Let FourCoach focus your players and boost your business.
Our four points of assistance for coaches are designed to improve learning outcomes for students while focusing on building client loyalty and ensuring that players engage with local competitions and tournaments at higher rates.
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Coaching is education. If you are the coach, you are the teacher. As the teacher, you are no doubt well-versed on great drills, exercises, fitness activities, games and more. However, most coaches approach group and private lessons without a curriculum. Without a curriculum and a reporting schedule, the task of identifying what each student can and can't do becomes more difficult, especially if your lesson is covered by another coach. FourCoach has a straight-forward, easy to read curriculum with assessment guides and skill examples to follow. It has been developed by top players and coaches, former and current.
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If all of your lessons consist of the 'groundstrokes, volleys, serve and you're done' approach, it doesn't mean you're doing the wrong thing. It probably means that you're giving each player regular exposure to all of the most common and necessary strokes in the game. But realistically, if you want to take your players to the next level, there needs to be an easy to follow skill progression that you can draw from to know how to quickly focus your strategy for each student. FourCoach can take the headache out of this process and streamline it for you.
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Tennis coaching needs a passion for the game and a desire to see it grow, but the bottom line is that it is a business. If coaching is your revenue, it stands to reason that advancing your students to the point where they grow beyond the Saturday morning group class can be detrimental to your bottom line. However, a student who has been nurtured and coached to the point of being highly competitive will most likely look to you first when seeking out competitions and tournaments that will challenge and develop them further. FourCoach has a number of trialed and highly successful tennis competition and tournament formats that we can completely manage for you, granting you more time to focus on your coaching.
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Parents want the best for their children, generally speaking. If they've hired you to coach their child, it is a compliment to your record and reputation. FourCoach will assist you in building on this and ensuring that your students get the best tennis education possible from you and your coaches at your centre. Each quarter, we will provide parents and players with a progress report and what's next for them. An engaged and enthusiastic parent who can see a coach's commitment becomes an investment into a life-long player, loyal to your centre and to your competitions.
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Quick Q&A
Not a big fan of wordy websites? That's okay. Here are some quick summary notes for you:
The Universal Tennis Curriculum that we've devised isn't for coaches who have no idea what they're doing. It's for all coaches young and old, experienced and inexperienced, qualified and unqualified. All coaches know how to coach but our curriculum makes the road map clearer for the coach, the player and any other stakeholders such as parents.
FourCoach cares not for building a database of players, students or parents. If you value our curriculum and decide you'd like us to assist with generated reports or remote competition management, we communicate with you only. We do not collect contact information or details about players. We do not stamp our logo on resources we send for you to share. We are here to help you and grow with you.
You've already got a 'program' from your local, state or national tennis association. We've seen most of them, we've seen the good and bad and we've seen how many coaches regularly refer to their 'tennis bible'. What makes our curriculum different is the detail, the focus on progression and pre-requisite skills, the simple but highly effective assessments and the value it adds to how your clients see you.
You don't need tennis experts preaching to you about what drills, games and activities you should be doing with your students, young and old. You've already got your methodology and it works fine. No problems. We don't include any drills, games or activities in the curriculum. For most coaches, it's a waste of pages. What's important is the clarity and comprehensive linear progressions.
The FourCoach curriculum is comprehensive but it doesn't take weeks to wade through. We believe it to be the most assistive curriculum available but that doesn't mean it is in its final draft. The good news is that as more and more coaches use the curriculum, we expand the experience base that informs us through feedback. If you download the curriculum today, we email you every time it is updated, no charge.
Rarely does a coach have the time, flexibility or energy to finish a 5-hour coaching stint and then sit down and write notes about each player. Even rarer is the coach who is able to write an individual lesson plan for every student on their roster, every day and week. But FourCoach can absolutely make this a reality without destroying what's left of your sanity. It is possible and for many coaches, it's happening now.
FourCoach isn't going to cost you the earth. Our curriculum, while copyright protected, is reasonably priced. We offer optional services that are opt in/out and we don't ask you to sign contracts that tie you down to subscriptions, payment plans or timelines. We can generate monthly reports for two of your students, eleven of them or all of them. We can run a competition or organise a tournament. It's up to you.
FourCoach is a small collective of current and former top players and qualified coaches from Australia, China and the United States. To us, the Universal Tennis Curriculum, generating reports for players and coaches and assisting with running competitions and tournaments is a passion first, a business second. Generating income is important for us to realise our next goals, but our main goal is to support coaches.
