The Pros and Cons of the Fuzzy Yellow Balls (FYB) Website

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Orson Welles

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Here is my opinion of the FYB site. I think Will is a very effective marketer and I know that it's been reported in the media that he has made a lot of money with his very effective e-commerce/email /nagging/pestering/baiting Youtube strategy. And, he tries hard and the production values of his videos and the film quality are all excellent. However, I'm almost always disappointed by his tips. A lot of them sound very clever, but they simply do not work if you actually try them. For example, his solution to getting a better racket drop on the serve sounded great: it was something like practice dropping your racket behind your head on the grass. However, this tip does not work in terms of giving you a better racket drop on your serve when you actually try it. That is a very typical experience with the FYB stroke tips.

I was also extremely disappointed by his kick serve video which I paid for. Again, great production values and the teaching pro he uses for that video and many other videos, Feisal Hasan, has an amiable and dynamic personality and sounds knowledgeable, but again, the tips he advises simply DO NOT WORK when you try them. Just to PROVE that the tips don't work, if you watch the FYB kick serve video, the 3.5 player who they are instructing how to hit a kick serve, simply cannot hit the kick serve despite all this so-called expert instruction. Virtually 90% of the serves he hits after getting all the so-called valuable instruction are slice serves that bounce to the server's LEFT, NOT to the the right. The instruction does not help him so the reality and proof is right there in front of the viewer. It was so bad that I'm surprised that Will did not re-shoot the video because it was so embarassing and proved that the advice does not work. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. The tennis student is simply incapable of hitting a kick serve that bounces to the server's right and he even has trouble getting the ball to LAND on the right side of the service box; in the video the ball usually lands to the left which was no surprise because the student keeps hitting a slice serve swinging across the outside right side of the ball, and making the ball both move and bounce to the server's left. I invite Will to prove me wrong and show us every serve that the 3.5 student hits in that video and we can count how few were even remotely successful kick serves.

This is a pattern with FYB. Slick production values, coaches that have impressive sounding credentials (e.g., Hasan was voted coach of the year or something by someone), advice that sounds great and logical, but almost always the tips are virtually worthless and have no practical value when you actually try them out on the tennis court. I think that the viewer gets a little bit fooled and almost brainwashed by all the positive aspects of the presentation, but seems not to realize or forget that the tips almost never work when they try them out on the tennis court. Like a lot of tennis pros, I think FYB figures that if the tips don't work that the student/viewer will simply blame themselves for not listening hard enough or lacking athletic ability or something. But the problem is actually with the flawed instruction. I'm a 4.5 to 5.0 player who once played NCAA Division 1 College Tennis, I can tell tell you that the instructional stroke tips on FYB almost never work for me either, and it's not because I didn't listen or don't lack talent and athletic ability. The dirty little secret is that the tips are usually not helpful or practical, and that includes the tips from the very amiable and dynamic Mr. Hasan, despite how good he sounds on the videos. I don't care what award he received, he doesn't seem to be able to help tennis students with stroke tips like 99% of all the other tennis instructors out there. I think that the only guy on Youtube that has valuable ideas that work is that Thomas guy from the Check Republic who runs "Feel Tennis." And, he doesn't even charge for most of his innovative, original and valuable advice.

I would be curious to hear if others on this board have had similar experiences to me on the FYB site or whether they've learned a lot of tennis stroke tips that really work? If anyone has learned some tennis instruction stroke tips that work, I would be very interested to hear what those tips were because I hope to learn something. I'm not talking about any strategy tips or statistical tips on the FYB that might be valid, I'm only talking about tennis stroke tips because that's all I'm interested in paying for and learning about, and I believe that, unfortunately, stroke tips are the primary weakness of the site.
 
Orson Welles said:
Here is my opinion of the FYB site. I think Will is a very effective marketer and I know that it's been reported in the media that he has made a lot of money with his very effective e-commerce/email /nagging/pestering/baiting Youtube strategy. And, he tries hard and the production values of his videos and the film quality are all excellent.
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I've never paid for any FYB material; I've only sampled the free stuff and I've been satisfied. Because I haven't paid for anything, I guess I haven't been subjected to the nagging/pestering/baiting to which you refer.

However, I'm almost always disappointed by his tips. A lot of them sound very clever, but they simply do not work if you actually try them. For example, his solution to getting a better racket drop on the serve sounded great: it was something like practice dropping your racket behind your head on the grass. However, this tip does not work in terms of giving you a better racket drop on your serve when you actually try it. That is a very typical experience with the FYB stroke tips.
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Do you have a link to this tip? I've not seen it and I'm not sure I'm interpreting you correctly by your description.

