Tennis - Reaching Your Potential
A Process for Coaches to Develop, Document and Track Students
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Introduction – How the process was developed.
In sales, manager/coaches try to find the right person for the right job and develop their skills. With the business aspect of this process, management must develop their people to succeed or terminate their employment. In athletics, we are lucky; students come to the coaches and ask/pay to be developed. I have seen and experienced many development and training programs for business people. They are all excellent and have many things in common. Ironically, I have never seen the athletic coaches approach development in the same manner. Throughout this program, I will refer to “coaches” or “the coach” referring to the thousands of teaching pros across the country. Yes, the professional teams certainly have a process for selecting and developing their players, but the rest of the athletic community does not have access to these expensive resources. There are thousands of excellent coaches and great development going on everyday. This process and software only supplement the coach’s ability to develop. There are default templates and master lists of training items only to provide direction to the coach. For example: I will have a list of what I consider the core competencies for
- Find out what the student wants “Dreams and Goals”, both short term and long term.
- Find out where they are… rate them.
- Develop a plan to improve the student by setting goals for the core competencies and the attributes from these core competencies.
- Put measurable and traceable tasks in place to reach these goals.
- Re-evaluate the “Dreams and Goals” along with the plan.
Although their may be exceptions, for the coach to be successful in using this process, he or she must “know” the game. You must have been through the trial and error process and have a good understanding of the sport. This tool sets up the plan and development process, only the coach knows how to teach the sport.
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About the Book
In sports, most coaches have good skills. Whether it is their knowledge of how they once played, work ethic, experience or skill, they know a great deal about the game. Generally they all lack a plan and process to take the student where they want to go. I do believe the great coaches have the plan in their head or written somewhere, but usually don’t relate it to their students or publish it. I believe the plan should be published. In fact the documentation and communication of the plan to the student might be the most dynamic part of this tool. So here it is: A development process and plan with specific directions to cover every aspect of the game. With this comes software to help plan, fully track and document the development.
This is not “keep your eye on the ball” or “use this club when...”, this is the entire sport broken down, organized and laid out in a fashion for all coaches to quickly take and implement.
About the Author
He claims this book and software come from the expertise of his coaches. He trained under Bill Tym, one of the best tennis minds in the world. Rusty Dinwiddie, Skeeter Carson and Brian Seky, were invaluable to his training.
His martial arts training came from Master Yuki Koda, Hirioki Toyams, Jim Falbo and Rod Lowery. Their instruction was structured, disciplined and intense. This training gave him great insight for tennis and business.
Nick graduated with honors and All American status from the
He considers himself an expert student and hopes that his instructors and coaches appreciate this software.