PLAY BETTER TENNIS

The inside game of tennis is very important to your success. Timothy Gallwey wrote the "Inner Game of Tennis" many years ago and it was a book at the time. You should read the game of tennis indoors, if you have not.

Tim said that the players must reach the mastery of skills in the first place, which means that you must learn the fundamentals of your sport. When you play your best tennis, it seems your mind is calm, without interference from self-criticism or analysis of more like "keep your eyes on the ball" or "bend your knees."

Inside tennis game theory states that the two opposing attitudes battle for supremacy. A quite mind tennis helps your performance to the flow of creativity. However, if your mind is too much tennis, you force your game.

Gallwey summarizes his theory of the inside game of tennis:

Auto: the "branches" of tennis filled with the spirit of self-judgment and criticism. This mentality is more control of your performance.

Two self: The "actor" of mind is the best state of mind for peak performance in tennis and that happens when you are free to react to your game. This mindset allows you to let happen.

Gallwey aims to help students to stop the attack of self independently One can be free to hit shots freely. He used an example in "The Inner Game of Tennis. He would have students repeat the cue words such as" back-hit "to suspend judgment / analytical skills (self-1) if the creative spirit (auto 2 ) could do the job without restrictions.

"The key to a better tennis - or rather something else - lies in improving the relationship between the conscious ATMs, Self 1, and the unconscious, automatic acting, self-2."
~ Tim Gallwey

Most tennis players will do their best when the mind is quiet (not too) and focused. You will both excel in this state of mind and have the most fun. I call the Inner Game of Tennis principles with my students. I teach my students about two attitudes: a spirit of learning and a spirit of performance.

Where, in a spirit of learning or practice, you want to improve your shots, what is necessary to improve your game Here is a big problem with this state of mind: the tennis players perfectionistic are "stuck" in 'practical and fall in love with perfecting their technique.

When you play with a spirit of trust or execution, you allow your skills to "get" instinctively based on what you learned in practice. Performance is the mind that the spirit speaks Gallwey self 2, which allows you to perform instinctively. When playing in the way of confidence, your performance is on autopilot.

With center Thursday at the tennis, the lesson is to take away what you have to play in the performance of spirit. Do not get trapped by the practice of mind during tennis matches. You spend more time in training and analyzing your shots, so you slow down to the court. You want to have a good balance between performance and spirit to practice the fundamentals of a good game of tennis indoors!

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