Coaches Education

When I finished TK4 in 2006 - the last of the tennis coaches education in Sweden - I was unsatisfied. I liked the courses of course, but I felt like I needed MORE! - great news on the way!
The Swedish Tennis Federation has decided, about a year and a half ago, to radically change the direction of the Coaches Education program.
Henrik Ekersund, the Educational officer at the Tennis Federation has done a great job benchmarking the current educational system with the leading tennis nations; further, networking with Falun University and Linne University in Växjö in order to bring the coaches education to an academic level. The education will kick start this fall and I am most exited about it.
The correlation between an academic coaches education and the quality of players a country produces are positively correlated. Check out the Tennis Europe's study about the differences between European countries when it comes to education. Is it just chance that Spain and France - among others - are better tennis countries than we at the moment?

Comparision chart of the Coaches' Education systems in Europe - 2011

Rösta på tennisbragder

Taken from the Swedish Tennis Federation's site: Tre radioreferat med tennisanknytning finns på radiosportens top 50-lista. Radiosporten firar femtio och har valt ut 50 referat från historien. Gå in och rösta på något av de tre referat som handlar om tennis. Våra tre världsettor har helt rätt nominerats bland klassikerna. Sista chansen denna fredag. Nr 15 Borg vinner Wimbledon 1980 Nr 18 Wilander vinner Paris 1982 Nr 24 Edberg vinner Wimbledon 88 Gå in och lyssna här - och rösta!

US Open quotes..

some quotes that caught my eye during this final: Facebook - ---Nadal, I'm not with you, but in attitude you are n 1. What a fighter! - ---What the heck is going on in this final!? - ---Is just to lay back and enjoy. - ---R we watching tennis or boxing? just slapping forehand and backhand, who is going to give up first..? - ---( Mats Wilander) Once again....if you are not watching the tennis...turn it on....immediately! Twitter: ----Djokovic, please win the tiebreak, I wanna go to bed ----Anyone else having trouble breathing? ---- this is one of the sickest US Opens matches Ever.. this crowd is batship awesome!! ---- wow I haven't seen a move like that since Nintendo's Racket Attack! Favorite part of the match: Nadal -during the 3th set tie break- running over to switch sides. Could not have send a clearer signal! Fav think I overheard Nadal (in Spanish) "bring it up man, I am here just to keep fighting"

Warming up for the final!

a behind the scenes of SUPER SATURDAY @ US Open 2011 and the question is: Will Nadal be able to reclaim the title from the the indestructible Nole?

Twitter, Nick, and I

Twitter is awesome! Sure it is changing our language with all the # and the @ , but, still a great tool in it. Concise, to the point and not "pretend perfect" like Facebook posts tend to be. I like it most during the important tournaments!! Today's tweet that reflected my point of view the most came from the legendary Nick Bolletieri: "The loss has to be one of, if not the, most devastating losses in Federer's career." I guess we will only find out in year's to come when Fed writes his tell all book!

History repeats itself...

Djokovic proved himself tonight as a Champion. McEnroe believes that turning the match point match against Fed @ the US Open last year gave Nole the mental advantage to start the year strong. Turning it around this year again was just Tennis at it's best! A great match to watch indeed! I had 3 news sources - simultaneously- and a chat open, all of them had given up on Nole and even criticized him for the way he was handling the crowd. But when we all called the match over, Nole used that champion's psych and made what only a few can!

Rain Rain go away...

.. we wanna watch Fed take it away!! Everyone is looking forward to the 1st semi today. Experts, coaches, commentators, and the public in general are leaning towards Fed.. but not just necessarily because they wanna see him win, but mainly because we all want an epic match!

"I wanna be the best tennis player in the world"

thanks to Ulrika for this link. Read this DN article about: *Lancelot Carnello, tio år och en av världens bästa tennisspelare i sin åldersgrupp, är sist ut i DN Söndags serie om tidstypiska barndomssomrar. Hans barndom utspelas i ett årtionde som fokuserar på leverans. Föräldrarna har gjort det till sin livsuppgift att hjälpa honom att prestera. To the Article

Play and Stay 2

why is it better to work in the movement rather than the technique at early stages? by creating athletes rather than "pure tennis players" we work for the long run by making sure the kids have a movement memory that will help them learn the required technique easier, the kids will be able to solve situations abased on experience, avoid injuries in later years, and maybe even one day develop technique further. A great athlete is Monfils:

0901 CRISPY - Monfils shot

US Open Highlights

Federer, Djokovic through in New York

A Champion's mindset

Took this from a news site:

Nadal hoping for sunny conditions against Federer
Posted on Friday Jun 3rd at 7:00pm

If it rains during the Roland Garros men’s final, Rafael Nadal says it could favor his opponent, Roger Federer. The current forecast is for a 70 percent chance of light rain on Sunday.

"For me, I prefer the sunshine always, and higher bounces," said Nadal, who owns a 11-2 record against Federer on clay, but did fall to him in wet conditions in the 2007 Hamburg final, which ended his 81-match winning streak on dirt. "So for my game is better if the ball is fast and if the bounces are higher. If the rain is there and the day is cloudy, sometimes the ball stays lower. So that's a little bit an advantage for him.
But seriously, I don't have the power to control the weather, so if rain, I gonna think that is an advantage for me; if sunshine, gonna think is advantage for me. I have to think positive all the time because I cannot control that."