By Nick Jacques, Jacques Tennis Seminars, New Zealand Questioning to enhance learning during fundamental movement skills activities The following are some examples of the type of questions you could ask during activities Skill questions- Develop feedback and skill awareness eg “what did you notice when you pushed off the ground?” or “what was the fastest part…
Packaging your courses for kids (video)
What can an Innocent smoothie teach us about how we can get better at packaging our courses to appeal to kids? Plenty!
Innocent Smoothies are packaged to appeal to kids, but inside is great content that appeals to adults – exactly the blend that you try to achieve when you develop your courses for kids.
Mark’s session in Romania on correcting ball toss on the serve
We apologise for the audio-feedback! This clip was filmed live in possibly the worst audio setting ever; an echoing gym hall! However, we thought the content was still worth sharing. Early November Mark was working with coaches in Romania on teaching the serve. He looked specifically at the importance of having the weight transfer onto the…
Feeding progressions (video)
Feeding is a really important skill for a coach! Watch Mark talk through some feeding progressions, some of which you will have seen if you have attended an inspire2coach Level 1 & Level 2 tennis coaching course . . . Oops! This content can’t be accessed with your membership. Visit the membership page to learn more about our…
Developing the serve with green ball players (Video)
Many of our members and customers will already be familiar with our hugely popular Developing the Serve program. Today we introduce the latest instalment, Developing the serve with green ball players.
We use a tactical approach to structuring serve coaching; it gives you great teaching points for the tennis serve for green ball players and provides you with strategies to get your players serving with a purpose.