Your Strokes: Kevin Patrick: Forehand

A chance to meet our subscribers and do before and after analysis.

One of the fun things about Tennisplayer is getting to meet and to work with some of our subscribers, players from across the country, and from across the whole spectrum of ages and abilities.

Quite a few subscribers have come through San Francisco wanting to meet us and have their games filmed and analyzed. And that has given us more chances to do before and after analysis for Your Strokes. That’s the case this month with Kevin Patrick’s forehand.

Kevin played varsity tennis at Cal, so, obviously, he was (and is) a high level player. Now Kevin is a teaching pro and coach at what sounds like a gorgeous club in New Jersey, with a growing junior program. Currently he is incorporating video analysis into his work there. So he wanted to come out, be his own guinea pig, see how we did it, and what he might learn from all that.

The strength of Kevin’s forehand, scrambling, defending, looping.

I have to say I found the whole experience to be inspirational, seeing a young player and teaching pro embracing the new technologies and resources to improve the…