Clipped from Episode#:4 Shaun Boyce & Bobby Schindler
Shaun and Bobby talk to Doug Lee, a PTR certified tennis coach and NASM certified fitness instructor. Doug’s answer to the King of Tennis question is to make tennis “more accessible” and our follow up question is asking him “HOW would you do that?” Let us know what you think and if you have an answer as to actually HOW we make tennis more accessible.
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Transcript
If you were king of tennis and you could change anything, whether it was just the Atlanta
Speaker:area or the United States or all over the world, whatever scale you have, is there something
Speaker:you would change?
Speaker:Is there something you would do as king of tennis?
Speaker:I would try to make it more of an accessible sport to everyone.
Speaker:You can't just pick up a rack.
Speaker:You could, you need some instruction.
Speaker:You need some instruction too, but you can just go to the basketball court and shoot
Speaker:hoops.
Speaker:It's different.
Speaker:I would try to make tennis more if I were the king of tennis.
Speaker:I would make it more accessible to all different types of demographics that don't have access
Speaker:to it or easy access to it.
Speaker:That way, especially in the States, if you make it more accessible to a greater pool of
Speaker:people, obviously you're going to have more talent that comes out of there.
Speaker:I guess speaking in terms of the United States, you made it more accessible and you get
Speaker:more athletes.
Speaker:It's not just a sport for the elites, then that to me would be great.
Speaker:There's plenty of things you could do.
Speaker:Some kids get burned out of tennis because it's such a mind game when you're out there by
Speaker:yourself.
Speaker:I know I've self-destructed many a time when I was a junior.
Speaker:I was thrown in my racket, broken rackets, but never as an adult.
Speaker:No, never.
Speaker:Okay, good.
Speaker:No, neither.
Speaker:All the other kids at your home.
Speaker:I think then the sportsmanship, etiquette, crazy parents, I changed all of that and when
Speaker:I changed all of that, just take the pure joy and excitement that I get from tennis
Speaker:just hitting a clean forehand for a winner.
Speaker:Being able to get people to have that as well without all the other crappy things I just
Speaker:mentioned, that come along with it, come along with tennis.
Speaker:I guess that would be it.
Speaker:I'd make it more accessible to people that don't have access or easy access to it.
Speaker:and you know, subtract all the crappy things
