Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
WHAT!?
Saturday, May 1, 2010
2 different worlds
Finally, our Flickr site is sync with the www, the blog, facebook and twitter pages :D
do check the pics and feel free to mail me any you would like to have there :)
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2 weeks ago I coached a training camp in Övik with players from 6 clubs. A week after I received a very upset email from a player's dad and another one from his coach. None were the least positive to my hard and "unreasonable" rules.. because tennis should be fun and "kids should be kids." What were the rules that drove the coach and the dad over the edge?
NO CANDY, CHIPS or SODA during the camp.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry while reading the mail.
The no candy rule was the reason the parent was forced to drive 100km to pick up his kid from the training camp and drive him home on that saturday.
Funny enough, while I was coaching the SALK Open team 2 years ago, I shared the floor with 3 teenagers from the same city, around 16-17 years old, who had nothing but burgers, pizza, sodas, candy and chips during the whole competition, and the 3 days before their next tournament. guess again if they made a good job in any of those tournaments!
Meanwhile, 150 km away we have players as young as 6 years old that freely enforce this rules on themselves already 4 days before their Musse Pigg competitions...
do check the pics and feel free to mail me any you would like to have there :)
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2 weeks ago I coached a training camp in Övik with players from 6 clubs. A week after I received a very upset email from a player's dad and another one from his coach. None were the least positive to my hard and "unreasonable" rules.. because tennis should be fun and "kids should be kids." What were the rules that drove the coach and the dad over the edge?
NO CANDY, CHIPS or SODA during the camp.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry while reading the mail.
The no candy rule was the reason the parent was forced to drive 100km to pick up his kid from the training camp and drive him home on that saturday.
Funny enough, while I was coaching the SALK Open team 2 years ago, I shared the floor with 3 teenagers from the same city, around 16-17 years old, who had nothing but burgers, pizza, sodas, candy and chips during the whole competition, and the 3 days before their next tournament. guess again if they made a good job in any of those tournaments!
Meanwhile, 150 km away we have players as young as 6 years old that freely enforce this rules on themselves already 4 days before their Musse Pigg competitions...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
SvTF following the trend..
and Svensk Tennis has now a Facebook page.. finally!
I think it took just a little too long before they had once considering that it is a great tool to get all the kids out there to easily see what is going on, not to mention spread the word about out great Sport.
"times of change are coming" say the song, and certainly the same applies to the ATA.
3 new deals that are at the moment 99% from happening.. by Monday next week, I should know about all 3.
It is exiting times as the end of the spring approaches and the summer with the unlimited clay court times approach.
Anyhow, I know I am teasing, so to make things a little better I offer one of my favorite tennis pictures to all of you:
I think it took just a little too long before they had once considering that it is a great tool to get all the kids out there to easily see what is going on, not to mention spread the word about out great Sport.
"times of change are coming" say the song, and certainly the same applies to the ATA.
3 new deals that are at the moment 99% from happening.. by Monday next week, I should know about all 3.
It is exiting times as the end of the spring approaches and the summer with the unlimited clay court times approach.
Anyhow, I know I am teasing, so to make things a little better I offer one of my favorite tennis pictures to all of you:
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Spring break
While in the US Spring Break meant drive down to Florida for tennis and party, here it means mostly winter sports all over. In an effort to promote tennis during this week we offered a very flexible schedule... but it did not work so well for the smaller kids. We had way too few who bit the bate. However Tech Camp 1, which focused in technique analysis was a success. We had over 21 players from 4 clubs and since we did a lot of filming, we ended up having 3 camps!
Now the never ending job of editing the clips is to start... at a 1:6 film/editing time ratio, it'll be a couple of loooong days b4 I am done, but but with Next Generation last week, and "ATA goes up North" this weekend no time to sit around and chill. Next, match training in Piteå, Luleå and Skellefteå :)
Now the never ending job of editing the clips is to start... at a 1:6 film/editing time ratio, it'll be a couple of loooong days b4 I am done, but but with Next Generation last week, and "ATA goes up North" this weekend no time to sit around and chill. Next, match training in Piteå, Luleå and Skellefteå :)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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