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Would love to get your thoughts on my latest article, "Your Strokes: Gavin Serve"
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Fabulous teaching moment.
In my mind:
1. diagnosis of elements for remediation and identification of strong points ----agree
2.Choosing to focus on the contact point at the arc of the toss as the first element for intervention ----agree.
3.Choosing to focus on the racket tilt at new contact point-----agree
4.Feedback---?? excluding privacy issues, would love to see a short visual with audio of dialogue between you and a student tackling a specific mechanics issue. My bet is that serve improvement in this example will be significant in a short period of time.
Sounds like a broken record2 ...but the average parent( or even many teaching pros), severely underestimate the knowledge base needed at the elite junior level to correctly identify elements for remediation, prioritize corrections and intervene with appropriate teaching cues and/or drills.. I have seen 3 years of instruction by some who never identify and reach this great conclusion for a 10 year old with a similar serve problem. -
Thanks as usual. And yeah the level of technical instruction in this country...well... What I did with Gavin as with everybody I work with was just show him himself and the model images. Have him physically model the new position and then create a mental image of that. Then visual the image when he served. Unless asked I try to stay away from much complicated technical verbal analysis.Comment
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Simple fixes are often the best. Even better if we can cut down on the technical jargon and leave that for communication between ourselves. I always think the best coaching we do is when the student doesn't even realise it's going on.
What amazes me is how good Gavin's hand, arm, and racket rotation was when his toss was too much to the right. This can often result in weak ISR or can even kill it altogether. Bringing the toss more to the left can only enhance what he was doing so well anyway.
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