#11 - Master Skills with Jon Sorbo

It's Masters Sunday and we are catching up with Jon Sorbo. Jon was top player in professional tennis before his career was derailed by illness and he was forced to retire young.  He moved right into coaching – at first with individual players, but then in 2004 he joined on as the National coach for tennis in Canada.  After a few years of this demanding position, he moved away from coaching to raise his young family.  Presently Jon does coach individual players and consults with various tennis organizations – all the while applying most of his energy to building his own golf skills.
As a coach, Jon was an early adopter in areas of sports science and the application of systematic coaching strategies throughout the Canadian tennis landscape.  The ripples of his ground-breaking work in the early millennium have created a surge for Canadian tennis in the modern game.   Jon believes in the systematic development of key skills, and excels as a coach for high performers who are willing to train at the very highest, calculated, intensity.
Jon has become a passionate golfer who carries a scratch mindset and tremendous skill.  He can frequently be seen honing and sharpening his skills on the practice areas around the facilities at Richmond Hill and Coppinwood.  When he practices, he is the embodiment of what we describe as “deep practice” – a deliberate and focused style of training that is a model of how a serious coach would want his pupils to train.
Hope you enjoy the discussion and the tradition unlike any other.