LEPETIT NEWS SEPTEMBER 2008
The launch of Le Petit Tennis in other countries is following the development of the portable tennis teaching system (Silver and Gold” in-school business opportunity) which has been developed as a business opportunity in hundreds of schools in the USA over the last six years. Over that period, Le Petit Tennis which has introduced tennis to about 100.000 children every year within their familiar school environment is now present through his licensees, in about 9 states.
The brand new “Club Coaching” (Bronze) license has generated an enthusiastic interest from club directors and coaches over the last 3 months. The “Bronze” license is a great addition to our existing “Silver and Gold” in-school business license and I am very pleased to report that the Club license is spreading in Clubs around the USA at a very fast pace.
We added a Training department to the license to provide a follow up and to give the best chance to Clubs coaches to perform the new interactive teaching in stories of Le Petit Tennis. Our training team is flying all over the country to perform training courses at the club premises. (link to the Training page in English? )
I am pleased to announce that we just signed a distributor agreement with Jean-Marc Surdeau's organization which now represents Le Petit Tennis in FRANCE. Jean-Marc's organization will also be in charge of training coaches to the LPT systems. Jean Marc is a long time friend, certified (BE) tennis professional and Sports Psychologist.
My long time friend Fabio Silberberg invited me to explain and demonstrate the Le Petit Tennis system at his symposium in Sao Paulo (Brazil) the 23rd of November to 500 coaches coming from all over Brazil. This will provide the insurance of the best possible start in this huge tennis country. Long time licensee CLUB MED North America has also agreed to expand Le Petit Tennis to it’s Brazilian villages. Le Petit Tennis is already been taught at all CLUB MED resorts Children’s Mini-Clubs in Northern America.
The new Le Petit Tennis 6” inflatable ball has been a tremendous add to our existing Le Petit Store’s product line and has been seen by the French Tennis Federation as “the missing product” that they were looking for Mini-Tennis. That ball immediately allows beginner younger children to perform rallies. I personally saw two 5 years old kids rally against each other on a 36ft court for 1 hour strait without stopping…imagine two 5 years olds rallying with each other !!!
We are pleased to announce the addition of the “amazing” Club Management System (CMS) to our existing line of Le Petit tennis Productivity Software. Developed in the new Web 2.0 language, stunning web based product which provides online reservations and a self easy to enter web site. This tool will satisfy members, coaches and reduce administrative time. We intend to give a full FREE usage of the system to Clubs for 2 months. Lease it monthly with some packages starting as low as $65.00 per month.
In the parents module they will be able to get the 9 month progressive lesson of Le Petit Tennis for Free. And they will also receive a FREE racquet & equipment package when registering for Le Petit Tennis Club. Other features include links for the parents to chose one of the affiliated clubs and to enter age adapted social tournaments. Our system includes a Talent detector which helps us get listing of talented children in order to hand it out to National Associations or Private Academies.
The Coaching Management Software (COACH) let coaches save time managing their classes. They will choose to use integrated lesson plans or to enter their own program and exercises with pictures and videos.
We are following the guidelines of the wonderful “Play and Stay” campaign from the ITF and the great new 36/60 campaign by the USTA. We plan to launch a 36/60 method during the fall at the same time as the Coach training courses. It will go along with the new “Discovery Tour” tournament series which will include a new generation of ranking based team tournaments.
The “Discovery Tour” tournament series provides an incredible new income generating approach for coaches by bringing more service to their clients while working less. We are seeking to offer a safer and higher living income for these hard working professionals. The tournament systems (equipment kits + Software + Method) will be carry the “RISK FREE” label to allow easy risk free trials.
Feel free to spread this newsletter to others and don’t forget to provide your feed backs to my attention at: jfleurian@lepetittennis.com we are seeking to build more excitement in tennis and we will only achieve it all by building it together.
I wish you a great day,
Jean Fleurian
President, Le Petit Tennis, Inc
Former Davis Cup player