Check Your Team’s Scores From Anywhere
Being a hardcore fan is a lot of work. Not only do you have to show up to local games when they happen, but you have to show your support even when the team is away or not even playing. … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Good things to know
Ingredients of an Outlier
An Outlier is something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body OR a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample. For the past 2 years, I … Continue reading →
Why I Failed as a Tennis Player
January, 2003: I’m sitting on a Cliffside, overlooking the east coast of Australia, contemplating my future as a tennis player. I just battled through four rounds of qualifying to make it to the first round of a futures event. Today, … Continue reading →
Tennis is not about tennis. Why can’t people figure this out?
Tennis is one of the most difficult sports to learn, and one of the most complicated to master. This is why we have a sport in which only the top 100 make a living at it and the rest spend … Continue reading →
Assessment at a Young Age Could Save Your Child’s Tennis
This article was prompted by an increasing number of parents over the years contacting me for a truthful assessment of their child’s tennis. It is not so easy to receive the truth for some so I am here to give … Continue reading →
Athletes: Don’t Be a Comfort Seeker!
The post by Allistair McCaw Definition: A comfort seeker is an athlete/player who would rather be guided/coached by someone who tells them what they WANT to hear, instead of what they NEED to hear. They fear hard work. They fear the … Continue reading →
Why You Should not Aim for a Fun Tennis Journey
A lot of aspiring professional tennis players have this romantic idea that along your tennis journey, you will feel joy all the way through. They think that you should not lose the joy of tennis, and that if you do, … Continue reading →
Why Is Team Tennis Misunderstood?
Important facts to consider: 2 Million kids tennis play ages 13- to 17-year-olds. In high school age 184,000 girls play tennis and 157,000 boys play There are 7.8 Million kids in High school sports Tennis represents 4% of high school … Continue reading →
How Do You Learn?
One thing that is very important as a coach or teacher, is to understand how your pupils, students or players learn best. If I was to go back to my early days as a coach, I would never teach anyone … Continue reading →
Top Tennis Gadgets to Improve Your Game
Gadgets are permeating every sector and tennis is no different. We’re not talking gadgets simply for gadget’s sake. Rather, pieces of tech which can help you to improve your performance. Just as with any other process, recording stats, finding trends … Continue reading →
Developing Sports Kid
The post by Allistair McCaw Youth Development. My Five Key Guidelines when it comes to developing sports kid: I believe that the single biggest mistake made in kids coaching and the developing of a young athlete is that the fundamentals are not taught … Continue reading →
Davis Cup Champions…Where Do We Go from Here?
First we had the answer to the annually asked question of ‘When will we have a British Wimbledon Champion?’ in July 2014 and now we have an answer to British success in the Davis Cup! British tennis is buzzing with … Continue reading →
How to Attract More Girls to Play Tennis
There are four times as many boys playing tennis in the UK compared to girls, so what is the reason for this and what can British tennis coaches do about increasing the numbers? I always like to write about topical items … Continue reading →
‘Fix it’ Coaches
The post by Allistair McCaw ‘Fix it’ Coaches – Why real change can’t happen until there is the first trust Something that I often notice in the coaching world is that us coaches just love to ‘fix things’. We start with … Continue reading →
Finding Talent!
I think the heading of this article is very provocative in itself as what we define as ‘talent’ can mean so many things. Usually this term is associated with finding young tennis players who have good potential to develop further … Continue reading →
Some Advice for Young Coaches
Some advice for young coaches by Allistair McCaw 1. Never go to a job interview and ask how much you are going to get paid or if you get weekends or public holidays off. 2. Never complain about long hours and working … Continue reading →
Being Great
What makes someone better than someone else is a huge subject that has endless possibilities and factors that if arranged in a certain combination or occurrence can produce amazing results. When we talk about the tennis greats from the past … Continue reading →
Letter to a Young Athlete
Letter to a young athlete by Allistair McCaw “Reality is, you are never going to realize your potential if you can’t master this one thing”. Dear Athlete, Here’s something I’d like to share with you that I’d wish someone would have … Continue reading →
Simple Thinking is Smart Thinking
Simple Thinking is Smart Thinking by Allistair McCaw It fascinates me how in today’s coaching world, how so many coaches (and athletes) want to make things complicated, adding on more and more, instead of subtracting and making it simpler. Staying close to … Continue reading →
The Tennis Lifestyle
The Tennis Lifestyle One thing I have learned in my Tennis experience is that Tennis and rushing don’t go together that well. You probably noticed that there is a lot of thinking involved in Tennis. The worst thing that you … Continue reading →