thomas daniels
Semi-Pro
If you do your research on the great coach Harry Hopman.
You will find that, he coached the Australian Davis Cup team for 20 years and developed all the top players over there and also worked with McEnroe and Gerulatis when they were young in the US.
I learned from Jim Corbertt in Missouri, who was taught by him.
So, that is how I was introduce to his coaching philosophy.
Which was teaching from the inside out, meaning that.
You find out what the player does naturally, then you build on and around it in practice and it works, because by coaching and learning this way.
The player can discover and develop their own authentic style of play very quickly.
This is all done through repetition too.
I'm going to go a little future here and say that... "Even though Hopman didn't say this directly, he knew that, the repetition determine the mechanics".
Why do I say that?
Because that is what I discovered while coaching all levels for 29 years in Kansai.
Didn't matter the age either.
Through adjusting after every rep, the mechanics would take shape on their own(this is the coaching part that many coaching aren't aware of too) and the player would develop their own authentic style of play eventually.
We can see the examples of this all around us too.
Look at all the different styles of play on TV and the mechanics that they are using during play.
That all came from learning from the inside-out.
I read in one interview that, coaches wanted Hopman to change John's form on his serve and he strokes when he first started coaching him, but he refused and they kept trying, but he knew that John would develop from the inside out under his coaching philosophy and that is exactly what happened.
And we know the rest is history.
Anyway.
My coaching point to you is this...
Don't try to make any big changes with your strokes or matchplay game.
Instead.
Be aware of, what you do naturally and build on and around it, through repetitions, and allow the mechanics to take place on their own, through making nonstop adustments after every rep, until you discover the stroke.
This is really the modern way to learn the game, it's also the fastest way to learn it.
You will find that, he coached the Australian Davis Cup team for 20 years and developed all the top players over there and also worked with McEnroe and Gerulatis when they were young in the US.
I learned from Jim Corbertt in Missouri, who was taught by him.
So, that is how I was introduce to his coaching philosophy.
Which was teaching from the inside out, meaning that.
You find out what the player does naturally, then you build on and around it in practice and it works, because by coaching and learning this way.
The player can discover and develop their own authentic style of play very quickly.
This is all done through repetition too.
I'm going to go a little future here and say that... "Even though Hopman didn't say this directly, he knew that, the repetition determine the mechanics".
Why do I say that?
Because that is what I discovered while coaching all levels for 29 years in Kansai.
Didn't matter the age either.
Through adjusting after every rep, the mechanics would take shape on their own(this is the coaching part that many coaching aren't aware of too) and the player would develop their own authentic style of play eventually.
We can see the examples of this all around us too.
Look at all the different styles of play on TV and the mechanics that they are using during play.
That all came from learning from the inside-out.
I read in one interview that, coaches wanted Hopman to change John's form on his serve and he strokes when he first started coaching him, but he refused and they kept trying, but he knew that John would develop from the inside out under his coaching philosophy and that is exactly what happened.
And we know the rest is history.
Anyway.
My coaching point to you is this...
Don't try to make any big changes with your strokes or matchplay game.
Instead.
Be aware of, what you do naturally and build on and around it, through repetitions, and allow the mechanics to take place on their own, through making nonstop adustments after every rep, until you discover the stroke.
This is really the modern way to learn the game, it's also the fastest way to learn it.