I was also extremely disappointed by his kick serve video which I paid for. Again, great production values and the teaching pro he uses for that video and many other videos, Feisal Hasan, has an amiable and dynamic personality and sounds knowledgeable, but again, the tips he advises simply DO NOT WORK when you try them. Just to PROVE that the tips don't work, if you watch the FYB kick serve video, the 3.5 player who they are instructing how to hit a kick serve, simply cannot hit the kick serve despite all this so-called expert instruction. Virtually 90% of the serves he hits after getting all the so-called valuable instruction are slice serves that bounce to the server's LEFT, NOT to the the right. The instruction does not help him so the reality and proof is right there in front of the viewer. It was so bad that I'm surprised that Will did not re-shoot the video because it was so embarassing and proved that the advice does not work. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. The tennis student is simply incapable of hitting a kick serve that bounces to the server's right and he even has trouble getting the ball to LAND on the right side of the service box; in the video the ball usually lands to the left which was no surprise because the student keeps hitting a slice serve swinging across the outside right side of the ball, and making the ball both move and bounce to the server's left. I invite Will to prove me wrong and show us every serve that the 3.5 student hits in that video and we can count how few were even remotely successful kick serves.
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What you relate is not proof. It is one example. A failed example, in your opinion, but still just an example.

The kick serve is an advanced serve so maybe it wasn't appropriate for a 3.5, depending on their athleticism. Was the 3.5 the only example in the course?

And since it's a paid course, we have no way of verifying your conclusion because we can't see the evidence for ourselves.

"Virtually 90% of the serves he hits after getting all the so-called valuable instruction are slice serves that bounce to the server's LEFT, NOT to the the right."

Does that mean the other 10% did kick correctly?

Assuming you're correct about the serve not kicking, that doesn't mean the instruction was incorrect. What information was the student given? Does it match what you believe to be true to hit a kick serve? Does it match other online teachers out there [Salzenstein, Heite, Top Tennis Training, Essential Tennis, Brent Abel, etc]?

I'd have to see the course to compare to my own knowledge and understanding.

Does the instructor demonstrate?
 
Hi S&V. I watched the video several months ago so I don't remember all the specific details. Unfortunately, one has to pay for the video to view it so I can't give you a link. The focus of the video was on the 3.5 guy and the promise of how these tips will work for him so I don't recall anyone else hitting a kick serve on the video and if there was someone else, he wasn't hitting it based on any instruction. As to whether the advice was correct, the answer is no it was not correct; in other words if a player followed the instruction he/she would not produce a good kick serve unless the player already was hitting a successful kick serve on his own without the instruction. My point was that this was just one of numerous examples where the tennis stroke instruction on FYB is not helpful and I think I was pretty clear about that. I actually don't think that the 3.5 player (who was a very big strong, athletic and relatively young looking guy) hit any kick serves correctly but I was being generous by indicating that perhaps 10% might have looked decent or were hard to tell; I recall that zero serves bounced to the right side of the server. And, the video claimed that it could enable a 3.5 player to hit a good kick serve, so the fact that he couldn't hit the kick serve proves that the instruction would not enable such a player to hit a kick serve. Keep in mind that the 3.5 player was getting live one-on-one instruction from Hasan and Will, and probably had some instruction before the video was filmed if Will is as smart as I think he is, but he still could not hit anything resembling a kick serve. I'm just talking about a serve that bounces to the right of the server; so my standard is not a very high one.

I forgot to mention that one of the big "teases" of the video was that the key to hitting a successful kick serve is to "skim" not "brush" the ball which led me to believe that this was some sort of gem tip. Then when I paid for the video, the only skimming of the ball was done by Hasan bouncing the ball so there was no emphasis on using skimming vs. brushing to hit the actual kick serve. Also, it became clear that "skimming" the ball is no more effective than "brushing" the ball so this was a false distinction and a fake tease that was not helpful at all.

To answer your other question, I don't think that there is any excellent instruction for hitting a good and reliable kick serve out there. The best I recall is Dave Smith from Tennisone regarding kick serves, but that was also insufficient. I finally had to figure out how to hit the kick serve on my own and I might develop my own instructional video some day because there was nothing else out there which was any good. Avery's, Able's and Salzenstein's instruction is extremely disappointing. Daugherty is ok but still not sufficient. Everyone mentions the same worthless stuff about treating the ball like the hands of a clock and hit at x Oclock to y Oclock but the instruction is just a start; not sufficient to produce anything good and reliable unless the player does something correctly by instinct or natural ability.
 
