Sets played - 15
Training undertaken - 3 hours
Books read - 4 chapters
Rained off sessions - 1
A busy week indeed from running around the schools and to visiting my old club to cover a few hours to school runs and writing my latest book along side Mike Barrell of Evolve9 fame.
My tennis groups are growing in stature and i believe the club is beginning to enter into a 'tipping point' scenario. School sessions are showing fruition funding is still coming in and word for sure is getting out there.
My aim still is to attain 40 hours of work a week on court, off court i am used to working and writing but thats pleasure rather than business. The Stonebridge Academy idea is a step closer to becoming reality, numerous phone calls with the fella show we have alot in common and a common philosophy in the way we teach.
This will hopefully (all being well) ready and up and running come September 2011.
A trip down memory lane took me to Stockbrook my old haunt to cover some coaching for a good friend. Wow it felt good to be back and see so many familiar faces! There is a reason for everything and lets see what comes of this wee venture in the future.
After an enormous downpour of rain overnight i was set to run all Saturdays coaching sessions indoors in the hall but decided against this and continued my 9 till 5 spate of coaching outside. Not one drop of rain today either till i finished the day. The gods truly are looking upon me and my family after some eventual good news from what has turned out to be a rather torrid year so far. Too many changes for my liking and hopefully the next few weeks will have seen a corner turned in fortunes and prosperity!
Now to prepare myself for my two matches mens and a postal mixed. The latter i am aiming for the finals in redbridge later this year.
Overall this truly has been a great week for learning. My summation for this is Talented individuals can make it up the ladder of sporting excellence some way before falling short, but a growing mindset and hunger to train, learn, understand and improve will take you to the top. Insight number 2 takes me to believe that whereas technique in tennis is important the ability to play the game with the important technical pieces (and to my mind there are 3 on the serve, 3 on the forehand and 3 on the backhand that need to be utilised) the ability to play and understand the game is more important. Insight number 3 is the ability to not get our students to think of what happens on his side but what happens on the other side of the court.
As my great friend and collegue Jason Lampione says 'See you at the Top'
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