3 Tips For Getting Great at Coaching Tennis.

You know something.

The question that many of you coaches need to ask yourself is this.

Why would any tennis coach just settle for being an average coach, when they could be great?

I mean.

If you are going to be coaching the game.

Why not get great at doing it?

Yet, with that being the case.

Daily, there are millions of coaches just on the court going through the motions.

This post is not for them, of course, it's for YOU!

Because I'm assuming that you are reading this post right now, and you are tired of being an average coach.

Lucky for you, my friend, because if you do these 3 things.

You will transform your coaching game in months.

Which are…

Coach with all-out passion all the time.

The first step in getting great at coaching is doing this on a daily basis.

You must do this all the time because this is how you create this magnetic energy field that will have students from every walk of life attracted to you and your coaching program.

If there is one thing that is missing from our coaching game today, it is coaches coaching with pure passion on the court.

Wouldn't you agree?

What many coaches don't realize is that.

You become, who you pretend to be, every time you go through the motion of coaching with all about passion, you become more passionate about coaching the game.

This is really the secret to getting great as a tennis coach.

No, this is not faking it to you make it either… it's acting the part while becoming it at the same time.

Study great coaches from all sports.

Never limit yourself by studying only coaches in your same field.

Go outside it and immerse yourself in learning all that you can from these great coaches from the present and the past.

Key coaching point.

Focus on learning from their mistakes and their winning concepts.

Internalize their coaching concepts, systems, and philosophies into your own swipe file and review and add to it as often as you can.

By the way.

This is a crucial phase in getting great as a coach because if you don't do this one, you won't be able to do the last one, which is…

Creating your own coaching philosophy and mission statement.

With this one.

You are creating your own coaching philosophy for coaching the game based on your research from great coaches, and then writing down your mission statement for coaching.

This phase in your growth as a coach should take time, meditating, and processing what you are learning, too.

You should adopt, tweak, and adapt what you learn from them and create your own authentic coaching philosophy, and then keep reviewing and revising it on a monthly basis.

Why?

Because your coaching philosophy should be consistently evolving as you learn more.

Which is a good thing.

As you learn more and understand more.

Your coaching game with change as well, and this is why you must stay in learning mode and adjust your coaching philosophy based on the feedback that you are getting.

The mission statement is a projection of the coach that you are becoming.

It should state your coaching intention, and it should be signed by YOU and posted up where you can see it every day.

Check out mine, to help you get started.

I am committed to growing the game of tennis by helping clubs grow their memberships and showing coaches how to start their own successful private tennis coaching businesses and helping competitive tennis players learn how to master playing the mental game. Etc

That's just a sample of my coaching mission statement.

I review and update mine monthly.

And you should do the same thing with yours.

Get someone to hold you accountable, too.

Okay, coaches.

Those are 3 tips you can use right now and turn your tennis coaching career around in months.

I was thinking before I wrote this post.

Just imagine if we could get every tennis coach out there on board with getting great at what they are doing.

Can you see how we can grow and transform our coaching game in the next 2 years?

Please help me reach my mission statement by taking on this challenge and getting great at coaching!

You can learn how to start a Driveway Tennis Program by clicking here.

Or you can get the book here.

Thomas Daniels is an MTM/PTR tennis pro coach with more than 29 years of experience teaching all ages and levels of the game in Kansai. He is now a tennis writer and online tennis consultant based in Osaka.

To hire him for seminars, workshops, or clinics, email [email protected] or call 0798-51-4481.