T4L is Life Skills

Life skill-building on the tennis court includes a full range of sportsmanship, group, leadership and teamwork activities to reinforce relationship and conflict resolution principles. Practical essential skills such as using currency and making change are easy to mix with tennis skills to make learning fun, engaging and memorable.

Subjects, TopicsActivities
TeamworkBuild a human chain to hand off tennis balls or racquets or both, moving them from one location to another in a pattern (e.g. 3 balls, 1 racquet), creatively make rules and have a race
Build a Rube Goldberg contraption
Cooperative PlayPartner-up and set records or compete for most rallys, most balls moved from point to point per unit time, and/or combination of physical and mental tasks (record answers on markerboard)
Sportsmanship, Conflict ResolutionIntroduce bad judgement/behavior in situational play, ask players to find resolution 
CurrencyCollect tokens representing currency to accumulate a specific amount or to make change