COACH JASON'S BLOG

I was once watching a San Diego Nationals Girls U16 Finals match when I was floored by what I saw. After the changeover, one of the top ranked players in the country sat on her bench and then opened her tennis notebook. I had never seen that before! Wow! What was she reading? What secrets was she reviewing, in the middle of her match. The reason this experience left a deep impression on me was that she had lost the first set, but after reviewing and re-reviewing

Over the years that my kids have been taking tennis lessons, I have wanted to find ways to extract more value from each and every lesson....

One of the biggest differences in today’s generation of tennis students vs. previous generations of tennis students is the amount of tennis that kids watch on TV. In the era of cutting back on kids’ screen time, we may have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. In my generation, most of the tennis kids at my club would talk about a match they watched on TV, especially during the Grand Slams. We would also love imitating our favorite players’ tennis strokes. At my sm

Watch this Youtube video (listen to Novak at 50:22 min, watch for 3 min.) I love this Jay Shetty interview with Novak Djokovic. Novak...

In my middle age, 2 of the things I have been fascinated by are: (a) how we learn during the course of our lifetimes; (b) the special...