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Tennis Video of the Day: The Curious Evolution of the Tennis Racket

Courtesy: Bloomberg on YouTube.com

Tennis Song of the Day: "Anyone for Tennis" by Cream and Eric Clapton (1968)

Courtesy: driftinblues on YouTube.com

Tennis Video of the Day: Learn to Play (and Live) FREE

Goal: Abandon Unproductive thoughts
Technique: Bring a waste basket or bag and discard them

Goal: Be (and stay) in the present, and address any issue
Technique: Focus on your breathe, and the exact moment when the inhale becomes the exhale

Courtesy: Bob ("Focus Coach") Litwin, Performance Coach, Tennis Congress (Apx. 14 mins., Published August 26, 2018)

Lessons from Dance: The Primacy of Balance and Core Rotation

Courtesy: John Cambridge on You Tube ("Puttin' on the Ritz" with Fred Astaire) 

Lessons from the Martial Arts: The Supremacy of Speed and Quickness

Courtesy: Topideo on YouTube (From the Martial Arts Movie "Enter the Dragon" with Bruce Lee)

Lessons from the Discus Throw: The Kinetic Chain of Energy from the Ground-Up

Courtesy: Throwing Smarter, Throwing Smarter

Tennis Topic of the Day: The Most Beautiful Game

Tennis is a "uniquely strong, complex and beautiful sport", which turns a game into a metaphor, and sport into art. Tennis is: angles, spin, power, control, direction, geometry, speed, strength, movement, balance, drama, dance, deception, doggedness, calmness, explosiveness, analysis, touch, bravado, nimbleness, defiance, elegance and the variety of both the human forms who play it and the styles it is played with --- and so much more. 

Read why many believe that tennis is the most beautiful game. 

Article: The Most Beautiful Game: Tennis Turns Sport into Art, Marianne Bevis, Bleacher Report (Nov. 2009)