I know, i have been away for like a week nearly! Sometimes setting goals and working seem to get in the way of updating ones blogs!
However, here we are with an emphatic run down of all that has happened in the life of a tennis coach! Am refraining from saying vet player at this point due to the fact i have taken the decision to try and re-attain my top 500 world ranking in the over 40's next year, whereby life would have settled down and of course my books would have earned me enough to manage my time in a more able way.
Right now life is more in a disabled way and i have a million and one things to do. Perhaps i should attend some sort of time management course and hence save myself valuable working time daily. Hmmmmm ermmmmm do i really have time? Geez its all i can do to fit in watching the oz open just now.
Right so after one of the most restful breaks of the year, or seemingly so, my first real venture this year was the well attended one day course i ran at Bannatynes in Thurrock. Nice venue, nice journey time and easy enough. The attendees were excellent and learnt a huge amount on Running Effective Drills for club players. This enhanced the ability for those that attended the ability to earn recurring money if they adhered to everything that was taught! Not that coaching is about earning money if you are truly a coach, for me its more a way of life rather than a living.
I will post the handout for this soon on the andytennis website when i have filled it out a little more for those of you who failed to turn up. In fact come to think of it, the link will also be handy for those who couldn't make it due to bad weather or who just plain could not be bothered to turn up due to lazyness or even worse did not want to learn anything more because they may know it all.
Anyhow i digress...
My remainder of the weeks leading to today consisted of planning and writing, organising and more writing and planning writing and organising. The programming of something big to hit the UK (All will be revealed when ready, but in the real army talk standby standby (also known as ZUJ)) and a few personal lessons to get me back on track and some top class hitting in the weekly squad and with fellow compatriates. Although i do remember a walk on and 15 minutes later, walk off session, due to the dia hitting from both persons on court that day. We decided to give the court over to Danny Ward top class ex-England player who still plays vets. I have to say he does look slow and sluggish but will probably give me a hard time on court all the same due to his ability to hit consistently and something about the level he once accomplished may come into the equation too!
After this week i am off travelling again with racket in hand and big holdall in the other, Basingstoke is my first stop off. I have thus decided that instead of being the maniac i usually turn out to be and travel the 186 miles to and throe, i have booked a hotel room for the week and will stay to work on my tax for the year ready for April. Which will be a first but i guess its time i did these things monthly instead of sitting alone in a room for a day working it out in midst June when i normally get around to giving it to my accountant.
Now to spend the rest of the week checking out the Australian Open till silly o' clock in the morning to keep ahead of new players, styles and tactics that occasionally leak into the game unbeknownst to some coaches.
I hope at this stage you have all set your goals and are working your way through the first four but don't forget the downloads from the website to help you out. Evidently, if you ended up on andytennis.com site then you have taken a wrong turn. Turns out that this is dedicated to the one and only Andy Roddick, i guess a bit like comparethemeerkat.com and comparethemarket.com quite similar really.
Right am out of here, email if you need anything.
Andy
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