Two International Speakers are coming to APA’s next SAQ workshop
Hi there,
I am excited to announce that this June I am opening out my usual four hour ”Speed, Agility & Quickness Training” Workshop to six hours. For the first time I will be inviting two additional International speakers, Ruben Neyens and Howard Green. Both Howard and Ruben were speakers at the recent 2018 Grand Slam Coaches’ Conference in Australia.
Myself, Ruben and Howard will each present for 45-minute in the morning and then again in the afternoon. The goal is to showcase the entire physical development journey from Mini tennis 10-under, to 14-under Junior performance tennis to the Pro game. This workshop will be suitable for any coach, teacher or parent who is interested in learning about speed development for tennis players (as well as those athletes who play other sports).
Plan for the day:
We will break the speed drills down into fundamentals, semi-specific and specific drills for tennis.
Ruben Neyens: Fundamentals Morning and afternoon: speed drills and games for the 10-under player
Daz Drake: Semi-specific Morning: the APA speed training system. Afternoon: speed drills for the 14-under player
Howard Green: Specific Morning: RREADERR model introduction. Afternoon: speed drills for the Pro player
Price: £50
Dates: Sunday 3rd June 2018 9am-3pm
Location: Gosling Sports Park
Book Online HERE
About the Speakers
Daz Drake
Daz Drake been a professional coach since 2000 and specialises in youth fitness and Tennis. He has been an an accredited S&C coach with the UKSCA since 2007 and the director of Athletic Performance Academy (APA) which provide Strength & Conditioning coaching to several high performance Tennis Academies including Gosling and Sutton Tennis Academy.
He has had the pleasure to work with some of the best junior tennis players in the world including players who have gone on to play at the professional level, and has worked with two Top 50 WTA Tennis players.
Ruben Neyens
Ruben Neyens combines the roll of head of coach education and physical coach for the High Performance Department U12 for Tennis Vlaanderen (= the Flemish Tennis Federation). Together with a team Ruben coordinates programs and projects like KidsTennis, Physical coach development, regional workshops and many more. He is co-author of the manual KidsTennis and developed the physical coach manual and several other coach education programs. On ITF Tennis iCoach and Instagram you can see a lot of contributions about physical training. He has also been a speaker at national and international conferences. Ruben has a degree in Physical Education and started his career in his own town Tessenderlo as head coach.
Howard Green
Howard has been the Head of Strength & Conditioning at USN Bolton Arena High Performance Tennis Academy for 8 years. He is an accredited S&C coach with the UKSCA, a Certified Tennis Performance Specialist with the iTPA and has a First Class Hons degree in Sports Coaching – including several coaching qualifications. Prior to coaching Howard spent 6 years in the Royal Marines Commandos, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Howard has experience preparing Professional and Junior players at WTA, ATP, ITF and Tennis Europe levels, most notably working with world number one Ana Ivanovic. Howard has his own training philosophy and methodology, which takes into account both the general and specific physical qualities needed. He also places a high amount of importance in training coordination abilities to enhance movement performance.
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