Workshops / Presentations

Workshops:

Wholistic Zennis Workshops for club level players:  

2 day weekend or 5 day midweek workshops on how tennis can become a zennis experience.  The normal competitive experience is when tennis is played from the ego and this experience is invariably painful with its resulting emotional roller-coaster.  However, when zennis, tennis with awareness, as a process begins, a transformation starts, whereby the competitive experience changes from a battle of egos to a beautiful dance between friends.  However, the pursuit of excellence remains as strong.  In reality, the journey towards realizing one’s true potential is enhanced through this transformation because when the war analogy is dropped, relaxation can happen and there is a direct correlation between relaxation and peak performance.

Participants can expect to be exposed to the ‘dance of tennis’, which will transform their competitive experience and allow them to realize their full potential with a gracefulness and effortlessness, which is truly beautiful, but more importantly, it will provide them with a unique and infinitely more gratifying and pleasing experience of tennis.

Teaching Workshops for coaches and parents

We offer 2 or 5 day workshops for large programs with numerous coaches.  It is important for large quality programs to have a uniform teaching approach of a high standard.  We will work closely with the Director of Tennis or Head professional to train a team of coaches so that everyone is on the same page.  By focusing on a methodology and philosophy of teaching for players from beginners to intermediates to advanced tournament players, any program can guarantee a high quality of coaching to all their students.  This is a valuable opportunity for ambitious and conscientious programs to open a dialogue amongst their pros so that a certain amount of uniformity can arise in their coaching program.  A program is only as good as their weakest coach and this is a wonderful opportunity to make your weakest link immeasurably stronger, while at the same time building team spirit and camaraderie within your program.

All aspects of coaching will be comprehensively addressed in a systematic and commonsense way.  In the present teaching climate, too many players who can hit the ball well are becoming coaches without any real understanding of the intricacies of how learning takes place.  Even being the number one player in the world does not  automatically qualify you to teach beginners, intermediates and other club level players or young children.  These skills need to be acquired.  The better coaches acquire these skills from years of experience, many never acquire them.  Here is an opportunity to attain a fundamental understanding of teaching principles and at the very least open up a dialogue that will allow you to crystallize your own teaching philosophy.

Group Workshops for beginners, intermediates and advanced

We offer comprehensive high quality coaching for players of all levels.  We will work daily with beginners, intermediates and advanced players and offer a concrete plan for players to move from one level to another.  With beginners, we have developed a ‘natural’ method for teaching biomechanics that is easy and fun.  This will provide a solid foundation for consistency for players that will last a life time.  For intermediates with a solid foundation in stroke production already, we will work on solidifying the consistency and then by understanding the basics of point building and strategy, we will help them reach to the next level.  With the advanced players, we will design specific shot combinations and help the players clearly understand their strengths and weaknesses and thereby help them clearly understand what they are trying to do on the court.  This will allow them to focus only on execution during tournament play.  We will also focus on understanding the role of the mind in competitive play.  By doing specific on court drills and practice, we will help players to develop the perfect mind state so that peak performance can happen to them.  For players of all levels mental awareness is essential throughout the journey from beginner to world-class player.  Often, the mental approach to the game is only focused on when a player starts playing tournaments.  Unfortunately, by then the damage is often already done.  How we teach beginners will determine how they deal with the pressures and stress of competition later in life.  This is a comprehensive program that will touch on all aspects of player development.

Individual Players of all levels

Happy will evaluate your game and consult with you about your strengths and weaknesses and what you need to do to get to the next level.  The contract period could be anywhere from one hour to one month.  Happy will travel with players for a specific period of time and watch them compete and then put together a comprehensive program for improvement.  This could be the beginning of an advisory relationship that could last a lifetime.