Intermediate
Tennis instructor
Robert Ziock
Taking a student’s game to the next level
Robert Ziock took to playing and teaching tennis from an early age. He first learned the game while spending summers in Los Alamos. Tennis was big in the seventies, and Robert enjoyed it from the start. Robert was a natural at playing and — as he would soon discover — at teaching the game of tennis. Robert’s teaching experience includes a role as an assistant coach at Los Alamos High School, assisting with the Parks and Recreation programs in Los Alamos, assistant instructor with University of Virginia Continuing Education tennis classes, and teaching with UNM Continuing Education.
This sports enthusiast is also an avid skier who spends 20 days a year in Vail, Colorado as a ski instructor, and as he describes it, “skiing my brains out” between lessons.
Robert focuses on the fundamentals in tennis as he does in ski instruction. He says, “The difference is that in skiing, safety is first then fun, and in tennis, fun comes first!”
Empathetic instruction makes it safe for students to challenge themselves with improvement
His father moved the family to Switzerland for a short time when Robert was young, and he had an experience with a skiing excursion that has stuck with him ever since. “They just took me up this 5000 foot vertical drop on the mountain and let me go. I had never skied before, and I had a really hard time getting down. I let my students know that I know where they are coming from when they admit that they’re scared.”
He helps his students to face the challenge of refining their game without becoming overwhelmed. He pays attention to their movements and teaches his students to fine tune their stroke. Learning to master footwork will take his student’s game to the next level.
Robert teaches:
| Tennis: Intermediate |
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