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January 2, 2004 Hi and Happy New Year...! I absolutely love this time of year. A new fresh start and all of that good stuff. I'm not to much into resolutions, but I always get a big inspirational push at the beginning of the year...! I guess if there's one thing I really want to improve upon this year, it would be to do a better job of giving you more opportunities to let me know what's happening with your tennis and how I can best help you... After having taught this game for over 30+ years, it's way to easy for me to presume what's best for you, what I think you need, blah, blah, blah, when in fact, I want to hear directly from you. Yep, I want you to feel free to be precise and let me know exactly what challenges you personally have with your tennis and/or how to you can improve. So, there's the invitation, take advantage of it, either send me an email to brent@webtennis.net or just fill in one of the question boxes I've posted throughout the website... I've got an announcement about a NEW instructional product on doubles that I've put together with my friend Pat Blaskower. Pat is considered one of the top experts in the area of doubles strategies. She wrote the 'holy grail' on doubles, "The Art of Doubles", about 7-8 years ago. It's my reference manual and the only hard cover book on doubles I recommend to my students. Pat and I just completed an instructional audio product, "Your Top Ten Biggest Challenges in Doubles". More on that in just a bit.
I'm ticked, hacked off, and downright appalled by the latest issue (Jan/Fed 2004) of "Tennis" magazine. You gotta be kidding me... Here's a shot of the cover with the caption in the lower left hand corner... "How to Play What...? Encourage
players to play doubles Come on people, it's tough enough to have to put up with this magazine and other websites promoting "how to play like the pros" by advocating boring baseline play with the extreme grips, but doubles from the baseline...? Man, get me outta here, because this is just ridiculous. If anyone out there thinks that tennis can be played as a lifetime sport with extreme grips, extreme swing shapes, and worse, doubles from the baseline, well, hello, it ain't possible. I briefly chatted with Pat
Blaskower about this stuff today... Here's just a couple of minutes of
it...
OK, that's about as much of this stuff as I can stand...! Now on to the truth about actually helping your doubles... (whew...!) NEW Doubles Instructional Product - Online and CD...! "Your Top Ten Biggest
Challenges in Doubles" by Brent Abel and Pat Blaskower After reading the latest issue of Tennis magazine, maybe it should be the top eleven challenges which would include one about having to deal with all of the mis-information you have to put up with out there...! (OK, I'm calming down, hang in there with me...!) Doubles coaching guru Pat Blaskower and I have partnered up to give you the answers to ten of your most often asked questions about how to deal with specific situations in doubles...
Pat and I took your ten most asked questions and discussed exactly how to solve those problems. This instructional product is a one hour discussion segmented into 11 parts (intro and the answers to the ten questions).
Here's what you get... - Immediate access to the one hour online presentation of this lesson. You can listen to each of the ten answers directly from the webpage. - Each answer is a discussion between me and Pat which gives you our combined teaching and playing wisdom of nearly 100 years (yikes...!). - Each answer is a MP3 file that you can also download to your computer where you can listen "off-line" and/or burn your own CD. - The lesson CD will be immediately shipped to you. - PLUS, unlimited email and telephone support from Brent! Yep, I'm available to help you. Just let me know. - And with all of my instructional products, you get my 100% fully refundable lifetime player satisfaction guarantee.
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You're kidding me right? What are they thinking?...
