• Adult Programs

  • Cardio Tennis – the Official Cardiovascular Fitness Fun on a Tennis Court – Heart rate targeted, possibly the most fun you’ve ever had.

  • Doubles Tennis – Your Partner and You are More Than a Team

  • Family Education – It takes a village to develop a player

  • Fitness Testing and Training – Get Fit to Play

  • Lessons – Groups we form, Groups you form, Private and Family lessons

  • Mental Emotional Discipline – What good are your strokes if you’re too nervous to use them

  • Practice – Practice makes progress. Whether working on skills or tactical abilities, drills and other types of focused practice drives improvement most quickly.

  • Serve, Rally & Score (SRS) – Etiquette, The Code, Score Keeping and Proficiency

  • Socials, Hit-Arounds, Round-Robins – Play!

  • Teams and Competitive Play – Leagues, Ladders, Mini-Tournaments, and Custom Matches.  Test your development; Develop competitive skills.

  • Yoga – Core Fitness, Mindfulness, Breathe that’s Tennis! That’s Yoga!!
    

Junior & Kids Programs

• • Tiny Tennis – 3-5 Year Old Players Deserve Their Own Creative Curriculum

  • 5 – 18 Year Old Players – Every part of our junior curriculum is age and ability based:

    • commonly with overlapping ages (e.g. 5-7s, 7-9s…) on every 3rd year

    • properly scaled for children at every age

    • age appropriate physical, mental, emotional, and social development

    • Character Curriculum – Competitive Tennis Naturally Trains Character, We Supercharge It Starting at Age 5

  • Fun Intensive Tennis Training (FITT) – Half or full days of fun, Holistic Development every day for a Week

  • Lessons – Groups we form, Groups you form, Private and Family lesson

  • Practice and Play – Focused Practice and Appropriate Play.  Practice makes Progress; Play is What We All Do

  • Serve, Rally & Score (SRS) – Etiquette, The Code, Score Keeping and Proficiency

  • Teams and Competitive Play – Leagues, Ladders, Mini-Tournaments, and Custom Matches.  Test your development; Develop competitive skills.

  • Positively Tennis Academy (formerly Complete Player Program)

    • Player Triangle Required.  Includes 3 Curricula in 1

      • Modern Technical, Tactical, and Strategic play

      • Fitness Testing and Training – Get Physically Fit to Play

      • Mental Emotional Discipline – Get Mentally Fit to Play

    • Goals, Plans, and Measurement for each player

School programs – Start the Lifelong Educational Journey Now

 

For all tennis players it has to be fun, and for 3 to 5 year old kids it is especially about instilling a positive association with this wonderful lifelong sport.  Fundamental ABCs (agility, balance, coordination) and the good beginnings of hand-eye coordination are the athletic focus of what is a theme based, creativity and imaginary, curriculum for 3 to 5 year olds. 

For children, starting with 5 to 7 year old kids, we use the ITF/USTA standardized scaled play models.   With the red, orange and green balls we have kid-sized courts of 36′ (Red), 60′ (Orange), and 78′ (Green/Yellow) to help young players develop skills and tactics quicker and earlier without being on courts that are too big, with balls that bounce too high, and racquets that are too long.

Lower nets, smaller courts and especially the low pressure balls allow beginners a faster transition to tennis play and quicker success for all ages. Play-based player development has allowed us to all but eliminate lines in our tennis programs. (Oh, but the kids do love to play “Pool”)

Tennis players can only achieve their best if they are mentally, emotionally, and physically on their game.   And positive character traits are needed in sport and life as well.  All this is baked in to our holistic approach to kids tennis.

Tennis is a game of controlled power in specific dimensions.  Controlling direction, depth, pace and spin has different learning opportunities with properly scaled tennis (balls, racquets & courts).

We can also recommend racquet types, strings and grips for your style of play.  It is important that your child have the proper sized racquet; and using the properly bouncing (low compression) ball may be the difference between success and frustration for your young player.

Loaner racquets are available for the first class if needed.

