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About UCoach
UCoach have trained thousands of coaches, benefiting the wider tennis community. We train, assess and qualify coaches to become assistant coaches, coaches and leaders of industry in schools, clubs and centres across the UK.
We are actively encouraging successful assistant coaches to take the next steps on the coaching pathway.
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Courses Fees
LTA Assistant
£290 (inc VAT)
LTA Instructor
£455 (inc VAT)
LTA Coach
£1,100 (inc VAT)
Padel Instructor:
£585 (inc VAT)
First Aid
£105 (inc VAT)
Electives (Half Day) :
£50 (inc VAT)
Safeguarding (Online)
£30 (inc VAT)
Other Workshops :
£50-£95 (inc VAT)
Coaching Kids Padel
This five-hour CPD will educate Padel coaches across three main areas:
- Understand and practice some safe and effective options to coach up to 16 red stage players on one Padel court.
- Explore the main areas where Padel differs to Tennis, and learn to adapt drills and skills accordingly.
- Consider how games and competition opportunities can be maximised to enhance Padel specific skills.
Reasonable adjustments are available. Please contact us at the time of booking so that we can support these.
This is a valid elective module for the LTA Padel Instructor coaching qualification.
Make an impact on the landscape of female participation and performance in tennis. Improve your coaching by developing your understanding of the distinct physiology of female athletes and its relationship to technical norms and development.
This course will expand coaches’ understanding of the specific needs of female players in terms of physical and technical development and the interrelationship between these areas.
Coaches will enhance their knowledge and skills, both theoretically and practically, across the following areas:
- Understand the characteristics of the female anatomy
- Learn and practice specific training exercises that enhance female physical development
- Learn a framework for understanding the relationship between physique and technique
- Examine norms and data relating to female stroke production, specifically regarding serving, forehands, and backhands
- Practice drills and ideas to develop serving, forehands, and backhands in female players
This is 4 hour course and will qualify for 4 licence credits.
Great Group Coaching: 30+ Drills and Games to End Your Lesson
Learn how to create and modify end-of-session games which challenge players’ tactical, technical, physical and mental skills. Player development should not stop when nearing the end of a lesson; discover how to get the best out of your players by weaving the four performance factors into fun games. Written by Nick Williams and Stuart Twigg, this course teaches you how to transform regular games and drills to be more challenging and purposeful.
On the course, you will:
- Learn how to create fun and purposeful games
- Understand how to set up effective conditioned points
- Learn different organisational formats to maximise players’ time on court
- Familiarise yourself with how to apply feedback in the most effective way
- Gain access to a catalogue of 30+ new drills and games
30+ Drills and Games to End Your Lesson is for all types of coaches – new, experienced, and anyone in between – looking for inspiration on how to vary the end of a session.
This is one of three Great Group Coaching workshops aimed at developing your capability of organising and working with players in a group setting.
Reasonable adjustments are available. Please contact us at the time of booking, so that we can best support you.
Great Group Coaching - Discovering and Driving Detail
Group Coaching is at the heart of all successful programmes. In this 4-hour CPD, you will learn from industry experts how to successfully organise and engage players in your sessions and programmes. This is the second course in the Great Group Coaching Series, a series purposefully built to develop your capability working with players in a group setting. In the first edition of the series, you will:
- Understand how observation and analysis skills form the cornerstone of successful group coaching.
- Learn to use these skills to implement successful coaching interventions that will improve your player’s performances.
- Explore the core structure of a lesson plan and the LTA Technical/Tactical Frameworks
- Learn to deliver effective demonstrations.
- Understand and apply SMART coaching practise.
- Explore the concepts behind Stress-Testing and giving your players exactly what they need.
This workshop is for all levels of coach who want to enhance their coaching skills and develop the observation and analysis skills that will allow them to give players the technical and tactical interventions they need. You do not need to have attended both editions of the Great Group Coaching series to attend this course, both courses work independently as stand-alone workshops.
Reasonable adjustments are available. Please contact us at the time of booking so that we can support these.
Great Group Coaching - Repetition vs Realism
Group Coaching is at the heart of all successful programmes. In this 4-hour CPD, you will learn from industry experts how to successfully organise and engage players in your sessions and programmes. This is the first course in the Great Group Coaching Series, a series purposefully built to develop your capability working with players in a group setting. In this first edition of the series, you will:
- Understand the relationship between two key coaching concepts: Repetition and Realism.
- Understand the research behind the Stages of Learning and how this impacts lesson planning.
- Explore the core structure of a lesson plan and the LTA Technical/Tactical Frameworks
- Understand what parts of a group lesson demand Repetition, and how to create it.
- Understand what parts of a group lesson demand Realism, and how to create it.
- Discover how to find a sweet spot that allows players to practise a skill repeatedly without compromising a realistic simulation of the game.
This workshop is for all levels of coach who want to enhance their coaching skills, understand the stages of learning, and maximise their player development. You do not need to have attended both editions of the Great Group Coaching series to attend this course, both courses work independently as stand-alone workshops. Reasonable adjustments
Reasonable adjustments are available. Please contact us at the time of booking so that we can support these.
This is a valid elective module for the LTA Instructor coaching qualification.
Growing a Tennis Business - Part 1
This 2 hour Zoom workshop will show you some of the key principles that you can apply to grow your tennis coaching programme and business. It will include hands-on group and individual exercises that will allow you to see how these principles apply to your specific business. By the end of the workshop you will:
+ Understand what time to sign up is and why it matters
+ Get clear on the most important strategy to market effectively
+ Learn how to create a relevant Events and Marketing calendar for your business
This workshop will qualify for 2 credits through independent learning.
