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Date: March 8, 2007
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Topic: Court Positioning - How Your Shots Are Your Tools to Achieve Superior Court Positioning
A new tips series on the 7 "Must Have" Stroke Fundamentals ... 

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A little different format this week. 

I have just finished a report titled "The 7 Stroke Fundamentals That Allow You to Challenge Your Opponents With Superior Court Positioning".

I am also producing a video tip series as a follow-up to this report.  I'll let you know when it's ready.

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"3 Magic Moves" for your 1st & 2nd Serves


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Hi, Brent Abel here, WebTennis.net, and this week’s video tip is going to be focused on what I think is the number one mistake that we make every time we try to execute a shot and it’s something that is – it’s really the only one thing that I think about consciously when I’m playing tennis.

All the other thoughts I have are just pure instincts. 

The instincts are developed either through focus, practice, or just experience, but there is one conscious thought that I have to be able to execute each and every shot and that is the spacing that I want away from the path of the incoming ball. 

And it sounds pretty simple and it really – it can be, but it’s vital that if you don’t have this initially, that you’re going to have a problem with shot execution.  

Doesn’t matter your prior shot, how well you set up the point.   

You could have your opponent sitting off in the bench and the side of the court with your last shot, but if you don’t perform what I call spacing, really trying to get the right space, the right distance away from the path of your opponent’s incoming shot, it doesn’t matter how open a court you have, it doesn’t matter how much of an advantage you’ve got, if you don’t have the right spacing, your shot execution can not happen.   

What I’ve done is I’ve put together a five tip series for you. 

It’s a video tip series and it’s what I call sort of the seven crucial elements, the seven crucial fundamentals, what we need to be able to perform each and every shot whether it’s a serve, whether it’s a ground stroke, whether it’s an approach shot, return serve, half volleys, first volleys, upper net volleys, overheads, lobs, whatever shot in the game you have to perform, there really are seven vital fundamentals that have to take place. 

And so what I want you to do is I’m going to send you, at the end of this video, to a subscription form. 

It’s free.  I just want you to sign up and then you can start receiving these five tips.

 I’m going to send out one tip about every three days and I want you to sort of kind of think about each and every tip for a few days, maybe even have a little practice time on the court and off the court to be able to think about and kind of practice each one of these tips. 

All right.  Any questions, brent@webtennis.net.  Thanks very much.