As children generally are not keenly aware of their personal space, and where they are swinging their new racquets, we organize the players accordingly. We try to help children develop their awareness. This awareness comes faster to some than others, and can be fleeting when kids get particularly excited.. 

Children in our programs are reminded that safety means physically, mentally, and emotionally.  Safety is our first Rule, right along with Fun (Rule #2).  However it obviously cannot be fun if it is not safe.

When you register for a program you have the opportunity to provide us with emergency contact information.   Hopefully we will never ever need it, however we want to have the right contact information should something happen.

Players are responsible for their actions, and coaches are responsible for organizing players and activities to reduce safety risks to acceptable levels. 

For environmental safety you can see our weather policy here. 

 

Besides the honorable communications that are needed to execute your tennis match, remember practice makes progress.  During your practice and play sessions you have all sorts of opportunity to visit with your friends and/or make new ones.

Before play, after play, during a water break – socialize.

We want to get to know you, not just as a player.  Get to know you’re coach.  We are here for you.

Tennis socials, round robins, and Hit-arounds are all examples of excuses to socialize and play tennis.  Of course we shouldn’t need an excuse to play and socialize.

We encourage social interactions during our programs for all ages.   With kids we sometimes have to foster the interaction, and those activities are included in our classes. 

In some group lessons we use multiple courts and multiple teachers to keep teacher-to-student and student-to-court ratios right, and get the benefits of a large group for some activities. 

With kids, group lessons may help to motivate youngsters to try and do more things. Also, kids teaching kids is a very effective part of a good learning environment.

Kids, particularly younger ones, can generally benefit from larger group (peer) activities including fitness activities and group games when the activities are well focused. 

You will have a closer and more tailored interaction with your coach, which will include individually personalized activities and drills.

If you are getting a series of lessons and working toward certain goals you may get videos to watch, and in Private lessons you may have video taken as well.

Your children probably will not get the full obstacle course, although they will almost certainly receive movement training of some type. Your children probably will not get the full Character-driven programming that kids groups get.

One similarity with all our lessons is that the first 3 “Rules”, Safety, Fun, and Effort, are always the same.

Another similarity is that private, Semi-Private, and Family private classes can include same types of content of many of the group programs such as, lessons with skill development, ability drills, play for fun, and Advanced Score.

Small Group lesson contents are generally a mix between our regular group classes and the Private/Semi/Family classes.  You can see more specifics about the Small Groups just below.

Even with fun as a focus, private and semi-private lessons require more focus and mental energy than a larger group lesson. For this reason, private lessons need to be considered carefully for children under 8 and those who are not yet “invested” in tennis.

30 minutes of 1-on-1 instruction is about the focus limit for many kids 8 and under, and an hour could be too long. On the other hand, we’ve had many shy young children who feel more comfortable starting off in a private lesson before joining a group.

The vast majority of our private lessons are player development, skill building focused. To get the most development and skills you should plan for a minimum of 2 to 3 hours of practice for every hour of lessons, and targeting 4 or more practice hours for each hour of instruction is even better.

Drills, hitting lots of balls, and focused practice, is the next most popular private lesson type. We don’t generally just provide hitting partners. If you are trying to accelerate your learning, the focus of a private or semi-private lesson may be the edge you need.

As with all skill-building lessons, with Family lessons it is usually most productive if all students are at least somewhat close in ability and/or skills. However this is frequently not the case, but don’t worry.  Family tennis is quality family time.

Depending on the age(s) of the child(ren) the lessons may lean toward the lowest level ability player, or an average that is not optimized for any specific family member.  Sometimes we break the hour family lesson into 2 half hour lessons.

Frequently the family combination ends up focusing more on the child’s needs, but that balance is up to the parent.  Your coach will discuss the approach with you.

Family lessons are also frequently made up of sibling children, and are also commonly multi-generational with a parent and child, or parents and children.

However it suits your family we’ll do our best to help everyone have fun and improve. If it is multi-generational you probably will want to discuss family social preferences with your coach before the lesson.