Tennis Coaching - how to coach beginners by Keith Reynolds

The first of 5 videos from an interview with Keith Reynolds.

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About Keith Reynolds:

In 1979, with his business partner Ashley Broomhead, Keith bought the Watchorn Tennis Club.It was awarded Club of the Year in (1991) for its pioneering work in laying clay court surfaces, low cost indoor structures, community tennis programmes and producing over 20 National Champions of all ages.

Keith continued his interest in playing and coaching at performance level by captaining the country at Seniors Level as well as having held the positions of Junior National Team Coach, Senior Tutor LTA Performance Coach Award and International Tennis Federation Level II Performance Award Tutor. He has tutored courses in Africa, Asia and Europe as well as developing a very large coach mentoring scheme.

He presently coaches on the ATP tour and works as the coach mentor for My Tennis International High Performance Center situated at Loughborough university in England when not traveling as their tour coach with Britain's number two Davis Cup player, Jamie Baker.

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In this video Keith Reynolds gives helpful advice on how to improve your coaching skills. Some of the key parts of this discussion are:

"Tennis is a receiving game before its a sending game"

"Learn to play then play to learn"

"The hitting of the ball is only one part of the game"

Keith uses alternative methods of coaching, rather than just talking about technique. He encourages having players, especially beginners, learn how to control the ball - moving it right and left, short and deep. You can then give advice on technique to help them control the ball better. At this point they will be more responsive to your advice, knowing that you are helping a part of their game that needs work.

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[YarpBarp09]

Great video. He and Brett Hobden would get along great. I try to help other coaches see the importance of receiving skills and understanding the incoming ball. Too often they go out there and become to much concerned with how the kids look when their hitting a ball. Hey is that a momosa Tommy? :)

[tommyenglish1]

@YarpBarp09 Thanks mate, yes, when you work on technique (like I obviously do) it has to be based around improving control or power or handling a certain shot etc, not just for the looks. I think coaches forget the point of good technique sometimes. That's when you get a player with a long sweeping one handed backhand that doesn't know how to play points because they can't adapt to different shots. Thanks for the comment!

[rafarafatennis]

This is great stuff, all coaches should watch this video. Most of the ones I see never do any of this and it makes so much sense.