About 359
Mission & vision
Everyone deserves the chance to develop their potential.
Our mission describes what we do today. Our vision describes what we are working towards. Both come together in one line: we help people move forward.
Progress. Not perfection.
The method behind this work is the 359 Method — with Fit · Fun · Focus as its practical system.
The mission of 359.tennis is to help people move forward: everyone deserves the chance to develop their potential. We do that through tennis lessons and development programmes at the NTC in Amstelveen. Tennis is the vehicle, development is the goal. The vision is a development system that is explainable, trainable, repeatable and measurable — so progress is designed, not accidental.
Our mission
What 359 does today, who we help, and how sport and development are connected.
What we do today
We run tennis lessons and development programmes at the NTC / TV De Kegel in Amstelveen — for children, juniors and adults, recreational and ambitious. Every lesson is built on the same method, so progress becomes visible and can be discussed.
Who we help
Beginners who want to learn, children who want to move and play, adults who want to stay fit and enjoy the game, and ambitious players improving step by step. Plus parents, coaches and organisations who want to use the same development language.
How sport and development connect
Tennis is the vehicle, development is the goal. What a player learns on court — effort, attention, dealing with mistakes, persistence — is just as useful off court. That is why we steer on progress rather than perfection.
Our vision
What we are working towards. This is a direction, not a finished result.
Explainable and trainable
A development system that players, parents and coaches can understand, and that can be transferred to new coaches without quality depending on one individual.
Repeatable and measurable
Lessons built on the same structure, with observations recorded consistently. That lets us adjust based on what we actually see rather than on impression.
Less founder dependency
The method grew out of Roland Laurense's practice. The ambition is that the system keeps working without him being present at every lesson — through education, guidance and documented ways of working.
Protected quality and IP
The 359 Method and Fit · Fun · Focus are our own development work. We document what works so that quality is preserved when the system is used more widely.
Responsible scalability
Only broaden when evidence, education and quality assurance are in place. We therefore do not describe 359 as a finished international licensing network — that is an ambition, not a current state.
How the terms relate
Sport is the vehicle, development is the goal. The 359 Method is the overarching method; Fit · Fun · Focus is the practical system coaches use to build every lesson. How this grew in practice is described in the history of 359 and on Roland Laurense. What we record and substantiate is described under research & evidence.
Progress starts with one lesson
See which programmes fit you or your child — the same method, tuned to the goal.