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“I have a very large summer staff (25+ instructors). I take the instructors through the 8board video and talk about the two Keys: The figure-8 and the 45. There is no doubt the Grail System works! You can see it in the hundreds of kids in our programs playing effortless, graceful, nonlinear tennis! We also have a few State Championships to back that up.”

—Todd Dissly
Director of Tennis Los Gatos & South Bay Tennis Academy
2003/2004 USPTA
High School Coach of the Year 2006 USTA NorCal National Coach




“The 8board helps any level player. I use it in my Nike Tennis Camps as well as with the players on my top-ranked varsity teams. Everyone benefits from using the 8board!”

—Peter Smith
Head Coach, Men’s
Varsity Tennis, U.S.C.
(2002 NCAA Champions), Los Angeles, CA



“I’ve used the 8board personally and in training my students. I noticed immediate results!”

—Piet Aldrich
Former U.S. Open and Australian
Open Doubles Champion












8BOARD TENNIS© Play the 8 Way

It’s not what you see, but what you don’t see that really matters in tennis. At Grail Sports, we believe natural fluidity can be taught to and understood by anyone.

There has always been a mystique surrounding the most fluid and natural looking tennis players such as Bjorn Borg, Andre Agassi and Roger Federer. Their casual ability to launch power from their center and effortlessly perform such fluid movements remains a mystery, even to professional critics.

These players have been overlooked as teaching models because they are held up as being “supernaturally talented.” Critics and tennis pros alike accepted that certain athletes are born with natural talent that simply cannot be replicated.

The standard teachings have always been based on the most obvious mechanical and linear games, especially those of players like Stan Smith, Tracy Austin, Jimmy Connors and Pam Shriver. There is nothing wrong with these styles of play. It’s just that they have been the only role models available to help standardize instruction...until now.

Training world-class tennis players for the past 20 years has led us to astounding discoveries in simple logic. We have uncovered the “secret game” of tennis and it has nothing to do with conventional training (especially over-training, which we have found to be the number one way to vitiate a good athlete’s career).

We have developed a patented “training operating system” for players who quest to achieve the most efficient, consistent and aesthetically pleasing game. Grail Sports brings the wisdom of the champions to you – and we do it through the sound, scientific principles of the double-swivel 8board movement system.

 

 

USC Men’s Tennis Coach, Peter Smith explains how the 8board trains players on his top-ranked tennis team, as well as players in his summer tennis camps.