SFTC
4 courts
Tennis
Four full-size hard courts under the lights. Every court has a T-Sight camera, so a session can end with a map of where each ball landed.
Tennis · Pickleball · Strength · Recovery — Fabian
Come to the SFTC.
Train the body as the physical system it is…through big mind.
The SFTC, the Sports & Fitness Training Complex, is a training center in Fabian with four tennis courts, a pickleball section, a fitness room built for court athletes, and a lab where every hit, landing and step can be measured. Come play, and see what your game looks like as data.
SFTC Lab Garage · Exhibit A · ball flight
Four shots. Same net, very different physics.
Air drag slows the ball, and spin pushes it sideways through the air (the Magnus effect). Topspin pulls the ball down so a hard, high shot still lands inside the line. Backspin holds a slice up so it floats. These paths are computed, not drawn.
- Flat36 m/s · 3.5° · no spinclears net by 0.18 m · 0.73 s in the air
- Topspin33 m/s · 9.5° · 2800 rpm topclears net by 0.78 m · 0.81 s in the air
- Slice25 m/s · 4.6° · 1500 rpm backclears net by 0.14 m · 0.90 s in the air
- Lob22 m/s · 22° · 1800 rpm topclears net by 2.36 m · 1.37 s in the air
The facility
Courts, iron and quiet rooms under one roof.
6 courts + 2 experimental
Pickleball
Its own section with its own nets and lines, so pickleball never has to borrow a tennis court. Open play, ladders and drop-in clinics, plus two more courts kept for experimentation.
Strength & conditioning
Fitness room
Platforms, racks and sleds, upstairs next to the café. The programming is built for court athletes: first steps, deceleration, rotation and grip.
Heat, cold, mobility
Recovery
Sauna, cold plunge and a mobility room. Recovery is part of the training plan here, not something you do if there's time left.
Coaches
Six coaches, one shared picture of your game.
Tennis, pickleball, strength and movement coaches work from the same data, so a fix on court and the work in the fitness room point the same way.
- Tennis
Head tennis coach
Coach name
Runs the tennis program and the performance squad, and reads T-Sight landing maps with players after every session.
- Match play
- Serve
- Tournament prep
- Tennis
Tennis coach
Coach name
Builds strokes from the contact point outward, using Vibramaster to find the clean hit before adding pace.
- Stroke technique
- Adults
- Returning players
- Tennis
Junior tennis coach
Coach name
Leads the after-school squads and holiday camps, with footwork and balance work in every session.
- Juniors
- Footwork
- First rallies
- Pickleball
Pickleball coach
Coach name
Runs clinics, open play and the ladder, from a first dink to fast exchanges at the kitchen line.
- Kitchen game
- Doubles strategy
- Beginners
- Strength
Strength & conditioning coach
Coach name
Programs the fitness room for court athletes: first steps, deceleration, rotation and grip, planned around the energy systems.
- Speed
- Power
- Injury prevention
- Movement
Movement & recovery coach
Coach name
Screens how you move, builds balance work on the Wavetrain platform, and plans return-to-play after injury.
- Mobility
- Balance
- Return to play
Group programs
Train with a group, all over the grounds.
Yoga under the oaks, calisthenics upstairs, balance on the water and on the Wavetrain platform. Every class is built around what the courts ask of your body.
Pavilion · oak grove
Court-side yoga
Hips, spine, shoulders and wrists, the joints racket players overload. Held outdoors at the pavilion and on the grove's rest deck.
Fitness room
Calisthenics in levels
Pull-ups, dips, handstands and levers, taught as graded progressions so you can see where you are and what comes next.
Lab Garage
Balance class
A group circuit on the Wavetrain platform, with each person's sway and recovery time on screen as they work.
Pools
Board balance
Standing and flowing on the surfboards on the pools. The water moves the board, so every position is a balance problem.
Tennis courts
Cardio tennis
A fast drill class set to music. No match play and no partner needed, just a lot of balls and a hard hour.
Pickleball
Pickleball clinics & socials
Clinics by level and round-robin evenings that mix players up. The easiest way into the game for newcomers.
Fitness room · courts
Rotation & footwork
Medicine-ball throws, cable chops, split-steps and lateral bounds: the movements behind the forehand, backhand and serve.
Recovery
Contrast recovery
Sauna, cold plunge and breathwork, guided as a group. A good way to end a league night.
Physio · recovery
Return to play
Small groups run with the physiotherapy offices for people coming back from tennis elbow, ankle sprains and similar injuries.
The SFTC Lab Garage
Instruments on the floor, not in a drawer.
The equipment comes from our sister projects. Members use it during ordinary sessions, not only in special testing slots.
- Tennis Tutor
Vibramaster
A sensor on the racket that records the vibration of every hit and tells you how hard and how cleanly you struck the ball.
- Tennis Tutor
T-Sight
A camera and microphone beside the court that record where each ball lands, then show the pattern on your phone.
- Tennis Tutor
Tosser
A ball machine that places its next ball according to where your last return landed, in Easy, Medium and Hard modes.
- Ripwave
Wavetrain
A platform that tilts back and forth under your feet so you have to keep finding your balance. Used for ankles, knees and footwork.
- Hand lab
Shaky
Grip and wrist exercises on a phone: shake it in a set pattern, and how well each rep matches the pattern decides where a basketball shot goes.
Field notes
Thoughts from between the points.
01e ≈ 0.75
The ball is a spring
A tennis ball dropped from 254 cm has to bounce back to between 135 and 147 cm, so it keeps about three quarters of its speed. The rest becomes heat in the rubber. The strings are a second spring and your arm is a third. A clean hit lines up all three, and a mishit is one of them out of step.
0210 s · 2 min · ∞
Three clocks of fuel
Phosphocreatine powers the first ten seconds of hard effort. Glycolysis covers the next couple of minutes and leaves lactate behind. After that, mitochondria burn fat and sugar with oxygen, slowly but for as long as you like. A point uses the first clock and the rest between points refills it. We plan training around all three.
03~100 ms
Balance is a feedback loop
Your inner ear, eyes and the sensors in your ankles report a sway, and your muscles correct it about a tenth of a second later. That delay can be trained. The Wavetrain platform under your feet makes you practise the correction thousands of times.
0427 bones
The hand is the last joint
Every stroke runs through 27 small bones and the tendons that cross the wrist. Grip strength predicts more than how well you hold a racket. It tracks health across a whole lifetime, so we train it on purpose.
Around the courts
Everything else a player needs.
- Coaching
- Private and group lessons in tennis and pickleball, from first rally to tournament prep.
- Pro shop & stringing
- Rackets, paddles, balls and same-day restringing. Gear from the Delo Sports store.
- Physio & assessment
- Doctors' and physiotherapy offices on the ground floor: movement screens, return-to-play plans and rehab for the shoulders, elbows and knees that racket sports wear down.
- Juniors
- After-school squads and holiday camps, with footwork and balance work alongside the strokes.
- Leagues & ladders
- Weeknight leagues for tennis and pickleball, and a ladder that keeps you playing people near your level.
- Café
- Upstairs: coffee, food and electrolytes, with a window onto the courts and a zipline down to the oak grove.
Visit the SFTC
Come and hit a few.
Drop in for a tour, book a court, try a trial session in the lab, or schedule a coaching session. Bring a racket, or borrow one from the pro shop.
Where
Address coming soon, Fabian
Hours
| Mon–Fri | 6:00 – 22:00 |
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| Sat–Sun | 7:00 – 20:00 |