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UNDERESTIMATED SUPERPOWERS

April 2, 2021 By Kris Soutar Leave a Comment

  Will we ever see a year like 2020? I bloody well hope not! Being stuck in a Co-Vid lockdown has offered a few silver linings. Spending way more time with my wife and children, learning how to adapt and pivot my business, getting even more used to delivering online and offering a chance to […]

  • Let’s throw out the patchwork quilt

Earlier Posts

Feel sorry for the cheats….

March 26, 2018

The first thing I want to clarify is the title of this blog is tongue in cheek…… slightly. The second thing I want to mention is I hate the word cheat and something in me […]

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Hierarchy is the root of all evil

March 16, 2018

This is something I have been thinking for a while, and more recently, saying out loud. The more I think about it the more I believe it to be true and not just for tennis […]

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Competing with instant gratification

February 28, 2018

During the mid-term holidays I took my family…….. trampolining!! I was literally jumping for joy (puntastic). I had never been to one of these facilities before but I’d heard a lot about them. The building […]

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A little less conversation….

February 14, 2018

Has tennis development largely become a paper exercise? There are now more people employed under ‘tennis development’ than ever before. I have been involved in the game for 33 years and in that time it […]

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#13 – How do you YOU deal with cheats??

February 13, 2018

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Don’t become a chef just because you like eating food

February 7, 2018

Strange title for a tennis blog huh! Last week I drove 27 hours for my week of work. This gave me time to do what has become a new passion, listen to 27 hours of […]

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Do our players study for their exams?

January 27, 2018

Earlier this week I was training with a player who is in the process of doing his prelims or mock exams as you may know them as. These are for his highers (Scottish equivalent to […]

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I’ll see you in the gutter….

January 16, 2018

Around 250 years ago our world experienced an industrial revolution. Measures were put in place to ensure the population had key skills to service this time in history and school education as we know it […]

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Does the tennis world suffer from Destination Addiction?

December 21, 2017

I am taking the unusual step of writing this blog as if it to a tennis player. The reality is not many tennis players will read this. It will be mainly coaches and parents.. However, […]

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Be Kind…. it works

December 18, 2017

  I have read around 20 books this year and the most impactful has been ‘The five side effects of kindness‘ by Dr David Hamilton. As the twists of fate had it David and I […]

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