“You’re an artist and athlete created to dream, manifest and move in the sport of life.”

-Coach Murph

In the summer of 2012 at a sports camp in New York City - MurphBall came to fruition. It was a rainy summer. When it rained we had to move from the outside courts & fields into the indoor facility. I would be assigned a tiny studio with 20+ kids each hour. Near the end of the summer all my games & tricks of the trade were getting old. I decided to open the room’s closet I’ve been eyeing all summer. To my surprise and destiny there was a bag with a small, collapsible net for tennis inside. All of a sudden - ZAP - a surge of creativity hit me. I set up the net and grabbed some plastic line markers. I made a small court with the line markers and took out my trusty reaction (Murph) ball. I called a kid over to the other side, underhand tossed the ball over the net, it bounced once, he caught it and an epic rally commenced. My little Manhattanites were all locked in - that’s no easy task.

When the sport came to fruition that rainy day the name "MurphBall" popped into my head. I never vocalized it. I thought my name on it was too personal. I called it mini-tennis with a reaction ball. When the class was over the kids called it MurphBall. They loved it. So the journey begins.

“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough. The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them.”

-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

If you can dream it - you can build it - together.

In The Spirit of Play,

Michael Laurids Murphy

“Coach Murph”