John Blain
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Sports Coaching | ECB Level 4 Coach | Director of Cricket Grange Club, Edinburgh
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Happy 14th Birthday Son 🎂
Thank you for your support. We are proud of you 💚
✅ Dealing with extreme adversity 🤜
✅ ‘Doing your best’ at school ✍️
✅ 39 goals for your wee ⚽️ team
✅ Being my friend 🤝
Love you, 🥰
Dad
⏰
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Just another test for you
@GeoffreyBoycott
💪
I support you, as you have done me.
Our thoughts are with you all.
The Blain’s
❤️🏏
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The two T20 pitches for the upcoming
@CricketScotland
v
@CricketAus
Internationals in September. They both look in fantastic condition
@GrangeCC
@GrangeCCAcad
🏏🏴🇦🇺
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Be sure to check in on those around you in 2024..
A heartfelt thank you to those who have either stood with or even walked towards me and my family in 2023.
Love and best wishes for 2024 🙏
𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.
Check in on those around you.
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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#YouAreNotAlone
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@samaritans
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Love this picture from a 1:1 today..
What is coaching?
✅ Relationships
✅ Mutual Respect
✅ Trust
🏏
@GrangeCCAcad
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Two more cabs off the rank. A breath of fresh air. More to come..
🚕 🚕 🦌🦌 🔴⚪️ 🏴🏏
Well done
@jameswd116
@JackJarvis56
👏🏻⭐️⭐️
@GrangeCCAcad
@LorettoHead
@GrangeCC
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Every Friday I’m fortunate to spend time and work with a young man with autism & ADHD.
Without fail, he teaches me to follow a passion and run free.🏃♂️
Here he is today running down hill, on a path of his own, seeking his passion of STEM 🌱🪴
What a picture & metaphor! 📸
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This..👇 🏃♀️ ❤️
If you have a few moments to listen to this interview as a parent with your child.
Possible one of the best post race interviews I have ever watched
#PlayOn
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Come for a walk around
@GrangeCC
@GrangeCCAcad
with me..
✅ 3 x U12 pitches
✅ 1 x 1st XI pitch v
@HeriotsCricket
#MatchDay
☀️🔥🦌🏏
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It is vitally important to train on the best surfaces possible ..
🌱💥🦌👏🏻
@GrangeCC
@GrangeCCAcad
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On the same day one
@GrangeCCAcad
kid got his first ‘cherry’ on his new bat at Easter Camp, another
@GrangeCC
kid got his first 💯 at Lords.
@mcccricket
@MCCOfficial
The joys, shared experiences (and challenges!) coaching can bring you in a long week ❤️🏏 🦌
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I’m in the groove - make sure you ‘keep turning up’ every single day people.. 🏃♂️💪
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27 years ago, 8th January 1997 at 8.05am, I lost my ‘big brother’ and our family lost a truly wonderful man.
Forever in our thoughts Kenneth.
@PoliceScotland
💔👮♀️
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Dec, Jan, Feb & Mar are 👍 months to be on tour✈️☀️
It’s where skills & personalities are tested 🏏💪
📸 A few flashback ‘behind the scenes’ pictures from
around the world 🌍
📍 Sharjah, UAE 🇦🇪 v Scotland 🏴
🏆 Intercontinental Cup
📆 Jan, 2007
✍️
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The old lady looking splendid this evening. Ready for another busy and eventful summer..
🏏🦌📸
@GrangeCC
@GrangeCCAcad
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Always destined for a long & destinguished career.
HUGELY talented. Extremely brave &
instinctive in equal measure.
Attitude, work ethic, character & personality is EVERYTHING - some have it, some just simply don’t.
