June 29th - Music City

WPH hosts- Joel O'Connor and Tina O'Connor

The Team takes on Nashville-

On June 29th, Suhn Lee, Emmett Peixoto, and David Fink rolled into Nashville, ending up at the YMCA. Within 15 minutes the boys were all on the court hitting the ball around with very enthusiastic locals.

Dave Fink quickly takes charge as Dale, Cory, and Ernie look on.

Emmett and Cory practice form

Tina films the clinic; meanwhile, Dave Fink and Emmett go through drills with Joel and Co.

Joel O'Connor gets a quick private lesson with Emmett

Meanwhile, Suhn Lee explains proper hitting and retreiving stance and court positioning on court two.

Jimmy and Suhn work on dropping the ball

For the first time ever, young Grelynn hits a handball. This junior tennis champ was an automatic natural at this sport!!!

The Team continued the mentoring for 5 hours on Sunday, then made way to our hosts house for some relaxation, Tennis, swimming, and awesome food! While there, Dave Fink, Suhn Lee, and Emmett Peixoto played tennis in the back yard. After 7 hours of bike riding, 5 hours of handball, The Team put in another 5 hours on the Tennis Court. Do these guys EVER get tired?

Suhn Lee and Dave Fink work on serves

Fink and the sun are best friends on this day

Fink and Grelynn play Tennis for hours. Is this a Handball Bike Tour?

The Team, plus Suhn Lee, went sight-seeing while in Music City, before getting back on the bikes to Chattanooga to visit Rob Pearse (current World's 35+ Doubles Champ) and a whole group of enthusiastic handballers.



Team enjoys the Country Music Hall of Fame


The Team spends some time at the Opryland Gardens

Big thanks to our hosts, Joel and Tina O'Connor, as they allowed The Team and Suhn to have Carte Blanche during the three day visit!

Emmett and Dave get caught SCARFING their food down while Joel prepares more
Dave Teaches Suhn how to make scrambled eggs, while Tina shakes her head in awe!

Next up: Chattanooga, TN

On May 19th, 2008, two world class athletes and personalities known simply as The Team embarked on a 3000 mile/25 city Bike Tour starting in San Francisco, California and potentially ending in New York City to promote and play the extreme sport of handball across the Heartland of America. The Team is comprised of the devastatingly handsome and sublime professional musician, Emmett Peixoto, who is also the #2 ranked world handball pro and his eccentric side-kick, and strangely lovable best pal, David Fink. Fink is currently ranked #7 in the world (with a bullet), according to the World Pro Handball Rankings. The Team made stops in: San Francisco, Berkeley, Sacramento, and Grass Valley, CA, then rode across the Nevada Border making stops in Reno and Elko, Nevada to play ball. While in Utah, the Team played handball in Salt Lake City (4 and 1-wall) before riding to Grand Junction, CO to play Fronton Handball and 4-wall handball with the locals. The Team will not only impart their vast handball knowledge, prodigious handball talent and charm in various handball clinics and exhibitions, but will also be playing in the 2 most prestigious events on the handball calendar The USHA 1 and 4-wall Nationals.

The Team is riding across America to raise money for professional handball and production costs for a youth instructional handball video.To sponsor or donate to the World of Pro Handball and the Toyota Tundra Bike Tour, please contact us at weplayhandball@cs.com : Dave Vincent, C/O WPH, Box 208, Rough and Ready, CA, 95975