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#29: Jaro Levinsky – Full time Coach, Husband & Father
Today you are going to listen to Jaro Levinksy, Jaro was a professional player himself reaching a career high of #239 in singles & #24 in doubles. Immediately after retiring as a pro he went into coaching & has been at the Schuettler-Waske Tennis University & the private coach for Schuettler himself. He has had coaching stints with Sergiy Stakhovsky, Yen-Hsun Lu & the junior player Olga Fridman. Jaro has been a consultant for the Turkish Tennis Federation & is currently the coach of Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
In this conversation you’ll get to know:
– How Jaro goes about traveling full time on the tour while having a wife & a small child
– The difference on coaching an established professional player & an up and coming junior
– Why it’s essential to set limits as a coach & how to do it
Enjoy the show!
Timestamps
02:00 Own playing career – why coaching
03:11 The steps that took Jaro into professional Coaching
06:20 The most important lesson learned at Schuetler-Waske
08:05 Coaching Rainer Schuetler
11:45 Similarities & differences on coaching a young & an older guy on tour
13:03 Traveling as a tennis coach while having a kid
15:05 How to balance traveling that much away from your family
16:37 Difference in working with an established player & a junior player
19:08 Differences in working on ATP & WTA Tour
20:37 The Turkish Federation
24:31 How Hrbarty would describe Jaro’s look on tennis
26:38 How the players on tour have changed
28:17 Setting limits as a tennis coach
30:59 Why you need to push players outside of their comfort zone
32:15 How to get players outside of their comfort zone in practices
33:20 Nothing tastes better than winning
33:46 Most important characteristics in a tennis player
34:24 Decision making skills
36:17 Efficient practices
39:40 Playing Pokemon is biggest waste of time on tour
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By Adam Blicher, Tennis Coach
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Today you are going to listen to Jaro Levinksy, Jaro was a professional player himself reaching a career high of #239 in singles & #24 in doubles. Immediately after retiring as a pro he went into coaching & has been at the Schuettler-Waske Tennis University & the private coach for Schuettler himself. He has had coaching stints with Sergiy Stakhovsky, Yen-Hsun Lu & the junior player Olga Fridman. Jaro has been a consultant for the Turkish Tennis Federation & is currently the coach of Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
In this conversation you’ll get to know:
– How Jaro goes about traveling full time on the tour while having a wife & a small child
– The difference on coaching an established professional player & an up and coming junior
– Why it’s essential to set limits as a coach & how to do it
Enjoy the show!
Timestamps
02:00 Own playing career – why coaching
03:11 The steps that took Jaro into professional Coaching
06:20 The most important lesson learned at Schuetler-Waske
08:05 Coaching Rainer Schuetler
11:45 Similarities & differences on coaching a young & an older guy on tour
13:03 Traveling as a tennis coach while having a kid
15:05 How to balance traveling that much away from your family
16:37 Difference in working with an established player & a junior player
19:08 Differences in working on ATP & WTA Tour
20:37 The Turkish Federation
24:31 How Hrbarty would describe Jaro’s look on tennis
26:38 How the players on tour have changed
28:17 Setting limits as a tennis coach
30:59 Why you need to push players outside of their comfort zone
32:15 How to get players outside of their comfort zone in practices
33:20 Nothing tastes better than winning
33:46 Most important characteristics in a tennis player
34:24 Decision making skills
36:17 Efficient practices
39:40 Playing Pokemon is biggest waste of time on tour
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