034 - Elliott Pettit - Become Financially Literate
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033 - Mike Barrell - Evolve9 - Your Value Isn't Your Resume
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032 - Oscar Wegner and His Preferred Coaching Style
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Oscar’s Success As a Coach When the coach can communicate through easy words and willing to permit the student to experiment and fail, learning will create a independent and lasting result. People learn when they experiment what does and does not have the correct result. We need to get creative when working with players to get them to understand concepts. They need to practice using a self-discovery model because this is what hey will do during a match. They need to figure out how to handle adversity for themselves. Oscar used this method with Bjorn Borg and Gustavo Kuerten. To learn...
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031 - Dr. Mark Kovacs - Become a Specialist In an Area You Are Passionate About
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In today’s episode, I had another chance to interview Dr. Mark Kovacs, one of the nations leaders in sport science. In this episode, Mark talks about the importance of trying to specialize in one of your passionate areas. You want to develop a skillset in any area that may make you known in: Your Local Area Your District Your Section Or eventually even nationally Some examples may include: The way you design drills How you teach Club management High performance All payers can be trained with a HP mindset, be at different levels. You may adjust the drills, the language…..etc You...
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030 - Sid Newcomb - USPTA National Tester - The Importance of Diagnosis
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Today we welcome Sid Newcomb, USPTA National Tester to the PTM Podcast. Sid is going to discuss the importance of the diagnosis in a lesson. Diagnosis is such an important part of what we do as teaching pros. A lot of inexperienced pros tend to diagnose based on the last ball they just fed. Way to much info instead of one thing they can work on. In a private: Start by removing yourself (or don’t teach the way you necessarily play) Be observant of the student Ask questions These are all super important in the diagnosis. A good pro has the confidence to ask questions to find out what...
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029 - Motivating Your Students To Learn
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Today’s Quick Tip Is: Tell Your Students What They Are Going To Learn – Teach Them – Tell Them What They Learned And using my online marketing method, may just get those stubborn players eager to learn. A Quick story: I had a group of students recently come to the campus for a week and it was an amazing experience for me s well as for them (I hope anyway) And by the way, if you are interested in bringing a group here, talk to me and I will set you up with an experience that you will not forget. Each day this group worked with an expert on campus: Monday: On-Court With Player...
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028 - Jorge Capestany - The 5 Types of People
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Today I interview USPTA/PTR Master Professional Jorge Capestany. Jorge is a highly regarded tennis professional all around the world and has arguably the best tennis drills site on the internet. So Jorge , through his own experience has put people/coaches into one of 5 different levels 1. The Encourager - They look for the good in others and take the extra steps to tell them 2. They look for the good, but don’t tell them 3. Generally wired to look for the bad in others 4. Look for the bad in others and then DO tell THEM. These people are kind of mean. 5. The Gossiper - Look for the...
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027 - Successful Progressions - My Foolproof Plan For Beginners
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027 – Successful Progressions – My Foolproof Plan for Beginners So today’s quick tip is: Start with contact and progress backwards when working with a NEW player, So why do people say that tennis is HARD? I’m going to tell you how I achieved 100%, yes I said 100% success, with getting every new player I have ever worked with to hit a 20 ball rally over the net on their 1st day with me. There are two secrets here and one of them is you So come on, make it easy for them. This way you can increase the chances of them being successful and coming back for more! Now you...
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026 - The Ocean Liner Coach
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Today’s Quick Tip Is: Become the Ocean Liner Coach if you are in the business in taking a player from one point to another. I have been on one cruise. I thought I would never like them, but I really do. The cool part, other than the free drinks and ice cream, it that even though there is a final destination, we make a lot of successful stops along the way. For example: My in-laws come to Florida every year to hang out with us for a few months. Now when I make the drive, it takes me about 21 hours to get here from Michigan. When they drive it takes about 4 days, because...
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025 - The Ambulance Coach
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Today’s Quick Tip Is: Stop commenting on every shot and PICK ONE THING. Don’t try to correct each shot. There are NO REDOS anyway, just opportunities. Instead, Try to look for the primary issue and go from there, BEFORE THE FACT. Now you have presented an opportunity to the student. As a tester, the student was supposed to match the primary problem we saw, but the key for me was even if the primary problem didn’t match mine, that was OK as long as long as he progressed properly and the student LEARNED and improved. Let’s start with the positive: Now, depending on...
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017 – Verbal Communication
Today’s Quick Tip Is: Learn some basic verbal communication skills.
These skills will attract players as much as your teaching skills sometimes.
I have witnessed it over and over with pros on my staff.
There are two types of communication: non-verbal and verbal
Nonverbal communication is all about gestures, facial expressions, body movement, touch, and anything else done without actually speaking.
Verbal communication includes sounds, words, tone of voice, volume, and pitch are all ways to effectively communicate verbally and will make a big difference in the lesson.
In a lesson it might be:
1. Saying students names
2. Inflection
3. Talking the right amount
Saying students names, especially on the first day can be the most important. Nobody likes, “Hey you in the red shirt”
When I was a USPTA tester, it was important to use the students name 6 times and tim, tim, tim, tim, tim, tim didn’t work.
This may be tough, but come up with a good system that will help.
Inflection was also on the test and this Is wheee your voice goes up and down
There are lots of opportunities to work on this, so with a little practice, you should be good to go.
How we speak is important, and you can even break it down to the group you are teaching.
If you are teaching some 8 year olds, the adult comments will mean absolutely nothing.
You have to speak their language for sure, whatever that me be.
How about when or how often to talk to your students, well this might tie in with your coaching style like we talked about in episode 014
If you are a Command Style Coach, it probably means you will be doing a lot of talking while you have the group all together and while they are hitting on court.
If you are a submissive style coach, you might be a bit less talkative and let the group run the practice more on their own terms
As a cooperative style coach, there might be a little of both. More talking during the “Huddle” but then less during the hitting, except for things like “Why do you think you won/lost that point” because this lets them give the input.
When I look up effective Verbal Communication Skills online These popped up and I tried to connect them to teaching.
1. Be friendly.
2. Don’t talk too much.
3. Be your authentic self.
4. Practice humility.
5. Speak with confidence.
6. Learn the art of listening.
BOTTOM LINE: Having good verbal Communication Skills is important and can make up for some of the areas you are lacking for sure. Just keep practicing in those other areas…….