100 Test Matches says it all..
💯🏴⭐️🏏 👏🏻
@GrangeCCAcad
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“A bowler will show significant devpt when they have a better understanding & awareness of their bowling action from a technical perspective. That moment the bowler ‘feels it’. ❤️ It truly unlocks performance.” 🔐
Always enjoyed this part of working with a bowler..✅✍️📚🎥🏏
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🏆
@ICC
World Cup 2007
🏏 Opening Ceremony
📍 Jamaica 🇯🇲
Always nice to help team mates capture a picture with greats of the game. Special moments on tours, my 📸 was never far away!🦡
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Nice to see the car park busy again and ground at
@GrangeCC
@GrangeCCAcad
beginning to
take shape 🌱☀️
Good numbers at the first outdoor training session ✅
Great to also see the good people of our game and
@ESCACricket
clubs meeting to discuss all matters Cricket too ✅
🦌🏏
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“In a world full of adversity we must dare to dream..”
The incredible strength of this family and clear respect for Rob Burrow.
❤️ 🦏 🏉
"In a world full of adversity we must dare to dream" Rob Burrow
#ONERROBBURROW
#SkySportsRL
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I absolutely love these pictures from Mombassa 2007 🏴 🇰🇪🏏
We volunteered to visit the local school, Braeburn. 🏫
Could do with some of that heat now! ☀️😥
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⏰ When the clock strikes 💯
✅ 10 week block since January
✅ 70 hrs of U10 - U16 junior training
✅ 30 hrs of senior woman & men training
✍️ Numbers never been higher, interest never been more..
💪🦌👏🏻
@GrangeCC
@GrangeCCAcad
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Here is a picture I found from Aug 2023.
This is my Mum. 🥰 Supporting at the
@SelkirkCC
v
@MCCOfficial
A simply wonderful woman - a strong woman. 💪
Not long after this she suffered severe ill health. Looking back you can see the strain etched across her face. 😔
⏰
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A polite plea to the coward(s) who are now, “No Caller ID” my 13 year old son - please keep him out of this.
A new low.. 😔
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What is priority in fast bowlers?🤔
Being:
• Technically sound?🏗️
• Tactically aware?📚
• Skilful / Craft?🏏
• Determined?😰
Enjoyed doing this analysis of Ishant Sharma. A bowler with great skill & craft amongst many other attributes.
Know your own game in 2024.. ✅🔍
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“All overnight success takes about ten years..” Jeff Bazos
✍️ 2015 Bowling Analysis ✅
🏴 2024 International Cap ✅
It is important a bowler understands their action at the outset. Education & dedication to improve is key 🔑
@jameswd116
👏🏻🤝
Any bowlers Q’s, please DM 👍
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This is incredibly touching and wonderful from the
@TheRealPCB
players & staff - especially
@adamhollioake
👏🏻
“.. and sometimes me and Mum go to the nets a lot ..” 😢🏏
A tough competitor and a great man Andy Symonds 🇦🇺
A special guest joined our training today 🙌
Pakistan team spend time with Will Symonds, son of the late Andrew Symonds.
#AUSvPAK
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Global
@ICC
events are always special❤️🏏
I maintain, the higher the level of cricket you play - the ‘clearer’ the game becomes 🔍
🏆 ICC 2007 Cricket World Cup
📍St Kitts, West Indies
🇦🇺 v Australia
🇳🇱 v Netherlands
🇿🇦 v South Africa
📆 Mar, 2007
✍️
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Tom opening up this famous pitch again.💙🏴 Personally some memorable matches played on this one..
@ICC
World Cup 1999
@BCBtigers
@BLACKCAPS
🏆 &
@TheRealPCB
🇵🇰 2006
@GrangeCC
@GrangeCCAcad
🦌🏏
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For the individual who called me this evening, said a few words and hung up - your number has now been passed to
@PoliceScotland
I’m at home with the family and do not expect or deserve such calls.
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The most question I’ve been asked over the past two weeks..
“What are conditions like a Grange?”
☀️🦌📸
What a difference a week can make.
Sensational work from Tom and Kevin the groundstaff. 🌱 👏🏻
@GrangeCC
@GrangeCCAcad
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‘Training’ is an easy (and unrealistic) dopamine to the real thing.
