of courts open mid day. I planned to simply take my ball machine and practice but Carolyn the lady that works there is always putting people together to hit so I left my ball machine in the car and hit with a nice guy named Narain.

This guy weighs less than half my weight and is probably 15 years younger than me. He’s a good hitter too, so I knew I’d be doing some serious running as we practiced groundstroke points for nearly two hours.

Here’s the trick.

Scope out carefully your local indoor courts. What you want to know is the best places where the usually lame A/C. units blow cold air on the indoor courts during the summer.  I picked the side of the court that had the best A/C and found out the exact places on the court where the bulk of the cold air hit.

When picking up a ball or waiting for Narain to do so, (without making it too obvious), I would go to the spot on the back court where the cold air was hitting and breath very deeply. Using this technique I made it easily through a two hour pretty much continuous groundstroke practice session.

Do whatever it takes to give the best performance you can muster.

When Coach Kyril and Coach Mauro were here in Virginia Beach doing their video shoot I heard Coach Mauro say something that has really stuck in my mind. He said that down the line shots are “stroke cleaners”.

I’m assuming what he meant was that a down the line shot is not as natural as a cross court shot and that you really had to execute your stroke mechanics properly to effectively hit down the line.

So, I got the trusty ball machine out yesterday and set up targets and I only hit down the line.  Right now I only have about 50 balls in the machine.

My goal was simply to hit past the service line on the down the line side of the court for both forehands and backhands. I would get one point if I accomplished the goal and zero points if I didn’t hit the ball to the proper target area even if the ball was still in.

The most I could get was 36 out of 50 and one time I only got 29 out of 50. This will be a drill I keep coming back to to increase those numbers.

I will tell you that after doing this that the cross court shots I hit after that were much cleaner. So, spend some time hitting down the line and watch your groundstrokes improve.

Note: our philosophy around here is to hit crosscourt because it’s a higher percentage shot and hitting down the line can get us in serious trouble fast, so I’m only suggesting this drill as a way to improve your stroke mechanics….not because I want you to have a down the line match strategy.

The video below is exactly the kind of stuff taught on my DVD set. At the end of this video I want you to watch the face of David Nalbandian after Fabrice Santoro dangles him around the court like a puppet. Nalbandian looks like he’s just been run over by a train.

If a top ten professional athlete (that’s what Nalbandian was when this happened) can almost have a heart attack from drop/shot lob combinations, just think about what will happen to the people you play.

Pick up a copy of my comprehensive DVD and you’ll learn these techniques and a lot more.

I was practicing my forehand on the ball machine yesterday in the 90 degree heat here in Virginia Beach.  I was trying to get more power on the ball without losing control.

I discovered some interesting things you might want to try out.

1. I was stepping directly into the shot with somewhat of a closed stance thinking this would get more weight into the ball and

2. I was swinging harder and faster.

Here’s what I learned. By closing the stance too much in an effort to get more weight into the ball I was ruining my swing path and spraying the ball everywhere. As soon as I opened up the stance to more of a neutral stance my swing path came back and it was the same for the full open stance. Lesson learned for this fat guy is that without having the supple waist and lots of room for my arm to maneuver around my gut, closing the stance too much will not work.

The second thing I learned was that by slowing down the swing but swinging earlier along with turning my body gave me much cleaner hits (because I wasn’t swinging too fast for my skill level) and got the result of much more controllable power on the ball.

So, practice opening your stance, and swinging slower with a body turn and watch your controllable power increase.

These guys are totally in shape and young and they understand the importance of heat control. Check out this article about the guy who was in the longest match in tennis history.

Mahut defeats Falla, in a mere 83 minutes | Tennis

He fell behind love-40 in the first game of the third set before winning with a dropshot Falla couldn’t quite get to. Falla missed a passing shot wide, and then after an overpowering serve Falla hit his next return into the net. …

Publish Date: 07/07/2010 6:00

http://www.tennis.fm/2010/07/mahut-defeats-falla-in-a-mere-83-minutes/

Here’s a quote from an article in http://www.TennisOne.com

Vera Zvonareva Through To First Wimbledon Quarterfinal

By Adrianna Outlaw

(June 28, 2010)  Vera Zvonareva brought towel vision to Court 12 today.

Sitting on her court-side seat with a towel draped over her head during

changeovers, Zvonareva tried to block out everything except her relationship with the ball.

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I actually cover this technique in my DVD set. In most recreational matches people want to BS during the changover. This practice, although polite, won’t help you win many matches. You should be focusing on as Brad Gilbert says, “Who is doing what to who?”

Isolating yourself with the towel takes guts in a recreational match with your buddies, but when you start whomping them consistently they’ll be doing the same thing before too long.