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"This afternoon I decided to work on turn on the forehand after watching Anne Kursinski's demonstration during the George Morris clinic. My aha! moment is when I realized that I was allowing 'good enough' instead of 'right'! Once I persisted until right he got it in half the time!" ~ Shannon Trae Proul
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