Season #24 Episode#:88

Shaun and Bobby talk about the 2024 GoTennis! Tennis & Pickleball Fall Festival presented by T2 Tennis and RMC. The event is scheduled for November 9th at James Creek Tennis Center hosted by UTA.

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Hey, hey, this is Shaun with the Atlanta Tennis Podcast,

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And today we are talking about our fall festival.

It is the 2024 Go Tennis and Pickleball.

That's kinda redundant there, Bobby.

Go Tennis, tennis, and pickleball.

Is that just too much tennis?

Or is that kinda--

- You know such thing is too much tennis.

- Good point, no such thing is too much tennis.

We'll put it.

But Bobby, the way we've got this conversation going

is we wanna share everything about this

with everybody that wants to know.

So we've scripted some questions for you.

So you're gonna ask me and we're just gonna

tell everybody about the event.

So Bobby, what's your first question?

- Next Saturday, November 9,

two through five o'clock,

James Creed, Tennis Center, Sean,

tell us what the fall festival is.

It is essentially an industry day.

I believe it's what we used to call it 20 years ago.

And by we, I mean you and your netcord type friends.

It's an industry day.

We're bringing in vendors and sponsors.

And so we've got T2 tennis and reserve my court,

excuse me Greg, RMC, they've rebranded.

RMC and T2 tennis are our presenters.

So they are the ones that are supporting us

to promote this event to everybody

in the Metro Atlanta area.

So it is, there's some tennis drills.

You can sign up for those.

They're only $5.

We make it extremely affordable

because we have the sponsors and the vendors there.

We also have pickleball clinics.

So you can learn some pickleball.

We've got pickle in social,

Chris Wolf coming out to run those clinics

and we'll get into each of the sponsors in a minute.

But there is tennis, there is pickleball.

There will be vendors and sponsors there.

There will be the booths.

You can go by kind of like the Atlanta Open Sponsorship Village.

We'll have a couple of courts of sponsors

that are going to be there giving out stuff.

I don't know, maybe somebody else set up cornwall,

something like that.

But in this case, we'll be there next Saturday.

It's coming up next Saturday, November 9th,

starts at two o'clock and it's going to be a lot of fun.

It's very affordable to get into.

We'll figure all that out in this conversation.

So did I cover it, Bobby?

I think you did a great job covering it.

I think you showed people why it's interesting,

why they need to be there.

But we did call it an industry day.

Why is it interesting to the player?

Why do they need to be there?

Because we're showing them all the cool new stuff.

So the vendors are coming in.

There's a guy there.

He's got a magic robot that picks up tennis balls.

And I call it magic because I don't know how it works.

These are the people that come up with the coolest stuff.

So we've got Technifiber there.

They're going to bring out the latest rackets.

Wilson's going to be there.

Head-- again, I'm getting ahead of myself

with naming all the sponsors.

But the industry is going to be there.

We're bringing our friends and colleagues

to an event so we can share that with the player.

So the regular tennis player, the social player, levels A, B, and C. You can come out.

And you can take a tennis drill based on your level.

We'll have great coaches there running drills.

One of our courts will have what's called the baseline vision system that'll be on one of the courts.

And we'll show you how it works.

It runs games for you.

It can call the ball, enter out.

It can do line calls.

We've just got some cool things that not a lot of tennis players-- not the typical tennis

player knows about.

And we want to share it with them.

We want to show it to them.

That sounds like fun.

Tell them what they're signing up for.

When they sign up to register, they're signing up for a drill.

There are other things that's prizes.

What else are they signing up for?

So there are three different ways to register for this event.

You can simply show up.

You want to show up.

It's $1.

$1 to get in.

You've got to buy a raffle ticket.

That's all we ask.

We ask you to buy one raffle ticket.

So you could leave with significantly more than your $1 work, which actually you will.

Because USDA is giving away stuff.

Alt is giving away stuff.

We've got sample packs.

Your $1 gets you in.

And you're going to leave with plenty of stuff.

So the simplest version is show up.

Go register.

Go to Let'sGoTennis.com.

Register.

Just come.

Pay it all.

You know what?

If you get in and there's an extra drill spot available and you want to pay five bucks for

a tennis drill, you can do that as well.

We've got drills going on four different times for tennis drills.

