tennisbuddys - About tennisbuddys

Simple, I became a mom!
I quit my full time job as a Web Graphics Designer from National Instruments to become a full time stay home mom. I enjoyed being a stay home mom so much and enjoyed my time with our son more and more as he turned 31/2. At the same time my love for multimedia design and tennis was still intact and I wanted to create a job I loved, but would allow me to continue spending enough quality time with our 3 1/2 year old son and I wanted the job right next door. I wanted to create my dream job and starting working towards this goal with my heart and soul and belief in myself.
After having had a successful career both, in tennis and multimedia design combined for over a span of 14 years and then becoming a mom, my priorities and perspective on life totally took a turn for the better.
My husband encouraged me and supported me to follow my instincts and I went with it full force.

The idea came to me to create a business proposal and knock on as many doors of as many tennis facilities, to find out how I could create that tennis job in my neighborhood park tennis courts. Nobody responded until I met the right individual, Mr. Bill Wells who recommended Jerilyn Rainosek of Pickfair Community Center, part of Austin Parks and Recreation. The connection was made. Jerilyn Rainosek (an outstanding individual) gave me the opportunity to launch my own tennis program.

Fall of 2004, I ran with the opportunity, launched tennisbuddys tennis program at 10800 Oakview Park. tennisbuddys became a member of Pickfair Community Center, Austin Parks and Recreation Dept. and started running it's Junior and Adult tennis programs. 10800 Oakview Park only has two tennis courts that aren't in the best of shape but I still prefer them since they are my neighborhood tennis courts. I see great potential for improvement with the help of my neighborhood community and the help of the Parks and Recreation department and any sponsorships in the future.
Time and again, I have been called upon multimedia and other tennis opportunities but this is where my heart is. I have a job I created for myself and I love every minute of it. I can now wholeheartedly say, it is the best job I have ever had in my whole life.

tennisbuddys,LLC contributes to the park and it's courts through it's income and also holds FREE Tennis clinics each year.
Today, the NW neighborhood community and surrounding area's have adopted tennisbuddys as their neighborhood tennis program. It has been a blessing.
tennisbuddys is designed to cater to working and stay home parents, preschoolers and after schoolers, young, adults, and seniors, any level, competitive or for recreational, and flexible times.
The best part is that the courts are right next to the playscapes which allows for parents to bring their kids along or have them babysat at bird's eye view.

Credits

First of all, thanks to my son,, who is now 5 years old. My son's birth has been the most precious gift in my life and being able to stay home with him as a stay home mom has been by far the most enjoyable and rewarding experience in my life.
I can truly say the idea of tennisbuddys was inspired by my son as mommy wanted to also have a job that she could say " is the most enjoyable and rewarding job of all" . tennisbuddys has allowed me to have my cake and eat it too. I get to teach a few hours everyday and I love every minute of it and the rest of the time I get to spend with my family, get more creative with tennisbuddys, be a home maker, exercise, run errands......at my own time.
The balance of running a tennis business and being a home maker has really been a blessing which has allowed me to really " smell the roses" and truly enjoy life at a slower pace.
At times, it can be hard work and challenging but at the same time it is exciting and fun.
The difference between tennisbuddys,LLC and all my other job's in the past, is that, I can truly and sincerely say: "I love every minute of it and every minute of it is a ton of fun!"

My son has championed his mommy into becoming an even better tennis teacher to children his age and has taught her what works and what doesn't for his age group. Now he has become my favorite tennis star, as he loves coming to the MiniStar 1 classes that mommy teaches and truly enjoys tennis for the fun game that it is. The challenge is, as soon as mommy get's into tennis attire to teach, whether it is adult, teen age classes, or bigger kid classes' he wants to go play too.
But, right now, he get's to come to his age classes and sometimes higher skill level classes. Too much of anything is not good, so I keep him playing tennis just enough to where he still is having fun on the court and enjoying the game and enjoying his little tennis friends - tennisbuddys.
Thanks to my parents, for first of all introducing me to tennis and fine arts, the combination of design and tennis has made this possible. Born and raised in Nepal, I was very very fortunate to have parents who really encouraged me in tennis and financially supported me and also accompanied me to International tournaments worldwide, at the same time making sure my education was top priority. Their love and support and raising me with the right balance of structure and discipline and fun combined has really taught me well, and they are still my biggest role models.
Thanks to my husband, without whose continuous support at home and raising our son, while still working full time at Dell, this would not be possible.
He also brings our son to his Mini Star 1 tennis classes and participates and helps me out on the court. Dad is also the best standby guy, just in case our little one has a little melt down or shall we say "bad day" type thing happen while class is in session (which is rare nowadays but also to be expected of a little child). Our son always has a choice to be on the court or the playscape but if he chooses to participate in the tennis classes, all court rules of etiquette applies to him with no exceptions. He really has embraced the tennis court etiquette rules which he applies well on and off the court and my other tennis kid's on the court enjoy him more than ever. Today, because of dad being a standby, our son really loves the game of tennis and loves being on the court voluntarily. Thank to dad!
I do my best to try to create my tennis program so it works around my family's timetable and schedule and in turn, dad tries working full time at Dell, around my tennis schedule. We have never had to use a babysitter at all and our son is always with either, mom or dad, which has been a blessing, that we have been luckily able to manage and maintain. Before tennnisbuddys, this would have been an impossibility.
It helps tremendously that he is a computer tech guru and having tech support at home is fabulous as well when I am running tennisbuddys business and have to hit the panic button when the computer goes down or something drastic happens.
I design, code, update and maintain tennisbuddys website, and create all the business cards, logos, brochures, flyers, illustrations and that I love to do on the print and web end, while he helps me with backend computer technical support. Special thanks to him also for his photography skills. All the digital photos on the website are compliments of my husband, Rich.
Thanks to my neighborhood, my friends and my very first few students and they know who they are, all their support has made tennisbuddys possible.

Thanks to all my tennis pro friends and well wishers worldwide, for all their continuous support and professional advice on how to run a tennis business. They know who they are and how much I appreciate their continuous help and sound advice.
Thanks to Bill Wells and Jerilyn Rainosek of Pickfair Community Center, of Austin Parks and Recreation for believing in my program and allowing me the opportunity to create a program like tennisbuddys right here in my neighborhood tennis courts at Oakview Park. Serving my community and being close to home has been very rewarding. The neighborhood community has really come to embrace this tennis program right at their doorstep.

The name tennisbuddys

No matter what age group, when you come and play and have fun at the court you end up making buddys, thus I wanted the name tennisbuddys. However all different combination of the names were taken by someone else, so my husband found tennisbuddys spelt with a "ys" and registered the domain name for me. I made the best of the name tennisbuddys, thanks to my husband, and color coded the letters so it is easy to remember the incorrect spelling. Then I created illustrations and designed the business cards and brochures at home and printed them myself. Immediately, I started the front end design on my website.
Being able to do both, multimedia design and tennis is very rewarding, so is being able to spend time with my family and also being able to bring a program like tennisbuddys to my neighborhood community.