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The Quarterback Drill
Accelerate Your Tennis Game
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Accelerate your Tennis Game at a Faster Rate
Nature versus nurture is one of the oldest debates in sports: Are great athletes born or made? Are innate physical qualities—size, speed, and coordination—more important than learned behaviors? It would be foolish to boil it down to an either–or conclusion.
Plenty of evidence supports the belief that both factors play an integral part in an athlete’s development. The influence of either factor generally depends on the athlete. From this perspective, every player’s profile is unique. To maximize the player’s potential, the player and coach must understand the player’s genetic predisposition along with personal life experiences. Once players are fully attuned to their personality, body type, and athletic foundation, they can more effectively adapt their playing style. Having an innate stylistic preference leads to numerous advantages.
Benefits of Knowing Your Playing Styles:
- The knowledge to hire coaches and trainers who possess personalities best suited to accelerate her learning curve;
- The confidence that comes with knowing exactly how your athlete performs best;
- The skill to lure opponents out of their preferred style and force them to play out of their comfort zones;
- The ability of your athlete to impose their best style, strategies, and tactics on the most important points;
- Improves you athlete’s ability to reach the goal of mastering a minimum of three playing styles—called A, B, and C game plans—which adds depth and variation to the their game; and
- The competence to select a stylistically complementary doubles partner to help form a winning team.
Though there are subtle variations, six basic playing styles are seen in tennis. It is important to know which style is most effective for your player and how your player can best compete against each styles.
- Net-Rusher
- All-Court Player
- Baseline Counter-puncher
- Aggressive Baseliner
- Retriever
- Finesse Player
Accelerate your child’s tennis game by identifying their playing style (which is based on their preferred learning preference.) For more information of player see CHAMPIONSHIP TENNIS and/or The Tennis Parent’s Bible.
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Cleaning up your Overhead
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Opposing Force Vectors
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Improving Anticipatory Speed
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High Performance Secrets
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Advanced Tournament Match Log
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Tournament play is a terrific way to document your player’s strengths and weaknesses. The best way to improve is to strengthen strengths and eliminate weaknesses. Lack of knowledge of match play strengths and weaknesses is a huge waste of time, money and emotion. Be pro-active and chart your player’s matches or hire your coach to chart the match.
Event:
Date:
Opponent:
Ranking:
Conditions:
Match Time:
Pre-Match Preparation:
For each of the below Pre-Match Preparation details, identify the degree of accomplishment. Such as Didn’t Bother, Gave a Little Effort or Gave 100% Effort;
- 30 Minute Warm Up
- Proper Nutrition/Hydration
- Stretching
- 20 Minute Visualization
- Equipment Preparation
- Scouting (Live or Internet)
- Short Run Before Check In
Pre-Match Performance Goals:
Match Score:
Parent/Coach Assistance:
- Did they video the match for video analysis? Yes/No
- Did they chart the match? Yes/No
- Which type of chart was used?
- Did they de-stress or add stress to the day?
Post Match Analysis:
Personally grade your satisfaction of your performance in the following 20 areas:
(Worst rated 1 through the best rated 10)
- Attitude
- Effort/Fight
- Calmness
- Stroke mechanics
- Shot Selection
- Focus Control
- Reading Notes (if Losing)
- Use of patterns
- Applying Offense, Neutral, Defense Properly
- Limiting unforced Errors
- Spotting Mega Points
- Attaining Performance Goals
- Enjoying the Battle
- Spotting Tendencies (Yours and Theirs)
- Self-Charting
- Between Point Rituals
- Mistake Management
- Anger Management
- Focusing on the Here and Now
- Relaxing Under Stress
- Dissecting the Opponent: (List your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses and tendencies.)
- Strokes
- Patterns
- Style of Play
- Emotions/Fitness
My Top 3 Areas to Improve:
- Post-Match Performance (Your Perception): These Post match Rituals should be completed, especially if you just won and you are still in the event.
- Scouting Next Opponent
- Proper Nutrition and Hydration
- Stretching
- Attend to Injury (ice, heat etc.)
- Hit my Performance Goals
Additional Match Notes:
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Flexible Skills vs Block Learning
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Multitasking Volley Exercises
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Positive Athletic Parenting
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QUESTION:My son says I’m negative. How do I push him nicely?
Frequently, parents get fixated on what our junior “world beater” is doing wrong, what they need to change, need to learn or need to improve! Because we are so focused on our child’s success, we often become preoccupied with only seeing their faults.Focus on putting a positive spin in your approach as you gently guide your child through the “wars” of junior tennis.
Here are three ways you can apply your positive influence:
- Say 5 Positive Comments for Every Negative Comment
The fact is many youngsters only hear their parent’s negative comments and ignore positive comments. It is important to acknowledge your child’s efforts to improve.
SPECIAL NOTE: Here’s an eye opening or I should say “ear” opening trick. Place a recorder in your pocket.
Record a few training sessions and self-chart your positive to negative remarks!
- Celebrate the Positive: Reinforce what you want to see more!
The following is an example of this rule. Your son’s ball toss is still too high on his serve. Instead of saying “Come on Mike…You are still tossing too high…How many stinking times do I have to tell you!” say “Hey, this is great, your toss is a lot lower. I knew you could make this easy change! Keep working and you will see your consistency really grow!” The positive approach actually gets results as you keep your relationship from getting negative and jaded.
- Teach Gratitude: A more positive attitude will lead to more positive behavior.
Assist your child in focusing on the good things about their life. Problems and difficulties will always be present. It is very important for your child to feel grateful about their life opportunities.
FUN FACT: There is a world of difference between “I have to play tennis today” and “I get to play tennis today.” By showing gratitude, both of you will be calmer, happier and more appreciative of each other and others will want to be around you because of your positive attitudes.
To summarize, replace criticisms with a more positive approach. Hard work doesn’t have to be a painful, drudgery. Yes, tennis is hard. Yes, it is a “dog-eat-dog world”, but it doesn’t have to be negative.
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