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I am bemused by the shyness/reluctance/timidity of so many TennisPlayer
subscribers to discuss (and presumably consider) the huge cache of Doug
King teaching videos that came over to TennisPlayer from TennisOne.
I meanwhile at 76 years of age am having a great time applying as many
of these sound ideas to my game as I can.
At the Eastside Detroit tennis social on Friday night I could barely move
due to arthritis, but found the young people I had just been competing
with unusually congenial perhaps because they brought beer.
"I hit one good forehand," I said. "No," they said, "You hit many more good
forehands than that."
I was right, they were wrong. The good forehand I hit was a great clean
winner in the alley that put to shame all the others.
More important, this one shot revealed what one could do were one to
submit to Doug King as a mythic guide capable to lead one down into
the underworld of classic polytheism then bring one back to present day
reality.
In our contemporary world, if Doug King gave a sermon, you would walk
away from the church saying, "Wow, what a good speaker" even if not
a single word pertained to Christianity.
Doug King has a range of reference that is wider than that of most teaching
pros or anybody else. As I've already said, he is a polymath, a person who
deeply understands many different disciplines including my special interest
of rowing shell-boats.
How about contests in billiards, dance or kick-it? Wouldn't want to take him
on.
As far as his tennis goes, most people know his playing record in northern
California, I would venture to say.
But the champion who can explain the views that worked for him in the
profusion of chunked detail Doug offers is rare occurrence.
Any player if nothing else would benefit from learning what a "kata" is
and why and how katas put together can give the lie to Nike's motto of
"Just do it."
Speaking of Nike, when is that organization going to hire better clothes
designers and figure out how not to put two singles players on a court
wearing identical costume?
I am bemused by the shyness/reluctance/timidity of so many TennisPlayer
subscribers to discuss (and presumably consider) the huge cache of Doug
King teaching videos that came over to TennisPlayer from TennisOne.
I meanwhile at 76 years of age am having a great time applying as many
of these sound ideas to my game as I can.
At the Eastside Detroit tennis social on Friday night I could barely move
due to arthritis, but found the young people I had just been competing
with unusually congenial perhaps because they brought beer.
"I hit one good forehand," I said. "No," they said, "You hit many more good
forehands than that."
I was right, they were wrong. The good forehand I hit was a great clean
winner in the alley that put to shame all the others.
More important, this one shot revealed what one could do were one to
submit to Doug King as a mythic guide capable to lead one down into
the underworld of classic polytheism then bring one back to present day
reality.
In our contemporary world, if Doug King gave a sermon, you would walk
away from the church saying, "Wow, what a good speaker" even if not
a single word pertained to Christianity.
Doug King has a range of reference that is wider than that of most teaching
pros or anybody else. As I've already said, he is a polymath, a person who
deeply understands many different disciplines including my special interest
of rowing shell-boats.
How about contests in billiards, dance or kick-it? Wouldn't want to take him
on.
As far as his tennis goes, most people know his playing record in northern
California, I would venture to say.
But the champion who can explain the views that worked for him in the
profusion of chunked detail Doug offers is rare occurrence.
Any player if nothing else would benefit from learning what a "kata" is
and why and how katas put together can give the lie to Nike's motto of
"Just do it."
Speaking of Nike, when is that organization going to hire better clothes
designers and figure out how not to put two singles players on a court
wearing identical costume?
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