1. Read First
What is in this course?
This is a course you will see a series of video that I created for just the families at my club.
You are welcome to show this to your parents and families, but please remember that you are NOT supposed to give you log in details to anyone else. You CAN show them the videos in a meeting that you may run where they can come and learn.
Below the dotted line are the details I shared with our families.
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Once a week is not enough to get good at anything.
I’ve always been passionate about getting our kids that only practice once a week, to come on the second day a week so they could PLAY.
We put some effective policies in place that helped our players get on the court more often. We called it a junior walk-on pass. It was a way for our players to play more tennis without the club losing money and it worked great with our MS and HS players.
But the problem was, that our very youngest players (grades K-5) who had a walk-on pass, never used the pass because they were too young to call other players and get on the court… so they never ended up using the pass or playing a second day during the week.
So I created a policy where parents could play with their kids for free. But we still had resistance from parents because they felt like they were ill-equipped to do anything effective on the court with their own kids… after all, they were not tennis pros and in most cases, they did not even play tennis.
But I knew that with the modified equipment I could train parents exactly what they could to on the court with their own kids. And they would have the added benefit of spending more family time together while reducing the time their kids were on a “screen”. These were all things I knew today’s parents wanted.
This led to the creation webpage that has basically all the videos you are about to see in this course.
Below is the information I have directly from our website explaining the program to parents.
Junior Walk-on Pass: This is the secret weapon of everyone one of our highest ranked players. Every one of our best players has a junior walk-on pass and use it. Our junior walk-on policy allows juniors that are members and currently enrolled in a clinic (or a regularly scheduled weekly private lesson) to play for FREE any day of the week.
Below are the guidelines…
♦ Courts may be booked any day or time that the club is open.
♦ Players may book the court no earlier than 24 hours before the time they want to play.
♦ If any player on the court is using the walk-on pass, then all players must abide by the 24-hour rule before the court is booked or they will be charged the normal court rate.
♦ When booking the court, players must tell the desk staff that the court is a junior walk-on court.
♦ Only the player that is enrolled in the class receives his/her portion of the court time for free.
Parents & Kids Play for FREE: This year we will allow parents of the players in our junior program to play for free with their kids at no charge. Here is how it works.
♦ The child must be a member of the Dewitt Tennis Center ($160 per year) and be enrolled in either a clinic or taking a regularly scheduled weekly private lesson.
♦ The above will ensure that each player has a walk-on pass, which allows them to play for FREE if they book the court no earlier than 24 hours ahead of time.
♦ The parent does not have to be a member of the club nor do they have to pay court time! – Their child’s walk-on pass will suffice.
♦ Anytime a player and parent want to hit together, they must book the court using the walk-on guidelines (24-hour limit)
♦ The parent can only hit with their child and not any other kids.
I hope you can use this information to get your players on the court more often.