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#41: Edgar Giffenig – Developing Stroke Flexibility
In this episode you are going to listen to Edgar Giffenig, Edgar has been a National Coach in Mexico, Germany & the States. In 2013 he published the book “Developing High Performance Tennis Players” & he is currently the partner of the online Tennis Education platform Tennisgate.com.
In this episode you’ll get to know:
– What stroke flexibility is & how to develop it
– How Women oftentimes hit harder than they run
– The story of the Magic Wand
Enjoy the show!
Timestamps
01:30 Lessons from 3 different National Federations
06:59 Biggest takeaway with a small budget
09:11 Capitalizing on great players
12:23 The downside of having large funds
13:43 Stroke flexibility
20:14 Dealing with competitive pressure
22:39 Process vs resultorientation
24:47 How Edgar organized his thoughts
29:42 How women hit faster than they run
33:02 Why Edgar would never go fulltime on tour as a coach
35:10 Teach yourself
37:42 Antroprometric streotypes in tennis
40:32 Every coach is not good for every player
42:01 Why you learn a lot from newly started coaches
43:33 Edgar’s favourite books
45:10 Different players, different approaches
46:10 Why Edgar is NOT huge on statistics
47:32 The truth is always in the middle
51:07 How the culture has changed
53:26 Over organized practice schedules
56:37 It’s all about the player
57:35 The Magic Wand story
58:21 Get to know more about Edgar
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By Adam Blicher, Tennis Coach
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In this episode you are going to listen to Edgar Giffenig, Edgar has been a National Coach in Mexico, Germany & the States. In 2013 he published the book “Developing High Performance Tennis Players” & he is currently the partner of the online Tennis Education platform Tennisgate.com.
In this episode you’ll get to know:
– What stroke flexibility is & how to develop it
– How Women oftentimes hit harder than they run
– The story of the Magic Wand
Enjoy the show!
Timestamps
01:30 Lessons from 3 different National Federations
06:59 Biggest takeaway with a small budget
09:11 Capitalizing on great players
12:23 The downside of having large funds
13:43 Stroke flexibility
20:14 Dealing with competitive pressure
22:39 Process vs resultorientation
24:47 How Edgar organized his thoughts
29:42 How women hit faster than they run
33:02 Why Edgar would never go fulltime on tour as a coach
35:10 Teach yourself
37:42 Antroprometric streotypes in tennis
40:32 Every coach is not good for every player
42:01 Why you learn a lot from newly started coaches
43:33 Edgar’s favourite books
45:10 Different players, different approaches
46:10 Why Edgar is NOT huge on statistics
47:32 The truth is always in the middle
51:07 How the culture has changed
53:26 Over organized practice schedules
56:37 It’s all about the player
57:35 The Magic Wand story
58:21 Get to know more about Edgar
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