Joe Dinoffer: The final section of this video is all about fun and how to ensure that your students will come back for more. First, let's recognize that for children and adults alike, their tennis experience must closely resemble play and not work. It must be fun not tedious, interesting, not boring or repetitive. To meet this goal, I suggest integrating fun and loosely structured games at the beginning of each class is a warm-up.
In the middle to energize the group and also at the end of the session, so that they go home with a smile. Here is an example, with five participants, for larger groups, just have them divide themselves into smaller subgroups. In other words you can have a larger group broken down into groups of five and many of them can be playing the same exact drill at the same time on a single court.
Now let's have you guys if we could, centered these five racquets with the handle pointing out within a circle. With the balls on them. Circle it out, this is kind of little bigger than me, so let's put one here, good and a little back up, back up, back up, back here good, good here beautiful.
Now when you have little kids I have to tell you, they are just playing with whistle. If they are doing little jogging games, little pair games. Anything to create at their interest, not just seeing, not just feeling but hearing. Okay, where we go, you guys ready?
We are going to do, a little magic on this one. Now, the game here is called give a ball. Alright, and the rules are very simple, your goal is to give a ball to a neighbor, you can't give a ball to the same neighbor two times in a row, you have to rotate. When your racquet has no balls on it and you have given all your tennis balls away, you are the winner. So what does this teach children? Generosity, parents will love this, very important life skill. Now, if your ball drops off when you go to give it to somebody, people like to take it up and put it on their racquet, if you don't, the game stops and you got to start again.
Now, any drill that you want to start, if you want to cancel that for a fun you guys understand the rule, right?
Female: You give it to any one?
Joe Dinoffer: You give to any one, but not to the same person twice in a row. The way to starting is, we'll make something funner like rule say that the magic word is strawberry. So when I say strawberry instead of blowing a whistle. Now, we have different types of whistles but you also can hear that to begin with words, ready? Banana, Apple, Apple, Strawberry, and stop.
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