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[altodds]

Coco,
Bakit kailangan ninyo gamitin ang foam balls or low pressure balls?

[coco]

Yung rcw para sa recreational coaches kaya itutoro yong pinakabasic. E ngayon uspta, itf,  at canada rinireccomend na yung dati pang ginagawa sa Europe na umpisa sa foam balls para masmadali. Tapos foam, low compression balls naman. Maski sa adults nga, rinirecommend na rin tong progression na ito. Sa bata, up to ten years old,  rinirecommend shorter court at low compression balls.

[Francis]

coco - thanks for the info.
good luck sa certification! 

[Darkwing]

Yes you need your racket and playing clothes since the RCW is more than 90% on court and hands on. The only non playing part is when they explain something mostly at the end. You will be hitting with each other a lot, mostly with foam balls and low pressure balls, if its the same as last year's.

Thanks for the info coco. Good thing you're there. Will you be gunning for the p1-p3 Certification?

[coco]

Yes, I will be participating in the certification process.

[edolera]

There will be no RCW and USPTA Certificationa at Subic Bay.  We will only be doing tennis clinics for children, intermediate and advanced players.

Elmer - The Goodwill Tennis Tours

[Darkwing]

Greetings Elmer:

What's the schedule for the Subic leg?

[edolera]

Possibly a RCW on Wednesday May 11th.  Call Subic Bay to confirm.  There was not much organizing here.  If there is no RCW, we will not do any program here.

[SLP888]

What happen to the goodwill tennis tours? Is it successfully done or not? Does anybody participated to this program? Please share your experience.

[edolera]

This is Elmer A. Dolera of The Goodwill Tennis Tours.

Regarding USPTA Certification (http://www.uspta.org/index.cfm?MenuItemID=1634&MenuGroup=New%2DUSPTA), once the
on-court tests are analyzed and the results of those who took their written exam over the internet are known, we will have certified nineteen Filipinos as USPTA Tennis Professionals. 

As the result of the Recreational Coaches Workshops (http://www.usta.com/coaches/custom.sps?iType=12362&icustompageid=17306), we certified twenty Filipinos as USPTA Developmental Coaches, the entry-level of USPTA Certification.  This number does not include the many who sat in on the course.  We also did tennis clinics for several hundred children and juniors.

My 2008 Philippine tennis program is the first year the USPTA gave us permission to certify Filipinos as USPTA Tennis Professionals.   To date, to get the real total tally you must take the above numbers and also include the around fifty we certified as USPTA Developmental Coaches during our 2004 and 2007 tennis programs. 

As references you should contact those who participted in the 2008 USPTA Certification Program of which I have great admiration such as Jean Henri Lhuillier, Raul Antonio Guerrero, Roland Kraut, Jun Toledo, Randy Villanueva, Gerard Maronilla, Chase Tinio and Roel Pacana. 

Special thanks to the U.S. Embassy in Manila, especially Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney, Deputy Chief of Mission - Paul Jones, and Cebuana Lhuillier and the President of the company, Jean Henri Lhuillier, for making my 2008 tennis program a reality with their sponsorships.

I also want to thank The Manila Polo Club, most notably, Raymond Suarez, the Head of the Tennis Committee, for allowing us the use of their wonderful facility on short notice, PHILTA for the use of The Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, my contacts at our sites in Davao City (Albert and Carolina Angel), Cagayan de Oro (Raul Antonio Guerrero and Alvin Garcia), Subic Bay (Harry Torrente), Laoag (Willie Boy Agcaoili) and Calatagan (Jean Henri Lhuillier) and Roland So of Dunlop Philippines for providing us the tennis balls.

Lastly, I want to thank and express my deep gratitude to USPTA Tennis Professionals - my Associate - Ted Sayrahder, Brian Cunniff and Mark Allen, for volunteering their time and expertise for the people of the Philippines.  I am forever grateful.

If we are fortunate to get sponsorship for 2009, my plan is to do tennis programs in Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao, so we can get participation throughout the Philippines.  If we have additional time, we will do an elite junior tennis camp at The Subic Bay International Tennis Center and I will work to make sure that the participants can attend for free, especially those who cannot afford world-class tennis instruction.

My Associate - USPTA P1, Tester, USA High Performance Coach and RCW National Coach, Ted Sayrahder and I are committed to the Philippines and want to complement the efforts of the Philippines by people such as Jean Henri Lhuillier, Rommie Chan and Oscar Hilado and organizations such as PHILTA and JuntaPhil, to strengthen Philippine tennis. 