IMO Cricketers are becoming addicted to the substitute and the ‘real thing’ I’m seeing is overwhelming.
Get out and play, experience the success & failure. It’s the experiences that make a player.
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You’ll do for me pal.. 💪
Your Mum is your best friend ❤️
Incredibly open and honest from Jamie George ❤️
The England rugby captain talks emotionally about the recent passing of his mother, Jane.
#BBCRugby
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Rule
#1
Get your family around you and get around them. Incredible strength can come from within that group..
This 👇
Well done
@robert1lefty
👏🏻 ⛳️
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Happy Birthday
@devon_malcolm
The first ‘senior pro’ to truly look after me as a ‘junior pro’.
🔥
#9
/56 🏴 🇿🇦 🏏
Simply a great man ❤️
On This Day in 1963
@devon_malcolm
was born; he played 289 all formats matches for
@DerbyshireCCC
taking 753 wickets, the 14th most by any bowler for the county...
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🏆 World Cricket League
📆 January, 2007
🏏 v 🇨🇦
📍 Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪
Any better feeling when you return to the changing room knowing you’ve done a job for your team?💥
Just under 100 run match winning p’ship. Teammates congratulating GH & DB👏🏻 🏴🏏
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Flashed across my timeline..
Instantly with a rogue eye, like the look of this lad.
✅ Pillar still on impact
✅ Balanced
✅ Weight distribution
🟰 Reads length
Clearly has 👏🏻 scoring options.
Impressive 🌟
Uzair Ahmad striking them well in the warm up match vs Nepal U19 🏴🇳🇵
🔥
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Brilliant tour to Chittagong & Dhaka to witness the growth of cricket since playing against
@BCBtigers
in Malaysia, 1997 @ 1999 WCQ
Incredible talent, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Shakib Al Hasan et al
📍Bangladesh🇧🇩 v Scotland🏴
🏆 ODI Series
📆 Dec, 2006
✍️
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👇
Brilliant video for any parent whose kid plays sport. "There is no such thing as an elite 8-year-old, a high-performance 10-year-old, or a professional 11-year-old." 👏🏻
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Enjoyable evening at the
@PFAScotland
Awards 🥇
@callumbeattieb
singing over the roll of honour was incredibly poignant.
A pleasure also listening to the great Greame Souness after he received the well deserved Special Merit Award.
⚽️
#PFASAwards
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@stockbridgeed
@GrangeCC
@GrangeCCAcad
Edinburgh Old town and New town showing off in the late evening sunshine ☀️ 🦌
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Never one size fits all
@DrLynnPal1
as you well know.. 🐎 🧠
Adi is a pleasure to work with - he keeps me fresh and importantly makes us smile and laugh 😊🏏🦌
Different leadership styles. Authoritarian, democratic, lassiez-faire, coaching each with own benefits/uses. JBs coaching style discussing game tactics. Adi is very lucky to have a cricket coach that builds trust, respect, knowledgeable, kind, supportive, patient, goal focused.
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By the way, just been sent this..
Different class - well in lads. 👏🏻 🏏
Aspirational stuff - especially in a country where indoor space is of a premium. 🏴 🏠
Opencricketacademy with nets hiring facility opening up in glasgow very soon :)
Proud to do free coaching for disabled people
Free cricket coaching for underprivileged
Women coaching
All our coaches will be level 3 , level 2 highly professional
#cricketindoornets
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Seems a long time ago now since I held James as a baby! 👶🏽 😂
He’s becoming a fine Cricketer and young man. 👏🏻🔥
People talk about ‘talent’. His father was the most gifted & talented batter I’ve seen. Better than many who enjoyed long international careers. 🏏 🏵️
@NorthantsCCC
A career best and a maiden first-class century from James Sales today. 🫡
Just the beginning. 🏵️
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💯👇👏🏻
🗣️ "Unless you are prepared to say it how it is, you are misleading someone. Maybe even lying to them. But this is the problem in the world today: people prefer perception over reality"
Sean Dyche interview | ✍️
@matthewsyed
Read more ⬇️
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Throwback Thursday..
