Building a Tennis Champion

Author: Nathan and Giselle Martin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781494397463
Category : Tennis
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Building a Tennis Champion: 30 Things Every Tennis Player, Coach and Parent Must Know If you're a young tennis player, tennis coach or tennis parent, this book is a must read. "Building a Tennis Champion" covers a diverse range of questions regarding young tennis players. If you have ever asked yourself any of the following questions, then this book should be in your hands ASAP. - How often should a young tennis player practice, train and play? - What off court training should a young tennis player do to improve their game? - What to eat, before, during and after training/matches? - How to keep a young player motivated and focused. - Secrets for developing a tennis champion from the Professionals.

Raising Your Child to Be a Champion in Athletics, Arts, and Academics

Author: Wayne Bryan
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806526607
Category : Child athletes
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
As father, coach and mentor, Wayne Bryan helped his twin sons become the world's #1 tennis doubles team. His winning philosophy has always been simple: focus on playing before learning, motivate early and often, and most of all, have fun. Now Bryan has distilled his proven formula for success into a unique book that shows parents how to help their kids become champions in athletics, the arts, academia - and just about anything else they chose to undertake. Concise and accessible, this guide is packed with Bryan's trademark energy and common sense tips designed to inspire success.

Coaching Your Tennis Champion

Author: David Minihan
Publisher: Mansion
ISBN: 1932421157
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Get a head start in developing young players with "Coaching Your Tennis Champion". QuickStart Tennis, the play format now used by the United States Tennis Association for junior tennis players, is explained with easy-to-follow instructions, tennis court diagrams, and photographs. Make the most of valuable court time with innovative tennis lesson plans created by a respected tennis instructor. Exclusive day-by-day progressive lesson plans covering 70+ games and tennis drills. The lessons are customised and grouped for players ages 5-7 and ages 8-10. Use a lesson as is, or easily adjust it for your players' needs. All activities are labelled with approximate completion times to help you budget tennis teaching sessions. Lesson games and drills focus on motor skills, strokes, game rules, and point play. Plus! 30 additional games and drills to enliven your lessons and keep your students coming back. Big time-saver for teaching professionals. Fun know-how for volunteer coaches and parents.

Champion Minded

Author: Allistair McCaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692791547
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
In Champion Minded, Allistair will help you develop the winning standards in both sports and life by teaching you the mindset, habits and discipline of a champion. With over 125 lessons and inspirational anecdotes, Champion Minded will not only improve your mental and game preparation, but motivate you to achieve excellence in your life too.

Building a Champion

Author: Dan McCain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781463753573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
The game of tennis is deceptively simple and yet infinitely complex. Author of "The I Formation: A Journal for Tennis, Goals & Life", Coach McCain describes both to the layman and the expert the intricacies of playing and coaching. In every stroke, certain things must happen for it to be a technically sound shot - things that all the pros have in common. These main ingredients are offered in easy to understand terminology with photos to help the reader visualize. The psychology of the game and the science of success across a range of fields is examined as Coach McCain puts a microscope on how players become great. As a former manager of player development for the USTA, a coach on the ATP and WTA pro tours, a Division 1 college coach, a Director of a high performance tennis academy, and having worked with dozens of other USTA and ATP Tour coaches over the years, his students have gone on to play in the grand slams. They have also received top college scholarships and achieved the highest national and international rankings. A lifetime of knowledge is offered here to the reader in this book.

Game, Set, Match, Champion Arthur Ashe

Author: Crystal Hubbard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484495407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
A biography of African American tennis champion Arthur Ashe, a pioneering minority athlete known for his character, sportsmanship, and activism in social causes such as civil rights and HIV/AIDS awareness. Includes an afterword, author's note, and ph

The Story of Tennis Champion Arthur Ashe

Author: Crystal Hubbard
Publisher: Story of
ISBN: 9781620147894
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"An illustrated middle-grade biography of tennis player Arthur Ashe, the first African American man to win a Grand Slam tournament. Includes sidebars on related topics, timeline, glossary, and recommended reading"--

Raising Big Smiling Tennis Kids

Author: Keith Kattan
Publisher: Mansion
ISBN: 1932421114
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Millions of children are getting into tennis, all over the world. Tennis offers children unparalleled opportunities -- world travel, money for college, great career choices. Plus: friendships, character and a lifetime of good health. But young players sometimes suffer burnout, injury, poor coaching, money and family problems. This book shows how you can raise a tennis kid successfully, while avoiding the pitfalls. When to focus on tennis; Pick the right tournaments; Junior rankings secrets; Simple steps to top tennis fitness; Earn scholarships; Attract agents; Pursue Professional tennis; Have fun at the best camps and resorts. Whether you are a coach, a tennis playing parent or a parent curious about tennis, this book will empower you to raise kids who swing the tennis racket with as much aplomb as their happy smiles.

Tennis--One Shot at a Time

Author: Ron Mescall
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595323332
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
TENNIS--One Shot at a Time offers lots of ideas and tips for the recreational tennis player. It is based on the simple idea that tennis should, most of all, be a fun activity, as well as providing challenge and competition. It covers topics like How to keep things simple in tennis How to focus and enhance your consistency Winning for fun, but never at all cost Finding people you enjoy playing and competing with Making tennis a fun game for kids, and how to be a tennis parent Tips for doubles and mixed doubles Full of humorous comments and drawings, there are also many practical tips on how to play a tie-breaker, how to set up a recreational tournament, how to select a racket and string, what to do about tennis elbow, and many more. "There is no more glory in winning your match from your regular tennis buddy than the satisfaction that, today, what you tried to do, worked. The fun was in trying to win, not to defeat your friend. If you go out on the court with the desire to do your best, your share of wins will happen. Best of all, you give yourself and your opponent a good time." Ron Mescall won Junior Titles while growing up in Indiana, and was a Big Ten Champion for Michigan State University. He has been a tennis coach and teacher for 40 years.

Creating the Ultimate Tennis Player

Author: Joseph Correa (Professional Athlete and Coach)
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515356417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Creating the Ultimate Tennis Player To reach your true potential you need to be at your optimal physical and mental condition and in order to do this you need to start an organized plan that will help you develop your strength, mobility, nutrition, and mental toughness. This book will do that. Eating right and training hard are two of the pieces of the puzzle but you need the third piece to make it all happen. The third piece is mental toughness and that can be obtained through meditation and visualization techniques taught in this book. This book will provide you with the following: -Normal and advanced training calendars -Dynamic warm-up exercises -High performance training exercises -Active recovery exercises -Nutrition calendar to increase muscle -Nutrition calendar to burn fat -Muscle building recipes -Fat burning recipes -Advanced breathing techniques to enhance performance -Meditation techniques -Visualization techniques -Visualization sessions to improve performance Physical conditioning and strength training, smart nutrition, and advanced meditation/visualization techniques are the three keys to achieve optimal performance. Most athletes are missing one or two of these fundamental ingredients but by making the decision to change you will have the potential to achieve a new "ULTIMATE" you. Athletes who begin this training plan will see the following: -Increased muscle growth -Reduced stress levels -Enhanced strength, mobility, and reaction -Better capacity to focus for long periods of time -Become faster and more enduring -Lower muscle fatigue -Faster recovery times after competing or training -Increased flexibility -Overcome nervousness better -Better control over you breathing -Control over your emotions under pressure Make the choice. Make the change. Make a new "ULTIMATE" you.