Orson Welles said:
Hi S&V. I watched the video several months ago so I don't remember all the specific details. Unfortunately, one has to pay for the video to view it so I can't give you a link. The focus of the video was on the 3.5 guy and the promise of how these tips will work for him so I don't recall anyone else hitting a kick serve on the video and if there was someone else, he wasn't hitting it based on any instruction. As to whether the advice was correct, the answer is no it was not correct; in other words if a player followed the instruction he/she would not produce a good kick serve unless the player already was hitting a successful kick serve on his own without the instruction. My point was that this was just one of numerous examples where the tennis stroke instruction on FYB is not helpful and I think I was pretty clear about that. I actually don't think that the 3.5 player (who was a very big strong, athletic and relatively young looking guy) hit any kick serves correctly but I was being generous by indicating that perhaps 10% might have looked decent or were hard to tell; I recall that zero serves bounced to the right side of the server. And, the video claimed that it could enable a 3.5 player to hit a good kick serve, so the fact that he couldn't hit the kick serve proves that the instruction would not enable such a player to hit a kick serve. Keep in mind that the 3.5 player was getting live one-on-one instruction from Hasan and Will, and probably had some instruction before the video was filmed if Will is as smart as I think he is, but he still could not hit anything resembling a kick serve. I'm just talking about a serve that bounces to the right of the server; so my standard is not a very high one.

I forgot to mention that one of the big "teases" of the video was that the key to hitting a successful kick serve is to "skim" not "brush" the ball which led me to believe that this was some sort of gem tip. Then when I paid for the video, the only skimming of the ball was done by Hasan bouncing the ball so there was no emphasis on using skimming vs. brushing to hit the actual kick serve. Also, it became clear that "skimming" the ball is no more effective than "brushing" the ball so this was a false distinction and a fake tease that was not helpful at all.

To answer your other question, I don't think that there is any excellent instruction for hitting a good and reliable kick serve out there. The best I recall is Dave Smith from Tennisone regarding kick serves, but that was also insufficient. I finally had to figure out how to hit the kick serve on my own and I might develop my own instructional video some day because there was nothing else out there which was any good. Avery's, Able's and Salzenstein's instruction is extremely disappointing. Daugherty is ok but still not sufficient. Everyone mentions the same worthless stuff about treating the ball like the hands of a clock and hit at x Oclock to y Oclock but the instruction is just a start; not sufficient to produce anything good and reliable unless the player does something correctly by instinct or natural ability.
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Can you describe/tell us what the correct way to teach a kick serve is?
 
agree, that FYB is terrible.
no chance he's gonna get a 3.5 to hit a kicker, because their fundamentals are typically pretty bad (ie. fundamental #1 a consistent toss, waiter tray serve, etc...)
that said, i don't think he's bad, because the tip doesn't work, but because it's a very one dimensional way of describing the movement(s),... and that one dimension doesn't (a) resonate with me. (b) pack alot of information

i do like dougherty, and dave smith... salzi was ok (despite having an ATP level kick :P)
clock face image imo is good, but needs to be coupled with where the contact point is relative to the server's head... but translating that to the key movements of a kick/top serve can be difficult if say (a) the learner is tossing all over the place (b) already has an ingrained habit from the slice serve, to face the net on the follow through vs. staying sideways (as well as the habit of not letting the ball drop lower)
 
Orson Welles said:
I think that the only guy on Youtube that has valuable ideas that work is that Thomas guy from the Check Republic who runs "Feel Tennis." And, he doesn't even charge for most of his innovative, original and valuable advice.
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I don't know if he is the only one but I definitely agree that the "Feel Tennis" Thomas always gives some food for thoughts.
 
nytennisaddict said:
agree, that FYB is terrible.
no chance he's gonna get a 3.5 to hit a kicker, because their fundamentals are typically pretty bad (ie. fundamental #1 a consistent toss, waiter tray serve, etc...)
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Most of these channels fall into the 'quick tips' area probably because that is what gets clicks. Often the players they use in their demo videos need their stroke totally reworking from the beginning.

