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- How To Give A Tennis Lessons To Someone On Their Cell Phone?
After 33 years of teaching tennis Brian has seen it all including someone taking a private tennis lesson on their cell phone.
DAILY TENNIS TIP / EPISODE 270
1. Proof that Multi Tasking Is Hard To Do
2. Groove and Move
3. Muting Is Essential.
4. Mostly forehands.
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6 min - Close Your Eyes. Let's Play Tennis
One of the most under utilized ways to teach tennis is from feel also known as kinesthetic learning. Today's lesson talks about how to feel your way through the technical flaws in your swing.
DAILY TENNIS TIP / EPISODE 269
1. Define Kinesthetic Learning
2. How To Refine Technical Flaws Via Doing
3. Non Dominant Hand Technique
4. Minimal Feedback Loop
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7 min - Why Are Milestone Important For Your Tennis Game?
The path to success comes in stages to reach your goals. The key to growing and maximizing your learning curve is to set milestones. Brian explains the value of these milestones with your day to day practice plan.
DAILY TENNIS TIP / EPISODE 268
1. What is a Milestone?
2. Check the Box
3. Next Stage
4. Stack and Repeat
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8 min - How Often Should You Work On Your Volley?
Brian gives some practice tips and working on your net play for singles players and doubles players.
DAILY TENNIS TIP / EPISODE 267
1. Define Volley
2. Definition of Rally
3. Types of Volleyers:
a. Apprehensive
b. Adequate but needs improving
c. Confident Volleyers
Which one are you?
Brian breaks down the characteristics of each of these volleying stages.
4. Practice Routines with a focus on investment.
Show Notes:
Volley Tip with Brian entitled Absorb and Push
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9 min - How To Self-Discover Your Aha Moment Playing Tennis
Brian builds mindset thru intention to help tennis players find confidence on the tennis court.
DAILY TENNIS TIP / EPISODE 266
1. Self Discovery.
2. How To Get Into the Mindset
3. Practicing with Intention
4. Play Like Your Practice
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8 min - Is There A Right Way To Play Tennis?
Postmodern philosophy believes there is no truth only infinite interpretation. With this perspective in mind is there a right way to play tennis? Brian explores this topic to help you improve your own tennis game.
DAILY TENNIS TIP / EPISODE 265
1. What is right way for you?
2. Lessons vs Self Taught?
3. Efficiency vs Inefficiency
4. Shot Tolerance
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7 min - Is Less More When It Comes To Scaling Your Tennis Game?
Process vs Outcome. Brian's explains the value of not overloading yourself with information to maximize your results in the long term.
DAILY TENNIS TIP / EPISODE 264
1. Process vs Outcome
2. Practice Habits
3. Progressions
4. Level of Play
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7 min - How To Set Up Your Camera For Video Analysis of Your Tennis Game
Technical analysis is the most sought after advice students seek from their tennis professional. Brian breaks down his process when developing the ball striking skill of recreational tennis players.
DAILY TENNIS TIP / EPISODE 263
1. WARM UP
2. BE AUTHENTIC
3. DON"T OVER HIT
4. HOW TO SET UP YOUR CAMERA
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8 min - How To Install Your Tennis Game In 4 Steps
The first step to transforming your tennis game is shifting how you approach each shot you take. This Core System below is the key to your tennis future of your tennis game with the end goal of making your game soar. Without it the struggle for consistency will continue
DAILY TENNIS TIP / EPISODE 262
1. Contact Point
2. Adjustment Steps
3. Spacing
4. Ball Flight
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7 min - What Is The First Step To Reach Your Tennis Goals:? The Beep Test
Brian measures his student's CO2 intake to establish a fitness bench mark for his Backhand City monthly membership.
DAILY TENNIS TIP / EPISODE 261
1. How good can you be?
2. World Class Fitness?
3. Cardio and Tennis
4. Starting Points
SHOW NOTES:
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About Brian Thinks: Ideas from the Court
From the publisher's feed
Short ideas from a lifetime on the racquet court.
I’ve spent more than 38 years around tennis and pickleball—coaching players, watching matches, and noticing the strange little decisions that happen between points.
These episodes are quick observations about strategy, psychology, and how players actually improve.
Longer thinking lives on my Substack, Brian Thinks, where players go deeper and meet Narci, a conversational coaching tool built for the moments between games.
The podcast starts the thinking. Narci continues it on the court.