Friday, 9 April 2010

Playing Catchup....

A great one day course followed on Effective Junior Coaching at Bannatynes Health Club, Essex.
Amazingly i had an influx of attendees for this course and had to squeeze 27 coaches onto one court. I would show you a photo of the excitement of it all, but i am never one to take photos and am equally just as bad remembering to when i bring a camera.

Here we worked on swing patterns in relation to grips on forehands and backhands and how they change accordingly. What makes a stellar groundstroke, serve or volley and how to make this the most effective stroke for our students to continue up the ladder of success. After all there is nothing worse than having worked hard throughout your career, possess great amounts of talent and your current technique lets you down only allowing you to reach a certain level in tennis. Generally in England we find this to be inside the top 1000 in the world. Perhaps the wild cards to Wimbledon help with these ranking points however, this takes hard work and time, sweat and tears. What's is required to attain better levels are the approach of a better technical foundation involving the whole body (using the Kinetic Wave Theory - as seen in my power tennis course). From here don't forget about a subject close to my heart, tennis psychology, add this all powerful aspect to your game and top 200 here we come.

Give or take the ability to get funding and sponsorship to help you along!

For a better understanding of what i applied and taught in this course visit my main website and download the manual. I will be adding pictures to this at a later date for you all.

On a personal note at this stage i have decided to cut down my coffee drinking intake from 14 cups per day to around 6. I have no clue why i drink so much caffeine but all the same i will keep you updated.

My game has gone from strength to strength, my backhand is more a weapon than before, racket head speed has increased thanks the the 'Etch Swing' workouts and all i need know is to get back to playing matches other than club doubles. Don't get me wrong this is a high standard but not quite singles play. A total different mentality as dammit i have others to think about.

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