Orson Welles said:
I think that the only guy on Youtube that has valuable ideas that work is that Thomas guy from the Check Republic who runs "Feel Tennis." And, he doesn't even charge for most of his innovative, original and valuable advice.
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He is excellent and has a genuine gift for creating a simple feeling-type cue to make your body do the right thing which is what great coaching is, not giving nth detail biomechanics explanations.

That said, a couple of his more technical videos on stroke mechanics are a little off, it's clear the ATP pros don't hit the forehand the way he's suggesting.
 
bitcoinoperated said:
Most of these channels fall into the 'quick tips' area probably because that is what gets clicks. Often the players they use in their demo videos need their stroke totally reworking from the beginning.



He is excellent and has a genuine gift for creating a simple feeling-type cue to make your body do the right thing which is what great coaching is, not giving nth detail biomechanics explanations.

That said, a couple of his more technical videos on stroke mechanics are a little off, it's clear the ATP pros don't hit the forehand the way he's suggesting.
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Why did you delete your other thread?
 
bitcoinoperated said:
He is excellent and has a genuine gift for creating a simple feeling-type cue to make your body do the right thing which is what great coaching is, not giving nth detail biomechanics explanations.

That said, a couple of his more technical videos on stroke mechanics are a little off, it's clear the ATP pros don't hit the forehand the way he's suggesting.
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Agree with your other points, but on the third he is at pains to say that what he proposes for eg forehand technique isn't a pro style but a style which will be more consistent and that a rec player practicing an hour a week is more likely to be able to implement.
 
nytennisaddict said:
i do like dougherty, and dave smith... salzi was ok (despite having an ATP level kick
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Dougherty is fantastic for serve fundamentals.

I also like Dave Smith as will as his buddies from TennisOne (Jim Mclennan, Ken DeHart, Doug King). I also like Brent Abel.

I like Jim's video for the kick serve:

https://www.tennis-warehouse.com/Building_A_Kick_Serve_DVD/descpageTENNIS1-VMKS.html

Dave did a great job on volleys:

https://www.tennis-warehouse.com/Building_a_World_Class_Volley_DVD/descpageSGTA-VBWCV.html

And I have a Doug King TennisOne DVD for the forehand and backhand that I like a lot (tennis warehouse doesn't sell that).
 
I don't get why he stops listing stuff on FYB like the Rafter courses.
Maybe he has an agreement with Pat to stop marketing it after a certain time.

Also very annoying are those white screen commercials with Will's voice-over.
Those things go on FOREVER asking you to sign up for the course. Some are like 30+ minutes! Who's gonna sit thru that?

Make the sell in a few minutes.
 
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nytennisaddict said:
no chance he's gonna get a 3.5 to hit a kicker, because their fundamentals are typically pretty bad (ie. fundamental #1 a consistent toss, waiter tray serve, etc...)
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What is "waiter's tray"?
Is that the grandma serve when they hit it flat with backspin?
I've never met a 3.5 who does that.

3.5s spin the crap out of their serves, or smash aces down the T.
3.5's easily have more aces than 4.0 and can hit a kick serve that bounces 6 feet high.
They are just too inconsistent at it.

4.0's are more like the dinkPlink Waiter's serve variety
(Under 4.5, pushing wins every trophy, and makes you advance NTRP
 
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The most shocking thing about this thread is that someone paid for tennis videos in 2018.
I remember FYB from like 2012, with his "infomercial" style e-marketing.
Wait, I paid $25 for Serve Doctor's video, but at least he works at IMG.
There are a trillion YT videos out there, what sucked you into paying for FYB ?
 
TimeToPlaySets said:
What is "waiter's tray"?
Is that the grandma serve when they hit it flat with backspin?
I've never met a 3.5 who does that.

3.5s spin the crap out of their serves, or smash aces down the T.
3.5's easily have more aces than 4.0 and can hit a kick serve that bounces 6 feet high.
They are just too inconsistent at it.

4.0's are more like the dinkPlink Waiter's serve variety
(Under 4.5, pushing wins every trophy, and makes you advance NTRP
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re "waiter tray"... even with a conti grip, you can pronate prematurely, in an attempt to square early to contact... robbing you of power, and the inability to spin the ball.
 
Then again, Salzenstein was just as bad for a while, but has mellowed a bit.


Probably posting from the court between sets.
 
I must warn you that their support (email or phone) is simply unresponsive. And there is no way you can cancel your 30-day free trial as smartcart.com (their 3rd party billing system) is also shady and unresponsive.
After exhausting all my options, I deactivated the credit card to stop being charged. Please do not be misled by all the big names or Will's eloquent talks. I am glad I am off the hook finally.
 
