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What's up everybody. So the purpose of today's video is for me to teach you how to teach your kids tennis. So the age group we're going to focus on today is four to six year olds and the great thing about teaching four to six year olds is that it really doesn't take that much skill. What it really takes is knowledge and the knowledge that you need I'm going to provide you in this video. So let's just say I were to have 10 kids walk into my class for the first time and I've never met them before. The first exercise I would teach them is an exercise called bounce catch. So for bounce catch you want to tell your kid to hold the racket like a hammer right down the center like this and then just have them bounce the ball and tell them to catch it against the racket base. Okay so bounce catch. So usually when I tell kids to do this exercise the first couple mistakes they'll make is they'll either try to catch it on the grip or they'll try to catch it on the neck or throat of the racket. So the purpose of this exercise is it teaches your kid how far away the strings are from their hand because that's something that they don't understand obviously because they're so young and they don't have eye hand coordination yet. So the hope is that once they do this enough and they're familiar with how far the strings are from their hand then if you were to toss them a ball and tell them to hit it to you they wouldn't run into it. Usually if you were to just toss the ball to a kid they would do something like this they would try to hit it but they would run they would run way too close to the ball. So the hope is that after doing that bounce catch exercise they'll understand how far away they need to be from the ball in order to hit it on the strings. Okay so that's the first exercise I wanted to show you guys today and then I just want to show you one more. The second exercise is called tap ups. So the purpose of tap ups again it focuses on basic eye hand coordination but it also teaches really good ball control. And then the third thing it'll teach your kid is what the difference is between a forehand and a backhand. So here we're going to start with the same grip hammer grip right down the center. So the first type of tap up you want to teach your kid is called a palm up tap up. For a palm up tap up I want to turn my palm up towards the sky my strings should be looking up towards the sky as well and all I want to do is tap the ball up to myself like this about head height. So you don't want to have the kid tapping the ball up super high and you also don't want them tapping really low to the ground either. You want them tapping the ball up about head height. So that represents a forehand if my palm is up. If I turn my palm down with the same grip towards the court and then my knuckles are pointing up at the sky my racket face still pointing at the sky this represents a backhand. This would be a backhand for a little kid. So same idea here just controlling the ball tapping it up to myself seeing how many in a row they can get. Typically the backhands will be harder for them so stay patient. And then lastly have them combine the two these are called flip flops. So have them start palm up and then flip the racket over palm down palm up palm down palm up palm down. So the biggest problem I've encountered teaching kids this exercise is that when they try to tap the ball their strings will tilt too much so then when they tilt the racket face too much they end up hitting the ball away and then when they hit it away they chase after it too much. So because the purpose of this exercise is ball control you want them staying in the same spot to some degree so something like this as opposed to this if they tilt the racket they'll start running after the ball and then when they're running after the ball obviously that indicates that they're not controlling it as well as they should. Okay so I'll just start you guys off with those two exercises if you have any questions drop a comment in this video and I will get back to you as soon as I can. And this is just part one I'm going to make a whole series of videos that will help parents teach their kids tennis and what really inspired me to do this in the first place is the fact that tennis is probably one of the most expensive sports to learn and a lot of times that's what that's what holds parents back from having their kids play tennis. So I want to do my best to help parents at least give their kids a head start so that maybe they can be more involved in this sport and learn it. So this is part one, see you guys in the next video and thanks for watching.