Ep. 22- Utilizing Practice Variability to Enhance Performance w/ Philip O'Callaghan
For today’s episode, I’m joined by Phillip O’Callaghan (@Mr_Tennis_Coach)
Phillip is Tennis coach and PE coach from Cork, Ireland...Phillip is a graduate of University College in Cork , where he studied Sports studies ad Physical Education.
Phillip is a life long tennis athlete and over the last several years he has been involved in coaching tennis, including coaching the University of Cork Tennis Team.
Phillip is truly has a passion for coaching, and in fact spends much of his free time reading the latest research in Skill acquisition. In fact, Phillip has a blog on his website Mrtenniscoach.com where he reads these research papers, and breaks them down into his takeaways ,and some practical applications that I think are useful for all coaches…he really does a great job there.
In our conversation, we discuss everything from his blog, who he thinks the Best movers in tennis are, to various topics on skill acquisition!...I hope you enjoy!
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