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OUR MISSION: The professional staff at The Racquet Club is here to provide the best possible instruction in a fun, social, safe
and productive learning environment allowing each student to become the best
tennis player that they wish to be.
The Racquet Club's Lesson Philosophy
Our philosophy of instruction and lessons is simple, we
teach, not just feed balls. We believe in The Game
Approach to teaching tennis. This approach is based on learning
correct tennis skills through playing patterns and games that simulate real
tennis matches. We are success goal oriented ... we want each student to
have fun first, as well as succeed, exercise, and increase their mental and physical skills at
the fastest rate possible.
For Juniors:
Your child is the most important child in our
program. The goal of our junior program is to develop all court players
who can play both singles and doubles. We teach "the game of life" through the development of each tennis
player as an individual because we care.
Our lower level classes feature dead ball feeding to
develop skills with
specific objectives. We emphasize a fun first
approach with the goal of teaching students how to play
the game.
Our intermediate and advanced junior classes are
technique oriented, teaching patterns of play
and specific point strategies in class sizes of up
to five per court. The goal is to develop players who can make their
junior high school or high school tennis teams. We can also help players
who wish to play college tennis.
We agree with many of the top coaches in the field of sports sciences by
teaching The Games Approach, which strives to
develop tennis players rather than just juniors who
can hit the ball hard.
For Adults:
The goal of our adult instruction program is to help you become the best player
you can be. We understand that most players play tennis for fun, exercise,
and competition. Many players are happy with their level of play.
Many players want to improve their game. That is where we can help.
We gear our instructional program toward developing better strokes through patterns
that teach sound strategy and positioning in both singles and doubles. Our
goal is to develop your entire game, serves, ground strokes, and volleys to help
you develop into an all court player capable of all of the shots. We also
want to help understand the how and whys of tennis to make you a smarter, better
player.
We also want to work within your level of play an experience. Every
player has a different reason for playing. Not everyone wants to be a
tournament player. Not everyone wants to play in a highly competitive
environment. Many players just want to enjoy a leisurely game with
friends. Regardless of goals or reasons for playing, we can help you
improve your game and enjoy "the game of a lifetime"
There is a common misconception that the best way to teach tennis
is to simply feed as many balls to the student as possible. Any instructor
can simply feed lots of balls to the student's racquet. Any student can
simply return those balls over the net.
We disagree. We believe in "live ball drills". We ask
students to hit each and every ball with a purpose in mind. Where is the
ball going? Why is that the best place to hit the ball? We don't
believe in quantity for quantity's sake, we believe in quality.
At the Racquet Club, you won't find "feeders" delivering balls right
the student's racquet. That is not real life. Think about it ...
when you play tennis, does your opponent hit the ball right back to you so that
you don't have to move. Of course not. So is that the way to teach
students to be better players?
At the Racquet Club, we teach players to play tennis and to player better
tennis. We teach students to know where to hit the ball, where to be on
the court, how to anticipate play, and how to think on the court.
Exercise
is important, but it is not the goal of our instructional program. If you
are looking for a vigorous workout while hitting as many tennis balls as
possible, we can certainly adjust our private or group lesson to meet your
needs, just let us know.
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