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Coaching Tips
Just like playing any athletic event, we can see similar success from coaches who develop the right “coaching foundation.”
Unfortunately for many athletes, many coaches are as equally misinformed as the beginning athletes they may be responsible for. Other coaches are simply inexperienced or have just started coaching. And others still may simply not believe that they can develop highly skilled players because of where they coach or who they coach.
Fortunately, ANY coach can develop any team—of any sport—to be perennial champions…and produce successful individuals.
Like playing tennis and building a house, there is an “Advanced Foundation” that coaches can learn, practice, and employ in their teams and programs.
Many coaches believe that successful coaches are just “lucky” because they get lots of players coming out for their teams or that they had skilled or trained athletes come to their school. Actually, we see successful coaches in every region of the country, most who create that success with average players who, for the most part, didn’t have a lot of training—if at all—prior to participating in that coaches’ program. In addition, many teams perpetuate success year after year because now other kids—or parents—interested in the sport that those successful coaches are teaching, WANT to come to that school. So, like anything else, success breeds success!
Every successful coach and team had to start somewhere. It isn’t luck that these teams developed success. It also seldom comes ‘over night.’ Yet, within a relatively short period of time, such successful coaches start experiencing success within one or two seasons.
My book COACHING MASTERY documents one of the greatest tennis and football coaches in the nation, my late father, Bruce Smith. In a nut shell, he took a tennis team that had never won a match and within two years developed a team that would end up going nearly 25 years undefeated in region. He, and later I, after my father passed away in 1984, would end up with a team win-loss record that was over 750 wins against less than 10 losses over a 22 year period. At one point, we won 399 consecutive team matches in league.
But, in order to develop teams, you must first GET players to come out for your team! COACHING MASTERY also demonstrates all the ways we were able to attract an average of 40-plus kids on each team we coached. I took this same coaching foundation to Arizona where I continued the success we had in California, and ended up having tennis teams that won over 300 regional matches with fewer than 15 losses over a six year period.
There are “secrets” to our success. I reveal ALL our secrets to developing champions and championship teams. I recommend ANY coach read this 400-Plus page resource (with over 350 pictures), to improve your coaching abilities!