A simple anywhere GRIP change exercise, the 3 first to improving your doubles game...AND my favorite saying in Lindenwold match pictures, cause some of the action pictures seen here were pretty darn good..

"It's not how you start but how you finish."  I use this saying a lot, whether it be the correct finish of your follow thru, or as we did last season, by finishing with a great playoff win against Lindernwold, after we lost twice to them during the regular season.   I know we can do that again, except this time let's beat them in our 2nd meeting of this season at their place.  We're 4-4 now, after today's win over Paulsboro, and there is no doubt we have a lot of season left to improve and finish the way we know we should.  Starts are nice, a slightly better record would have been positive for many reasons, but it's really all about the finish.


This 59 second clip is something I think all our doubles players can improve on .. PLUS I think we should all watch that we have the correct FINISH position, especially for our forehand groundstroke, but also the finish or follow-thru of our volleys.

Do this exercise separately for your two grips.   The Lindenwold/Gateway boxscore I promised you.

The importance of the service toss, a video clip seen on the March 1st blog post..  We worked on this a lot today and I hope you see the results in our upcoming practices and matches.  Notice how the server in the piece pronates his toss hand outward somewhere near his shoulders and shortly before he releases the toss.  This starts with holding the ball right, which is essential to properly locking the wrist and elbow in, thus avoiding excess spin on the ball as it is released near eye level.