Training days & time
Days |
Monday-Friday |
Time |
4:00-6:30pm |
REGISTER AND PAY FOR CLASS:
- This is a payment for a monthly enrollment.
- Train a total of five (5) days per week, 2.5 hours/day on court.
- Depending on levels, players should be competing in a minimum of two USTA sanctioned tournaments.
- Note: There is no prorate, refund, or make-up due to inclement weather cancellations, missed days, or other events.
Drop-in rate: $35/day
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Overview
This program is designed for juniors ages 10 & under. A vital process in any sport, but especially in one as repetitious as tennis, accelerated training allows repeated practice to change the central nervous system and allow new motor skills to be formed, making athletic ventures much easier to perform. At its core science, it is motor learning and acquisition!
From simple motions like the calibration of reflexes to more advanced athletic feats, proper acquisition of learned motor skills is a must. A complex process, motor learning is important to understand for anyone in a coaching position, as it affects every aspect of almost any sport. Thus, a combination of blocked-training and interleaved-training (random) theories are employed.
From simple motions like the calibration of reflexes to more advanced athletic feats, proper acquisition of learned motor skills is a must. A complex process, motor learning is important to understand for anyone in a coaching position, as it affects every aspect of almost any sport. Thus, a combination of blocked-training and interleaved-training (random) theories are employed.
RAPID SKILLS ACQUISITION
Motor learning is a bit of a misnomer, since much of the process is less cognitive and has much more to do with "muscle memory," also known as central nervous system (CNS) programming. As the body repeats movements, these skills are strengthened and happen without any thinking, and these movements are the key to optimum performance in any competitive sport.
Motor learning begins in childhood, from the first time we roll onto our sides to our first successful bike ride. As we get older, these skills emerge in new ways to help our bodies learn more specialized movements, that become more useful in sports and training exercises.
Motor learning begins in childhood, from the first time we roll onto our sides to our first successful bike ride. As we get older, these skills emerge in new ways to help our bodies learn more specialized movements, that become more useful in sports and training exercises.
BLOCKED-TRAINING & INTERLEAVED TRAINING
While many researches prove that interleaved-training has better retention in the long term, blocked-training has a higher rate of skills acquisition in the beginning. Our training method then is to accelerate the acquiring of skills for most 10U juniors starting with blocked-training, while considering interleaved-training as complementary, rather than competing, when those juniors show proper performance of basic techniques.
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FITT-B Training model
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Frequency
Following any form of fitness and skill acquisitions training, the body goes through a process of rebuild and repair to replenish its energy--physical and mental--reserves consumed by the exercise. The frequency of training is a fine balance between providing just enough stress for the body and mind to adapt to and allowing enough time for healing and adaptation to occur...
Intensity
The second rule in the FITT principle relates to intensity. It defines the amount of effort that should be invested in a training program or any one session. Like the first FITT principle - frequency - there must be a balance between finding enough intensity to overload the body (so it can adapt) but not so much that it causes over-training and unnecessary injury.
Type
The third component in the FITT principle dictates what type or kind of exercises/drills you should choose to achieve the appropriate training response. In our case of tennis skills acquisition, the types of drills/exercises depends on the student's maturity level--mental/emotional, physical, and technical.
TIme
The fourth component in the FITT principle dictates the time--length of the physical activity or training. As with the other aspects of the FITT principle, time varies depending on the physical fitness and mental component targeted. How much time is needed varies among students' progression.
Balance
The Balance Principle dictates that all training must be properly proportioned in order to achieve optimal results. This broad principle operates at many levels of human performance. All things in moderation applies to sports training as well as general health and well being.
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TALENT IS OVERRATED
Great performance is more valuable than ever— but where does it really come from?
Geoff Colvin - from "Talent is Overrated"
"There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it!"
-- Roger Federer
-- Roger Federer
DEEP & DELIBERATE PRACTICe
It's highly demanding mentally, and not necessarily particularly enjoyable.
-- Anders Ericsson
DEEP PRACTICe
This error-focused element of deep practice makes it a struggle, a process of stretching which is likely to be slightly dissatisfying or frustrating but which leads to growth.
--Daniel Coyle