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varley reach a super why have only reach your footwork and had people reach their foot where we will not for fb what it is the same fort worth of this in the same way roy hamilton has that for her which heat doesn't reach up been and the show didn't go to work where i'm eatable sinister says that if you relax worrisome it has been often said champions aren't made in that or i found that going to educate haven't had a lot of kids in this in that it doesn't have a particular track hungry and want what's at the end of the line is not available to talk with a certain extent but most have that one can hardly get through
and one who has its ingredients the competence of prime subject for promotion or help me and four discipline and what was forbidden in tennis it is a very demanding job or natural ability that time can be a handicap for instance he begins with the red position and that position you are ready to go to an armistice coming towards political meetings we have to be taught the right position so it's it can be repetitive natural ability to do something one way this time even when you're taught this when you have the same posters same situation or timely can do that and that's one aspect of it i had a i had known a couple of black professionals called before me and other sports i myself was influenced
by it hopes the law will have a sugary develop his skates and then i noticed that he used to take these kids the same impressive and i was six kids with some of the more that i had my wife ellen do they want these kids and get a job waist up with an invented by three fighters came out of that group just me spite of rooms and the name of this mammoth joy again and today i think we have profited from davenport i mean i myself have thought many many current imports quite a few at champions and what do they haven't come in speaking in terms of
how he gets she had she was a great competitor and she competed in a bowling lane who you call what if it had been cracked arthur ashe much are also he had such a sad or a set of bulky but what the system is i love forgive me i contend that it takes a chance to make the chance that china will never make another champion because a champion will never be a child if you look through his viewfinder those and became champion so it will make the chance of another person that make a champion you have to have an athletic the memphis because we have that women with grace person and above you beyond it would never read so you have
to have about about four and persistence and became taken so dave oh well i don't know something about my people let them cry where they were doing and so i wanted my weight and alienates him from what we read in the law because there is no substitute for this medical courtship they could be oftentimes the least at least suggests it could change the complexion of a match into the new thing that people waiting and if we don't have that type of assistance can it tends not to get too far because it's only gay when you're out though that court by yourself what he's a very lonely guy and
there goes a long way i have found that great tennis all right competitive tennis is another aspect of this is what the make a champion you should have early out when they can get a taste of winning with code debate winning at some point too oh well it goes back to the phrase that we have we ever hear fred thompson with my mom my
favorite one or not but one amen months of necessity war record in a manner it can get for him and it's a camp with a great regular season teacher around with and he taught most all his client's account and then we were directed up because you're going to go around says iran and that's that permeated again when i came on the scene when they discover that the catacombs they brought her to mr johnson and hadn't the teachers to talk about what he knew which was a continent and myself about a tenth of the board or at the st andrews club and kings and the ball boys used to play in the street or bets that so much money so why hasn't always there are and
i came to new york at the age of nineteen years old and didn't meet anyone that sentence so i played the game that my friends for the rich only one of my friends colleagues time against them so they invited me to go to a comfortable for a weekend vacation i was a little reluctant but that he's not only about the same things that they have to have a lake i liked to swim and out of tennis courts and lisa tennis courts i have when we leave then i went up there they had a war that even without that goes on the war hitting with the first time since that was somebody would come out we bought a company called it's ok they have to on the fourth of july weekend a wonderful and to the dismay of his fellow that took me up and
what's this because they say it does it say so why now though and so so i eventually everything you know all of these people wrong for one amen wrong to lie and so i went that i read all the books that we're aware of to when i could go through the wasilla dominican wherever there was a commonality that comment and i don't like it but i
was study mike way because i knew that idea before i want i want to have them plus it might sort of the increased ten and we don't think that previously been increased tension with that i read for fashion in other ways i joined the disappeared a question organization and always been qualified pro quo the test if you like it and drug references in norway and i've got a teaching that might be over the globe there until one day at the thing what's the climate added the informant and she was having trouble with continental group that enjoys the flow of the bill's similarities he
said i think that is not out here was noticeably we were on a collision course because i was so intense intense that be called me with the wind with with the ha ha and they want to ride with me for forty officially now what has she had everything but you know it's obviously really should kagan it's a bill permitted without me there was a very i thought and i say well i can tell you what it would take years and it manifests itself and the earth so she has to go to the town as rockets and she paid on and skaters do their vacation homes sold i used to read the room of a roman why the ymca is the weekly practice at night because that's the people who they are
about the fall in the sun and you gotta make a bad thing at night with the night in this gym in wireless and i like in the days of the aisle to take a race with a liberal audience of the visit on his company which was so i would think that the two if it takes three thirty in the morning and i'd sold off with poor shiites are involved in this and so that the ends of them but because she had a great story and barley and that sort of thing now at the end of the race that she gave them a job would be at the men's ten she completed two out of three so i had particular thing i call that theory a right turn which most teachers were referred to
as the fetid out when i first started about it because he's my friend and while brown was a fight was a great guy and he lived in paris for a black hole one day i say bonnie raitt announced it as a companion and that's what he made set my friend worked it just hits and he teaches you to accompany the swing like you do this and you do this your confidence we don't you know you just aren't so that influence what will likely be a total body goes on on both sides and i've taught checked out there and with all of the tenth of what they're going to say it to reporters like he hit it yet it's just now coming to see this
return to service just now become a cop watching you move around wherever she won eighteen out of ninety two in one thought she was using a few have been returned and the blackwater witnesses are obvious i think to be a champion you must have a great center so what must have a great return a fit because like most gave you when you're trying to serve a second and tenth is based on the natural if you want to get on record that i've never had before it believes iraqi don't get the last word in the be on a
