Joe Dinoffer: Now let's look at another situation from a live workshop. In this example we will be working with a challenging number, nine players simultaneously on a half court. Let's see how we can start things off in this particular situation.
Now you are partners, learn the names one another. What's your partner's name?
Speaker: Sam.
Joe Dinoffer: Come on and shake hands learning for his name quickly. Here we go, alright now back up ready. So now, what about tennis, if you won't become the player or the kids or beginning adults, little bit adequate, basic live skills especially with children, important things, a lot of kids, you try to shake hands, they don't know what that is yet, very important.
You just saw one way to help make group lessons more meaningful for participants of all ages, mainly helping them make friends among the other players in the group and specifically for children, this concept will help them develop better manners. Parents will love you for that one as well. Now let's see how we move into the skills. You will notice that I use the ninth player as the coach's assistant to make sure the feeders keep score. We will rotate all players through that position.
Now, what you are going to do are, you are going to run in and you toss the balls with batches and I catch the ball with my strings, I give it back to you. You go back to the alley, that's one. Go, that's two. Now if I drop it, it doesn't counts okay, and our goal is to score five total, okay. What skills are we working on for a beginner? Forwards movement, tracking, contact point, coordination with the non bottom in hand, teamwork, cooperation, movement, balance. Now that's for starters, ready. On the whistle, your job sir, your job, you have to make sure that these four people, you go behind them and that will be it.
You go to that position, Bian comes out with me, everyone else shift one spot this way. Bian, you are with Sarah, no you are up here Sarah, give him the racquet right, Bian, you are going to be the coach, make sure they count and learn their names. Please step forwards, learn the name of your partner, please step forwards. Now hold on for a second.
This first skill was just an example of a huge number of possibilities, let's listen in some more and then also see how adding a little music can really liven things up.
Do you see how this could work, this could work for learning drop shots, for more advanced player, drop volleys right, reflex volleys, returning balls at the body, for beginners two handed on one side, they give a decision making which ground strokes come in. Let's do one more time, there you go. Yes please, same thing. Ready, on the whistle, should we have some music, yeah. Let's have some music to make it little more fun, ready, set.
Everyone rotate. Here we go, keep rolling. Shake hands with one another, yeah they are beginners. You don't make them catch the ball, if they catch it that's great, but if they miss it, they just have to get it before start rolling. Ready. Get on passing it. Yes, he is just kind of catch this, ready, set, three in a row, total. Normally you get into go for out to ten, right that would be around 30-45 seconds. Behind the lines. Just to three.
We just saw music added and also how to adjust things for players who may not be able to catch very well, the point is to help everyone succeed as much as possible every single step of the way. That's critical.
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