Podcast #198: Top 5 Tennis Parent Blunders
December 12, 2011
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Whether you currently have kids involved in tennis or not you really need to listen to my interview with Frank Giampaolo. He shares his “Top 5 Tennis Parent Blunders” and gives some amazing information for all of us to follow along the way. In this episode of the podcast you’ll learn about body, brain and personality types, how to get ready for a match, how to practice based on your strengths and weaknesses, and a LOT more!
Lance, Fsilber & Colin,
Here’s my insight for your comments:
For Lance, I teach 2 of the top 10 and under players here in California. Age 9 and10. I customize their sessions to their genetic predisposition. This includes the words I chose, to get into their head as well as the drills I run based on their body type. Essentially, I get into their world. In my book, there’s no need to wait!
Secondly for Fsilber,
Please don’t buy off on my view. All I ask is to review the information and make your own logical decisions.
After 15 years of practical application, my students have done pretty well
65 junior national singles titles, 5 ATP tour titles, WTA Wimbledon & US Open doubles titles
Senates tend to:
• Relies on the 5 senses.
• Prefers gathering significant facts before making their decisions.
• Trust the tangible, Factual and visible
• Found in present thoughts versus future thoughts
• The way it is versus the way it could be
• Resides in the real world…”The here and now”
On the tennis court a sensate would greatly benefit from:
• Detailed explanations as to why? “Because I said so” doesn’t cut it for this type.
• Attacking the net isn’t in their genetic design. They have to buy into the rational and be nurtured to spot a vulnerable opponent.
• Logical counter punching is a preferred style of play for this typography.
Intuitive folks tend to:
• Base their decisions on their “gut” instincts
• Consider outside possibilities
• Enjoy daydreaming and are often found in the “future”
• Act on hunches and feelings
• Focus on the future versus the here and now
On court tendencies:
• Driven to invent and create
• Designed to make things happen
• Up 5-2, & are already thinking about where the trophies going in their room
• Net rushing/all court attacking is a preferred style of this type
So, how does this type of ”Preferred Intelligence” information assist every tennis player on the planet?
Here’s how!
• Illuminates similar inherent natural strengths, styles of play and probable successful patterns.
• Reveals similar innate draw backs and inborn obstacles.
• Brings out similar emotional /focus qualities and frustration tolerance levels.
• Informs us on their similar decision making abilities, and on-court likes and dislikes.
• Exposes inherent strengths and weaknesses of individual typography.
Frank Giampaolo
http://www.tennisparentsolutions.com
Hi All!
Thanks for sharing. Exchanging information is so valuable. Please keep the comments flowing! Let me assist Brian and Hilina and other beginners out there. As for the punch or traditional volley, After the preparation phase of the coiling shoulder turn, The second stage of the volley is coined the “punch”. This is due to the compact acceleration deceleration of the racket head.
Stick with Ian on this stuff and before you know it, you’ll have a house full of trophies!
Frank Giampaolo
http://www.tennisparentsolutions.com
I enjoyed this tremendously. Some pretty interesting things. The only question I had was involving the personality type. At what age is this supposed to happen? Myers-Briggs doesn’t recommend testing until age 14.
Thanks for this topic, very interesting…
I’m not a parent, but I enjoyed this podcast. The Myers-Briggs stuff was interesting… I took a test a few years ago and I think it said I was an INTJ. Not entirely sure what the NTJ means, but I know I’m an introvert and tend to be totally focused on my own game whenever I play.
I especially liked the advice about having 1 or 2 “backup plans” and developing these plans against lower-ranked players. It seems to me like this could be a good way to play slightly above your level with one strategy while still being able to switch to a pushing/moonballing plan if things aren’t going well. In other words, you have a “long-term game improvement plan” where you’re playing a style that isn’t 100% easy for you yet, but that you want to get better at, and you have a “winning ugly plan” where you’re pushing and hitting moonballs.
Thanks Ian and Frank!
Very insightful .Looking forward to learning more from you.
I went to the recommended braintypes.com website. I didn’t find any information there. All the links simply essentially said, “You have to be a member (at $100/year) to view this article.” It’s a pity, because I would be very interested in this angle.
Also, I didn’t think the interviewee really understood Briggs-Myer categories. To give an example of Sensing vs Intuitive, he compared someone who researches a purchase versus someone who decides on impulse (on “intuition”). That’s not what Briggs-Myer mean by intuition vs sensing. That’s more of an example of Judging vs Perceiving (being thorough and versus impulsive) or Thinking vs Feeling (logic vs emotion).
The Sensing vs Intuition scale has more to do with whether a person is more attuned to the concrete vs the abstract, to facts vs concepts, to the use of memory vs. imagination. For example, to learn how to reach a destination, a Sensing person might want you to give him a list of turns based on street names and landmarks for him to observe. An intuitive person would prefer that you give him a street map by which he could learn the way the city’s streets are laid out — so he can improvise a path as he goes along (especially, as he absentmindedly misses the signs he was intending to look out for).
By the way, I think intuitive people are at a disadvantage in athletics, as players must put tremendous focus on the concrete here-and-now. Intuitives might have the advantage in coaching, however, as the coach’s focuses on the pupil here-and-now only long enough to begin _imagining_ what might help the pupil to become better.
How would the blunder list be for adults learning tennis? Five is probably too few, need to list at least a dozen. It could be the most common blunders or the blunders of the biggest detriment to improving. Maybe one blunder would be not listening to the Essential Tennis Podcasts.
I liked this podcast, but some it either went over my head (the first item reminded me of horoscopes–can be great if you buy into it and just go with it) or was beyond my level (i still don’t even have an A game and barely have primary strokes). So much to think about–maybe I need a tennis parent.
I’m a new “member” of Essential Tennis and am looking forward to participating in your many features. I like what I’ve seen so far in your free videos on the serve and your Volley Mastery video deries. I like that your videos show the length of time for each. Please also routinely provide the length associated with your podcasts. I want to manage my time and don’t want to start listening to something when i don;t know how long it will run. Thanks.
When he said punch volley instead of guide, did you cringe a little?
what is a punch? Would a volley be a hook? A groundstroke an uppercut? =)
Hi! Thanks for sharing comments regarding the podcast.
In regards to Charizz’s comment,
To accelerate the learning curve, the tennis parents job description is to “manage” the coaching staff with intellegent, gentle guidance.
Overbearing, angry parents are simply uneducated tennis parents. Their fight mechanism is triggered by the uncomfortability of not having solutions.
Guess who has developed more touring professionals? Federations or parents? ….yup, you guessed it…parents
Frank
http://www.tennisparentsolutions.com
I was a little surprised at the blunders. If anything, some of them are coaching blunders rather than parent blunders.
I was expecting overbearing parents who get too involved in their kid’s success and get too unhappy would be number one, but perhaps he is looking at more reasonable parents. I think he did mention this somewhere in his top 5.
I was actually surprised by that as well, Charles. That’s why I mentioned at the end Frank didn’t touch on any of my own personal frustrations (a lot of what you mentioned). I’ll definitely have him on the show again soon to talk about those types of things!