Week 16

Hello everyone,

So for the following week we will continue working on our cross-court rallies, and playing points cross-court. We will open up the points as well to full court points where we will be looking and stressing the importance of staying in the cross-court rally.

Also for this week we will focus a lot on the continental grip, and making sure that the kids are maintaining the proper grip. The kids mostly know what the proper grip is, but are unwilling to keep the grip for longer than a few shots. So over the next little while we will be paying really close attention to the grip.

Drago

Week 15

Hello to everyone,

So the past two weeks we have been reviewing everything that we did in the first part of the year. 

This week we will continue our review and spend more time on overheads technique and grips. We will also get back to practicing cross-courts, and teaching the kids to maintain the rally for as long as possible. We will also let the kids play points cross-court to teach them the importance of hitting the ball in this direction.

Drago

Week 14

Hello everyone,

So the first week has passed after the break, and as expected almost everyone is really rusty. We have spent this week hitting a lot of balls, and focusing more on early preparation and setup and technique, rather than points. We have spent the whole week reminding the kids about what we did in the first three months related to groundstrokes.

This week we will continue hitting a lot of balls to try to find our rhythm from the baseline. We will also spend a lot of time on volleys, reminding the kids about the proper grips and technique.

Also, just a reminder again that our tennis director, Yves Boulais, is in Australia for the Australian Open, and that he has a blog, http://www.orcgrandslam.com/. So anyone interested can go to the blog and check it and sign up.

See you guys next week,

Drago

ORC on the road

Hi everybody,

Here is a message from our tennis director, Yves Boulais.

"Hello 

As you may know our Tennis Director, Yves Boulais is in Australia with the WTA player Alison Riske. I am sure you saw her in December training with us at ORC. In this blog I will be posting every day all sort of stuff interesting to you tennis players. I will post good articles, news from here and training video of players and all kinds of stuff that will happen on our trip. This information will not get to you if you are not subscribed to the blog so do it now @ www.orcgrandslam.com, and once you are there fill out the text box on the right corner and every time I post a new message, you will get a nice email that will tell you all about it. Help us help you.

Have a great week and thank you for choosing ORC "THE PLACE TO BE" :)"

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everybody and welcome back,

I hope that everybody had a nice break, and that they are ready to get back to playing and practicing hard. The next two weeks we will be doing a review on all the things that we learned so far in the first part of the year. We will be doing a lot of rallying and drilling this week, to get the kids to find their rhythm again, as many have not played over the past two weeks.

We will do a lot of rallying where certain a certain number has to be reached, and also any points that we play will require the kids to keep a certain amount of balls in the court before they open up the point. We will be reviewing the technique and grips as well to make sure that the kids are sticking with what they have learned so far.

See you guys next week!

Drago