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A player’s technical foundation lasts a lifetime, for better or worse.
Starting your child out right. That’s the key to what’s going to happen down the road. Unfortunately, it’s probably the most neglected part of development.
The foundation laid down when kids first start out is going to last a lifetime, for better or worse. So if you’ve got a child in tennis and that child is 5, 6, 8, or 10, it’s important to understand this is a journey.
It’s not how good you are when you’re 10, or 12, or even 14. It’s what your ultimate objective is. Maybe as a player you want to play high school tennis, or college tennis. Or maybe you want to be the real deal and try pro tennis. Any way you slice it, it’s a journey and you’re constantly building blocks.
Tennis development isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. That’s why we call it Junior Development, not Junior Final Destination.
In the first article in this series we took a look at the first building block–attitude. (Click Here.) Attitude underlies the whole process. For the process to succeed you need an incredible amount of motivation. You’ve got to make it fun. …