Saturday, October 27, 2007

Wednesday Report (24-Oct-2007)

I made an arrangement this week, we had Wednesday lesson.
I'm so sorry that I upload this entry so late, as there were so many projects and assignments.

Oscar, Louvre, Calvin, Ivan, Kenny and Jeffrey.
Joseph, this is my first time to see Jeffrey playing tennis in the court!

Although we don't have so many boys, we can have a smaller class size.
We had some warm-up.

Some basic strokes like forehand and backhand.
Louvre hit the target with his powerful backhand.
After some set of training, we aimed to hit the balls deeply.

A fun game: 3 vs. 3.
The score was close. Boys did a good job, they all enjoyed the game.

Today, we focus on the net game: volleys and overhead.
Boys didn't know how to hit an overhead. The beginner like Jeffrey didn't know what's an overhead is. Oscar tried his best and he had a quite powerful smash. In terms of the volleys, I can see they have the room of improvement.

We had the 2 to 1 match.
This drill is very effective and meaningful for our boys.
Louvre, Calvin and Oscar in the same group, while the rest are in another group.
The two vs. one game is quite challenge. You know, the two should totally beat the one person. What you have to do is only return all the balls back to the court, you don't have to hit a winner shot or some powerful killer shots. However, boys didn't know this!!

At first, they did bad. The two couldn't beat the one.
I told them what they should do! At the end, it became better.

Hitting a consistent shot is very important, not only in the Inter-school competition, but also every match. I hope the boys can know the fact that a powerful killer shot or their risk shots are not enough to win a point. What we should do is to be consistent!!

A nice day.

1 comment:

Joseph Kee-Yin Ng said...

Edmond,

The reason you see Jeffrey for the first time on your training session is because Jeffrey is not in the team yet. He should be playing on Friday joining his Form one classmates and later on prove himself to be one of the team members.

I know Lourve and the others had been very kind to Jeffrey and thanks for taking good care of him.

Anyway, I can see Jeffrey is improving and very keen on playing tennis. If I have more time playing with him, he would have been a lot better. Somehow I think he should switch his racquet, too. His Wilson N5 Force at 110 sq in is too power for him now :)