Quick Start Tennis - A Faster Approach To Teaching

When it comes to teaching tennis in Physical Education classes teachers are faced with a major resource problem.  Most public schools only have a few tennis courts to use so students spend half of their class time waiting to play rather than learning technique.

Of course there has always been a host of portable net systems or lesson plans that include using the gym to play but staying organized and purchasing multiple sets of game standards and other equipment can get very expensive.

With Quick Start Tennis the beginning level of play turns a single official size tennis court into 6 playing courts for your class.  That's a lot more space to teach the beginning skills required to play the game.

You purchase a set that divides the courts using "tennis caution tape" or roll down lines.  In addition special tennis balls are available.  In the first stage players use the red balls which are larger and slower than standard tennis balls.  The quick start tennis red balls are also perfect for use on gym floors where real tennis balls would slide instead of bouncing correctly.

When your players are ready to graduate from stage one you use the boundary lines to make your court 60 feet long.  Utilizing the second stage orange quick start tennis balls you will be able to expand the players skill level on the smaller court without forcing them to advance their skills to fast.

The final stage is the full size court but instead of using official tennis balls you use the Quick Start Tennis Stage 3 Green tennis balls.  These balls are 25% slower than official tennis balls so your budding tennis stars can react in time to use and build their technique.

So rather than dropping young players onto full size tennis courts you can use the Quick Start Tennis system to teach proper technique while building muscle memory and skill level through the use of a graduated court size system. 

You can find a full selection of Quick Start Tennis supplies at www.morleyathletic.com.