Why pay when everything or so much is "free" on You Tube? It's a fair question. Because any person with a phone can post analysis or advice. It's not like how to fix your dishwasher--although I found some of that advice recently to be totally bogus...
The fact is that the human eye isn't fast enough to really see what happens in tennis strokes. For some great players that doesn't matter. But even elite players have huge technical flaws based on lack of information or bad information. Take Emma Raducanu's serve for one recent example. How many more problems for the rest of us, especially with the You Tube mantra of one "secret" to fix your forehand, or the one fatal "mistake" that is ruining your forehand...And sadly that applies to a lot of people who want you to pay them for unsubstantiated advice... My opinion is that valid opinion is based on empirical or quantitative analysis. That is my own business model but I know it's true and very powerful.
 
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JohnYandell said:
Why pay when everything or so much is "free" on You Tube? It's a fair question. Because any person with a phone can post analysis or advice. It's not like how to fix your dishwasher--although I found some of that advice recently to be totally bogus...
The fact is that the human eye isn't fast enough to really see what happens in tennis strokes. For some great players that doesn't matter. But even elite players have huge technical flaws based on lack of information or bad information. Take Emma Raducanu's serve for one recent example. How many more problems for the rest of us, especially with the You Tube mantra of one "secret" to fix your forehand, or the one fatal "mistake" that is ruining your forehand...And sadly that applies to a lot of people who want you to pay them for unsubstantiated advice... My opinion is that valid opinion is based on empirical or quantitative analysis. That is my own business model but I know it's true and very powerful.
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I've always wanted to ask you, Macci & Lansdorp: If Jack Sock comes to you at 11 do you change his forehand or leave it be?
 
Henin,
The answer for me would be does he want to change it? I filmed him in the juniors and in 14s and 16s he was one of the shorter players so that grip probably came from that.
 
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Just be aware that he does not honor the money back guarantee. I tried calling, leaving messages, and emailing and did not get any response. I was very disappointed with the service and the inability to get anyone to help me.
 
BRP,
Not surprised. When Will first started out one of the first things he did was to pirate a bunch of info and terminology from Tennisplayer. He was a subscriber and had asked a bunch of nosy questions about my business...We actually talked and I asked him to either take down our concepts or reference the source. He refused and then I heard from Daddy lawyer. At the time he didn't appear to have much revenue and after talking with my lawyer we just let it drop. Seems like he hasn't done much lately--wonder if other things or people caught up with him...
 
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Orson Welles said:
Hi S&V. I watched the video several months ago so I don't remember all the specific details. Unfortunately, one has to pay for the video to view it so I can't give you a link. The focus of the video was on the 3.5 guy and the promise of how these tips will work for him so I don't recall anyone else hitting a kick serve on the video and if there was someone else, he wasn't hitting it based on any instruction. As to whether the advice was correct, the answer is no it was not correct; in other words if a player followed the instruction he/she would not produce a good kick serve unless the player already was hitting a successful kick serve on his own without the instruction. My point was that this was just one of numerous examples where the tennis stroke instruction on FYB is not helpful and I think I was pretty clear about that. I actually don't think that the 3.5 player (who was a very big strong, athletic and relatively young looking guy) hit any kick serves correctly but I was being generous by indicating that perhaps 10% might have looked decent or were hard to tell; I recall that zero serves bounced to the right side of the server. And, the video claimed that it could enable a 3.5 player to hit a good kick serve, so the fact that he couldn't hit the kick serve proves that the instruction would not enable such a player to hit a kick serve. Keep in mind that the 3.5 player was getting live one-on-one instruction from Hasan and Will, and probably had some instruction before the video was filmed if Will is as smart as I think he is, but he still could not hit anything resembling a kick serve. I'm just talking about a serve that bounces to the right of the server; so my standard is not a very high one.

I forgot to mention that one of the big "teases" of the video was that the key to hitting a successful kick serve is to "skim" not "brush" the ball which led me to believe that this was some sort of gem tip. Then when I paid for the video, the only skimming of the ball was done by Hasan bouncing the ball so there was no emphasis on using skimming vs. brushing to hit the actual kick serve. Also, it became clear that "skimming" the ball is no more effective than "brushing" the ball so this was a false distinction and a fake tease that was not helpful at all.

