Entries by dazdrake

Pacey Performance Podcast REVIEW- Episode 380 Alistair McBurnie & Tom Dos’Santos – Part 1

This blog is a review of the Pacey Performance Podcast Episode 380 – Alistair McBurnie & Tom Dos’Santos   Alistair McBurnie   Alistair is a sports science analyst for Manchester United’s first team, having worked his way up from coaching at academy level.   Twitter   Tom Dos’Santo   Tom is a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan […]

Russian Special Strength Training (SST) – Part 3

This is the last blog post to round off my series on ”Power” development as it relates to jumping.  There will definitely be a follow up on other concepts such as rotational power and upper body power, but I’ll save that for another day.   Special Strength Training Manual for Coaches – Vuri & Natalia […]

Russian Special Strength Training (SST) – Part 2

This is the last blog post to round off my series on ”Power” development as it relates to jumping.  There will definitely be a follow up on other concepts such as rotational power and upper body power, but I’ll save that for another day.   Special Strength Training Manual for Coaches – Vuri & Natalia […]

Russian Special Strength Training (SST) – Part 1

This is the last blog post to round off my series on ”Power” development as it relates to jumping.  There will definitely be a follow up on other concepts such as rotational power and upper body power, but I’ll save that for another day.   Special Strength Training Manual for Coaches – Vuri & Natalia […]

Pacey Performance Podcast REVIEW- Episode 373 Jeremy Sheppard & Dana Agar-Newman

This blog is a review of the Pacey Performance Podcast Episode 373 – Jeremy Sheppard & Dana Agar-Newman   Jeremy Sheppard Jeremy is a strength conditioning coach with Canada Snowboard, previously having also worked with the Canadian Sport Institute. Twitter Dana Agar-Newman Dana is a senior practitioner at the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific, and a head […]

Does the Jump Squat Fail to Deliver?

As part of APA’s goal to be the Best Tennis S&C Team in the World I am reviewing the #APA Method and have been identifying and questioning my assumptions about various aspects of the method.  This is one of several posts looking at the concept of ”Power.”  It started with my review of Triphasic Method […]

The Force-Velocity Curve for Tennis – Part 2

In today’s blog I’m going to follow up the first blog- The Force-Velocity Curve for Tennis- Part 1   As stated in the first blog, one way to conceptualise the forces acting on the body is by using the F-V curve and placing various tennis actions on the curve.   I ask my coaches to do […]

APA Job Opportunity – Gosling Tennis Academy

Coaches- please give your attention to the Job Advert below.  Anyone interested should contact me immediately and submit their CV for consideration as this role is for an immediate start.                                                  ? APA […]

Is there any Evidence that Surfing the Curve is Important?

In my last blog I talked about conceptualising the forces acting on the body by using the F-V curve and placing various tennis actions on the curve.   I ask my coaches to do this exercise when they first work in Tennis with APA and so in Part 2 of this blog I will present an […]