ACE Tennis for Kids - Blue Book
ACE Tennis for Kids – Blue Book is designed to help show you some simple, fun and practical activities that you can copy to play with children aged approximately 2 – 5 years.
The activities are designed to improve children’s coordination and, parents’ and coaches’ communication skills. Movement for children is an essential foundation for a healthy lifestyle and improved levels of co-ordination in children builds self-esteem leading to greater confidence.
Parents often ask the question “What can I do at home to help to support the weekly tennis lesson?” The following fun activities can provide creative solutions to this question. The main video chapters cover the four fundamental ingredients for success in sport:
MOVEMENT (How to Move)
MAGIC (How to hit)
MISSION (Where to hit and how to receive)
MINDSET (Life skills)
Remember that the ball is in your court.
What's on the other side?
MOVEMENT: Think A, B, C's
A = Agility
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Happy Feet & Monkey Split
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Crocodiles & Lizards
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Animal Surprise
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Mirror Mirror
B = Balance
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Run & Freeze
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Train Driver
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Aeroplane arms
C = Colours (Co-ordination)
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Colour cones
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Planets
MAGIC: How to hit
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Demonstrations for all strokes
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CUE words
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Support Skills
MISSION: Sending & Receiving Skills
B = Ball
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Paint the body
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Chocolate Buttons
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Scoop Ball
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Feed the Sharks or Catch the Butterflies
L = Lower
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Trap Ball
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Rolly Polly
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Pop-ups
U = Upper
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Wake up
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Under or Over
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Keep the ball alive
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Running Hot Potatoes
E = Environment
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Bouncy, bouncy 1, 2 or 3
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Building Block Tennis
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Rolling Rock
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Goal Keeper
MINDSET: Life Skills
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E = Excitement
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X-factor
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P = Play
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O = Opportunity
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R = Read
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E = Enthusiasm
Testimonial -
John “Fitzy” Fitzgerald, Ex Australian Davis Cup & #1 Doubles
“Through Emma’s energy and passion to make a difference in people’s lives, she has the ability to engage people instantly and maintain an ongoing enthusiasm for both sport and life. She engages the beginner through to the high performance player, is a natural in working with different personalities and I have no hesitation in recommending Emma to anyone who wants to get the best out of themselves.”
Testimonial -
Bianca Smith – Former tennis player, AUSTRALIA
“Working with Emma Doyle was a memorable experience and one that has left a last impression. Her ability not only as a tennis coach but the life skills that she instilled within me and my life moving forward is something I’ll be forever grateful for. Working with Emma left me feeling empowered thanks to her techniques in goal setting, her values, her skills and knowledge in regards to self-awareness and teaching me to remove self-judgement made me so confident in being able to reach for my goals. Emma has this indescribable energy about her, when you’re around her you can’t help but feel like you can achieve absolutely anything. Her positivity is infectious and I always look forward to working with her again.”
Buy the BLUE, RED, ORANGE & GREEN books and a BONUS Dr. Suess inspired Blue stage book and video series all within the ACE Coach membership site
Your online facilitator:
Emma Doyle
Emma Doyle is the coaches’ coach and an online facilitator in helping individuals turn their motivation into activation. This course will kick-start your energy and your interest due to the practical coaching strategies that can be adapted across all stages and ages of development. She is a Tennis Australia high-performance coach with a strong background as a touring professional having represented her native country of Australia over 20 times. She is passionate about helping individuals embrace coaching principles allowing them to see beyond what they could have ever imagined.
Emma embodies the principles within the ACE Tennis for Kids Video and Book series helping you do the same. She is a TEDx speaker (Unleashing Female Potential) who is on a mission to create a world of gender equity through female empowerment.
Coordination EQUALS confidence.
The ball is in your court.