To answer your other question, I don't think that there is any excellent instruction for hitting a good and reliable kick serve out there. The best I recall is Dave Smith from Tennisone regarding kick serves, but that was also insufficient. I finally had to figure out how to hit the kick serve on my own and I might develop my own instructional video some day because there was nothing else out there which was any good. Avery's, Able's and Salzenstein's instruction is extremely disappointing. Daugherty is ok but still not sufficient. Everyone mentions the same worthless stuff about treating the ball like the hands of a clock and hit at x Oclock to y Oclock but the instruction is just a start; not sufficient to produce anything good and reliable unless the player does something correctly by instinct or natural ability.
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…….,,,,
 
I feel that partly due to my neglect/lapse in memory I was ripped off by Fuzzy Yellow Balls. I purchased "Crush It." Then I subscribed to a free month. I didn't care much for what was offered. I tried to unsubscribe and thought I had. Then I realized the contact email was not working. I filled in out, sent, but it actually didn't send. Also, no unsubscribe feature is available on the web site. The month passed and I thought I'd just pay for a month, but a subscription is only for 1 year. Again I tried to stop my subscription but failed. Then I let time lapse. I never used the subscription features. Strangely they never sent any email to me. That would be unheard off. Normally there would updates and various reminders sent to keep the subscriber interest in finding value. I never heard from them. A year passes and I'm charged another $100. No call and the person on the phone, quite unsupportive agrees to refund $100 but not the full $200. This person would not acknowledge any fault on their part in (maybe deliberately) making it difficult to stop subscription, the disfunctional website, and the lack of any communication to a subscriber for over a year. They made easy for me to forget, but, at least I got $100 returned. They must failing with this kind of customer service.
 
Ron Rudin said:
I feel that partly due to my neglect/lapse in memory I was ripped off by Fuzzy Yellow Balls. I purchased "Crush It." Then I subscribed to a free month. I didn't care much for what was offered. I tried to unsubscribe and thought I had. Then I realized the contact email was not working. I filled in out, sent, but it actually didn't send. Also, no unsubscribe feature is available on the web site. The month passed and I thought I'd just pay for a month, but a subscription is only for 1 year. Again I tried to stop my subscription but failed. Then I let time lapse. I never used the subscription features. Strangely they never sent any email to me. That would be unheard off. Normally there would updates and various reminders sent to keep the subscriber interest in finding value. I never heard from them. A year passes and I'm charged another $100. No call and the person on the phone, quite unsupportive agrees to refund $100 but not the full $200. This person would not acknowledge any fault on their part in (maybe deliberately) making it difficult to stop subscription, the disfunctional website, and the lack of any communication to a subscriber for over a year. They made easy for me to forget, but, at least I got $100 returned. They must failing with this kind of customer service.
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With these kinds of services I find it best to use the virtual credit card numbers that many banks offer like Capital One and Chase. You can set it to auto-expire the next day so that it only gets charged one time. If you decide to stick with the service then you can add another virtual CC number.
 
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I bought the New Rules of Singles. I enjoy it because it’s like having a personal coach in your pocket. The advice isn’t groundbreaking but it’s convenient and simple to understand with good graphics to show game plans. I’m not sure if the 100 bucks a year for the full library would be worth it, though.
 
I just saw FYB posted a new video a few days ago. That was a channel resurrection. There wasn't much a few years ago, but last year there were a few videos here and there. And then the last few months they started again.
 
ChaelAZ said:
I just saw FYB posted a new video a few days ago. That was a channel resurrection. There wasn't much a few years ago, but last year there were a few videos here and there. And then the last few months they started again.
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What do y'all think of this new FYB content?

 
SystemicAnomaly said:
What do y'all think of this new FYB content?

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I bought his singles playbook and doubles playbook. Read the singles quite a few times. Will start with the doubles playbook soon. Still not convinced about how realistic a lot of his contents are. The main issue is that he often predicts how opponents balls will arrive and then set a strategy based on the prediction. It's almost like many stock market services. I've learned not to trust those. But I do like simple ways of learning tennis strategies. So decide to stick to his instructions for now. Some reputable YouTuber coaches do recommend his stuff. This is an old thread that worth digging up.
 
I bought the doubles playbook on sale for my son to watch the Bryan bros, Martina, and Conchita videos. Good drills and situational advice from some of the world's best. He doesn't actually run set plays from the playbook. The Bryans talk about how they did. After playing a while, you figure out where certain shots will go, so you anticipate. Comes w experience.
 
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