If you want to make your kid a champion

[JW10S]

Thanks for wasting our time...

[isilra]

Originally Posted by JW10S

Thanks for wasting our time...

Lol you really thought i have a potential champion in my hands now and i'm so depressed because i have no idea how to deal with it ? I have never said i have a kid and i want him to be a champion, so what should i do. I told if i have a kid one day, and if i want him/her to be a champion, which way i should follow to make him/her reach the full potential. That was also about my will to learn about some teaching techniques, sorry for misunderstanding

[Venetian]

I have no interest in making champions, but I hope at least one of my kids are interested in tennis so that I can have a hitting partner who's always at my house.

[FrisbeeFool]

Originally Posted by isilra

Djokovic still claims that he uses his wrist consciously in his strokes but videos shows that the wrist movement is unconscious. Djokovic might be arguably the best player in the world now but i'm pretty sure there are many people in this forum that knows djokovic's stroke mechanisms better than him. We all write here, spend our times because we are the people that willing to improve and learn. Most teaching pros are teaching pros just because they are better players than you, not because they know it better than you. I mean how many of teaching pros can know the difference between an ATP and WTA stroke better than Tricky ? Or how many of them can analyse Federer's slingshot better than him ? I'm pretty sure %99 of them don't even realize ATP and WTA games are different, they have no idea what a backswing pronation about. How many of tennis instruction videos that you have seen on youtube tells you about the kinetic chain or SSC ? They tell the same things over and over, take the ball in front, finish with a WW followthrough, lock the wrist back etc. because most of them doesn't have a clue about what makes a forehand modern and the most important, they don't feel the need to improve.

Lol. Quote of the day! Is this a clever parody of all the message board "modern tennis" pablum, or are you being serious? I think you're actually serious, and it makes me laugh.

[NLBwell]

Have the kid hitting balls rolled to him on the floor about the time they can walk. Hitting balloons in the air with their hands is good. It isn't about playing tennis at all until at least 7 or 8 years old. It is about developing the hand-eye coordination, speed, movement, and the ability to hit, throw, and catch a ball of a top-notch athlete.

[Relinquis]

Lots of HGH and a good doctor!

living vicariously though your children? tennis parents, beauty pageant parents, etc... just let your kids have their own lives, develop their own interests. back off a little.

even if you want to share your passion for tennis with your child at an early age, make sure that they play lots of different sports while they are young. they will develop better and will have coordination and will be able to choose what sport they want to pursue (might be tennis, might be something else, or maybe not even a sport). this was the case with Federer (played everything from squash to football).

they're your children, actual human beings, not your pets/robots. let them have their own dreams.

Sorry if this seems harsh, but i've seen too many highly strung tennis parents over-pressuring their children. someone has to say this.

[Ash_Smith]

If my kid/s decide tennis is the sport for them, then great. But I doubt they'll be coached by me. I'll happily drive them around to training and tournaments and hit with them (if that's what they want to do), but I want my relationship to "dad" not "coach-dad"!

That said, I can only think of maybe 3 or 4 coaches I would trust to do a really high quality job (out of the maybe hundreds of coaches I know and have met!) - could be hard for the coach as well, knowing that dad is national coach (no pressure there then!)

Think I'd like my son/daughter to play rugby, but anything they enjoy will do as long as it's not football!

Cheers

[isilra]

Originally Posted by Relinquis

Lots of HGH and a good doctor!

living vicariously though your children? tennis parents, beauty pageant parents, etc... just let your kids have their own lives, develop their own interests. back off a little.

even if you want to share your passion for tennis with your child at an early age, make sure that they play lots of different sports while they are young. they will develop better and will have coordination and will be able to choose what sport they want to pursue (might be tennis, might be something else, or maybe not even a sport). this was the case with Federer (played everything from squash to football).

they're your children, actual human beings, not your pets/robots. let them have their own dreams.

Sorry if this seems harsh, but i've seen too many highly strung tennis parents over-pressuring their children. someone has to say this.

No, i agree with you. I believe everybody talents for different things and you just need to find what you are gifted for and your parents are the only ones who can do that for you most of the time. The more interests you have, the more chance you find something valuable for you. Maybe you have the talent to be a Slash but you might not know it till you have a guitar in your hands. So a succesful parent shouldn't be obsessed with one thing but should show many ways as he can to his kids and let them choose.

[samarai]

The reality is that the sport is thrust upon the top players. I mean what kid wants to spend hours and hours practicing unless there parent makethem.

[TCF]

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[pvaudio]

Originally Posted by tyu1314

At the park i play, i often see a 2.0guy training his two daughters, both around age 8 . I can tell he cant play, the type that cant even hit frying pan serve, and all he does is screaming "hit the ball in" "why you hit it out" "thats a good shot"" "Thats bad" . He scream at them everytime they miss or fault, and he never teach them any technique.

When I was in Boston this summer, I was so close to getting into it with this ***** who was hitting with two girls (they were all around my age, maybe a bit older) who was a 3.0 at best. The girls were outright beginners. He kept yelling at them whenever they made an error OR when he made an error trying to return one of their balls. It eventually got so incredibly distracting that a simple "could you keep it down? There are other people out here too." solved the issue. Most people will assume they're invisible on their own court. Reminding them that they're not works quite well.

[Mahboob Khan]

Your job as a Dad is to expose your kid to tennis with a Certified/reputable coach and to arrange logistics. If you are not a coach do not coach. Leave this to someone who has produced quality players because coaching is a complex science.

I coached thousand of players in my 30 years of Coaching. Among them is my daughter who is currently in one of the U.S. Universaties on an Athletic (tennis) Scholarship.