Wow times flies when you are busy.
Since we last spoke i have been busy with the coaching and continually setting up new ideas and programmes. Adding schools and more importantly preparing schools to continue in September.
Remember this helps to build the club up from the ground up and from here you can start to bring the parents into the tennis equation. I have entered the Frinton Vets Grass Court Tournament and my training began a few months back. 4 Sets a week, 2 on court workouts and 2 five mile bike rides. Not forgetting a Sainsbury look alike trolley load of balls to serve each day.
With over 15 hours of hitting in lessons a week i am feeling confident which is vitally important. This key ingredient is of some importance when playing matches. You have to prepare yourself and know you are not week in any particular area when you enter the arena.
When i practice i try to just zone in on one key aspect of each shot, forehands maybe the footwork, backhands the space between body and racket, Serve the takeback......i think you get the picture.
A few weeks from now i shoot to West London to coach the Army Team ready for the Inter-sevices at Wimbledon. In the meantime, i am on the lookout for another tennis coach to work alongside me in September having built an adequate business already and also on the look out for young talent to work with in my potential performance programme.
Monday, 28 June 2010
Friday, 11 June 2010
Its been a while but........
Okay so since 'moving on' and becoming a trench coach i think this will pretty much be the last blog on how to build a club. I have been answering many of you via email regarding coaching and playing and now i think it is best i get back to blogging some of the questions and answers that i have for you all.
However, as it stands within 3 weeks (cant really count the weeks holiday to Lanzarote!). My work is now 25 hours and growing. The club is about to launch into an extensive schools programme with 4 schools currently attached to the club and a further 8 schools to start in September. I have managed to gain funding for adult coaching and schools coaching so nothing gets accomplished for free although i was going down the route of sowing in the schools with work and reaping the benfits at the club!
The club programme is now set in stone and summer camps ready to go. Leaflets are flying out the door as we speak and this is why school work is important to help fill these up for you.
So within one month, two weeks planning, plotting, printing, negotiating and meeting, one week holiday and one week full time work we have a viable business in the club that now requires another coach to help with the ongoing coaching that is to build from here on in.
If you want me to help set up something similar for your club just ask and i can do a makeover for your business as well.
However, as it stands within 3 weeks (cant really count the weeks holiday to Lanzarote!). My work is now 25 hours and growing. The club is about to launch into an extensive schools programme with 4 schools currently attached to the club and a further 8 schools to start in September. I have managed to gain funding for adult coaching and schools coaching so nothing gets accomplished for free although i was going down the route of sowing in the schools with work and reaping the benfits at the club!
The club programme is now set in stone and summer camps ready to go. Leaflets are flying out the door as we speak and this is why school work is important to help fill these up for you.
So within one month, two weeks planning, plotting, printing, negotiating and meeting, one week holiday and one week full time work we have a viable business in the club that now requires another coach to help with the ongoing coaching that is to build from here on in.
If you want me to help set up something similar for your club just ask and i can do a makeover for your business as well.
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