The Most Important Tennis Drill For Kids
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ค. 2021
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There are a ton of tennis drills for kids out there but this could be the most important one. When it comes to developing tennis players teaching is greatly missing. There is no right or wrong way to hit a tennis ball but research has shown that high level tennis players share remarkably similar fundamentals. Fundamentals which DO NOT come naturally. Please subscribe to our youtube channel to learn all of the key positions we use for each essential stroke and the incorporate them into your next shadowswing! The tennis world need this so bad we should start a hashtag... #shadowswingwithkids
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Have you ever done a shadowswing with your player!?
I like to do it facing the players (switching from RH to LH as necessary) so we can be mirror images of each other. That way I can keep my eyes on the kids, and it gives them a good model for practicing in front of a mirror on their own.
@@patrickweston3293 Good points! I once heard that the brain takes in more when it doesn't have to reverse the image. Kinda stuck on that but I should try changing it up sometimes.
Teaching beginning kids requires a lot of patience and passion. Coach, you are doing an amazing job!!
Thanks coach! You keep up the good work yourself!
"Do you even know where your tennis racket IS?" Classic.😆
The first thing I thought of when I saw this video was the fact that the guy who was in the video was 😊 🤗
Shadowing is a fun and effective way for kids to pick up the basics of tennis! My little one loves mimicking the pros, and it's amazing how quickly their strokes are improving. This video gave us some great new drills to try, and I love how you kept it light and engaging for kids. Thanks for sharing! 💯🎾
Appreciate the kind comments!
I love the way you handle all aspects, today my 1st 3 trainings with kids and your content, pun intended served me well, yes more teaching, shadow swings, checkpoints. Pretty much copied what I watched yesterday. Wish you all he best, I can but humbly say thank you for your posting videos and dedication to teaching the sport properly to beginners. You saved me from a potential nervous breakdown. No joke....
Really appreciate the comment. Very much looking forward to getting back to this project and thus this TH-cam channel.
I teach grassroots tennis as well and I love how realistic your video is with some kids just laying on the ground
Thanks for doing what you do for tennis!
We found your videos are very useful and fun to watch. Keep up the good work:))
Awesome to hear! Thank for leaving the comment.
This video is a life saver for me. Thank you so much. It gave me knowledge but also motivation to keep going wirh my 5-6 yr old groups of kids.....who said teaching tennis was easy? Kids want to play and have fun and not exercise and follow instructions 😅
Making players is like watching grass grow Rewarding in the end though!
I love tennis
This is an excellent program that I would suggest to anyone. Both of my sons participate(Ages 4&8). Coach Jeff is the best. Short term goals(correct backhand form) and long-term goals(playing collegiate tennis) are expressed and emphasized on a regular basis. The kids have a lot of fun, but the underlying emphasis is always perfecting tennis fundamentals. I like that they are striving to achieve a goal(but just happen to be having a lot of fun in the process). I am a highly satisfied parent of the program.
-Darius McCree, Sr.
Thanks for the feedback Darius!
I want to join for my kid aged 7 please help me I am from India
Where are you located?
Surely this works 👌 I teach on shadow Swing also which helps with fast Improvement for tennis
Glad to hear it!
Great job coach.
Thank you!
Where did you find those Nike’s. Classic Pete’s
Those were actually a remake pretty recent. I do though have two pairs of the originals! With the blue trim. Brand new never worn! Favorite shoe of all time!
Good luck keeping kids attention these days
Kids are the same as they always were. The adults are different.
@@deltaecho-59tx60 yeah old people be like "hmmm ever since adults stopped putting the fear of God into these children physically and mentally they've stopped doing everything we say!"
I coach kids in the UK you always have kids that dnt listen and it can be frustrating but you just have to cope it's usually the younger ones say 6-8 years old ar the hardest work but yeah challenges of being a coach 😂
Thanks for this. Indeed. Too many youngsters are praised for simply getting the ball over the net - the path to incorrect & flawed muscle memory. The tennis stroke, like the alphabet, is NOT programmed into the brain at birth, just like dogs don't have language ("no" "sit" or "stay", etc) programmed into their brains.
For 10 and under, I prefer to teach the backhand before the forehand...
Yup! Agreed!
In what place are you i wil like to vs that kids with my kids
Those kids did not care one bit about tennis. I feel as if shadow swing and stroke production is for kids who want to compete and play regularly. If kids are only playing once a week or once a month the goal should be fun games over technique.
You have a bright future in the tennis industry 😉.
@@VictoryTennisPrograms lol, @MikeyFreshy the goal is to get them to care about tennis, even if it is one bit
Tennis doesn't work like this. There might be a time and a place for exercises like this but this definitely is not the most important tennis drill for kids! Learn to play the game and people can find their way to play. Give guidance when necessary but ultimately get your players to learn to think for themselves in a game based environment.
Yes that is the industry standard. "Play to learn" not "Learn to play". Well intended to get more people in the game but I find the reason we lose those people is they simply don't improve past a certain point. Tennis is VERY counter intuitive and it has not been my experience that students "naturally" learn the fundamentals that matter. Information must be given and applied in a crawl before you walk manner if players will succeed en masse. The current standard is only allowing the lucky and talented to break through and that shouldn't be the case. Sorry but going to have to respectfully disagree.
Haha, do you even know where your tennis racket is? 😂
Why would you teach topspin swings to kids that can't hit a ball?? it's ridiculous.
Yes tennis is hard to learn. Just making contact with the ball is difficult. You need to find the right balance of ball handling and other drills where they just get to know racquet-eye coordination. That being said they should also be learning one of the most fundamental aspects of the game from the beginning. By not introducing and encouraging this counter intuitive information early enough you are risking the students building bad habits and not developing one of the most important parts of the game...ball striking. Patience and understanding is necessary by all parties when developing players properly. Thanks for the comment.
Perfect example of a coach who works to much in the theory, but doesn’t understand the practical part. This is over all too much and too boring for the kids who play like 40 minutes each week. You have to think of other ways. Trigger them more.