🏆 MCC v Europe XI 🇪🇺
📍Lords, London
📆 7th June, 2007
An extremely proud day at the Home of Cricket.
@MCCOfficial
🏏 ✅
@TrentJohnston23
@craigwright99
@KMcOffie
@KevinOBrien113
@Coachsim13
@ryanwatson2780
@Katchetman
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Today’s STEM took us to
@DalkeithPalace
to see the Dalkeith Old Oak Wood - circa 900 years old.🌳
Extremely privileged to have a tour with head Ranger, Ross. 🚜
Amazing how many fabulous people you find when you go into niche areas.
Specialists guided by their passion.
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👇💯❤️
Well done Wayne Morton gave the best 35 years of his life to keeping players on the park Yorkshire and England. Great man great friend. You deserved better ❤️
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@CricketScotland
Brilliant work from the U19’s.
🏴 🌟
What’s even more impressive is, these lads will have put their hands up and volunteered themselves to go along 🙋♂️👏🏻
It’s always important to reach out when touring - inspire the next generation. 🏏🇿🇦
📸 2007 Mombassa 🇰🇪 Barbados 🇧🇧
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@CarltonCricket
@CricketScotland
Richly deserved. An excellent coach and fine man. Well done 🏴 🏹
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Performance is 💯 recognising patterns of play🏏
If the play isn’t clear to a player, either:
• An intelligence 🧠
• Past experience 👴🏻
• Or direct guidance 🗣️ ✍️
..is needed to help recognise.
Understanding the reason behind performance is key 🔑 to ensure a repeat 🔁
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Every picture Doug.. ❤️🏏🏴
Was very lucky to play with some outstanding people throughout my career… here’s 2 of them…
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🙏
I remember having breakfast with him and
@dougie1brown
a week before.
A brilliant man and mind.
🏏
Remembering Bob Woolmer, former head coach of Pakistan, on his death anniversary.
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🏆 World Cricket League
📆 February, 2007
🏏 v 🇳🇱
📍Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪
How it started.. ☔️
What do you do when it is a delayed start?📚🗣️
How it ended.. 🥇
Does your team have a song? 🎶
A brilliant last over by
@phoffmann555
🇳🇱 Required 4 runs
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If you are good enough - you are old enough..
Always admired the belief and work ethic the Irish have. A performance based on hard work and belief 🎤🎶👏🏻
🇮🇪 🏉
Stevie Mulrooney sings Ireland's Call at the Aviva!
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Great to see so many young players this weekend. Some were bursting with excitement about their new bats. 🏏
Which bat brings back many great memories for you?
Mine was the Gray - Nicolls Powerspot LE Test Opener LE 1995, 2lb 6oz. 🥰
@graynics
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What noise(s) get you or your players into a pre match routine?🤔👂
Coaches should be aware of individual players routines & triggers. Often it reflects players personalities.
Fascinating looking back. What a day & game this proved to be!
🏴 v 🇨🇦🏏
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Since this brilliant picture of the great FS Trueman has been doing the rounds - I’ve been asked a few times recently,
“Why don’t bowlers drag nowadays?”
My own ‘drag’ developed from committing my front side to my action & using my back foot in balance.👣
Any thoughts coaches?
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Fundraiser by John Blain : Financial Legal Support - John Blain Go Fund Me
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With one month to go until
#PattosMay5K
, here's a little insight into how his training is going 🚶
Stay strong Patto, we're all right behind you 💪
Find out more about Andy's story ➡️
Donate ➡️
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - very difficult to disagree with
@MichaelVaughan
Not only has
@benstokes38
achieved honours, he has importantly inspired generations. As a coach, I’m seeing positive ‘allrounders’ simply because of him.
