Welcome to another exciting episode of Atlanta Tennis Podcast, powered by Go Tennis. In todays’ 10 Minutes of Tennis discussion, we dive deep into the importance of demonstrating your preaches to your students as a coach.
Join Shaun Boyce as he hosts the world famous Australian Coach, Justin Yeo to dissect the qualities of great and nuanced coaches, like – Nick Politarik, Nick Volansari.
Our Guest Today:
Justin Yeo is the famous Australian coach who lives in Puerto Rico. The immensely talented coach has worked with all levels of players, from Junior to professional players. His experience of working with many coaches with different styles, have provided him great insights on how a coach should maintain his career.
Key Takeouts of The Episode:
Whether you are a new coach or a seasoned one,regardless of your physical fitness, you must possess some extraordinary qualities to impart in your players. Learn about the details of the capabilities that will assist you in a successful career.
- Live Demonstration, or, Visual Aid: Over 70% of humans are visual learners. Therefore, when a coach actually practices his proposed training session to his trainee players, the preached idea becomes much more comprehensible for them. Every coach must maintain a minimal level of fitness to pull off at least some portion of his ning strategies. If they are absolutely unable to do so, they should provide video reference of others to help the learners.
- Updated Knowledge: Sometimes age or physical restrictions, limits the coaches from practicing their proposed ideas. Under such circumstances, coaches should regularly make their methods up to date. To emphasis this, Yeo uses the rotation of shoulder development and how it has evolved in the last 30 years.
- Other Abilities: When it comes to coaches, high performance is always should not be the decider here. As long as a coach passes down good attributes to the players, they should be regarded as good coaches. Yoe cites Nick Politarik and Nick Volansari as examples, both lacking in physical fitness, but while the former is the epitome of a disciplined life, the latter is really good at passing directions.
Yeo also talks about coaches at junior level. Learn how –
- Enthusiasm and passion for tennis should hold more impotence in a junior level tennis coach than skills or any other thing. Coaches should pass down the passion for the game to the students to ensure that they do not drop out of the sport.
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Speaker:Today, we are talking to Justin Yeo,
Speaker:World Renowned, tennis pro Australian in Puerto Rico,
Speaker:and it is a good day to be an Australian
Speaker:because you got Nick Kyrgios as a commentator.
Speaker:How interesting is that?
Speaker:This is 10 minutes of tennis.
Speaker:Justin Yeo, good morning, how you doing?
Speaker:Thanks.
Speaker:Is sign-to-word wake, is swearing?
Speaker:(laughing)
Speaker:Only to some.
Speaker:Only to some reason.
Speaker:Depends on how old you are.
Speaker:(laughing)
Speaker:All right, today's conversation is about,
Speaker:can you practice what you preach?
Speaker:The question Justin is, should all tennis coaches
Speaker:be able to display what they preach?
Speaker:Now, you're saying, does everybody need to do this
Speaker:in every situation, or is this just, hey, look,
Speaker:I can show you how to hit a forehand,
Speaker:and you're gonna have to do a bunch of pushups to get fit,
Speaker:even though I'm a little overweight myself.
Speaker:You know where these questions come from, right?
Speaker:How much does the coach need to be able
Speaker:to actually perform?
Speaker:- Well, I can go right up the top of the list for you.
Speaker:80% of the world of visual learning, right?
Speaker:Some say 75, some say 70/30,
Speaker:but if you look at the dial,
Speaker:dial is more towards visual learnings
Speaker:than analytical learnings, okay?
Speaker:So, what is that tell you?
Speaker:You gotta be able to demo
Speaker:what you want you play and do.
Speaker:So, that's gonna include physicality,
Speaker:that's gonna include techniques,
Speaker:that's gonna include lots of things
Speaker:that you need to be able to replicate what you want them to do,
Speaker:because otherwise, you know, you have to use video,
Speaker:they just show them, you know?
Speaker:So, there is a major benefit to be able to demo
Speaker:in front of a player.
Speaker:And so, you know, serving the same thing.
Speaker:So, anyway, that's right up the back.
Speaker:If you're in high performance,
Speaker:pretty hard to make a junior or a certain athlete
Speaker:to be athletic and disciplined if you can do, you know?
