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    8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis
    8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis
    8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis
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    8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis

    By David Wesley Archer

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    of "8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis" David Archer's heart for junior tennis is clearly seen in his passion for teaching incredible basics to junior tennis players from ages two years and up. Although working with High Performance youth and adults for years, his main teaching systems have finally blossomed in the form of this book titled "8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis". From the "tennis love story" in the introduction through chapter 1, to the more detailed chapters that outline the "7 steps for Pro's every class" and "A typical day for beginners" and "A typical day for beginner/ intermediates, ending with the final chapter "Our First Fifty Drills in Progression," David's "awestruck in love" approach is certainly evident, and he has clearly hit the nail on the head when it comes to teaching the very needed basics of tennis to youth in an encouraging and always uplifting manner. This book is a must-read for all tennis directors, tennis professionals and tennis parents who are venturing into the unchartered oceans of junior tennis.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristian Faith Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateDec 4, 2019
    ISBN9781645696216
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      8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis - David Wesley Archer

      Chapter One

      Plant the Love of Tennis in Their Hearts

      The awestruck lover will outwork the dedicated worker always.

      —Mike Bickle

      I’ve heard it said that if you want to keep someone interested in an activity, you should always stop the activity at its most exciting point. This holds true for all recreational activities and especially for tennis. A major problem with junior-tennis teaching in the United States today is that we don’t adhere to that principle. We rarely teach things that are over-the-top exciting, and even when we do, we don’t break the activity off at its most exciting point—we drive the activity until the excitement dies! We don’t even teach what is exciting; we teach what is boring. Kids absolutely love to hit and hit a ball back and forth over a net, but they get bored very quickly with technical instruction. Why then is 70% of our teaching to ultra-beginners technical? They do not need perfect technique to fall in love with the sport of tennis! One of my favorite self-quotes is Kids don’t want to go to school after they’ve gone to school. This was a quote I came up with about our afterschool tennis program when our coaches were getting too technical.

      In the fall of 2016, I was hired to promote and build a school’s program for a very prominent tennis club in the Houston, Texas, area. As I arrived and got plugged in, I noticed that the Youth Tennis Program, Red, Orange, and Green, had been lacking in their ability to produce a Red Ball, Orange Ball, Green Ball River. The Tennis River, being a cohesive system that has the students all progressing toward the goal of High Performance with quality benchmarks along the way that interlock with each other as they progress, kind of like kindergarten through twelfth grade all go together. They had an absolutely amazing academy model of students who obviously already knew how to play but had struggled to create this river of advancement from the Red Ball group all the way to High Performance. We call this the upside down pyramid model where the program is much bigger at the top than the bottom. As I took to building, using the 8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis model, our programs exploded. When we launched our first session (four weeks in length) at the schools (on their campus), we had a staggering sixty-eight kids participating at five different campuses, paying $25 per hour once a week. All these programs were done in the school’s gyms and all were Red Ball classes with smaller courts and smaller nets. At the same time, the director of Red Tennis at the same club, who happened to be on numerous national advisory committees for 10-and-under tennis for prominent tennis industry manufacturers and prominent pro educational boards, was really struggling to build at the Red level. The reason? This pro had every kind of knowledge to succeed. This pro had been to numerous USTA 10-and-under conferences. This pro had even run a few USTA 10-and-under conferences. This pro had been chosen to speak at national level USTA and USPTA events about ten-and-under tennis. This pro had been certified at the highest level of 10-and-under tennis across the nation but still did not understand this one simple principle: The kids do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. The pro in question was way too technical, and the students no longer wanted to come to class. They did not want to go to school after they had gone to school. All our programs explode because we treat all our students like future pros no matter how much promise they hold. We pride ourselves on the fact that all our kids go to Mommy and Daddy and say, Please let me go to tennis class today, I absolutely love it. To make a long story not so long, the director of Red was moved to academy, and I was named the director of Red Tennis at the club. Then through our 8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis model, we were able to explode the numbers in the Red Program at the club. We nearly doubled the numbers in the first month. When I left the club, it was well on its way to having a cohesive Red Program filled with eager learners, and we were able to raise up and train someone to take over for me both in the school’s program and the Red

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