lobbying that would give a listen to the widest part from a guest lecturer there you know so i would just opposite to them that you know why should i learn what is natural so i decided that they could do is to support you the five and unpredictable as a guy that if you to obtain the same thing they eventually to one of two things is going to happen amateur make either at five people off or whatever you're off quote that irritate the other thing that might happen in the next phase of course clothes that says i made one make it short shorts booty land below the border coming corse will
end you change a theory whenever you'd call it didn't anticipate this new or both sects have prices hitting four hands cross good use of the land that has a bad back with initially you let your own inadequacies shining across a book that was a pointless over there with not with david for but eventually you have a number of votes capital moscow that can solve my pals while some point three years which has meant is that gave you a cab it swings generation of companies yeah well we have come up with the one
we have come up with a gadget could teach tenth two individuals before they come on the court and without the book because that is very difficult to its choreography of tennis when you couldn't get a person's hammond doesn't variables and let them become cause an oncologist very difficult so we have to get it you can see and witness get to compete every aspect of tennis before person touches the right so that when they get to know exactly what you're doing and that's the biggest reason and he put an m p thru
you get them out or not this was invented primarily afford the fees to stay or not and the server paused to take a record down and around impossible up and then he had it out in the court now with this gets a ticket booth in tennessee when someone is free to relax and busier than this forest and then that way toward love with income whichever you want it to be it's a portable up semitism around to come up and get your hip and follow through with it just hit the boy like this you get close to it to be the extension reach up a racket now for the grassroots ready position that won't notice that the mormon stage at specific moments about the same moment he was the other sports
prize fighter of fire punches like this was a whole body like this from the revolt by night tennison charity stepped its way they noticed at this thing in a beautifully in this way from beginning to end that can you turn the tents on the table and maybe more like this it's nothing of logic attention on a new show u turn and when or where they went out on that court in turn step and is swinging now i start teaching this as dottie smith like he's in the body is that night doing a
family was there on the grass he petition on family and they were noticed that law school by this week that's a very difficult thing that most places would record a hand that isn't a rampage that gets me is through a hand in everything all right saving on the forehead and also from hip hip you get will stretch famously the swing out for ball now at the end of listening to bring the rare fourth leading up to the fall with most places would have ideas and bring before back now with alison wood bat is but when he hit the ball all year with unfulfilled why bring my brain weight to the idea for women either fortunately economy a moment in there with them then add afflicted weight and in a position to run into a natural thing which is
you see at all attack me as well as the same as as i said before the lesson for this survivors friend of mine when my brother told me the principle of having a weight back and going through that you could go to this week but if you do it which whole body you find that this is a carry over this movement here i'll be whole bison in together his relative the most all sports the refining earthquake was it knocked people out because of the low pay what to learn our point you punch with the rifle and an incentive archery same thing when a release release in a manner that the whole weight so this is harold mcgee in baseball baseball
that they will take it and pivot so you got a hit you with the weight you're still visit like that when you weight the entire body weight what is the sense of closely we need to be a champion one of the dedicated to the sport needs to relate to someone who knows the history of that particular sport and his firm in their convictions you should have won one theory regularity and quality and about changing changing for one with the island style of sediment without what could be a champion it takes dedication and what i think a person a cup to be spiritual all appear that would work with after we leave the house to avoid the
battle so books that i recommend the book a weekly guest is for instance i recommend that book because it teaches tells you about yourself say and i teach them what i learned from george washington carver when i was in the city the fifth star who you are with what you have to make something and never be satisfied and i think that what they have written all will go away when you can leave this to say so i would say and there are many many many many points i know that it up and like lives of great women over nine we can make our lives and the plotting leave behind footprints on the sand that each one of us have the privilege of doing that to get through the rest of it and they can find themselves
because without that attitude you can never be a chance this again this tennis game that time doesn't matter who you were what you know when you start playing tennis tennis it's going to be with you advice to sample or nonsense and get rinsed particular meeting with bp and adelson mr mcentee years just to keep fresh the reason that he wasn't always kept talking as tough and even competitors as a result of that kind of stuff is
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Program
Black Champions
Raw Footage
Interview with Sydney Llewellyn
Producing Organization
Miles Educational Film Productions, Inc.
Contributing Organization
Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri)
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cpb-aacip-78d32d90d32
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Program Description
Documentary honoring African American athletes and their accomplishments throughout the 20th century.
Raw Footage Description
Interview with Sydney Llewelyn conducted for Black Champions. Discussion centers on his coaching style as well as coaching Althea Gibson, who eventually also became his wife.
Created Date
1984-10-21
Asset type
Raw Footage
Genres
Interview
Topics
Sports
Subjects
Discrimination in sports; African American athletes; Sports--United States
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:27:28.022
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Credits
Camera Operator: Galindez, Vinnie
Interviewee: Llewellyn, Sydney
Interviewer: Riley, Clayton, 1935-2011
Producing Organization: Miles Educational Film Productions, Inc.
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Film & Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis
Identifier: cpb-aacip-13e2014c6f3 (Filename)
Format: 16mm film
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Chicago: “Black Champions; Interview with Sydney Llewellyn,” 1984-10-21, Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed January 4, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-78d32d90d32.
MLA: “Black Champions; Interview with Sydney Llewellyn.” 1984-10-21. Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. January 4, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-78d32d90d32>.
APA: Black Champions; Interview with Sydney Llewellyn. Boston, MA: Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-78d32d90d32