Check out this short simple video to help you have a nice consistent toss on your serve! Remember to practice this for a few mins every time you step on the court! I like to do a few tosses before I even start warming up my serve.
If you like this, check back really soon as many more exciting videos are on the verge of being released!
Hey Tennis Lovers!
As you all know SY gal in charge, Margot is patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for her interview with the US Embassy to get a new Visa.
We have been receiving many emails asking what the plan is for clinics this Summer. So, Summer Clinic times have been organised, and people are already signing up! So, please check the SHOP section for details on what will be on offer in your area, and shoot us an email to reserve your spots.
In the meantime, for the sanity of Margot's Parents, who she is driving insane, please send positive vibes to the US embassy to get the Visa taken care of as soon as possible!
If you're missing out on your Tennis lessons, check the "News" Section for Margot's Fav Tips!
Hey everyone! Today's Tennis Tip is to help you have a smoother serve. Smoothness comes from a nice relaxed arm, and results in more power! Reaching up means you are using your full height and range of motion to gain power, and then importantly decelerating properly helps prevent injury to your forearm!
Enjoy, and check back in next week for your next tip!
Margot
A quick and simple exercise that will help you Relax, Reach Up, and Decelerate on your serve!
Margot interviews Gaby Dabrowski after her win of the 2016 Nashville Womens Pro Classic
For those of you that don't check Instagram a lot of our workouts get posted there in one form or another, either as a post or in the "Story".
It was in doing this that a funny message came through from a friend, "Hey look at you organizing Tabata workouts!" to which we said... what's that? Well, turns out we had been doing a form of Tabata with out even knowing it.
After this and some extensive Google searching, we found the true Tabata style, 4 rounds of exercises. Each round consists of 1 exercise only, 20 seconds high intensity, 10 seconds rest, 8 times. Pre warned that this was tough, we chose 4 TRX core exercises and knocked out 20 minutes of TRX Tabata. It is fair to say that muscles burned in ways we had not experienced in a while, and while it may feel like 20 minutes is a short workout, on a day when time is of the essence, it felt good to kick that out of the way and get on with life!
Tabata TRX Workout:
Each exercise 20 seconds high intensity, 10 seconds rest, repeat 8 times. followed by 1 minute rest and then move on to the next exercise!!
TRX Plank Jacks
TRX Mountain Climbers
TRX Side Plank (Punch through arms and alternate sides)
TRX Obliques (Knees together in to arm pit and out- alternate sides)
Then don't forget to pick a Prehab exercise to finish off!!
Let me know how it goes!!
Margot Interviews Max Kouyaté in Nashville. Around the Court, Around the World
Bill Riddle and Margot Carter present to you a variety of shows, including the Facebook popular "5 Questions" with Tennis Pros from all over the world!
Enjoy and please share!
To set the scene for this conference, firstly a bit of an insight into the Tennis Coaching world today. This may not be valid for the entire planet, however, in my experience, which is mostly in the USA and UK, the world of Tennis and Tennis Coaching belongs to middle aged and older men. Many of these coaches draw on their High School and College playing experience alone to teach this sport.
Here a little bit more about Margot's Story filmed on the Tennessee Tech Campus last month.
An excerpt from the latest episode of the Watson Brown Show.... Find out more at www.sphericalyellow.com and be sure to check out the IOS app while you are there!
One of my young teenage clients, is working hard to get into Team Tennis. She has a fantastic work ethic, listens, tries hard, and also knows how to laugh. She has been making phenomenal progress this spring, and I am very proud of her. However, yesterday she said something to me which amazed me, as I thought I had made clear my thoughts on the warm up many times, but evidently we can always find new ways and methods to communicate with our clients. Let us as coaches not take for granted what we know and take to be standard.
This phrase echoed around my brain and I looked across with astonishment. "It's never just the warm up" I said.
This is the moment when you set yourself up for how this practice or this match will go. Prime yourself for an excellent day, or a mediocre day, put in as much work with your feet as you can, to ensure a perfect contact point every single time. Think about what you are trying to achieve in this session, and all in a gentle and controlled manner, which leaves no excuses for not finding that perfect contact point, resulting in that stunning feeling, of just having hit a ball on the right spot of your racket. We know that sports are all mental, help yourself to be in a fantastic mental state, and do it right from the moment you step on court!
When on court helping others to solve their Tennis problems, coaches often find the most incredible nuggets of wisdom pop out of their mouth. Sometimes to their own astonishment, more than anyone else's. "Where did this come from?" They are thinking, whilst also rushing over to the side of the court to write them down, as many times the beauty of the phrase or thought, is lost within minutes. It is not dissimilar to when you have a genius thought at 3am, only to find by 8am with alarm clock, it gone never to be found again, you may have a vague recollection of what it was connected to, but it just lost its magic. In this News section of the website you will find News, but occasionally you will find some of these nuggets of wisdom that were retained. The shorter ones often end up on the Instagram account, but sometimes you just need to tell a bit of a story. Please enjoy this collection of brainwaves!
