Tennis Courses

This course will run in a virtual environment using Teams. The course covers how to safeguard children and adults at risk by enabling delegates to recognise, respond, refer and record concerns in a tennis environment.

**This course is for all Level 1-5 Coaches and Welfare Officers looking to either join/renew coach accreditation or to get the safeguarding pre-requisite. You will also need to complete this course if your last safeguarding course was the LTA refresher 'Safeguarding in Tennis Together'. **

This is currently a virtual classroom (equivalent to a face to face course) hosted via Teams.

You will be sent a Teams link via email the day before the course starts. Please ensure the email address on your LTA profile is up to date and that you check your spam inbox to ensure you receive the joining instructions.

You do not need to print off anything before the course but may need to write notes as you go along. A handout will be provided after the course.

If you have completed face-to-face safeguarding training within the last 3 years you can take the online safeguarding module  Safeguarding In Tennis Together to renew. Please ensure you book onto the right version, as there are role specific versions (i.e. one for coaches, one for Welfare Officers etc).

A new training offer that aims to support individuals to activate (facilitate play) sessions in the sport of padel and gain important basic knowledge and skills for delivering padel. The course will focus on basics around padel as a sport, the role of walls, shot selection and court positioning and will also cover best practice for leading a session and feeding approaches.

Unit 1: Characteristics of padel
• Shot selection & Court positioning
• Introducing walls

Unit 2: How to activate padel
• Leading a session & feeding
• Practice feeding, game delivery

It is important to note that this course is an entry level award of one day and is not an advanced award in delivering padel.

Reasonable adjustments are available. Please contact the LTA Coach Development Centre delivering this course at the time of booking so that they can support these.

The 2022 LTA Coach Forums are aimed at coaches with an interest in developing their on-court practice with grass-roots players, networking with like-minded coaches, and discussing key industry topics relevant to developing their business, their players and themselves.

By the end of the LTA Coach Forum, participants will:

• Understand how to practically apply key coaching principles that ensure fun, active sessions that develop on-court decision making
• Be able to better develop and train tactical skills across three phases of play; attack, rally and defend, focusing on red stage players (but applicable to all beginner/intermediates)
• Have an opportunity to learn from each other, coming away with peer-to-peer ideas that help develop yourself and your coaching business

Dates

YORKSHIRE - 10 November 2022 - 9.30am–1.30pm - Leeds Beckett University

NORTH EAST - 3 November 2022 - 9.30am–1.30pm - Sunderland Tennis Centre

CARE : PLEASE CHECK YOUR ELIGIBILITY USING YOUR BTM CODE ON THE LTA WEBSITE - WE CANNOT GUARANTEE YOUR ACCEPTANCE IF YOU DO NOT MEET THE CORRECT PRE-REQUISITES

Cardio Tennis is an energetic, fun, fitness-based tennis product that all your members can get involved in and is a great addition to club programmes.

Please take care to read this information as if you do not meet the pre-requisites you may not be accepted onto the course.  You also need to be aware of the Frequently Asked Question documents on the following link.

http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/sport/coaching-development/tennis-courses/cardio-tennis-coaching-courses/

COURSE DETAILS

The course is designed to bring fun, inspiration, and coaching expertise to large numbers’ sessions. Developed in collaboration with Judy Murray and a former school teacher, the learning outcomes for this course are: 

• Understand the school sport landscape, including the challenges and opportunities it brings as a Coach
• Be able to deliver high intensity, fun, and engaging coaching sessions for large numbers
• Acquire lots of new drills, skills, and activities to animate camps and group lessons
• Develop excellence in differentiation skills across varied environments and populations

This is a valid elective module for the LTA Instructor coaching qualification.

This enhanced two day qualification (available from 1 July 2021) is ideal for tennis parents, enthusiasts, or keen players looking for the knowledge and skills to support group coaching sessions, alongside a lead Coach.

Learning outcomes include:

• Communication, organisation and differentiation skills for group coaching
• Basic tactical, technical, physical and mental development frameworks
• Other key assistant skills; from safeguarding to LTA Youth delivery.

Course Dates/Venues

6th August & 3rd September 2022
9am – 5pm
Huddersfield Lawn Tennis & Squash Club 

18th September & 9th October 2022
10am – 6pm
David Lloyd Teesside 

15th October & 26^th November 2022
9am – 5pm
Leeds Beckett University 

5^th November & 18^th December 2022
9am – 5pm
David Lloyd York

Booking Page for Level 3 Coach Qualification, please read the dates & details carefully and check your eligibility BEFORE booking.
You must meet all the course pre-requisites and be able to attend all the course dates listed below at the same venue. Under no circumstance can a candidate miss parts of the course or move between venues.

Please apply early.  All places are subject to availability and undertaking a pre-course conversation with the tutor to help understand the requirements and demands of the course

If you want to become a full-time tennis coach, our LTA Coach Qualification course is for you. Once you’ve completed this coach qualification, you’ll be trained to: 

• Coach beginners and improvers in groups and as individuals. 
• Understand the basics of business management. 
• Understand the competitive structure in the UK. 
• Manage the work of LTA Assistants and Instructors.

https://www.lta.org.uk/roles-and-venues/coaches/qualifications/level-3/

This enhanced five day qualification (available from 1 September 2021), is ideal for those looking to build on the coaching foundations of LTA Assistant/Level 1, enabling you to lead (not assist) in the delivery of group coaching.

Learning outcomes include:

• Develop more advanced skills in communication and organisation
• Have introductory knowledge of ‘observation and analysis’ of players
• Be able to provide general coaching advice across physical, mental, tactical, and technical domains
• Plan and deliver structured lessons from official LTA Adult and Junior coaching products e.g., Cardio Tennis, Tennis Xpress, LTA Youth
• Understand basic principles of skill acquisition, safeguarding and player development 

Course Dates/Venues

October 16th & 30th, November 13th & December 3rd  
10am – 6pm
Sunderland Tennis Centre 

September 18, October 9, November 6 & 27
9am – 5pm
Graves Tennis Centre, Sheffield

29th October, 6th, 27th November 2022 & 21^st January 2023
9am – 5pm
Leeds Beckett University 

5th, 26th March, 23rd April & 14th May 2023

9am - 5pm

Leeds Beckett University 

In order for you to be fully trained in LTA Youth you must complete the LTA Youth: Coach Foundation Training Online training alongside the LTA Youth: Coach Foundation Training. 

This is also an ELECTIVE option for the new INSTRUCTOR course

LTA Youth is the flagship coaching programme for junior players aged 4 – 18. Building on the success of Tennis for Kids, LTA Youth is a fresh, modern and comprehensive coaching programme, offering Coaches world class content, via a suite of videos and session plans for all stages of player development. The learning outcomes for this course are:

• Understand the over-arching coaching principles for LTA Youth
• Increase knowledge of the LTA Youth competencies across tactical, technical, physical, mental, competition and social domains
• Understand the skill acquisition and learning principles that underpin LTA Youth, which develop skills in a more robust way and provide children with a stronger sense of ongoing progression and challenge
• Be able to deliver a range of new fun and dynamic group exercises and sessions. In this foundation course, a small range of exercises from blue stage to green are covered