Final Weekend

Hi all,
We are close to the final weekend and I am very much looking forward to seeing you all finish the course.  I will update the exact schedule for the weekend when I see you Friday morning, but essentially Friday will be review and Saturday and Sunday will be testing with some other stuff thrown in.  We will definitely do Training a Sequence of Shots on Saturday and Sunday morning.  See you all Friday!

Andy

Games and other things...

Hi everyone,
If you could each make a list of the things you want me to post regarding the games we played or other things I showed you I can then get these out to you.  Many of the games I showed you were things that came to me as useful stuff that you might like to know and weren't preplanned.  I don't have a record of what I showed you.  Bring it this weekend and I will post once I know what you alkl want to see.

Cheers,
Andy

Summer Camp Brochure

Hey everyone,

I was just wondering about the 3 examples of summer camp brochures - do they necessarily have to be in a PDF format or can they just be copy and pasted into a document? Not very many websites offer the option of having a PDF or brochure available. Thanks.

JF

Completing the MED

For those of you who still have to complete the MED you will need to go to www.coach.ca and look on the right side of the page.  There you will see a red banner that says "Make Ethical Decisions".  Click that and read the page.  At the bottom you will find the link to the actual evaluation.  On the next page near the bottom will be 2 links.  The one you want is the Competition - Introduction.  Click that and take the test.

Good luck!!

Andy

Nearly there....!

Hi everyone,
I was very impressed with how far you have all come since starting last regrouping.  Keep up the hard work and we will have one of the best CP1 courses that I have been involved with.  Make sure to get your wookbook(s) completed because you want to be able to dedicate all of your efforts to doing well on you revaluations.  I will post games and drills later.  In the meantime do me a favour and post comments to this post with specific things that you would like ot see.

Cheers,
Andy

welcome students

Hello to all my fellow students. Hope you are enjoying the course as much as myself.

Single elimination tournament/Round robin scorecard

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to see if anyone else came to the same conclusion when formulating the single elimination tournament draw sheet. According to the document, the second player drawn between the 7th and 8th seeds  is to be placed in the #46 position (p.262). However, can anyone confirm that this is a mistake since he should be placed in position #49? If we were to follow the documentation, the number 8 seed in my case would play the number 3 seed in the second round...

Secondly, I was curious as to how we are supposed to count the round robin scorecard. Personally, I am inclined to interpret the result between A and C for example as a win for player C, by a score of 8-3. In this manner, I read the results from the columns as the number of games won against another player (from the left column). I am a little confused by how it is stated in the manual at page 290. 

Thanks and hope all is well!

JF

Uploading Video

Hi everyone,
For those of you who still have to get video to me. Please upload to YouTube. You can mark your posting as public (meaning searchable by anyone), unlisted (meaning a viewer has to have the specific link to get access), or private (meaning that you have to authorize any viewers). Please be sure to mark anything you post as private. Uploading is quite simple and can be done by going to www.youtube.com.

If you us a Windows based PC you will likely have Windows Live Movie Maker. If you don't you can get it free at http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker. This will manage the upload process for you.

Depending on the length and density of the video you will have to expect to leave your computer running for a few to several hours to get this done. The upload speed is significantly less than the download speed.

Good luck!
Andy

A good start!

Hi everyone,
We had an excellent regrouping and I feel that everyone benefitted from the experience.  I was impressed with the passion that you all have to learn and the effort you put forth to improve.  There was a lot of material to take in and absorb. We are on track and progressing well.  Hopefully you have a better understanding of how valubale and important feeding and demonstration skills are for the purpose of this course and will be throughout your teaching career.  For all of you it will be important to continue to practice and improve both.

As we mentioned at the end of the last regrouping make sure to take time to review Chapter 10 so you have a solid undersatnding of how the ball controls function.  It will be very helpful for you to make headway with the new content we will cover next.

 

Over the next few days I will post instructions on how to upload video to the web so I may view it in case you have not yet submitted your playing video to me.

Thanks for all you hard work and effort over the past weekend. we look forward to seeing you all next month.

 

Best,

Andy

Coaching resources #3

Ace Tennis

A fantastic resource for coaching articles, methodology, Progressive Tennis

And it's our very own Wayne Elderton, Coach 4 and BC Head Course Facilitator.

Canadian content!

http://www.acecoach.com/

Coaching resources #2

Another great Canadian resource:

http://www.gbatennis.com/

Tired of taking the same old tennis lessons and hearing the same old tips with same the old frustrating results?

THE GBA IS A MORE INTUITIVE WAY TO LEARN TENNIS. Think of The Game Based Approach more like The Performance Based Approach. Instead of focusing on technique or "the strokes" first and hope you figure out how to use them in a game later, the GBA is the complete opposite. It focuses on getting you to understand how to play the game first and then uses technique as a tool to get you to perform better.

The GBA does not just get people to play "games" and ignore technique. It uses a systematic way of integrating the tactical, physical, mental & technical together. The way tennis is being taught is shifting away from traditional "model" based coaching.

If you're only hearing your coach tell you you're getting better but you're not really sure, get measurable results...find out what the ITF and players around the world already know.. The GBA is the best way to learn tennis.

Coaching resources #1

Hi all, 

This is an excellent coaching resource, and as all the ones I will post, it is run by a canadian, Larry Jurovich.  He has worked for Tennis Canada, the LTA (UK federation), the chineses tennis federation, and currently coaches professional players.  He is also a Tennis Canada Course Facilitator currently leading the Coach 3.

Laurus Coaching Solutions

Another great Canadian Coaching Source of Information:

http://www.lauruscoachingsolutions.com/

How we can support you:

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