Weekly Plan #5

Hello everyone!  An exciting week starting tomorrow with 10 ORC players competing in the ITF Ace Tennis U18 in Burlington - Ines, Anna, Sofia, Kailen, Tiara, Ryan, Peter, Mark J., Ivan R., Ivan M., We want to wish everyone competing the best of luck.  Here is an awesome article that Yves shared on FB.  A must read "A Winning Mentality."

The weekly plan for this week is to test drive, touch up, and polish.

Congratulations to Ines

Congratulations to Ines and partner for reaching the finals of the girls doubles in the Vancouver U18 ITF Junior Championships last week.

 

Weekly Plan #4

Happy Sunday everyone.  We are entering week #2 of the 6 weeks preparation phase.  The weekly plan for the up coming week is to continue working on staying in the point with the mindset of when the going gets tough, the tough gets going.  Drills will consist of volume and consistency while on the move.  Run another ball down.  Put another back.  Not trying to do extraordinary things on the court.  Just doing the ordinary things extraordinary well.

Week Plan #3

Hello everyone.  And welcome back.  Hope everyone had a wonderful family gathering, refreshed, and ready to get back to work.  The training plan for this week is consistency with movement.  Based on our observation from last week's practice matches, the overall consensus from the coaches is that our players have a tendency to over hit when put off balance and therefore, made a lot of errors.

No Program Monday

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving....Gobble, Goble!

 

No tennis on Monday.

Mission Accomplished

Hello blog advocates.  Our goal this week was to challenge our Elite group players both physically and mentally.  Today was Warrior Day where the players were put on the spinning bike before they hit the court, wearing their heart rate sensor that was connected to a bluetooth app that shows the percentage of their maximum heart rate while they did 10 sets of intervals with the ratio of 1 minute low intensity and 1 minute high intensity with the goal of getting their heart rate to 85% on the high intensity and 65% on the low intensity.  Basically get their legs burning. 

Weekly Plan #2

Hello all.  Last week, we worked on warming up on a cooperative setting and lots of volume.  This week, we are going to learn to be resilient.  We are going to be physically challenged.  We are going to grind it out.  As parents, we all want our kids to succeed but yet we try to steer them from disappointments.  By shielding them from the hardships we unknowingly weaken their mind.  So, how can we help out kids to get tougher?  If you are interested click on the link and give yourself about thirty minutes and listen to this amazing interview by Angela Duckworth - What is grit?  Let me know what you think.  Have a great week.

The Importance of Match Play

Hello everyone.  Throughout the week of training, we develop feel, introduce new skills, do volume training, situation play, group competition, building strength, working on speed and agility, and points play.  We like to wrap the week up with match play with court time opportunity.  So, what are the benefits for these match play?