Learn to play tennis the SMART way with Vamos Tennis . What is SMART? Specific, Measurebale, Agreed, Realistic and Time phased. Lets go through some of our teaching method to get you through learning tennis with us the SMART way with the Form, Follow, Functions.
Vamos Tennis is the only tennis school in Singapore that employs this unique teaching approach. Under the guidance of Technical Director Eduardo Torres, Head Coach Syafiee, and Senior Coach Amir, we have achieved significant success with our methods. Our footwork and combination of the form-follow-functions approach have proven effective in developing numerous senior and junior national team players. Our most recent and notable achievement was having two players from Singapore, Bill Chan and Aditya Govilla, participate in the Junior Grand Slam 2023. This accomplishment is unprecedented, and we are proud to have guided them on this journey together.
To expand; Vamos Tennis does not believe that by learning technique first, will develop your game faster. We believe in approaching tennis differently, by giving you task and objective. Meaning we teach you the very basics of how to play tennis first (tactics). To achieve the task, you will need to figure out the technique yourself (self-discovery), and the end product is, you will get your technique naturally (Form).
In following this approach, we encourage our students to be able to rally from the very first lesson, creating more fun, motivation, and greater efficiency. This also promotes our students to learn how to identify different situations in tennis more quickly, and adapt more tactics earlier on. Once we feel that our students have a good understanding of the game, we will then step in and introduce some techniques to enhance their game. We play the game first, because Tennis is easy and fun. We encourage to learn tennis the SMART way.
Lets go through an example of Form, Follow, Function – You can also practice this outside of the court (i.e your room – with just your hand as the racket and a ball).
Task 1 – Hit the ball up in the air – You’ll find yourself hitting the ball under.
Task 2 – Hit the ball to the ground – You’ll find yourself hitting the top of the ball.
Task 3 – Hit the ball to the left or the right – You’ll find yourself hitting the ball on either side.
Task 4 – Hit forward, towards the net – You’ll find yourself hitting the backside of the ball.
Task 5 – Hit forward and up – A Combination of ‘Task 1’ and ‘Task 4’.
Task 6 – Hit forward and up to a specific direction – A Combination of ‘Task 1’, ‘Task 3’, and ‘Task 4’.