We're on tomorrow!!!!

Hi everyone,
I have corrected the error in my previous post.  It now reads that Jean and I will see you on Friday.  We will definitely see you all tomorrow at 8am.

Please let anyone you are in contact with know to make sure you are all there.

Cheers,
Andy

Testing Topics

Hi everyone,
Here are the testing topics for your evaluations.  Private lesson topics will be given the day of testing.  Testing will happen primarily on Sunday, but some of it may happen on Saturday.

Jean and I will see you all on Friday.

Best,
Andy

Training a Sequence of Shots
#1	#2	#3	#4
Approach shot/ Volley/ Overhead	Chasing a drop shot/ Overhead/ Finishing Volley	Approach volley/ Reflex Volley/ Finishing Volley	Rally Groundstroke/ Attacking Groundstroke/ Intercepting Volley
Anthony	Brad	Frank	Ben
James	Kristina	Geoff	Jordan M.
John	Jordan T.	Julio	Tom
Breaking Down a Playing Situation
Singles - placer/retriever	Doubles - Lob & Overhead	Doubles - Serve & Volley
Ben	Brad	Anthony
Geoff	Frank	John
James	Jordan M.	Jordan T.
Tom	Julio	Kristina

Hey Guys, Here is Andy's write-up on Private Lessons. Study up!

Internet Research Clarifications

Internet Research Clarifications

Hi everyone,
In workbook #4 on page 12 in the section titled Internet Research 2: Tennis Canada and your Provincial Sport Organization you are NO LONGER required to list the contact info for the people who work at Tennis Canada.  Simply put the name of the person.

Best,
Andy

Staying on track

Hi all,
We are getting closer to the final weekend.  Make sure to get your workbooks done on time so that you can really concentrate on the job of readying yourself for testing.  Also remember that for any of you who have workbooks outstanding and for Workbook #4 in general, they must be handed in at 8am on Fri, mar 21st to be accepted.  Jean and I are looking forward to the weekend because so far we have covered quite a bit of material and this brings us closer to our goal of readying you all to be excellent pros.  Some testing will take place on each of the three days of the weekend so it is very important that you are all punctual.

Cheers,
Andy & Jean

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 or unlisted. Uploading is quite simple and can be done by going to www.youtube.com.  Once uploaded make sure to grant me access by providing my email asutton@mayfairclubs.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 Solid 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 saw from working with the ball controls it is important that you 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 as we continue to dive deeper into their use to help your students.

 

In the next few minutes 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 & Jean

Coaching Resources #3

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 #2

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/

Welcome

 Welcome to the blog for this edition of the CP1 course. Please use this as a forum for communicating with your fellow candidates and the course facilitators. Remember that we have to be professional in our use of the blog, and so will not post things that shouldn't be in a public forum. If you need to contact me or any of the other CF's with something you don't want viewed publicly then please email directly.

I am looking forward to a great course and know that you will all benefit greatly from the shared experience and knowlege that you all have that will get shared amongst us.

Andy