7 06, 2015

Walk The Walk For More Confidence in Tennis

By | June 7th, 2015|Categories: Tennis|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Confidence is the most important mental ingredient for success in tennis. One technique that most people are not aware of for building and maintaining self-confidence involves how you carry yourself. How you walk and move can influence how you think and feel. In other words, you have to learn how to “Walk the Walk”. If [...]

7 06, 2015

Achieving Prime Tennis

By | June 7th, 2015|Categories: Tennis|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Mental Edge Pyramid The Mental Edge Pyramid provides you with a way of understanding the development of mental skills. The Mental Edge Pyramid describes the Prime Four (motivation, confidence, intensity, and focus) that are critical for developing the Mental Edge. These four factors will progressively lead you to Prime Tennis. Prime Tennis is defined as [...]

6 06, 2015

Playing Your Best Tennis As The Favorite And The Underdog

By | June 6th, 2015|Categories: Tennis|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

The Favorite As you walk onto the court you are the clear favorite. You are simply better than your opponent. You know you will win the match. But as the match starts, you just don’t feel right. Your head isn’t in the match and your body feels sluggish. Before you know it, you’re down 1-5. [...]

6 06, 2015

Tennis Imagery

By | June 6th, 2015|Categories: Tennis|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Mental imagery is a technique that has been used by the world’s best tennis players for many years. It is common to see professionals close their eyes during changeovers and rehearse points. This technique can also be used to help recreational players to play their best. Tennis Imagery refers to repeatedly imagining a tennis performance. [...]

5 06, 2015

Keeping Cool On The Court

By | June 5th, 2015|Categories: Tennis|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Imagine the pressure that Steffi Graf or Stephan Edberg feel in the final set of a Grand Slam event. Thousands of people are watching, there is money and the title on the line. I’ll bet you have felt similar pressure in matches you have been in. They might not have been at Roland Garros or [...]

4 06, 2015

Staying Focused On The Court

By | June 4th, 2015|Categories: Tennis|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

One of the most difficult things professional players have to deal with is maintaining concentration throughout the whole match. With increasing pressure and fatigue, thoughts can wander, resulting in mistakes and lost points and games. The same thing can happen to recreational players during matches. Things may pop into your head that have nothing to [...]

3 06, 2015

Self-Confidence In Tennis

By | June 3rd, 2015|Categories: Tennis|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Perhaps the single most important mental ingredient professional tennis players such as Jim Courier and Monica Seles need for success on the tour is self-confidence. Entering Centre Court at Wimbledon to play the finals against a hard serving, net rushing opponent can raise doubts in even the best players. But these professionals overcome uncertainty by [...]

2 06, 2015

Migrating Articles to My Blog

By | June 2nd, 2015|Categories: Latest News|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Over the next several weeks, I will be migrating about 75 articles I've written on the topics of triathlon, tennis, endurance sports, and dance. So as not to inundate my social media followers, I will not post them on my Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts. They will appear on my RSS feed, but I will [...]

31 03, 2015

Even the Best Struggle Mentally

By | March 31st, 2015|Categories: Sports|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Here's a great article about Rafael Nadal in which he describes struggling mentally this year on the pro tennis tour. Roger Federer also discusses his mental difficulties. For most people, it's hard to imagine that such such gifted and experienced athletes who have had so much success in their careers could, for example, lose confidence and get [...]