His greatest achievement IMO🤔👏🏻
🏏🏴
'I could make a very good case that Ben Stokes is England's greatest cricketer'
🎙️
@MichaelVaughan
lauds England skipper Ben Stokes he prepares to receive his 100th cap
#TelegraphCricket
|
#INDvENG
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@jbairstow21
@sando567
@LUFC
v
@YorkshireCCC
#Back4
#Mar2011
#ThorpeArch
1. Bairstow (gk)
2. Brophy
3. Sanderson
4. Blain
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This..👇
Red ball, white pads, good length
Technically sound from the batters👏🏻 👀🏏
Great first day of pre-season on grass for the
@kentcricket
batters. Huge thanks to the ground staff for preparing such an excellent surface after all the rain👏🏽🙏🏏 ☔️
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Brilliant interview, really enjoyed it.
👏🏻 ⚽️
In culture of charlatans, professionals at the top of their game who clearly have a respect for each other.
There is no substitute for knowledge and experience.
@rioferdy5
@laura_woodsy
@martinkeown5
@HKane
Arsenal fans stay behind to serenade Harry Kane during his post-match interview 😅
The striker joins the team to discuss his goalscoring record against the Gunners and Bayern’s game plan for the second leg.
🎙
@laura_woodsy
,
@rioferdy5
&
@martinkeown5
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💯 ⭐️ 👏🏻 🏴 🏏
#Janet
Interviewed Jonny Bairstow in Dharamsala, ahead of an emotional 100th Test.
Spoke about comparisons with his late father David, how his mum Janet kept the family together through tough times, and having his own son here this week:
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Well done Cameron. I bet your family are extremely proud of you.
What an impressive young man - destined for good things ✅
👏🏻 🗣️⭐️⚽️
“Without a referee, there is no game”. At only 21 years old, Cameron has been a referee for 5 years and has been recognised as a Specsavers and Scottish FA Local Legend for his commitment to Scottish football.
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@GavHam125
@EmiratesCricket
It really was Gav. We enjoyed a lot of success in that part of the world and seemed to suit that group of players style of play. Excellent facilities, pitches and hosts too. 🙏
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A friend asked my opinion on her tennis serve. My 1st attempt at cross sport technique. ✍️ 💻
Loved it! 🎾
1. Set phase
• Set up
• Release
2. Mid serve / prep phase
• Feet/hips/shoulders
• Bound
3. Execution phase
• Contact
• Fwd momentum
@pmouratoglou
@dave_alred
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💯👇
The clue is in the club name..
Players need to feel secure. Unity provides that either at home or in the work place 🤗
In sport, the higher the level, the more players need direction and benefit significantly from feeling safe.
#manchesterUNITED
How Manchester United's new owners have changed the mindset of the players 🧠
@StephenWarnock3
#MOTD2
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This 👇
Two types ..
Those that have it, those that don’t.
Those that have it don’t know they’ve got it, those that think they have, know deep down they don’t ..
Sir Alex Ferguson like you’ve never heard him before👇
🗣️”I don’t think there’s anything wrong with losing your temper if it’s for the right reasons. If they didn’t reach their expectations in a game. Because everything is built around what we expect in terms of the standard of
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@henrymoeranBBC
He is best when he has a point to prove, always has been from a young age. If anyone knows how to deal with ‘adversity’ - it’s him.
He has a match winning performance in him very soon.
#bbccricket
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@Scotlandteam
@SixNationsRugby
Brilliant
@Scotlandteam
👏🏻🏴 🏉
Other sports, please take note ..
Engaging | Insightful | Real
#AsOne
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🥬 💚
𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐑𝐚𝐰, 𝐇𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Tear jerking stuff right here ⬇️ 🎥
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👏🏻
@RichardHoiles
❤️🏇
“I know I hugged my kids tighter last night on leaving for here knowing that simple pleasure has been cruelly snatched away from one of mine - and many in the press room’s - greatest friends.”
Richard Hoiles on his dear friend John Hunt’s tragic loss ❤️
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