Two-fifteen.

We started two.

But the drill first drills at two-fifteen, we've got four quarts of that.

So two-fifteen, three o'clock, three-forty-five, and four-thirty are your drill starting times

for tennis.

So you can sign up for those.

They're only five bucks.

It's only five dollars.

That gets you a raffle ticket, by the way.

That covers your $1.

And gets you into the event for a drill.

Now there's also pickleball clinics that Chris Wolf and Ross can trail.

We have the name right or say trail.

I want to put an end in his name.

I apologize, Ross.

Couchrell, they run in the pickleball clinic.

Those are $15.

It's usually a $100 clinic.

And that's why I'll go back to question number two that you asked, which is why is this

interesting.

It's affordable.

And you get really great stuff because we're also going to have body helix, pro drive, head.

We're going to have these pickleball providers there with their paddles.

You're going to get to try the coolest stuff.

It's $15 for a pickleball clinic.

We've got three of those running.

Two beginner introductory clinics, one at two o'clock, one at three o'clock.

And the next one is what they call the good stuff.

If you think you're pretty good at pickleball, then you sign up for the four o'clock one.

Again, only $15.

That's the second way you can register, which is register for a clinic or a drill.

The third way is this is my favorite one.

For $6, you get a membership, a premium membership to go test, which gets you all

the member benefits that we offer at GoTennisIt.

Let's GoTennis.com.

And you get your tennis drill for free.

You get one for free.

So instead of paying $5, you pay $6 and you get your drill for free.

And it gets you a raffle ticket.

So you can register in those three different ways.

Either get yourself a monthly paid membership or register for a drill or a pickleball clinic

or $1 gets you a raffle ticket and you are ready to go.

And along those lines, Shawn, I got two boxes of these provided by ADV for everybody who's

signed enough for that.

So we got lots of giveaways for those premium members.

That's a great example.

So if you sign up for a tennis clinic, ADV, which is Lavisax Group, they make really high-end,

really cool bags and accessories for tennis and pickleball.

They're given away a sample pack to everybody registered for a tennis drill.

We also have for the pickleball clinics a giveaway there as well, register for a pickleball

clinic.

We got a deal with paddle track and they're giving away a free track tag that you put on

your pickleball paddle just in case it gets lost.

You can use their app to help find it.

So whatever you register for, you're getting something for free immediately.

Probably like free.

Tell me, uh, UTA James Creek is going to be doing some sales on some merchandise.

UTA is going to do their one day sale, which is good because it's only a one day event that

makes sense.

They're going to bring out everything they've got.

UTA runs a few locations around Metro Atlanta.

They've been in the business for 30 years.

They know what they're doing.

They're connected with tennis warehouse and they've got all the best stuff.

Anything you would need in a pro shop, they're going to have out there.

They're going to do a clearance sale as well, but basically what we would call a tent sale.

And they're going to set out everything.

We'll probably set that up indoors in the pickleball side of things, which I didn't mention.

We've got eight pickleball courts that we're going to set up indoors and eight tennis courts

outdoors, four courts of drills, two courts where there's a sponsorship village outside.

And then two courts, one for Wilson, one for TechnoFiber, that they're going to run demos.

You can come out and play tennis, come hit with Arturo and Matt, try the latest rackets.

Again, just getting in the doors is only $1.

You get to see all the cool stuff, but we're giving away free stuff.

And the shopping is going to be good.

We're going to have deals on rackets, apparel, all the stuff you'd see in a pro shop.

UTA is going to take care of all that.

So I want to make sure that because you just brought up a good point, even if you do not,

if you choose not to sign up for one of these drills, which seems crazy while you wouldn't

want to considering the cost.

But let's say the time just doesn't work, but you still want to come.

You should be wearing tennis apparel because they're going to be demo courts.

So there's still going to be the opportunity to play.

And we also have another cool thing that we set up and hopefully tomorrow will drop the

video showing me sweating and doing it with the fast track tennis rebounder.

So even more stuff.

So encourage folks to come dressed for tennis.

Yeah, and that's one of ours specifically that we're going to have out there on display.

They're not technically a vendor or a sponsor, but we're going to find a place to set up one

of those fast track tennis systems where you hit the ball into the net.

It's a little ball machine that spits it out.

