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iTPA Member Spotlight: Richard Woodroof, TPT

9/26/2013

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Richard Woodroof, TPT

Richard Woodroof is the owner and Director of Training for RAW Tennis Performance in Boca Raton, FL.  He is an ITPA-certified Tennis Performance Trainer; Speed, Agility & Quickness (SAQ) coach; a 20-year member of the USPTA and is USTA Sport Science Level-1 certified.  Richard worked with the ATP 2011 Most Improved Player Alex Bogomolov, Jr and other ATP players including Jesse Levine as well as WTA players Anna Tatishvili and Heidi El-Tabakh.  He also works with several Challenger and Futures pros.  Richard trains some of the top junior players in the USTA and ITF players from Italy, Monte Carlo, Brazil, Canada, Kazakhstan, Trinidad and Mexico. 

Richard played tennis at the University of North Carolina and spent 18 years as a High Performance coach.  Working in the tennis hotbed of Southern California, he worked with dozens of junior players who earned scholarships in every major NCAA conference.  He spent time coaching on the WTA Tour and was also a college coach.  Richard’s philosophy for training is “movement, not muscles” and he specializes in tennis movement. 

To find out more information please go to www.RAWTennisPerformance.com where you can sign up for newsletter updates and read his blog.  You can also follow Richard on Twitter @RAW10sPerform and like his Facebook page.

Check out clips from a recent audio interview with the iTPA.

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Audio: 10 and Under, Pre-Puberty and Puberty - Differences Do Exist

4/16/2013

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Perspective below from Dr. Ellen Rome, Head of the Center for Adolescent Medicine at The Cleveland Clinic and a Member of the iTPA Certification Commission (www.itpa-tennis.org/certification-commission) and a member of the USTA Sports Science Committee.

  • How does the brain develop when an athlete is very young?
  • Adolescent age and stage is important.
  • Understanding the differences between the different stages is important for the Tennis Performance Trainer or Certified Tennis Performance Specialist.
AUDIO clip below:


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Dr. Marc Safran Offers Tips to Parents on Ways to Keep Young Tennis Players Healthy

6/5/2012

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Below is an audio interview featuring iTPA Certification Commission and renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. Marc Safran. Dr. Safran is Professor and Associate Director of Sports Medicine at Stanford University. He is a team physician for the Stanford Teams and is the director of the sport medicine fellowship program. Dr. Safran is also the chief orthopedic consultant to the WTA. He has served as the medical director of the San Diego WTA tournament for 13 years and is the medical director of the ATP tournament in San Jose (since 2002), and has been a neutral site physician for several Davis Cup ties.

In this audio clip, Dr. Safran offers tips to parents on ways to keep competitive, young tennis players healthy. A must-listen for parents!
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