With 37 Video Tutorials & Tips On The Player Development Process From an experienced ATP Coach With A Proven Track Record In Elite Player Development As He Shares his Knowledge Experience & Philosophies.
Explaining the direct relationship technique has to tactical options and the importance of understanding how your shot production can dictate or restrict certain tactical options and taking that into account when developing your game.
Identifying the less obvious more subtle areas that are often major strengths that should be improved or developed and could prove to be the most important ones of all in the future.
Covering the important topic of finding the right balance between winning now and developing your game for future success.
Emphasizing the need to take the time to plan and set out a development plan as a form of "GPS" route for your tennis development and the key areas that should be considered.
Explaining the landscape of how players rates of development are often different and encouraging players and parents to not compare themselves to others.
Explaining how to decide which tournaments are right for you and why as well as the thought process that should be behind those decisions.
Sharing a personal philosophy on the importance of having an individual approach to the player development process.
Discussing the process of effective and appropriate goal setting for competitive players. Providing an outline and advice on how to go about setting your goals.
Illustrating the importance of understanding what practice should be and how much you practice areas of your game to increase skill acquisition, build and further develop.
Outlining the important steps in delivering unemotional, positive and motivating post match analysis that eliminates confusion and promotes learning.
Discussing the need to train this area with insight and creative ideas on how you can improve & train your focus.
Discussing what's important why and how to guide players through a process to learn and develop their own winning in-between point routines.
Discussing the confidence conundrum and his personal philosophy on how confidence is built and developed including a key quote that Liam has always applied.
Sharing a personal philosophy and explaining why there is a need for everything that you do in training to have a specific purpose in order to make consistent progress.
Discussing how to view the feeling of pressure differently, why you should accept it and how to minimize its impact on your performance by adopting a different mindset.
Explaining the need for players to have an individual understanding of what's % and why sometimes the traditional % play rule book needs to be put aside!
Discussing the importance the off court training objective being to improve on court performance and the need for a high % of it to be tennis specific
Discussing the importance of mindset for best performance and illustrating the ingredients that make up that mindset sharing his personal philosophy of the optimal performance mindset pyramid.
Story telling approach illustrating the process and mindset needed to transition from one level to the next.
Why players need to be responsible and why coaches and parents need to hold them accountable in key areas like attitude, effort & commitment.
Discussing how to use Periodization in tennis and outlining his philosophy on "mini' periodization & how to apply it.
Explaining how and why shifting your mindset can lead to making great improvements in your defensive skills and level of play and why it's important.
Illustrating & explaining that there is less time than you may think & why its important to make every training day count.
Illustrating the need to create problem solving and implicit learning opportunities with subtle creative ways to solve problems and make improvements understanding that what you don't say is also very important.
A story telling approach to explaining the importance of educating yourself or your players on the "why" you need to do certain things in training that can increase buy in and effort as well as ways how to achieve it.
Discussing the marginal gains concept, what's important, where mistakes are made and where your focus really should be.
Discussing the need for personal development, life balance and why striving to be the best version of yourself is more important that winning.
Why and how to take a step back and handle talented players, avoid "over coaching" and allow them flexibility & time in which their talent can flourish.
Discussing how players teach coaches as much as coaches teach players.
Showing and Explaining 8 Tennis Specific Footwork & Movement Exercises In The Sand That Are Exceptional For Developing & Training Your Footwork & Movement Skills. That You Can Learn, Adapt and Incorporate into Your Own Training Program.
The value of having an open mind towards always learning and seeking ways to improve yourself, as well as a tribute to the people that he learnt from so far in his career.
Raising the question of what and how are you developing your game for the future as well as insight into how you should be thinking & training with a long term view.
In this on court video we showcase the progression of a series of exercises that can help improve a players early Forehand Return
Discussing the importance of understanding the characteristics of how the ball travels and what it is doing and why this is important.
Illustrating how zones can be used to teach and practice patterns as well as improve point construction skills
In this on court video we show how creating physical barriers and utilizing visual aides can facilitate skills development and lead to faster and more impactful improvement
Discussing and illustrating the importance of Incorporating Live Ball Training To Improve Ball Control