Speaker:So, you know, look at some of the coaches,
Speaker:I'm probably throwing myself under the bus here,
Speaker:but I don't know how many laps Uncle Tony could do.
Speaker:I don't know how much you could actually rally the ball either.
Speaker:But man, was he very disciplined in other ways.
Speaker:So, that's probably a good example,
Speaker:probably again, throw myself under the bus.
Speaker:You know, how many balls of Nick Politarik
Speaker:could rally baseline to baseline
Speaker:with most of his athletes, right?
Speaker:But he was extremely disciplined and would work
Speaker:in a way that need be done.
Speaker:So, there are two examples where, you know,
Speaker:maybe they don't live and preach what they say, you know?
Speaker:But on the other hand, most of us that are in the trenches
Speaker:really do need to be able to preach what you said.
Speaker:And I see that a lot more in the high performance.
Speaker:So, if we dial it back a little bit to the weekend player
Speaker:or the league out to USDA players,
Speaker:we're gonna look at somebody that says,
Speaker:okay, my coach is probably better than me.
Speaker:99% of the time, whatever that number is,
Speaker:your coach is better than you.
Speaker:But if you're looking up and you're seeing the coach
Speaker:that's just standing there and his belly's hanging out
Speaker:and he's feeding balls, I remember being young,
Speaker:kind of looking at that going,
Speaker:is that a good example to set?
Speaker:And when you're young, it's often easier as a coach
Speaker:to say, I'm young and fit and I can do all the things
Speaker:that the kids can do.
Speaker:And that was something I always said about myself.
Speaker:I will never ask you to do something.
Speaker:I'm unwilling to do myself.
Speaker:Now, as I age, that's a different thing.
Speaker:How many pushups are my shoulders really gonna,
Speaker:am I gonna jump down and do 100 pushups with everybody?
Speaker:Probably not.
Speaker:So there's a line there, right?
Speaker:- Yeah, well, the line is also then,
Speaker:you've got to knock them away with your knowledge
Speaker:and experience.
Speaker:And so that's where the next step I would say
Speaker:with printing is that if you actually say to someone,
Speaker:make sure you're always upgrading the skills,
Speaker:make sure you're always developing with the sport.
Speaker:I still, I mean, to this day,
Speaker:I still seen so many coaches teaching
Speaker:what was in the '80s and the '90s, when they were,
Speaker:you know, I was like, yes,
Speaker:there's things that just aren't that way anymore.
Speaker:If we're doing that too for juniors,
Speaker:we're not helping them at all,
Speaker:because the shoulder development of internal rotation
Speaker:between the sole joint and the forearm
Speaker:is totally different back then and at least to now.
Speaker:And so,
Speaker:- Wait a minute, and then hang on.
Speaker:The shoulder joint is different.
Speaker:- Yeah.
Speaker:- Have humans just evolved in the last 30 years
Speaker:in some way?
Speaker:- I don't understand.
Speaker:- No, the way we developing the ball
Speaker:and the ball platform tabletop stroke
Speaker:is not the same stroke anymore.
Speaker:- So the technique has changed
Speaker:and therefore how we manage it has to change.
Speaker:- Correct, correct.
Speaker:And if you don't develop that correct technique,
Speaker:they end up with the same shoulder
Speaker:and they,
Speaker:it, not in the vision,
Speaker:but they're not available,
Speaker:it's not allowed because the shoulder joint's not developed
Speaker:directly to generate what they generate now.
Speaker:So, you know, again,
Speaker:we don't have to think high performance,
Speaker:what I'm thinking is that if you can talk in amateur
Speaker:and well, if you are limited with what you can show,
Speaker:then you need to back it with knowledge and experience.
Speaker:And I still see a lot of coaches not developing enough
Speaker:but they need to develop more.
Speaker:And that's the only thing I could say
Speaker:about practicing what you're pretty
Speaker:to saying back in what you're preaching.
Speaker:- It makes me think of one of the rules
Speaker:where it's always tell the truth
Speaker:or that you just don't lie, right?