And basically if you want to hit tennis balls indefinitely, this thing is great.

It'll wear you out.

It's like hitting on a wall, but you don't have to worry about hitting it perfectly.

The ball come back to you.

It's really a cool thing.

And you can set it up in your backyard if you really want to.

We'll figure out where that's going to be set up.

And yeah, you're right, Bobby.

You use that in your eye video, which is going to be fun to see for everybody.

Now, did I go through?

I know I'm supposed to wait for you for questions, but I think at this point everybody knows how

scripted this is.

But did I mention all of our sponsors?

Can I go through everybody and just make sure I mention the sponsors and hit every

skim, give them the list one more time.

And then we'll go through one more time and say November 9th next Saturday, two to five

James Creek's Tennis Center and you'll tell them how to register.

Do it.

All right, sponsors.

We have, of course, our presenting sponsors T2 tennis and reserve my court.

Our host is Universal Tennis Academy, UTA at James Creek Tennis Center.

Sponsors include Cadillac.

There will be a fancy red eye here, red escalade and red lyric.

And I really want a lyric.

So we're going to have to figure out how to do a sweepstakes where Sean wins a lyric for

a year.

We'll figure that one out.

Cadillac is going to be there.

They're going to be giving away.

Now I'm confirming this hopefully today, which I'm admitting we're not there yet, but the

plan is giving away an escalade.

Can we crop out just that part out of context and using that?

That was big out of context.

We're not giving for a time period too.

Not just giving it away.

Right.

Well, that's what I'm saying.

If we take it out of context, so they're going to give away an escalade to go along with

a $1,000 gift card to any cliff, dries, Dale location, their resort locations, which they

do.

Great pickle.

Tennis, all of the racket sports.

They've got great resorts and vacation experiences.

Basically, anything you can drive to in an escalade.

And they'll let you use an escalade for the duration of your trip.

Now I'm pretty sure there's fine print there, but that's pretty much what escalade is doing.

Come down and guess how many tennis balls are in the car.

And I'm sure Bobby will know.

So if you drive in well enough, he might give you a heads up there.

Baseline vision is a cool system that plugs onto the net post.

And it can basically, it doesn't run video per se, but it does track where the ball bounces.

It tracks how many are in, how many are out.

It can tell you it's a matched statistic type of system.

And we're going to have that running on one of our drill courts.

And we have a silent auction.

If you want to buy that one, I have that one right there.

We have that one to auction off.

You can walk out with it.

You can have it if you like it.

You know what?

Go bid on it, our silent auctions.

I'll cover that in a minute as well.

Tennis bot, as we have mentioned, heatham's coming with his tennis bot.

He might have more than one.

We'll have them drive around picking up tennis balls.

I believe that also can make line calls.

So that one's got a little extra.

I make line calls and pick up the balls for you.

So we're going to have these clean scores.

Yeah, exactly.

This goes back to your question of why do you want to be here, even if you're not playing

tennis, even if you're not doing a drill.

Let's see, Alta's going to be there giving away stuff.

USDA Atlanta, Emory Healthcare, tennis medicine.

They are going to be there doing warmups for you.

They've got a specific warmup routine.

Help you prevent injuries.

They're going to be there specifically.

A little track I mentioned, given away a free track tag for Fickleball Clinic registration.

ADV is given away a free sample pack for tennis drill registration.

Racket stats is a non-magic statistic system where you have to actually track it in on the

app, but it gives you a lot of data.

And Andy is coming in from somewhere.

I don't remember where he's in North Carolina.

One of the careliners is coming all the way in.

We're going to try to do a demo with a few juniors, play a couple of short sets and show

some parents, maybe some coaches, how cool their statistic system is as well.

Let's see, ProDrive is going to be there.

They've got some cool pickleball stuff.

Technifier, we've mentioned is going to be there bringing their fancy tennis rackets.

You can actually try that on one of the clay courts there.

LaCost is a sponsor.

Head will be there.

Pickleball and tennis, I hear.

They've got some pickleball paddles and tennis rackets that are coming.

Tennis warehouse, of course.

They are connected with UTA, going to help them with their tent sale.

We might even have some gift cards to give away.

We'll have to figure out who we're going to give those away to.

Maybe the next 10 that's signed up after hearing this right now.

