Hobson Performance Tennis

10/17/2026

Step 1: Add up what your last tournament weekend actually cost.

Travel, entry fees, hotel, food. All of it.

Step 2: Count how many matches your child actually learned something from.

Not matches they won. Matches that taught them something new.

Step 3: Compare those two numbers.

If the second number is small, the weekend was expensive, not developmental.

Step 4: Check whether the draw matched your child's current stage.

A stage 4 player in a national draw is getting reps at losing, not reps at growing.

Step 5: Before your next tournament, ask what stage it actually serves.

Some weekends build your child. Some just cost money and confidence.

Ok, here's how this works.

Old model: enter every tournament you can afford.

New model: enter the tournaments that match the stage.

Same $2,000. Completely different return, and I've seen the difference across 40 years of watching families spend it.

Comment "PYRAMID" and I'll send you the diagnostic that shows which tournaments actually fit your child's stage right now ⤵️

10/17/2026

I wish someone had handed families a filter for this back when I started coaching.

Families spend $2,000 or more on a single tournament weekend without knowing if that weekend actually fits their child's stage.

The Tournament Selection Filter takes your child's stage, ranking, and goals, and tells you which events actually move development forward and which ones just cost money.

Built from 40 years of watching families spend on the wrong weekends. $37.

Comment "PYRAMID" and I'll send it your way ⤵️

10/17/2026

Step 1: Count how many tennis tips your child has watched online this month.

Step 2: Ask if any of them mentioned what stage your child is actually in.

Step 3: Notice that most generic tennis content skips that question entirely.

Step 4: Compare a random tip to a plan built from your child's real stage and gaps.

Step 5: Decide which one you would rather build a season around.

(Generic content is not wrong. It is just not built for your specific kid.)

Ok, here's how this works.

Old model: collect tips from wherever they show up.

New model: build from one plan mapped to your child's actual stage.

I built The Hobson Tennis AI on 40 years of real players, not generic advice, because tips and plans are not the same thing.

Comment "PYRAMID" and I'll send you the plan built from your child's real stage, not a tip ⤵️

10/16/2026

Step 1: Check the rate for your child's private lessons. Most run close to $150 an hour.

Step 2: Ask your coach what specific stage that hour is built to train.

Step 3: If the answer is vague, that hour is being sold on time, not on a plan.

Step 4: Add up how many of those hours you have booked this month.

Step 5: Compare that total to what a 5 minute stage diagnosis would have told you for $17.

(This is not about switching coaches. It is about knowing what you are buying before you buy more of it.)

Ok, here's how this works.

Old model: buy hours and trust the plan is in there somewhere.

New model: know the stage first, then spend the hours on it.

I have watched families spend thousands on hours with no plan behind them, for 40 years.

Comment "PYRAMID" and I'll send you the stage report before your next lesson gets booked ⤵️

10/14/2026

Step 1: Write down every drill, lesson, and match session in your child's typical week.

Step 2: Next to each one, write the stage it actually trains.

Step 3: Compare that list to the stage your child is really in right now.

Step 4: Circle anything training a stage above or below where your child actually sits.

(In the practice audits I have run, that circled pile is often close to 40 percent of the week.)

Step 5: Take that list to your coach and ask what should change first.

Ok, here's how this works.

Old model: fill the week with hours and hope they add up.

New model: check every hour against the stage before you spend it.

I built the practice audit into The Hobson Tennis AI because I watched this exact gap for 40 years.

Comment "PYRAMID" and I'll send you the audit that checks your child's week against their real stage ⤵️

10/13/2026

10/13/2026

Step 1: Watch your child move to the ball before you watch the stroke.

Step 2: Check their stance on contact. Rushed and off balance, or set and stable.

Step 3: Notice this on both forehand and backhand, not just their better side.

Step 4: Ask your coach if footwork and stances were ever trained on their own, not buried inside a drill.

(This stage rarely gets its own attention. It usually gets skipped straight into stroke work.)

Step 5: If the stance is shaky, every stroke built on top of it stays shaky too.

Step 6: Fix the stage under the stroke before you fix the stroke itself.

Ok, here's how this works.

Old model: work on the stroke that looks broken.

New model: check the stage underneath the stroke first.

Footwork and stances is one of the nine stages in my Pyramid, and it is the one I see skipped most in 40 years of coaching.

Comment "PYRAMID" and I'll send you the stage report that shows if this is your child's gap ⤵️

10/11/2026

No reason to stop training!

10/07/2026

Champions this past weekend. Always satisfying seeing the training pay off for Cooper and Ryan!

10/06/2026

Step 1: Ask your child's coach if there is a written plan for the next 2 years.

Not a weekly lesson. A real plan.

Step 2: Ask what specific stage your child is in right now, by name.

Step 3: Ask what skill has to be solid before the next stage even starts.

Step 4: Watch how your coach answers. A real plan sounds specific. A guess sounds like a shrug.

(Most coaches are excellent at running a session. Very few were trained to build a 5 year map.)

Step 5: If the answers are vague, that is not a bad coach. That is a missing layer.

Ok, here's how this works.

Old model: a great hitting partner who runs great sessions.

New model: a great hitting partner plus a real developmental map.

I've coached for 40 years, and the players who kept climbing always had both.

Comment "PYRAMID" and I'll send you the stage report your coach can build the next 90 days around ⤵️