Rally At Red
Red and Blue sessions don’t need to be stressful—in fact, they can be dynamic, engaging, and a key part of a player’s long-term development. This course will show you how to teach the formative skills that allow players aged 4 to 8 to play the game for a lifetime. By encouraging interactive play, you can be released from being a ball feeder and focus on high-quality coaching.
Rally at Red was developed by Luke House, the 2018 National Coach of the Year and Head of Tennis and U10 Performance at Virtus (including the acclaimed Bromley Tennis Centre).
On the course, you will:
- Break down the stages of rallying so that any player can experience success.
- Understand the key receiving skills that are vital at the Red and Blue stages.
- Learn options for organising groups effectively and how to work with Tennis Leaders and Assistants to enhance session quality.
- Learn how to develop spatial awareness, problem-solving, and social skills in players.
“The ideas in Rally at Red genuinely changed the way I run sessions. I never thought rallying was an option for players so young.”
Level 3 Coach
How to Coach the Double Glass
This five hour face-to-face workshop equips Padel coaches with the foundational knowledge and skills to teach players the four options for playing shots using the double glass. Coaches will spend an hour on each of the four options, and will leave with a solid understanding of LTA coaching methodology, the underpinning principles of the Tactical and Technical Development Frameworks, and plenty of teaching points and drills to make an immediate impact on player performance.
By the end of this course you will:
- Learn the four types of double glass shots in Padel
- Learn and use game-based lesson structure and the LTA Tactical and Technical Development Frameworks to guide coaching interventions
- Understand a framework for the order in which to teach shots
- Understand and practice some effective teaching points for each of the four options
Reasonable adjustments
Reasonable adjustments are available. Please contact us at the time of booking so that we can support these.
Qualification candidates
This is a valid elective module for the LTA Padel Instructor coaching qualification.
How to Coach the Person and Not the Disability
How to Coach the Person and Not the Disability
This course empowers you to confidently coach players with impairments by adopting a player-centred approach, focusing on individual needs and potential. Drawing from the LTA Tactical and Technical Development Frameworks, you’ll learn to adapt tactics, techniques, feeding, and demonstrations to get the most out of your players.
‘How to Coach the Person and not the Disability’ was created by Louise Assioun, current Head Coach of GB’s Blind & Visually Impaired Tennis Team, and Director at LUSU Sports (experts in inclusive sport and activity).
By the end of the course, you will have a better understanding of:
- Models of inclusion, including STEP principles and AIM
- How a person’s impairment can affect how and what you coach them
- Practical adjustments you might need to make when coaching disability tennis
- Real stories behind players with an impairment, and how tennis has impacted their life
This course is for anybody wanting to learn how to adapt their coaching to see greater improvement in players with an impairment, regardless of your qualification level or the number of years you have been coaching for.
The 2025 Coach Forums are aimed at coaches with an interest in coaching doubles and helping players feel more confident when playing at the net.
By the end of the session, you will:
Understand the importance of training net play in doubles early for children
Be able to develop confidence in your players at the net and be ‘fearless at the front’
Understand court positioning and how to cover the court to attack and defend at the net
Understand ways in which you as a programme lead can address local coach shortages and recruitment challenges
On-court session (2 hours 30 minutes)
Designed to take you through the benefits of coaching doubles net play with players at a young age, you’ll learn how to help them build confidence coming forward and become more aware of their positioning and court coverage. You will practise exercises and drills at the net that are relevant to all stages of a player’s development journey, ensuring your players are having fun and all active whilst encouraging decision making, aligning to the LTA Youth principles. This will help your players be ‘fearless at the front’, whether in an attacking position covering your territory, or in a defensive phase covering the middle. The session has been developed in collaboration with Rob Smith, LTA Accredited Level 5 Master Performance Coach, LTA Coach Mentor and coach to players from LTA Youth red to ITF juniors, top 100 WTA, Davis Cup and Grand Slam-winning Champions.
Off-court session (1 hour)
Insight shows that recruitment is an ongoing pain point for head coaches, with 1:3 saying that they need at least another one part-time lead coach to fulfil the player demand on their programme. Therefore, off-court this year will focus on how head coaches and programme leaders can grow their own teams and address their local coach shortage. This will be a peer-to-peer session where like-minded and experienced coaches can share and learn from each other as well as the LTA tutor.
The overall duration of this event is 4 hours (2 hours 30 minutes on-court, 30 minutes networking, and 1 hour off-court).
Don’t miss out and book your place now.
This course will expand coaches’ understanding of the specific elements that make coaching ‘performance coaching’.
Coaches will enhance their knowledge and skills, both theoretically and practically, across the following areas:
- Learn the standards to set on court with players across all areas of the performance coaching principles
- Explore the routes to becoming an elite player and how to keep all options open for your players on their journey
- Understand and practice fundamental coaching principles that underpin performance coaching
- Learn and practice the go-to drills that top British players, like Cam Norrie and Emma Raducanu, use to develop their own games
This 3 hour online course covers the 3 key off-court jobs of a coaching program and all the systems and software that are needed to manage those in the right way. It also touches on the different payment models and the difference they make for admin effort. By the end of the course you will:
- Understand the 3 key off-court jobs needed to run a tennis coaching business
- Learn what it means to do the 3 jobs effectively and efficiently
- Be clear on the systems you need to run a tennis coaching business efficiently
- Analyse the pros and cons of different payment models and judge which one is more appropriate for your tennis coaching business
- Assess and discuss the relative importance of the two most important resources for a tennis business: time and money
Please note this course qualifies for 3 licence credits available through LTA Independent Learning.
This 3-hour course will run in a virtual environment using Zoom. The course covers how to safeguard children and adults at risk by enabling delegates to recognize, respond, refer and record concerns in a tennis environment. Cost is £30 (£10 for volunteers). 3 coach and official credits.
Timing:
9am-12pm
16th August 2022
Online Zoom
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