Archive for the ‘Random Tennis Things’ Category

Is tennis in your head?

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Vic Braden's Mental Tennis: How to Psych Yourself to a Winning Game

So you’ve spent lots of money on your tennis racquet and have spend several hours on the tennis court, hitting thousands of forehands, backhands, volleys, overhead smashes, and serves. But what are you going to do next? Of course you want to see how you match up against another competitor in a tennis tournament setting. You got your USTA membership, you found the next tournament, you have you NTRP level picked out – most players are between a 3.5 to 4.5. All things are ready to go and the time has come to prove what you have worked so hard for. You get those pre match jitters and you think all will be well when it’s time to play.

The next thing you know it’s 6-0, 6-0 and you’re out! What the deuce??? Didn’t you work hard perfecting your game? You should have at least gotten in a game, right? Well here’s the deal, like most sports, tennis is mostly mental. You have to be in the match the whole time, that includes your mind! Yes, tennis has a mind game involved. All that court time you’ve put in is great and all, but you have also have to be mentally tough. Most, if not all tennis pros have their brain farts and lose a match (case in point, Nadal – French Open – 2009…nuff said).

So how do you fix it? You have to train your brain off the tennis court. In this little book there are so many little things that you can to do fix and perfect the mental game of tennis! Trust us, we’ve read it and it sure as heck has help us all – regardless of skill level.

Remember, we’re only trying to help your tennis game folks!

Old flat fuzzy balls

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The other day we were discussing what to do with all the old and flat tennis balls we had laying around. Having a gigantic pile of flat tennis balls really serves no purpose if you are not running a tennis training camp/center or own a dog kennel.

So what exactly could you do with these old fuzzy balls? We have compiled a short list of random things you can do with your old tennis balls – related to tennis and not related :)

  1. Put them up on Craigslist to sell or give away.
  2. Go to your local tennis center and see if you can donate them.
  3. Head over to the retirement home to visit your Aunt Gertrude and see if her house mates need tennis balls for their walkers.
  4. Use them as target practice or fill them with gun powder for an explosive tennis serve (we highly do not recommend you actually do this).
  5. Check with the high schools or college to see if their tennis teams need practice balls.
  6. Cut them in half and tape them to the bottom of your shoe heels – this will help you stay on your toes during tennis play.
  7. Again cut them in half and place them under couch feet or bed feet – makes it easy to move furniture and doesn’t scuff your floor!
  8. Give them to your dog.
  9. You could recycle your old tennis balls.
  10. And finally, you could just leave the tennis balls in your garage (like they are now) and keep telling yourself that you will actually move them at some point.

Those are some of the awesome and creative ways you can get rid of your old tennis balls without just throwing them in the trash or dumping them on the side of the road. We’re curious to know what you, the reader, has done to recycle your old tennis balls (comment below).

Caught speeding in tennis?

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

You have to get this thing! It is the coolest little gadget for the tennis enthusiast of any level…. Ever wonder how fast you are hitting that tennis ball on your serve or ground stroke? Well, here at tennis this, we have found the solution for you! Let us introduce the SpeedTrac X:

SpeedTrac X - Miscellaneous Tennis

This awesome little puppy will register any tennis ball moving up to 150 mph (199 km/h) – like anybody other than Andy Roddick could hit that kind of gut busting speed. This is probably the most reliable speed gun/meter on the planet that most of us can actually afford – yes, it comes in at $139.95 USDĀ  plus free shipping. So, if you want to know what you can do on the tennis court, you should really consider gettingĀ  the SpeedTrac X