Meaningless and Meaningful Tennis Coaching

http://tpatennis.net/

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.

............................................................

In this video Keith Reynolds gives helpful advice on how to have meaningful coaching sessions, not meaningless ones. Some of the key points of this discussion are:

Feeding huge quantities of the same shot can be meaningless - "You only learn how to hit the ball very well in that one particular set of circumstances?"

Achieve Meaningful lessons and 'Super Coaching' by asking questions - "The coach asking the pupil, am I feeding the ball hard enough? Am I feeding it with enough variety? Am I challenging you at the edge of your ability?"

Quite often in a meaningless lesson "the mental work is always being done by the coach"..... "the pupil isn't being involved enough"

The pupil should be "at the edge of their ability rather than in their comfort zones"

When you use 'Super Coaching' "they are not saying I can do it but they understand what needs to be done"

"Using something in their life that they are already quite competent at, now put it into this area which is tennis, that would be super coaching because the light bulb has just come on"

For more from Keith Reynolds and for other great articles and videos, please visit: http://tpatennis.net/

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/tpatennis

Follow me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/TPA-tennis/147291358659714

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• tennis
• keith
• reynolds
• super
• coaching
• coach
• coaches
• tom
• allsopp
• meaningless
• meaningful
• malcolm gladwell
• practice
• lta
• usta
• training
• students
• improving
• feeding
• forehands
• backhands
• volleys
• serves
• the tennis coaches toolkit
• how to
• beginners
• advanced
• tpa tennis
• lansdorp
• lungren
• robert