Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “coaching”
I hadn’t realised that Roger has a similar setup to the rest of the top 4. A consistent coach you may or may not hear about all the time and a headline grabbing coach. Rafa has Tony and Carlos Moya, French open champion Novak has Marian Vajda and now Becker Wimbledon champion Andy has ? and Lendl, Everything but wimbledon. …
A fascinating read. I had absolutely no idea who Mr Bahrami was before I read the book. I knew he was a famous face on the circuit but I didn’t even know he was Iranian or what tournaments he won or the style he played. Now I’ve read the book I still can’t tell you much about the style he …
I’m starting a series of posts looking at the impact of coaching. Who better to start with than the current number one player and his coach. Rafael and Toni Nadal. As a long term coaching partnership it seems a good place to start asking the question. What does a coach add? Would Rafa have had as much success without Toni? …
In the article Legacy of son’s success motivation for Judy Murray Judy points out that despite her sons incredible success Scotland has yet to take advantage of the major opportunity this presents. Building the sport in Scotland and improving the nations health and life opportunities as a result. She says: I want to help inspire another generation of kids, I want …
That is a a big claim. Serving is often the toughest part of the game of Tennis. Here is one very simple tip that has turned my serve from a liability into a weapon. It’s so easy it doesn’t seem like anything and in reality it works for just about any problem. In a nutshell it is about focusing on …
Following on from Pickleball yesterday, today I discovered Touch Tennis when I came across @touchtennis on twitter. The idea is the same. I reduced size version of tennis the whole family can play and it began in Rashid Ahmad’s backgarden playing his 5 year old daughter. This sounds like a more practical short tennis idea because the rules demand fewer changes from the …
Just a short post inspired by reading notes from an upcoming e-assessment faculty meeting. A question came up about offline learning and ereaders in particular. How far can we go with them. A very informed answer was given by Niall Sclater taking reference from his existing article making ebooks more interactive: logistics and ethics. Niall is a key influence in …
My view is that learning is innate and the changing world can improve education. What this means for competition is exciting. I see ways to vastly improve the process of understanding your opponent even before you have met them. Moving competition to a whole new realm. I’ll introduce my ideas for an ideal education experience later. Here I just wanted …
The evolution of learning is a fascinating topic. Learning is my strength because I was brought up to think that learning is innate and every challenge is surmountable. In fact learning is never really changing, only the tools and processes we use to learn will change. The education industry has been struggling to figure out how these new tools can …
Listen To Sports Internet Radio Stations with UR10s on BlogTalkRadio I’m listening to the above UR10s episode of parenting aces on blogtalkradio. I’ve been looking for quality tennis podcasts and I’m hoping this one is a keeper. Listening to the father of the Bryan twins is just fantastic. He’s sharing with me his philosophy on inspiring and supporting his kids to whatever …
There is so much information out there to tell you how to play any shot but so little to tell you when and where to play it and why. Ian Westerman at Essential Tennis has designed a free singles strategy series to help you answer these questions. The point is to reach a new level with your game by letting go of …
The common notion is that you either get an education or you become a professional athlete and tennis is no different. This means many parents and children have to make the tough choice between tennis or education. The funny thing is that I do not really see the problem. For me tennis IS an education. Few others see it that way …
My question in this post is, how do you practice and what goals do you set? Most people I meet focus on technique, some on strategy but all isolate a specific part of their game and work on it. Is that the best way to improve? I feel it depends on what you want to achieve. If you just want …
You know. I never really thought about it that much. I first came across this notion during my A levels studying education as part of sociology. Since, at the time, women and girls had had such a long time being the second class citizens of education and work it didn’t really bother me. I did notice that in all the …
Lifelong learning is a topic close to my heart. I’m very frustrated that mainstream education is only provided for the young rather than for every age. That was appropriate in the last century. Not this. It supports a culture where if you don’t take your opportunities when you’re young then you miss out. So I’m interested in the discussion I …
A fascinating book that sheds new light on how neural connections form I’ve just finished reading ‘The Talent Code ‘ by Daniel Coyle and already I feel it’s one of those books I will refer to again and again. It’s a well researched book describing daniels theory of how talent is best progressed. He uses research from state of the art …
Following on from a previous article on 21st century learning I feel we’re moving to an area where learning on demand will be as normal as Video on demand (VOD). I see the emergence of 24-7 tutorials and motuto as early attempts at this. I can’t vouch for the quality and economic viability yet but I do see that the learning market is biased towards young …
So I had a vision over Christmas of the kind of learning and teaching I’ve always wanted. As I wrote it down I became more and more convinced that this is possible right now. It also pulls together my passion for understanding human excellence with my experience in taking ideas to deliverables. It’s still very much a work in progress but I’m …
I’ve been talking for a while how everything we see other people achieving we could actually achieve ourselves. We just need to learn to bring it out of us. A couple of weeks ago I ate at a restaurant and the waitress showed exactly what I’m talking about. There were four of us and we had a lot to order. …
I’m excited to have just discovered Neural Darwinism through an interview with Gerald Edelman on all in the mind. The idea that our brain constantly adapts to our environment using the same evolutionary principles described by Darwin is what I’ve been coming to believe. It’s clear that we create and remove connections every day during sleep and that our brains are constantly evolving from the …