Is your child interested in playing tennis? Do they love to learn new skills? Are you looking for a way to keep your kids active and engaged during summer break? If this sounds familiar, the solution might be to enroll your kids in a tennis summer camp.
Even if your kids aren’t familiar with the game, there are actually quite a few benefits of attending a summer tennis camp for kids—both mentally and physically.
Below, we list a few reasons why tennis camp is an excellent choice for your little ones.
1. Gives Players Something to Work Towards
There’s nothing greater than giving a child some goals and encourage them to work towards achieving those goals. Sure, they might be daunted by the challenge of a new game or sport but going to a camp with trained coaches that stimulate a supportive, professional environment can set up great sportsmanship in youth with the best mentorship.
2. Provides Access to Elite Training
At our tennis summer camp for kids in North York, we only employ the best coaches that we can find. In fact, all our instructors are Tennis Canada-certified, meaning they have competed themselves, attained the necessary instructor training, and are monitored by staff to ensure that they deliver top-notch lessons to kids on tennis techniques. Our instructors are also committed to being great trainers to your children.
3. Builds Competitive Skills
Some kids learn about the competition in the classroom. Some learn through their parents when they play sports or board games together. But there are some that really never learn it at all and often regret it later in life when they can’t actualize adult goals.
Having your kids attend a summer tennis camp gives them these competitive skills that can be built on as they mature.
4. Teaches Kids to Play Under Pressure
It’s funny: some people think of tennis as a leisure-Sunday-type of activity. You just hit the court, dressed in white, and volley the ball back and forth. But if you ask great tennis players like John McEnroe or Roger Federer after they’ve come off the court, sweaty, tense, but invigorated, they’d tell you and show you how hard the game is.
As a team member of a kids’ tennis summer camp, your child will learn a sense of strategy and physical movement simultaneously.
5. Increases Mental Toughness
Strategic thinking, developing a competitive edge, and playing under pressure all teach your child mental toughness. Tennis has the player on the court akin to the chess player looking down at the board. Competing in the sport sharpens the mind and keeps a personal focus on trying to come out athletically triumphant.
Our summer camp in North York teaches kids to work through difficulty in order to give them a method of playing tactics and a toolbox of great tennis playing techniques.
6. Prepares Kids for College
We know what you’re thinking: What does post-secondary education have to do with tennis?
Believe it or not, it can have a lot to do with it. If kids attend a tennis camp in their youth, they develop a love of a game that they are proficient in as they enter adulthood. It can help them make friends in athletic scenarios no matter where they go after high school graduation.
It also goes without saying that fostering tennis abilities at a young age opens up the possibility of getting athletic scholarships to universities that need great players to join their college athletic roster.
7. Teaches Kids How to Win and Lose
Some parents often get uneasy when they hear about instructors teaching kids to win. But at our tennis camp, it’s about giving your kids an arena to learn, sustain sporting abilities, and realistically win at something through fair competition. There’s nothing more enriching for kids than working towards a goal and actually achieving something great.
On the other hand, sometimes your child won’t win. And that’s okay too. Our summer camp in North York teaches kids how to lose with dignity and learn from the experience. Losing isn’t a sign of failure; it’s a way to grow stronger and persevere.
8. Gives Players a Chance to Belong to a Team
Not only do kids at tennis summer camp learn a definite sense of self, but they also learn about working or dealing with others. Tennis is often played in doubles and attendees at tennis camp are paired off to play together, instructed how to do a game with a partner, and taught how to maturely play competitively against complete strangers.
Obviously, there’s the matter of learning the age-old concept of “sportsmanship” with kids in a tennis camp, but more importantly it helps kids learn the greatest aspects of being in the ranks of people just like them, with the same goals and aspirations, and with whom they can forge lifelong friendships. There’s nothing closer than a group of like-minded athletes of any age getting together to learn the intricacies of a sport that they all love.
9. Provides Enjoyment
Lastly, a tennis summer camp for kids can enrich its participants and can provide a level of personal enjoyment that kids can hold onto for years to come.
Sports are supposed to be fun and challenging, and at our North York camp, we keep the spirit fun as we go from lesson to lesson, game to game, and level to level. That’s why we’re here: to enjoy something together. It’s also why your child can be part of our camp and experience the enjoyment of tennis as we do all the time.
Enroll in a Summer Tennis Camp for Kids
If this list sounds appealing, then Bayview Village Tennis Camp might just be the perfect summer camp for your child. At our tennis camp for kids, our experienced instructors can teach your child tips and tricks to help them improve their game and make the most out of their experience. To learn more about our various tennis programs or to register your child at our tennis summer camp in North York, call us at (905) 889-7293 or email pnielsen889@rogers.com.