Operation: Safe Kids Tennis
Little Amy had tears running down her cheeks and blood was spilling from her lip. She had been hit by her friends racquet during her lesson and was now being consoled in her Mum’s arms. As we scrambled to get the ice pack, Amy’s Mum was being very understanding, “Accidents happen darling,” she said trying to
Mixed Doubles
For the second time this week I was at the playground with my two sons observing some typically fascinating interaction between young children. Two girls were playing happily using all the equipment and experimenting with strength and balance as well as cooperating socially playing “shops” together. The mood soon changed as two boys (not mine) charged
Maximising Engagement
Some thoughts on Gamifying Your Lessons Kids can focus on iPad and video games endlessly (take my word for it!). If only we could get our kids to focus that hard, and learn this fast on the tennis court (or classroom or anywhere for that matter.) Using some of the principles of Gamification we can achieve a
Xbox Tennis
How the curse of gaming actually helped my coaching Christian was a handy 11 year old lefty. Previously he had pretty much kept to the baseline and played pretty conservatively. Today he surprised me by slicing his first serve out wide to the backhand, charging straight to the net and angling away my return with a crisp