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Let’s throw out the patchwork quilt

December 2, 2019 By Kris Soutar Leave a Comment

I’m going back to my blogging roots. When I first started blogging, I had a rule of 15 minutes typing without major editing. Essentially, I type what is on my mind and don’t change my mind so here goes…. I am not politically minded and couldn’t tell you what the major differences are between the […]

  • Scratching under the surface of the 1-4 shot stat

Earlier Posts

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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Kris Soutar Tennis Journal – BLOG – Be the calm within the storm

December 13, 2017

        I am hearing more and more chat about the need for children to have emotional control  on the tennis court. Funnily enough I have a slightly bizarre theory. Telling a child […]

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