Tennis for Children
Posted by admin on April 25th, 2011Once the child is able to balance a tennis ball on the strings of her racket, they should start to learn how to move the ball and still remain under control. Rolling a ball on the strings, usually the first step in a controlled movement, which is often accompanied by a child moving keeping the ball balanced on the racquet strings.
Many coaches race of their students (if only one party) or a set of children in a race scenario based on maintaining the ball balanced on the line when you move faster than some predetermined location. Parents can race their children across the road and even compete with how many times they can be rotated in a circle without the ball to drop lines.
When a child becomes stronger in the ability to keep the ball on the strings, try this: The baby bounce the ball up using the racket, not letting the ball hit the ground. We call this the “Bump Ups”. ‘Blow’ term implies a small contact between ball and racket in contrast to the “hit” a term that implies a strong contact Considering ball flies at high speed.
Some reminders:
Bounce the ball up using racquets
Keep bumps (or failure) below the “head high”
Soft touch, easy
There are two ways to measure success:
Keep a cumulative total of all the times the ball bounced on the line
Count the number of the UPS strike was in the ‘without skipping
In the early stages of learning to control the impact UPS, the child will be more interested in how many failures they can receive in total. This allows the child to count more than 1 or 2, and shows early success, even if a simple calculation attempts to success. As the child develops the ability to rebound the ball straight at the racket, begin to set goals for how many times in a row, “the child can continue their control” Bump Ups “.
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