Tennis Queensland

2008 Professional Development

 

2008 was a successful year for coaches in the area of professional development. Tennis Australia in conjunction with Tennis Queensland worked hard to provide coaches within Queensland a vast array of guest speakers, presenting on a wide range of topics. A summary is listed below: 

PD Workshop # 1 

Date:  May 20, 2008 

Location: Club Coops 

 Topics Covered:   

  • Fix Your Serve for Life – Craig Tiley
  • Core Drills – David Hodge

Price: NA 

PD Workshop # 2 

Date:  July 4, 2008 

Location: University of Queensland Topics Covered:                         

  •  Skill Aquisition – Dr Damian Farrow
  •  ChildsPlay Marketing – Belinda Foot
  •  ChildsPlay Marketing – Karen Clydesdale

 Price: $66.00 TACM, $88.00 Others 

 PD Workshop # 3 

 Date:  September 19 and 21, 2008 

 Location:   Rockhampton 

 Topics Covered:    

  • From Tee to Green – Learning from Our Competitors – Gary Calder
  • Practical Implications for Modern Skill Acquisition Techniques on the Tennis Court – Constraints Based Learning – Rob Leeds
  • Transition Tennis Tactics – David Hodge
  • Monitoring & Manipulating Workloads for Tennis Grant Jenkins

 Price: $66.00 TACM, $88.00 Others 

 PD Workshop # 4 

 Date: October 3, 2008 

 Location: University of Queensland 

 Topics Covered:                          

  • Coordination drills for Tennis Players – Machar Reid 
  • Movement & fitness drills for the developing athlete – Grant Jenkins 
  • Prehabilitation exercises for the young athlete – Grant Jenkins 
  • Warming up for fun & success– Grant Jenkins  

 

Price: $66.00 TACM, $88.00 Others PD Workshop # 5Date: December 12, 2008

Location: Queensland Tennis Centre

 Topics Covered:                        

  • Quality Communication – it’s a two way street – Anthony Ross 
  • Wheelchair Tennis – coaching athletes with a disability – Greg Crump 
  • Wheelchair Tennis – coaching athletes with a disability – David Hall

Price:  $33.00 TACM, $55.00 Others