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. 

Rocket Padel, Bristol is an approved LTA Coach Development Centre

Our organisation offers LTA Qualifications for tennis at Assistant (Level 1), Instructor (Level 2) and Coach (Level 3) Award as well as the LTA Padel Instructor. We offer a broad range of CPD courses for both tennis and padel coaches from the LTA Official Course Menu, as well as bespoke Rocket Padel workshops, where we engage with industry experts to deliver CPD to support coaches with their on and off court development.

At Rocket Padel we aim to create a fun, open, social community and provide a first class, inspirational environment for anyone wanting to play padel or tennis. We want to support coaches to develop their expertise, skills and achieve their career aspirations by embarking on the LTA Coaching Qualification pathway. At Rocket Padel, we challenge the norm to inspire coaches to challenge themselves and believe that there is always room for improvement. We aspire to be an innovative hub for everyone and everything that is padel and tennis and our team of exceptional coach education tutors are excited to collaborate with coaches across the UK to help them grow their businesses and inspire and motivate future generations to start and stay in the sports of padel and tennis.

For further information, please visit our website or contact us on Kathy.Howard@rocketpadel.com