Thursday, February 6, 2014

How to set up a good training

 Using simple exercises with complex objectives.
                               
                               "Art is the elimination of the unnecessary " Pablo Picasso

     From the methodological point of view , training is to look through intensive practice , an improvement in competitive performance.

How can we get it ?

   The first thing to understand is that training is , to a greater or lesser degree, a reproduction of a competitive situations . Therefore we must try to set up the training  with physical,  technical, tactical , mental and emotional components that are  involved in the situation. One, some or ideally all  of these components must be involved in the session

    It's pretty easy to create a workout from the physical, technical and tactical  point of view, where usually we run into problems it creates the mental and emotional aspect of the real situation of the competition.

    I would say that it is almost impossible to create in training the  real sense of  competition , but we can try . A good point is  to understand  that the simplest exercise can become more complex if we propose the right goal.

For example :
Exercise : One forehand and one backhand
Level 1: I ask the player to hit “Just” one forehand and one backhand, it is a simple exercise , even vacuous and Mental involvement .
Level 2 : I ask that depending on where the coach throws the ball , the player has to hit crosscourt or down the line , the level of attention increases , as they had to read the trajectory of the ball and make a decision.
Level 3: I say that if the player misses a ball ,they have to do 10 pushups , then , attention will increase even more.

    If viewed by observers, it will remain a very simple forehand and backhand exercises, but for the player it is completely different. In Conclusion : simple exercises , with right and cognitive approaches are sometimes very useful.

    Mixing goals, numbers, making decisions, we can  create hundreds of possibilities to increase the full implications of the player from the technical , tactical , physical, mental and emotional point of view. Is just necessary to be creative thinking in the player necessity 

By Enrique Guldberg
Elite Tennis Academy Director
www.elitennis.com 

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

THE ROLE OF THE PARENTS OF TENNIS PLAYERS

The role of the parents of tennis players


Since I m Tennis coach I saw many very good young players fail just because one cause: the parents. This article is not about attacking parents but trying to give to them a different point of view.

First of all I want to say that I m also father so I know what does it mean to be parent. During all my live as a coach I saw, I am seeing and will see parents, who push their kids to play tennis like professionals, imagine about them as the next NÂș 1 of the world and putting on them tons of expectations, obligations and pressure as a 10 or 12 or 14 years old kids. Time to time just coming to my mind the question: what were they doing when they were 10 years old? When I ask this question to the parents they typically answer…I was playing something. (football, tennis, or whatever) . Then I remark them: so you mean YOU WERE PLAYING, with all the meaning of the word “playing”. This mean, play with friend, naturally, enjoying the moment and NOT LIKE SMALL PROFESSIONALS!

Something wrong we are doing, believe me, if a kid is suffering in a tennis court just because this kid, the only thing is trying to do, is make the parents feel happy. Sometime ago, in a mental session with a player I asked him: for why are you playing tennis? The answer was awesome: I play to achieve my Father’s dream. How many kids, consciously or unconsciously are playing just to meet the parents’ expectations? Do they live to complete the parents’ life? My question for all the parents is: you have kids to achieve your goals? You are not able to achieve your goals for yourself?

As I said, this is not an offense against parents, unfortunately there is no Parent School, nobody taught us how to be parents. We are learning with the experience. I don’t want to tell you how to be good Parents, I don’t have even the authority, because, for sure, as a father I made a lot of mistakes too.

Monday, June 23, 2008


ELITENNIS FOOTWORK

The next 6th of july, Enrique Guldberg (Elitennis tennis Academy Director) will run a course for coaches in Essex, Great Britain.


Together whit the ITA (international Tennis Academy) are developing coaches courses

In the photo, with Royston Kimberly, the ITA Director

Sunday, June 8, 2008

MATHIEW ASCIAK won the national tournament in Spain




MATTHIEW won the national tournament in "Ciudad Diagonal" club, MATHIEW with ELAINE GENOVESE is the first player who came to ELITENNIS TENNIS ACADEMY from THE MALTA TENNIS FEDERATION. For this short period of working we can see the great result of our work together.

WELL DONE MATT!!!!

Friday, June 6, 2008

LEEZA NEMCHINOVA in the final


LEEZA WON THE LAS NATIONAL TOURNAMENT IN TENNIS MAR. SHE BEAT IN THE FINAL CINTYA TORNIL, WITH THE SCORE 6/2 6/3
WELL DONE LEEZA!!!!!!