Coaching Youth Tennis

by American Sport Education Program

• ISBN13: 9780736037938
• ISBN10: 0736037934
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Human Kinetics

Summary

This new edition of >Coaching Youth Tennis> is part of the improved generation of the American Sport Education Program's (ASEP) Coaching Youth Sports series. This widely respected and highly popular series is the best collection of youth sport-specific guides, which are grounded in positive coaching principles.ASEP, the nation's number one coaching education program, developed >Coaching Youth Tennis> to provide coaches with both an explanation of their role and concrete instructions on fulfilling that role. You will find chapters on communicating with your athletes and their parents, teaching and developing tennis skills, planning and conducting practices, and coaching during games.This third edition includes a special chapter on the games approach to coaching tennis, which makes practice more fun for the kids and teaching more effective for you, the coach.

Table of Contents

Welcome to Coaching!	vii
Key to Diagrams	viii
Stepping Into Coaching	1	(8)
How to meet your responsibilities as a coach, how to coach when your child is on your team, and how to apply the five tools of an effective coach
Communicating As a Coach	9	(8)
How to send effective verbal and nonverbal messages to communicate better with players, parents, fans, officials, and opposing coaches
Providing for Players' Safety	17	(16)
How to provide for safety and respond to players' injuries when they do occur
The Games Approach to Coaching Tennis	33	(6)
How to use the most effective method for teaching tactics and skills
Teaching and Shaping Skills	39	(12)
Learn the four steps of teaching skills effectively and how to shape skills, correct errors, and deal with misbehavior
Match-Day Coaching	51	(12)
How to prepare for the match, coach during the match, and keep winning and losing in perspective
Tennis Rules and Equipment	63	(12)
Understand equipment, court size and markings, game procedures, and scoring rules, as well as the ``unwritten'' rules of tennis
Tennis Skills	75	(28)
Know the basic tennis skills to teach to your players
USA Team Tennis	103	(12)
Learn how USA Team Tennis is organized, how to make practices fun and build team spirit, and how to use the games approach with a game format called Rallyball
Season Plans and Games for Players 6 to 12	115
Organize your practices throughout the season, with sample plans for players 6 to 12 (USA Team Tennis Red division) and with descriptions of each of the games listed in the plans