The life of a tennis coach week 41-2010

How many hours of coaching is enough to produce a love in your job and how much is too much? I think i would be happy with 4 days and 8 hours of coaching per day. The perfect lifestyle i think.

This gives me time to spend with the family which is important this day and age. Especially when people around you are getting older. Next year will be my 40th and would i have changed a thing? Probably but why look back? Its better to look to the future and what can be!

In my days this week i have finished jotting down the outline for a 4 week primary school coaching programme. Full of drills and ideas. This is perfect to get the kids buzzed up enough about tennis and into your club. I have just finished a four week schedule in one particular school and managed to bring 8 children from the school back to the club in the first week. Give this two to three weeks and we will see how many turn up through 'friend pressure'! The feed back from the kids and school teachers is energy enough to keep going  back! I will post the ebook free on my website for 1 week before i start charging. So keep an eye out!

I am in talks about running some coach education in the USA this will be based on 1 or possibly 2 day courses spread over a week in a few centres around certain cities. A great opportunity and certainly one i wont be passing by! I am also being interviewed for tennisworldusa which should be interesting. I will post the article here and let you all know how it goes.

In a reminiscing kind of way i visited my old club that i think set my on my way to coaching excellence. Here i was doing a 45 hour week and enjoying every minute of it. Days were busy and evenings were down to 3 a week and half a day at weekends. Plenty to run a small academy and teach ample of kids and adults. Amazing to go for a coffee and still be recognised and even asked to come back and work part time. The place is having a makeover and has planning permission for indoor courts!

All very good but i have plans (family permitting) at my own club with a players academy and the Adrian Stonebridge coaching academy next year. My job is just to get through the winter like all outdoor coaches and make it i guess to March. From there on in things will be a breeze and enjoyable for all! For now i will take said position and build up some day work, after all i love my job and twice already i had to be reminded to take the money from group sessions after walking away to go do another lesson!

Meanwhile i keep writing, plotting and planning.

See you next week!