# Looking to start picking up Tennis
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [May 3, 2007, 10:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731 "2007-05-03T10:55:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/21 "2007-05-03T12:39:01Z")
Have 91MR2 teach you.
Or, if you have a few g’s have my gf’s uncle teach you.
Instruction \> fucking around \> Joe’s advice.
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### Author:  [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/22 "2007-05-03T12:47:42Z")
Or he could just pay me, and get all 3 in one…
Reduced rate for NYSpeed of course…
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### Author:  [@King](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/King)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/23 "2007-05-03T12:52:07Z")
id like to pick up tennis for fun too, original sin and i were just talking about that
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### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/24 "2007-05-03T12:55:19Z")
[quote=“91MR2,post:22,topic:28731"”]
Or he could just pay me, and get all 3 in one…
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You’re going to give him Joe’s advice? oh noes
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/25 "2007-05-03T12:57:47Z")
[quote=“91MR2,post:22,topic:28731"”]
Or he could just pay me, and get all 3 in one…
Reduced rate for NYSpeed of course…
[/quote]
I cant afford lessons, I’m currently enrolled in a boxing class and a speed clinic.
lol
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### Author:  [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/26 "2007-05-03T12:59:24Z")
Fine, full price, haha. Seriously next time you come to town, let me know…
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### Author:  [@RedDawg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedDawg)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/27 "2007-05-03T13:01:19Z")
there are speed clinics? isn’t it just place pill in mouth, drink water, swallow?
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### Author:  [@Zer0DazE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zer0DazE)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/28 "2007-05-03T13:06:22Z")
[quote=“RedDawg,post:27,topic:28731"”]
there are speed clinics? isn’t it just place pill in mouth, drink water, swallow?
[/quote]
thats what i was thinking
a little ephedrine and a big ass cup of coffee
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### Author:  [@rugsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rugsr)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/29 "2007-05-03T13:15:50Z")
STAY ON YOUR TOES AND KEEP YOUR KNEES BENT
PRACTICE YOUR VOLLEYS AGAINST A WALL
FAR FOR BASE LINE SHOTS…CLOSE FOR YOUR NET VOLLEYS
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### Author:  [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/30 "2007-05-03T13:42:26Z")
I end up just getting bored and home run hitting the ball ☹
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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/31 "2007-05-03T14:27:53Z")
come see me, I used to be a USPTA certified teaching professional… sucka
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### Author:  [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/32 "2007-05-03T15:11:42Z")
[quote=“91MR2,post:20,topic:28731"”]
This post makes me want to put my head through a fucking plate glass window.
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just how i was taught and learned to play decently way back in the day/taught a couple complete n00bs successfully, sure you do somethin different :gotme:
but by all means, since you want to, please do. and take pics of carnage. which would totally be better than any tennis thread. :tup:
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### Author:  [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/33 "2007-05-03T21:28:10Z")
[quote=“Joe,post:32,topic:28731"”]
just how i was taught and learned to play decently way back in the day/taught a couple complete n00bs successfully, sure you do somethin different :gotme:
but by all means, since you want to, please do. and take pics of carnage. which would totally be better than any tennis thread. :tup:
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I didn’t mean to come off like a jerk before, it’s just something I’ve done for the better part of my life, so when I was reading the post, my head was just spinning.
:tup: to you for teaching your friends though…takes patience…
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### Author:  [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/34 "2007-05-03T21:48:07Z")
[quote=“walter,post:31,topic:28731"”]
come see me, I used to be a USPTA certified teaching professional… sucka
[/quote]
Is this true?
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### Author:  [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/35 "2007-05-03T22:21:49Z")
1. get a tennis racket
2. get some balls
3. find a flat wall
4. hit ball against said wall
5. repeat
a wall is the hardest opponent you will ever play, hits it back everytime
oh and stay outta “no mans land”
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### Author:  [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/36 "2007-05-03T23:08:50Z")
[quote=“Daddie”"]
I suck at Tennis. I’m ok a ping pong, not that ping pong and tennis have anything to do with each other, but whatever.
Where do I start…
Seriously, I can hit a ball forehand back and forth, but beyond that, I’m pretty bad.
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You’re going to be skinnier than me if you start playing tennis 😃
[quote=“RuBiCaNT,post:8,topic:28731"”]
Post pics of this girl you are trying to score by learning tennis…
[/quote]
:word:
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### Author:  [@Inn-Tune](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Inn-Tune)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/37 "2007-05-04T06:13:43Z")
Check out Sound Shore or Hastings Tennis club. They both have decent instructors. Even if you can only afford a few lessons, they will go a long way to making sure you don’t develop bad habits.
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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2007, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/38 "2007-05-04T08:17:01Z")
[quote=“91MR2,post:34,topic:28731"”]
Is this true?
[/quote]
yes
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### Author:  [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2007, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-to-start-picking-up-tennis/28731/39 "2007-05-04T09:29:30Z")
what are u doing this weekend. ill show you the ropes.
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