Playmate Tennis Machines by Metaltek

The Playmate iGENIE Tennis Ball Machine Delivery Experience at Pelican Landing in Bonita Springs. Thank you to long, long time tennis bud and friend Dave Richardson, Director of Tennis and Pickleball for arranging a passionate group of staff and frequent ball machine users. Dave has been at Pelican Landing for over 20 years and the club and courts are a thing of beauty.

I wanted to share this important video of how students/players learn an “Open Skill” Sport such as Tennis. This video is a very drilled down video of our 4-Hour Specialty Course and our Club Athlete Tennis IQ Clinic we have done all over the country for decades. I have had the extreme privilege of traveling the world and experiencing incredible people/mentors who deal with and instruct all forms of complex motor skill sports and environments. I thought providing this video would help speed up the learning process/curve for those tennis teaching professionals that have not been afforded the opportunities I have been given and all the studying my butt off I have done on this subject for 36 years. Hopefully this will serve as a helpful tool for the player who may feel like they have plateaued with their game or only plays well in lessons.

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DH Distribution with a Playmate iGENIE Delivery Experience at Alpine Hills CC with RSPA and PTR Master Pro Ken DeHart.

Really great catching up with my longtime friend Ken DeHart during a Playmate ball machine delivery experience at Alpine Hills. The Playmate iGenie is incredibly user-friendly—its preset shots make it easy to build a full sequence into a single drill. A big upgrade from the machine they were using before.

Celebrity Chef, Chef Gason from New Orleans, came by the home courts today for a little Tennis IQ Mini Camp. What a pleasure working with such an amazing person. We accomplished a lot. Already looking forward to next time and maybe some Jambalaya. Haha!

DH Distribution rocking the Bay Area with the Playmate iGENIE Tennis Ball Machine.

Different doesn’t mean difficult! The Playmate delivery experience at Bay Club Pleasanton was easy as 1-2-3. Cristian Haro, one of the Northern California Playmate tech reps showed Bay Club vice president, Josh Lyon, how Preset shots make the iGENIE super user friendly 👌🏻

The 2026 Playmate Ball Machines National Sales Meeting Tech Rep Challenge Champions. (in sudden death question playoff 29-28) The Challenge is a two team competition between the Playmate Tech Reps involving questions and demonstrations throughout the week. The champion’s team name was the MPM192’s (a part number from our Ball Mower 2.0) and the runner ups were the iGRANDSLAMMERS. (Named after our new serving machine used with the Playmate SERVELIFT) From left to right, me, Brad Perry, Richard Woodlee, Steve Dixon, Team Captain Tim Beyer, Spencer Holcombe, and Playmate Engineer Ryan Norris.

My ride home from the Playmate Ball Machines National Sales Meeting is here! What an amazing week of sessions, teamwork, and food. Looking forward to the rest of the year.

The Playmate Ball Machines National Sales Meeting Awards Dinner in Raleigh. Congratulations to Tim Beyer, Armadillo Tennis, National Sales Champion, Todd Snow, Tennis Equipment Sales and Service Inc, National Sales Goal Champion, Steve Dixon for reaching his 2 Million Dollar Sales Milestone, and Todd Snow, Tennis Equipment Sales and Service Inc for reaching his 1 Million Dollar Sales Milestone.

The Day 1 Playmate Ball Machines National Sales Meeting Dinner at the historic Angus Barn Restaurant in Raleigh tonight. A rare privilege to dine in the wine cellar. Absolutely incredible experience and eventual food coma between hors d oeuvres and dinner.