Anytime you’re trying to propel a ball through space, which includes virtually all sports, you’re trying to put two opposites, accuracy and power, together. And you always do it the same way, which describes why a few are so good at several sports, Wayne Gretsky, Mario LeMieux, Pete Bostwick, Charlie Menditeguy. So let’s find the secret and be good at all games. Look closely at this video of a continuous tennis rally.

The player on the far end is Welby Van Horn, who was finalist in the 1939 U.S. Open to Bobby Riggs. The player on this end is you, the viewer and member of the Nickawampus Polo Club. You have a stop in your swing just as Welby does, and you impart all that pace to your forehands and backhands just like he does, by angular momentum.

He brings the racket along the line of the shot, then pulls it at a greater and greater angle, to speed up the racket and thus the shot. And you do too. These good tennis shots will be the foundation of your good polo shots, which operate from the same principles, and are achieved the same way.

Yes, we members of the Nickawampus Polo Club play all sports well.