We'll figure out when you heard this.

It's a podcast.

I don't know how that works.

We'll figure it out.

Pickle and social.

I think they're two locations, Bobby.

Is there one right now?

There's one by the Mall of Georgia.

The second one is being built off of Highway 9.

I'm sorry.

I'll love Georgia 400, exit 9.

Exit 9 400 is the next one.

But Chris Wolff is doing a great job over there.

Pickle and social.

And he and Ross are going to come run the clinics where we're giving away the paddle

tracks, the loop back.

You see, like I did that.

And Body Helix has given us some giveaways.

There's a bag, there's a hat, there might be a pickleball paddle or four that we have to

give away while we're there.

And I think that covers all of our sponsors.

We've got also Outback Deck.

We've got one non sports racket sports related sponsor other than Cadillac, of course, who

they are going to be there.

They said they're going to have some giveaways, but they're going to talk to people about

helping them with their outdoor back deck type needs.

I've already got them scheduled to come visit me.

My wife wants an extension on the back of our house.

So we're already talking to them.

But Outback Deck is going to be there as well.

And I think that's everybody.

Who's on charity?

Ah, yes.

Last but not least, Team Luke.

Hope for minds.

Team Luke is a brain injury, childhood brain injury awareness group.

I believe Tim Siegel is supposed to be here in person.

I will be here.

I will be here.

Tim confirmed that, but he's supposed to be here in person.

And that leads us to the raffles and the silent auctions.

Now, the raffles send pro seeds to Team Luke.

And the silent auctions do as well.

We've got some Andy Roddick art that is signed by Andy.

We're supposed to have something Roger Federer related, but I'm trying to confirm that one

to make sure I don't put my own foot in my mouth there.

Just trying to say Roger Federer is often as possible.

We've got plenty of art.

We've got trips.

If you want to spend some money and go see the rider cup next year, you can go see the

masters.

A lot of those really cool silent auction type things that the pro seeds go to charity.

So that's the direction that we go with Team Luke.

And we hope that Tim can be there in person.

We'll give everybody a chance to meet him.

I'll try to tell him to bring some books.

And he's got a really cool book out there.

Fight like Luke.

I think is it.

And he might be signing books.

So we'll make that happen as well.

But that is our charity, our nonprofit that we're working with.

And the raffles, pro seeds, and the silent auction pro seeds all go that direction.

All right.

One more time.

How did they sign up?

Where did they go?

Yes.

Let's go tennis.com.

I would read out the short link for you, but it's gobbledygook.

So that doesn't really work.

But yeah, you go to let's go tennis.com.

The featured event.

There are three there at all times at the top because go tennis starts with a calendar.

That's where we started.

That's what we are.

And we've got the best events in Atlanta.

We hope if it's an event that you know about and it's not there, call me.

We'll put it up there.

That's how we do things.

But yeah, go to let's go tennis.com.

The card, if you scroll past that, there's also a section specifically for the fall festival.

It is coming up November 9th, which is Saturday, which as we record, if we're going

to timestamp this, it is in about a week.

So it's coming up.

Make sure you get registered.

And that's the easiest way to do it.

What else we got, Bobby?

What did I forget?

I'll be there.

Most importantly, Bobby Schindler in the flesh.

Gonna be probably the whole time hitting on that fast track thing all of a sudden.

I'll be busy driving in circles in the lyric.

Bobby's gonna be hitting on the fast track.

If it runs as smoothly as we think.

Tell your friends, tell everybody this should be a lot of fun.

It will be a lot of fun.

Okay, more important than Bobby actually being there.

There will be food.

There will be food.

We have the Fricken Inkin Peruvian Street style food truck.

Gonna be there right out front.

He's gonna bring all your Peruvian comfort foods if any of you go to Peru for comfort food.

It's gonna be rocking.

We'll probably have some music playing too.

Music?

Absolutely.

There'll be a drone just in case.

That's right.

Gotta have a drone.

We'll run some video.

We'll say hello.

I hear rumor that the Babelack guy might be there too.

So we'll see if he brings something to give away.

We'll see if we can get Babelack to visit us while we're there.

Bobby, I hope that's it.

I'll see you next week.

Sounds good.

Thank you, Sarah.

Take care.

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