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WebTennis.net Newsletter
June 2, 2004
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Hi and welcome to the June 2,
2004 issue of the WebTennis.net Newsletter...!
Stroke mechanics, court
positioning, strategies, mental skills for practicing and competing, etc.,
etc., etc....
Are you really serious
about improving some aspect of your tennis game right now...? Most
players are, but few, and I mean very few, actually go through an organized
learning process to make lasting changes to their games..
The process is simple and no
real mystery here as to how to accomplish it, but I'm amazed at how much
frustration I see on the court from players wanting to get better but not
willing to "pay their dues" to earn true improvement in any aspect of their
game.
The path to getting better at
tennis in general and specifically the myriad of the tiny elements that make
up the game of tennis is a process that has four distinct areas.
1. Information
Have you clearly identified what it is you want to improve and what your
model that you want to copy looks like? The information you want is
either in the head of a teaching professional (lessons, clinics), books,
videos, CDs, DVDs, etc...
2. Practice Time and Plan
Are you willing to carve out some regular time out of your already over
packed schedule to devote to practice? Most players give up right
here. You take some lessons or get a video and then never find the
time to tinker, to experiment, to learn... If you're truly
serious about getting better, then find some time and make it a time that
you won't give up for something else...
Practice time can come in
various forms, and the more forms you use, the more you'll learn...
A practice partner, ball machine, backboard, shadowing in front of a mirror,
visualization).
3. Willingness to Learn by
Making Mistakes
If you've got the guts to miss and miss and miss as you figure out how to
improve whatever it is you want to change, then you'll learn much faster.
If you're worried about how you look as you tinker, who's' watching and what
they might think, scared of having a few "bad" losses as you figure this
stuff out, then you're done...
Giving yourself the freedom to
make mistakes as you diligently search for the answers and feels of
improving your game will get you where you want to go...
4. Feedback
You need an objective viewpoint of how you're doing with your improvement
process. A teaching professional is the best for this vital part and
can see things that the untrained eye cannot. Video "before and after"
is a great way to get an objective view assuming you've done a good job with
#1 (having a clear model of what it is you want to become).
And then, you start all over
again... Go back to #1 and review your Information. You'll
get a new perspective and find things you initially missed. Go through
the cycle over and over again, and believe me, there will be times when you
want to say forget it and just hang it up, but don't...! Know that
during those frustrating times that you're improvement is just around the
corner. Hang in there...!
Here's an audio clip that I
recorded for you. It's about 12 minutes in duration.
You can play it directly from
this page by clicking the > button below and/or you have my permission to
download the MP3 file to your computer and listen to it from there or burn
it to a CD for listening in your car...
If you want to download the
file, just right click the following link and then click "Save Target As"
and save the file to your computer (remember where you saved it...!).
Download Link
To listen to the audio clip
directly from this page, make sure your speakers are on
and then click the > button below...
Hope you enjoyed this
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Hope this has helped. Be
sure to let me know if you have any questions... Brent
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