What if the only barrier between where you are now and where you want to be is simply the lack of a specific plan? Perhaps there is a change you’ve been wanting to make on the court or in your own life but it continues to allude you. On some level, I think this was one of the primary reasons I never integrated the transition game into my tactical plan in matches until recently. When some people mentioned the idea of coming to the net it sounded unrealistic. “That’s just not my game,” I thought. I had no specific image on how this would happen. When I heard it (usually from my father) it was a pipe dream. I had no idea when I would do this, not to mention the fact that I didn’t think I really even had a volley. Read the rest of this entry →