Comments on: Spartak Tennis Club, Moscow, Russia

By: Edge Tennis Academy

Edge Tennis Academy — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:37:53 +0000

I love seeing the Spartak Academy. This has changed the way we teach at the Edge Tennis Academy. I thought the kids would really resist at first but they really loved the “imitatsiya”. We spent the whole practice hour shadowing forehands on the first day and 50 minutes on the second day. The last ten minutes the “beginners” I was working with were crushing the ball in over and over. I am sold.

By: Portrait of a Genius as a Young Girl « The Talent Code

Portrait of a Genius as a Young Girl « The Talent Code — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:50:50 +0000

[...] our lucky day: here is Dinara Safina, current world number one player, taking her first swings at Spartak. We all know how great she became. The question is, did she have some special gift that separated [...]

By: What Can Myelin Do For You? « The Talent Code

What Can Myelin Do For You? « The Talent Code — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:56:03 +0000

[...] and it works brilliantly. UPS is doing exactly what the coaches at Meadowmount, The Shyness Clinic, Spartak or any of the other talent hotbeds are doing: using deep practice to build fast, fluent [...]