Speaker:So in this case, I'm gonna say, okay,
Speaker:I'm not necessarily gonna tell you
Speaker:that one of my coaches is not a tennis player.
Speaker:I'm gonna take it into personally for me
Speaker:with the tennis for children and the little kids.
Speaker:I don't need you to be a tennis player
Speaker:but what I need you to not do
Speaker:is I need you to not show them that you don't do it,
Speaker:that you can't do it.
Speaker:I need you to say, okay, here, here, here,
Speaker:this is my swing, right?
Speaker:This is what I want you to do.
Speaker:But that doesn't necessarily mean
Speaker:that you need to bounce a ball and hit it.
Speaker:And I'll take that to the typical coach that's aging
Speaker:that says, oh, I can still hit with these guys
Speaker:and you end up going out there and kind of losing
Speaker:to some of your players or you can't do what you used
Speaker:to be able to do, so you lose some credibility.
Speaker:Is there a way to kind of dial back what you show,
Speaker:what you display if you can't do it anymore?
Speaker:- Yeah, I mean, again, this is just,
Speaker:I mean, Nick Volansari, I've been getting an example, right?
Speaker:I mean, but the guy could say,
Speaker:you didn't the guy could watch you,
Speaker:the guy could give good, really good direction.
Speaker:Otherwise, he wouldn't have built one built.
Speaker:So yeah, their coaches out there,
Speaker:and that's what I've always said sometimes in a junior league.
Speaker:It's great to have someone that's just really enthusiastic
Speaker:that loves the game.
Speaker:- Love's good, too.
Speaker:- If you pass that down, that's the number one thing
Speaker:for children is passing down the passion
Speaker:and living it and talking about it,
Speaker:like versus just teaching it.
Speaker:That to me is the biggest thing about coaching
Speaker:in junior years.
Speaker:Most juniors would drop out and spoil us
Speaker:'cause they just didn't get that passion.
Speaker:Living it that wide, you know?
Speaker:This is the great commercial where they talk about, you know,
Speaker:team sports, and then one of the biggest things
Speaker:in team sports is what the coach has hand down,
Speaker:like what the kid has felt during the session
Speaker:that coaches are highlighted or accelerated
Speaker:or given them that experience.
Speaker:So, you know, coach, I'm definitely not saying
Speaker:that every coach has to be in shape.
Speaker:I'm not saying that at all.
Speaker:What I am saying is that,
Speaker:to practice what you preach is to actually develop yourself,
Speaker:keep learning the game, keep waking up each day
Speaker:of a mind and say what you got into it for.
Speaker:You got into it for passion, what you get in it for money.
Speaker:You got to get in it for money.
Speaker:You got to get good into it just like your students.
Speaker:You know, so I guess that's sort of what we're talking about
Speaker:with practice what you preach.
Speaker:- So now if I wrap it up in a way that I say,
Speaker:okay, that last comment says a lot
Speaker:that not everybody's gonna be the fittest tennis pro
Speaker:'cause not everybody has the time,
Speaker:whatever the reasons are, there are always reasons, right?
Speaker:But can you be the best pro you can be?
Speaker:And if you're gonna be that more intellectual pro
Speaker:or more of a team developmental
Speaker:or an academy developmental pro like a bulletaerie,
Speaker:that type, you don't all have to be like Martugulu
Speaker:who looks like he can still hit with Holger Luna.
Speaker:- Yep.
Speaker:- And if you're a player listening,
Speaker:you wanna preach it, like go into a team
Speaker:and work for the team, play for the team,
Speaker:play in the order that they need you
Speaker:to listen to your coaching captain.
Speaker:You know, like some players don't know how to do that.
Speaker:So, you know, there's a lot of things
Speaker:that's a player too that you have to practice what's preach.
Speaker:You know, if you talk to big game,
Speaker:then go out there and show it with the racket.
Speaker:So show it with the map.
Speaker:- Like that a lot.
Speaker:Justin, we're gonna have to have another one on that one.
Speaker:- Player. - Practice what you preach.
Speaker:I like that a lot.
Speaker:Justin, yo, this has been 10 minutes of tennis.
Speaker:We'll see you next time.
Speaker:Thanks so much.
Speaker:- Thanks a lot.
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