coaching advice

[wesley o brien]

Hi All

Would love to get a feedback from another coach. I have been working with an 11 yr old girl for about 4 months..off and on but mostly once a week for an hour.....although she has improved a bit she still struggles with serve and forehand. Now she ONLY does coaching and no practice outside of this one hour a week. Is she going to improve if she ONLY does one hour a week coaching and no practice outside of this ???? ....I feel the parents are getting critical a bit and I have told them she needs to practice

 

[Steady Eddy]

Be honest with the parents that unless she practices, improvement will be slow. After that, if they still want to keep paying you, well, at least you've been honest with them.

 

[Crocodile]

You are correct. She needs to practice. A lesson is a lesson, practise is practise and playing matches is matches, they all need to be done if you want to get better.
If you only have one lesson each week for one hour then after a 10 week term you have only put in 10 hours and in a 4 term year thats 40 hours in 12 months, which in reality id probably more like 30 if you factor in wet weather, illness, non attendance etc.
That's not s lot. People who are keen could log up 30 hours in 4 weeks so you can't expect someone who does that in 12 months to be the same,

 

[wesley o brien]

Be honest with the parents that unless she practices, improvement will be slow. After that, if they still want to keep paying you, well, at least you've been honest with them.

Hi Eddy....yeah that's what I told them..she will improve but it will be very slow unless she practices...she will keep making same mistakes each week and get no consistency at all. Its frustrating as its my job to make her better

 

[sureshs]

Post in the tips and instruction section for lots of feedback

 

[10s talk]

Hi All

Would love to get a feedback from another coach. I have been working with an 11 yr old girl for about 4 months..off and on but mostly once a week for an hour.....although she has improved a bit she still struggles with serve and forehand. Now she ONLY does coaching and no practice outside of this one hour a week. Is she going to improve if she ONLY does one hour a week coaching and no practice outside of this ???? ....I feel the parents are getting critical a bit and I have told them she needs to practice

on and off for 4 months..... there is no commitment by her, she has very little chance of developing.

As others have said be honest with her parents

 

[chikoo]

Show examples of how others are training or have trained and practised to be successful.

 

[r2473]

Jesus Christ OP, you can't turn her into the superstar her parents want with 1 hour a week? Is your magic wand broken or something?