how to start my little girl in tennis

[Slicehand]

hi, i wanted to know how i should start my little girls tennis journey, and the proper steps in the first years, currently she is 7 months old, i already train with her doing shadow swings with a little spoon, to start with the muscle memory, we do this for 20 min, twice a day, i let her rest on sundays, i also move her feet with my hands training all the stances, and we do visualization drills where i close her eyes, and make the sound of hitting the ball with my mouth, so she can have an idea for the timming of the ball in a tennis court, that must make her ready for pre tennis at 3 years old, what would be the next steps after that? thanks!

 

[PocketAces]

Make sure you get a proper training spoon with bevels. And get her comfortable with a continental grip from the start. If she starts gripping the spoon the wrong way she'll never go pro.

 

[Slicehand]

Make sure you get a proper training spoon with bevels. And get her comfortable with a continental grip from the start. If she starts gripping the spoon the wrong way she'll never go pro.

thats great advice, i dont want her to develop extreme grips early on, she was having difficulties with the overhead shadow swing, and now i see it was because she was griping wrong, now we ll have to train a little harder to correct it, but she kind of likes it

 

[PocketAces]

thats great advice, i dont want her to develop extreme grips early on, she was having difficulties with the overhead shadow swing, and now i see it was because she was griping wrong, now we ll have to train a little harder to correct it, but she kind of likes it

On a related note, Agassi's father hung a tennis mobile over little Andre's crib:
"WHEN Andre Agassi was an infant, his father hung a makeshift mobile of tennis balls over his crib. One of the child's earliest sights, therefore, was fuzzy little spheroids, waiting to be swatted."

In the Annals of Tennis, the Father Figure Is Big (Published 2005)

WHEN Andre Agassi was an infant, his father hung a makeshift mobile of tennis balls over his crib. One of the child's earliest sights, therefore, was fuzzy little spheroids, waiting to be swatted. Thirty-five years later, that stimulus continues to pay off. Agassi, the wise old gnome of...

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[Slicehand]

On a related note, Agassi's father hung a tennis mobile over little Andre's crib:
"WHEN Andre Agassi was an infant, his father hung a makeshift mobile of tennis balls over his crib. One of the child's earliest sights, therefore, was fuzzy little spheroids, waiting to be swatted."

In the Annals of Tennis, the Father Figure Is Big (Published 2005)

WHEN Andre Agassi was an infant, his father hung a makeshift mobile of tennis balls over his crib. One of the child's earliest sights, therefore, was fuzzy little spheroids, waiting to be swatted. Thirty-five years later, that stimulus continues to pay off. Agassi, the wise old gnome of...

www.nytimes.com

nice to know, ill do that on sundays!

 

[Bud]

hi, i wanted to know how i should start my little girls tennis journey, and the proper steps in the first years, currently she is 7 months old, i already train with her doing shadow swings with a little spoon, to start with the muscle memory, we do this for 20 min, twice a day, i let her rest on sundays, i also move her feet with my hands training all the stances, and we do visualization drills where i close her eyes, and make the sound of hitting the ball with my mouth, so she can have an idea for the timming of the ball in a tennis court, that must make her ready for pre tennis at 3 years old, what would be the next steps after that? thanks!

Train the toddler to hit a pea with said spoon so she develops a feeling for the sweet spot

 

[Slicehand]

Train the toddler to hit a pea with said spoon so she develops a feeling for the sweet spot

She already beats me at pea tennis! I really have to focus on attacking her backhand to have a chance

 

[Bud]

She already beat me at pea tennis! I really have to focus on attacking her backhand to have a chance

Switch to a spatula for a bit more power

 

[BallChaser]

Introduce her to tennis balls and courts.

An idea for multi-tasking; tennis practice and child care

https://t.co/3NttVWtcBQ

 

[ollinger]

Paint all the walls in your house bright yellow to entrain her occipital cortex to be especially responsive to this color. Also, a recording of "crowd murmur noise" would be a good thing to have playing in your house so she becomes accstomed to it and isn't bothered by the incessant background noise in Ashe Stadium.

 

[Slicehand]

Introduce her to tennis balls and courts.

XDDD, nice vid

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

hi, i wanted to know how i should start my little girls tennis journey, and the proper steps in the first years, currently she is 7 months old, i already train with her doing shadow swings with a little spoon, to start with the muscle memory, we do this for 20 min, twice a day, i let her rest on sundays, i also move her feet with my hands training all the stances, and we do visualization drills where i close her eyes, and make the sound of hitting the ball with my mouth, so she can have an idea for the timming of the ball in a tennis court, that must make her ready for pre tennis at 3 years old, what would be the next steps after that? thanks!

It might already be too late. This training I should have started at 4-5 months old. But perhaps she still has a shot at a top D1 school.

 

[Slicehand]

Paint all the walls in your house bright yellow to entrain her occipital cortex to be especially responsive to this color. Also, a recording of "crowd murmur noise" would be a good thing to have playing in your house so she becomes accstomed to it and isn't bothered by the incessant background noise in Ashe Stadium.

Havent tought of that! I always play jazz and that relaxes her! So wrong by me, she should feel the presure when swinging, some great advice im getting here, when she wins us open 2040 ill share a bit of the price with everybody in this thread

 

[Slicehand]

It might already be too late. This training I should have started at 4-5 months old. But perhaps she still has a shot at a top D1 school.

I know, thats why we are working so hard, i have told her that we have to catch up and put more time into it, she made some kind of noise which i think was in agreement