Tennis for Children: Balance the Ball. Don’t Let it Fall! A wonderful way to teach a young tennis player the relationship between the racquet and a tennis ball is to have them balance the ball on the racquet strings. This builds strength, coordination and understanding of the “ball and stick” relationship. Many young children can …
Tennis for Children: School’s back, serve’s up, kids! Parents are often more excited and apprehensive than their children about this time of year. We ask ourselves the truly important questions: Are they going to make friends? Will they like their new teachers? How is the two handed backhand developing? At Ankle Biters Tennis we meet …
Does your tennis committee know what you want? Do you feel it takes too long to replace a light bulb at the courts or do your courts need resurfacing? Does the committee even know if you are working to build a new league team out of the neighborhood? In conversation with league players and tennis …
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Out of the blue a 6 year old said to me: “Never say never, Coach Shaun.” I asked him: “Why not?” He replied: “Never say never!” I told him: “You can never say never say never because you have to use never to say never say never.” He informed me that it was a way …
The Tennis 4 Children Article Series was started in 2010 by Shaun J Boyce. The concept was to accompany the lesson plans for the little start up business Ankle Biters Tennis which focused primarily on tennis lessons for PreSchool children. Offering advice as well as systematic verbiage for parents to use while encouraging their children …