Episode 27. The Cheating Myths in Junior Tennis Show
Chris says, “If you listen to this episode, you will get hooked!”
Here is the link to Chris’s comprehensive article “How to Handle Cheating.”
prodigymaker.com/index.php/2018/1…ow-to-handle-it/
It’s a great guide for kids and parents and will help you come up with a plan for handling cheating.
Chris discusses his latest article, 13 Cheating Myths in Junior Tennis, and briefly concludes with his vision of the future of the game and technology vis-à-vis coaching.
Industry leaders Brian Boland, Jeremy Malfait all chime in and give a shout out!
Chris spends a lot of time debating the positives and negatives about retaliatory cheating and whether it is moral to teach your kids to cheat back.
Chris does not shy away from this controversial topic.
Other topics discussed on the show:
—How the Eastern USTA section is notorious for having the worst cheating and gamesmanship
—How the USTA Player Development Compete Like A Champion podcast’s naive perspective on cheating was mostly wrong on its last show
—How Chris disagrees with USTA Sport Psychologist Dr. Larry Lauer about cheating and how to deal with it—even though Larry is a good dude
—How Cheating is a big problem caused by a “powerful minority”
—Why there is less cheating in Europe
—How the rules of tennis need to be updated to prevent cheating
—A cheating story shared by a mom of one of Chris’s students.
—The “dirty little secret” of junior tennis is that most of the best nationally ranked kids retaliatory cheat. They cheat back
—Are you a Cheat Back Parent or Coach. Or are you a Never Cheat Coach or Parent?
—Why junior tennis is a setup
—How to develop a plan to combat cheating
—The Vic Braden approach to handling a cheater
—If your kid cheats back, will they become a cheater in future life and work
—Why umpires are useless to stop cheating and often make things worse
—How do we get justice for all the good kids playing junior tennis tournaments
—Why parenting and coaching should be allowed in junior tennis and how coaching could help make the game more fair.
—Cheating in junior tennis as a microcosm and reflection of a larger cultural debate in politics
—Why cheating back—reactive cheating—is more moral than proactive cheating
—Why even one bad line call by a cheater can cost a player the match
—Cheating and performance enhancing drugs
—Why retaliatory cheating often works and actually deescalates a situation
—Chris tells his Peter Smith USC cheating story
—Chris offers simple solutions to end cheating NOW
——How technology will end cheating once-and-for-all
—The Future Of Coaching with big data, AI and smart courts. Are coaches in danger of losing their jobs to technological innovation?
Sammie says hello and proceeds to take a nap on the couch. Let’s hope he doesn’t pee on it like he did last time.
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