ACE Tennis for Kids – Blue Book: Online Course for Fun Activities (Ages 2-5)

About Course

ACE Tennis for Kids – Blue Book is designed to help show you some simple, fun and practical activities that you can copy to play with children aged approximately 2 – 5 years.

Please note, that we are not suggesting that your child needs to learn tennis at this age. They need to develop their FUNdamental perceptual-motor skills, such as movement, throw and catch, and striking skills in a FUN journey based play way! The activities are designed to improve children’s coordination and, parents’ and coaches’ communication skills. Movement for children is an essential foundation for a healthy lifestyle and improved levels of co-ordination in children builds self-esteem leading to greater confidence. Parents often ask the question “What can I do at home to help my child build their hand-eye and hand-foot coordination?” The following fun activities can provide creative solutions to this question.

The main video chapters cover the four fundamental ingredients for success in sport: MOVEMENT, MAGIC (Striking skills), MISSION (Where to hit and how to receive) and MINDSET (Life Skills).

Remember that the ball is in your court.

Course Content

INTRO – The Blue Book
While there are no associated videos with the INTRO, please download the attached PDF of the entire book so that you can follow along. The movement videos begin in chapter 6.

Download the PDF: ACE Tennis for Kids – Blue Book

Movement
The movement section offers activities to help develop physical skills that assist with how to “MOVE” and how to "STOP". It is an important time to develop basic locomotion skills.

Agility – 1) Happy Feet Monkey Split

00:34
Agility – 2) Crocodiles & Lizards

00:17
Agility – 3) Animal Surprises

00:48
Agility – 4) Mirror Mirror
Balance – 1) Run and Freeze

00:44
Balance – 2) Train Driver

00:53
Balance – 3) Aeroplane Arms

00:44
Colours – 1) Colour Cones

00:43
Colours – 2) Planets

00:39

Magic (Technique)
The magic refers to “HOW” to hit the ball. The reason I have chosen this word is due to the fun and imagination associated with the word magic.

FOREHAND – 1) Forehand Demonstration

00:27
FOREHAND – 2) Bounce Hit

00:45
FOREHAND – 3) Splats

00:51
BACKHAND – 1) Backhand Demonstration

00:12
BACKHAND – 2) Bounce Hit with Bell Ball

00:38
BACKHAND – 3) Tee Ball

01:04
SERVE – 1) Serve Demo and Shoe Lace Equipment

00:28
SERVE – 2) Serve Rocket Launcher

00:54
SMASH – 1) Smash Demo

00:28
SMASH – 2) Smash Catch Variations

00:39
VOLLEY – 1) Volley Demo

00:40
VOLLEY – 2) Volley Catch Variations

01:00

Mission (Tactical)
The goal of each of these activities is to achieve a tactical mission, in other words, the focus is on sending skills (WHERE) to hit the ball and receiving skills (WHERE) is the ball coming from.

Ball – 1) Paint the body

00:58
Ball – 2) Chocolate Buttons

00:49
Ball – 3) Scoop Ball

01:26
Ball – 4) Feed the Sharks

01:00
Lower – 1) Trap Ball

00:21
Lower – 2) Rolly Polly

00:59
Lower – 3) Pop-ups

00:30
Upper – 1) Wake up

00:37
Upper – 2) Under or Over

00:25
Upper – 3) Keep The Ball Alive

01:14
Upper – 4) Running Hot Potatoes

00:32
Environment – 1) Bouncy Bouncy

00:30
Environment – 2) Building Block Tennis

01:56
Environment – 3) Rolling Rock

00:18
Environment – 4) Goal Keeper

00:41

Mindset
E.X.P.L.O.R.E. is the word that is important at this stage of development because it encourages children to explore the game of tennis along with all of its lifelong benefits. Set for school skills.

OUTRO – Can you achieve the following competencies?
CONGRATS on completing the ACE Tennis for Kids - Blue Book and Video series. While there are no associated videos with the OUTRO, you should now be able to tick off the blue competencies.

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About Course

Course Content

INTRO – The Blue Book While there are no associated videos with the INTRO, please download the attached PDF of the entire book so that you can follow along. The movement videos begin in chapter 6.

Download the PDF: ACE Tennis for Kids – Blue Book

Movement The movement section offers activities to help develop physical skills that assist with how to “MOVE” and how to "STOP". It is an important time to develop basic locomotion skills.

Agility – 1) Happy Feet Monkey Split

Agility – 2) Crocodiles & Lizards

Agility – 3) Animal Surprises

Agility – 4) Mirror Mirror

Balance – 1) Run and Freeze

Balance – 2) Train Driver

Balance – 3) Aeroplane Arms

Colours – 1) Colour Cones

Colours – 2) Planets

Magic (Technique) The magic refers to “HOW” to hit the ball. The reason I have chosen this word is due to the fun and imagination associated with the word magic.

FOREHAND – 1) Forehand Demonstration

FOREHAND – 2) Bounce Hit

FOREHAND – 3) Splats

BACKHAND – 1) Backhand Demonstration

BACKHAND – 2) Bounce Hit with Bell Ball

BACKHAND – 3) Tee Ball

SERVE – 1) Serve Demo and Shoe Lace Equipment

SERVE – 2) Serve Rocket Launcher

SMASH – 1) Smash Demo

SMASH – 2) Smash Catch Variations

VOLLEY – 1) Volley Demo

VOLLEY – 2) Volley Catch Variations

Mission (Tactical) The goal of each of these activities is to achieve a tactical mission, in other words, the focus is on sending skills (WHERE) to hit the ball and receiving skills (WHERE) is the ball coming from.

Ball – 1) Paint the body

Ball – 2) Chocolate Buttons

Ball – 3) Scoop Ball

Ball – 4) Feed the Sharks

Lower – 1) Trap Ball

Lower – 2) Rolly Polly

Lower – 3) Pop-ups

Upper – 1) Wake up

Upper – 2) Under or Over

Upper – 3) Keep The Ball Alive

Upper – 4) Running Hot Potatoes

Environment – 1) Bouncy Bouncy

Environment – 2) Building Block Tennis

Environment – 3) Rolling Rock

Environment – 4) Goal Keeper

Mindset E.X.P.L.O.R.E. is the word that is important at this stage of development because it encourages children to explore the game of tennis along with all of its lifelong benefits. Set for school skills.

X-Factor – 1) Memory Test

Love – 1) 100 YO Granddad Bounce and Hit

OUTRO – Can you achieve the following competencies? CONGRATS on completing the ACE Tennis for Kids - Blue Book and Video series. While there are no associated videos with the OUTRO, you should now be able to tick off the blue competencies.

Competency Checklist