Nov 25, 2019
In this episode we have master Athletic Development Coach, Vern Gambetta on the Podcast. Coach Gambetta has 50 years experience spanning across all levels from developing athletes to training professional athletes in sports such as Baseball, Soccer, Swimming, Track and Field and Tennis (and more). Coach Gambetta runs...
Nov 18, 2019
The team welcomes David Ramos, Performance Analytics Manager at USTA Player Development, to the podcast. The guys talk about the benefits of using data to inform tennis coaches and players, as well as best practices on how to use the information. They also talk about some of the important statistics coaches should...
Nov 11, 2019
It has been suggested that mental health issues might be greater in performance staff than in the athletes. In a high performance world the consequences of your decisions are highly scrutinized. In many sports, job stability is not high. The podcast team challenges the notion of work-life balance in high performance...
Nov 4, 2019
Can there be perfection in tennis? The word perfect often comes up in the language of coaching. Perfect practice leads to greater performance and other such myths exist in the world of sport. Is the pursuit of perfection actually slowing down development of players and adversely affecting their belief and focus? ...