Nick Ring Leisure | Tennis Breaks | Tennis Coaching http://www.nickringleisure.co.uk/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Excellent tennis holiday http://www.nickringleisure.co.uk/blog/excellent-tennis-holiday http://www.nickringleisure.co.uk/blog/excellent-tennis-holiday#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:13:35 +0000 nick http://www.nickringleisure.co.uk/blog/?p=156 http://www.nickringleisure.co.uk/blog/excellent-tennis-holiday/feed 0 Friendly people http://www.nickringleisure.co.uk/blog/friendly-people http://www.nickringleisure.co.uk/blog/friendly-people#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:45:56 +0000 nick http://www.nickringleisure.co.uk/blog/?p=154 Hi Nick,

I thoroughly enjoyed the course, thank you very much. Everything was really well organised and I met some really friendly people.

Kind regards,

David Tasker

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Our Academy courses are tailored to regular club players looking to improve their game through games based tactical and technical development.  Two key features of our Academy weekends include, specialist double tactics coaching to improve your court awareness and net play, and video analysis to point out areas of strengths and weaknesses.

These Academy

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The grip

As with the forehand we use the Eastern backhand grip.  This can be found by placing your racket under your non playing arm with the butt of the racket grip facing the net and the racket head pointing to the back fence and simply grab the racket handle with

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The grip

The most conventional grip is called the Eastern forehand grip (shaking hands grip).  This can be effectively found by placing your playing hand flat on the strings and by sliding your hand down the side of the racket until you reach the grip or alternatively this can be found by placing the

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Many thanks for an enjoyable weekend of tennis coaching at Bisham abbey. I like your positive ,relaxed, humorous style coupled with solid technical content.  Believe it or not Diane and I went straight from Bisham Abbey  to our local David Lloyd  that Sunday night , for a gentle hit and a few sets to start consolidating

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Position: Tennis Coach

Rupert joined the Nick Ring Leisure team in 2008.  You may remember him from the Windmill Hill tennis & golf academy in East Sussex – 1992 to 2008.

Rupert heads up the majority of the Nick Ring Leisure programme of tennis breaks.

Prior to joining Windmill Hill Rupert was a county and national

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