To view pictures of my just concluded 2008 tennis program, please go to the following web addresses:
 
Manila Arrival -
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=395281212009591707/l=390642236/g=15905395/cobrandOid=1000131/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
 
Davao City - 
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=193281211999829096/l=390639790/g=15905395/cobrandOid=1000131/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
 
Cagayan De Oro - 
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=612281211998809196/l=390639478/g=15905395/cobrandOid=1000131/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
 
Rizal Memorial Sports Complex/Manila Polo Club -
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=358301212153873880/l=390664294/g=15905395/cobrandOid=1000131/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
 
Laoag -
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=616281211974719170/l=367632829/g=15905395/cobrandOid=1000131/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
 
Travel - Laoag to Subic Bay to Manila -
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=808291212052967174/l=390648789/g=15905395/cobrandOid=1000131/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
 
Calatagan, Batangas -
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=421251211714416350/l=367586935/g=15905395/cobrandOid=1000131/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
 
To view a video of me meeting U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, Kristie A. Kenney, at our Ateneo de Manila program in 2007, please go to the web address:
 
http://philtennis.multiply.com/video/item/38/gw7.AVI
 
To view pictures of my last five tennis programs in the Philippines before 2008, please go to the web addresses

http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=449251180112424121/l=268808799/g=15905395/cobrandOid=1000131/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB and http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=34741188891545954/l=303450868/g=15905395/cobrandOid=1000131/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB and http://manila.usembassy.gov/wwwhs097.html .

My parents were from Bohol but I was born in the U.S.  Throughout my life I have been embraced by the loving culture of the Philippines.  The Goodwill Tenis Tous is my way of celebrating the lives of my parents and their generation upon whose shoulders I stand and to give back to the country and people I have great affection and respect.

Promoting friendship and goodwill using the world game of tennis,

Elmer A. Dolera
Founder and Organizer - The Goodwill Tennis Tours
edolera@hotmail.com 
 

[SLP888]

Thank you very much for your concerned of Philippine Tennis. Somebody like you has love and passion of the sport can inspire filipinos to strive hard to impove the status of philippine tennis. Keep up the good work....Mabuhay!

[altodds]

That's great for all the Filipnos.
By the way Mr. Dolera, you've mentioned your parents are from Bohol,
I think I knew a guy named Mr. Noni Dolera, he's a landscaper and had a business on ORCHIDS, somethin' like that, he's also crazy about tennis, the last time I met him was in Antipolo where we played tennis and he showed me his very beautiful ORCHIDS garden.
Maybe, around, 86' to 89', well I'm not sure the exact year. Any relations?
Thanks a lot!!!

[Darkwing]

Thanks for posting the photos Elmer. Hope you don't mind if I grab a few of them with me in it ofcourse.

[SLP888]

You've found the right counterpart in manila.....hope to continue this program every year.

[LVL]

A million thanks to you Elmer and to the Goodwill Tennis Tours.  Congrats to the new USPTA certified Filipino tennis instructors.  May Filipino tennis lovers benefit from this...blowout naman yung mga bagong certify dyan lalo na yung mga taga PTO...

Do you think we should have a list of all USPTA certified coaches here at PTO?  If we can have their contact details, then tennis enthusiasts would know how to reach them.  What do you think?

[KoolDhi]

A million thanks to you Elmer and to the Goodwill Tennis Tours.  Congrats to the new USPTA certified Filipino tennis instructors.  May Filipino tennis lovers benefit from this...blowout naman yung mga bagong certify dyan lalo na yung mga taga PTO...

Do you think we should have a list of all USPTA certified coaches here at PTO?  If we can have their contact details, then tennis enthusiasts would know how to reach them.  What do you think?

That's a good idea Mr. LVL... =) Regards to your 2 ladies.. Beck & Louise.

[SLP888]

Good idea LVL.... calling all uspta certified PTO members, please share what you've learned to the pto members who are willing to improve their game. Organize an EB and teach what you've got from goodwill........sorry, hindi ako certified ng uspta.

[LVL]

A million thanks to you Elmer and to the Goodwill Tennis Tours.  Congrats to the new USPTA certified Filipino tennis instructors.  May Filipino tennis lovers benefit from this...blowout naman yung mga bagong certify dyan lalo na yung mga taga PTO...

Do you think we should have a list of all USPTA certified coaches here at PTO?  If we can have their contact details, then tennis enthusiasts would know how to reach them.  What do you think?

That's a good idea Mr. LVL... =) Regards to your 2 ladies.. Beck & Louise.

Hi!  Many thanks!  Same to you and your family.  Thanks for your support to PTO/
tp.org.  You are joining Olivarez this July, yes?   This is out of topic but end of June/first week of July, the updating rankings will be out.  Tag team tayo sa pangungulit kay Ms. Loida na ilabas yung bagong rankings?  Thanks a lot!!!!

[LVL]

Good idea LVL.... calling all uspta certified PTO members, please share what you've learned to the pto members who are willing to improve their game. Organize an EB and teach what you've got from goodwill........sorry, hindi ako certified ng uspta.

SLP, kahit di ka USPTA certified, ikaw pa din ang kinikilalang Da Great dito sa PTO....

[rock_it_man]

Good idea LVL.... calling all uspta certified PTO members, please share what you've learned to the pto members who are willing to improve their game. Organize an EB and teach what you've got from goodwill........sorry, hindi ako certified ng uspta.

SLP, kahit di ka USPTA certified, ikaw pa din ang kinikilalang Da Great dito sa PTO....

amen brother   

[altodds]

May Prince racket ka na LVL 

[renald]

Attn: USPTA seminar attendees

I have the foam balls in stock. Like the ones you used during the coaching seminar you had. Its P 110 each plus shipping cost.

Let me know if you want to order.
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