06/26/2024 11:57am 6 minute read

Getting parents to buy into your coaching methodology is a key to your success. In addition you know the importance of improving your players. Being on the same page with the parents allows the buy-in and makes the parents want to pony up more and more with you as a coach. Parents want an organized and bright coach that can help their kid move forward in tennis and life.

Seamless insights of your lessons are very important and are typically done incorrectly through phone calls, texts and or from parents occasionally watching a lesson. These insights are never succinct and are never easy to exactly remember the fashion in which the subject was discussed after the fact.

These insight updates also take extra time out of the coach's busy day. Coaches typically don't  want to give these detailed  updates because they don’t get paid for them, and this creates extra anxiety for the coach. A lot happens between a coach and player during practice and training and the parent is usually the last to know.

This creates a divide between keeping the parents informed of exactly what their kid needs to work on to improve. So parents  are kind of oblivious to what went on during a training session and at best they get a partial picture of their kid's game. If they get information about a training session, it is either an incomplete picture from the coach or it comes straight from their child and is rarely spot-on or the full picture.

So, how do you keep parents well-informed and make the coach want to buy into the process?

Here's the solution. 

One of the many reasons coaches love FCT is because it provides seamless integration and insights with date and time stamps of all video and all analysis all in one Lesson Space.

When coaches use a Free Stroke Analysis Lesson (users load a whole match or just a stroke) in FCT during a training session, parents can follow along (coach can add multiple participants), and understand exactly the full instructions from the coach in the video analysis the coach provides. Parents don't need to depend on their kid's recollection to stay updated and in the loop. Everything is right there in detail with the videos to see it accurately and completely. All the video is in chronological order with analysis that has date and time stamps.

Here you can start a Stroke Analysis Lesson.

This is especially beneficial for coaches or players to routinely record video during their practices and load it to the Lesson Space. The coach analyses make sure the parents understand the essential points and can review them anytime with their kid to make sure the kid is practicing efficiently.

This immensely cuts down the coach time spent on the phone, texting, or emails with the parents. 

Here is the critical aspect that all coaches must understand! To make your players improve faster there is no other way to accomplish this feat than with visual feedback tracking your video analyses and progress all in one place. A coach's time is valuable so the coach needs to charge 15 minutes a week extra time on to your lesson price as included in the weekly lesson. Take that 15 minutes and give them the feedback on the video in the Lesson Space. Not only will this decrease your time on the phone or after the lesson with the parent but you will be making money off the court and giving your student and parent the valuable and exact feedback they need to improve. This creates a WIN WIN!

Above is a Lesson Space with multiple participants, so all coaches, the player, and the parents have access!

Parents will definitely appreciate your work more as they can stay on top of their kid to work on the proper things you are advocating. This creates a concise, easy to follow, track system and history of any player’s progress. Parents will want to continue with you as a coach because they can see the progress and easily identify the issues that need to be worked on. This is a no brainer!

By weekly posting videos inside your player’s Lesson Space on FCT, everything is at your fingertips and removes all doubt of what the player is working on and how they are progressing. Just like that, all the tedious communication details vanish.

Parents love this process to accurately see where their kid is at any point in time. Sharing your analysis and plan in an FCT Lesson Space can easily secure commitment from everyone involved. Inside the Lesson Space includes all the tools and technology to track your progress.

This methodology gives the parents confidence that they have not only a dedicated coach but also a bright and smart coach. 

Inside the Lesson Space, the coach can give the player notes.

This also gives the parent a shared vision of their kid’s journey. Parents gain a deeper understanding of the dynamic relationship between their child and the coach. As a result, they’ll better value the efforts from both sides and understand how they can support rather than hinder the coaching relationship.

This assertive approach to communication can also significantly increase your income off the court and save you time when executed effectively.

Parents can easily ask questions within the Lesson Space. However, make sure to limit your texts and questions to 15 minutes a week in the Lesson Space and make it an added weekly fee to the Lessons. 

FCT is the ideal solution for seamless insight, creating deeper parent-coach relationships, and saving the coach a lot of precious time and allowing them to increase their income. This is a win-win for all tennis coaches! FCT is a no-brainer.

In the end, closing the divide between parents and coaches enhances connection, reduces time burdens, and fortifies the coach-player bond. Everyone will feel more confident knowing the player has the right instruments to succeed.

Here is a Lesson Space with nothing yet added. Press the camera button to send video. Press Add Lesson Participant to add more than one participants to the space.

It's easy to load video into the Lesson Space. Add media live, from your camera roll, from your FCT Library, or from Dropbox.

 

Read more of our blog to learn about Live Video Call Lessons, Multiple Participant Lesson Spaces, and Stroke Analysis Lesson Spaces.

 

Brian Teacher, Founder and CEO

bt@fullcourttennis.com