Wealth Without Borders Podcast
Business:Investing
Sport plays an important role in educating students as it teaches them to become strong mentally and also develop a fit and healthy body.
Alan Wright is a former ATP player from the UK and one of a handful of high-level experienced coaches in Asia. His style of coaching is very hands-on with a focus on technical and tactical fundamentals. As he grew as a coach he developed “the 8 keys aspects of tennis development” which the academy now follows today.
Alan shares his passion to build a recognized and trusted brand sportED where players, parents, and schools can go for the very highest quality of sports education especially during this time when many people are at home.
What you will learn from this episode:
“‘Let's Play’ which is our coaching method has a concept of you know, playing, and competing.”
- Alan Wright
Topics Covered:
02:09 - Alan defines his ideal clients who are expat families with children
03:08 - Problems that André solves for his clients: educational tennis programs with an international standard
04:19 - They can't find a program: no after-school sports program that has a structure
05:29 - Oftentimes families are just doing private lessons, which are one-on-one that means no interaction and lessons are facilitated not in a group
06:38 - Alan’s valuable free action: "Spend 10 minutes a day or half an hour a week or an hour on the weekend with their parents at home, doing a few extra drills, doing a few extra exercises, it shows to the child that that parent is supportive, involved, and it motivates them to do more."
07:37 - Alan’s Valuable free resource: Go to sportedlive.com
08:24 - All about Alan’s Let's Play coaching method
08:46 - Question: What is the return on investment of parents enrolling their kids to Tennis? A: Tennis is a lifelong sport that gives you lifelong skills. And it'll help them [kids] get in eventually with college applications.
Key Takeaways:
“If they [kids] can spend 10 minutes a day or half an hour a week or an hour on the weekend with their parents at home, doing a few extra drills, doing a few extra exercises, it shows to the child that that parent is supportive, involved, and it motivates them to do more.”- Alan Wright
“Let's Play which is our coaching method has a concept of you know, playing and competing.”- Alan Wright
“Tennis is a lifelong sport that gives you lifelong skills. And it'll help them [kids] get in eventually with college applications.”- Alan Wright
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