Feb 24, 2007

Summer Stage is a made dream reality!!!


-Hi Javier. How are you? Glad to see you here. What was the reason to come now, the summer stage has not started yet?
-We have already started to prepare the Summer Stage because many players are going to visit us and though the program is very professional, it is always possible to improve.
-I’d love to remind you that Javier is our Summer Stage Director. Tell us about yourself. Do you play tennis? How long do you work here? What are your duties?
-I came to this place when there were only two clay courts and an old house of field. I passed five years as competition player in this house that little by little was turning into Academy and that today in day is considered as one of the best of the world. Since then, I have not stopped collaborating, specially in the Summer Stage.
-I know, you are a student at the moment, what do you study?
-In the years that I was a player I never left my studies. In the same way as now I am doing Law and make compatible it with my functions in the Academy. Every player should study up to where he could, because in tennis it never known what can happen.
-You know, before to send a child to the summer stage, parents have a lot of questions, the main of them, I would like to ask you. What is the summer stage in JC Ferrero Tennis Academy?
-Summer Stage is a program in vacation period that offers the opportunity of knows the real essence of professional training to players of the whole world and all kinds of levels. In words of a player of the Stage of last year, "it is a made dream reality".
-Is there transportation to and from the airport?
-Yes, of course. The Academy is able to drive anyone to or from Alicante Airport, the Bus Station in Alicante or the Railway Station in Villena from 10 AM to 6 PM. But if the flight or bus doesn’t arrive or depart during the above periods, the Academy send their own taxis.
-How many hours of tennis and physics are there every day?
-Approximately, 4 hours of tennis and 2 of physical, with the option of the particular classes for whom he wishes them.
-Will a child practice in a group or individual? How many kids are in the group?
-These hours that I have said before they are all in group, of there that exist the particular classes. But, there are maximum 4 players for group and court.
-Who will be working with a child?
- Undoubtedly, coaches of first category with years of experience. Besides a team of physical coaches, physiotherapists, etc.
- Will a child be in an appropriate age-level group?
-Always. The first day we do a few tests to know the level of all players. And in the evening groups are already definite.
- How long has staff been there?
-The team is in the habit of changing a bit every year with the aim to be better. But it is going to be the fourth year consecutive by this generation. Some of them have been professional players before.
-Who will look after the child when he/she is outside the court? Can he/she leave the academy alone?
-Group leaders are the persons responsible for players during their free time after practice and until they go to bed. Their duties consist in organizing activities in groups according to the age and tastes of each player. Their mission is to create a happy atmosphere among the players and to ensure that they enjoy themselves.
- How much will a child improve?
-Very much and not only of tennis, he also will improve in physical, nutrition, companionship, culture, etc. And what is more important, he will live the only experience. Seeing to a world number 1 as Ferrero doing the same things that they inside like out of the court, it will motivate them.
-Javier, people started to write and ask me about price and details, but I don’t know anything about it. Can you leave e-mail here for those people who would like to get more info about Summer Stage.
- Sure man, they can write me directly to javierviguera@equelite.com when they any question or any doubt. For me it will be a pleasure.
-Thanks Man.
-Not, thanks to you Kirill for your pledge in speaking on the Academy. For those who don’t know him, he is probably one of the players more fighters in the world, really. And I was lucky to supervise his training in his first Stage.
Kind regards.