If you play competition you must read this.

The challenge is to start with simple basics and to develop and to let them grow.

Be Active in your learning

I truly believe that when you are active in your learning, you learn deeper and faster. Not in a passive way like when you were at school. To wait that the times goes. It’s a different approach, more responsible for those that really want to improve in tennis.

For instance, you can have the best technical tips of the world, if you are not ready to receive it, it will just stay a tip. Never an help. To become an help,you need to remove all unnecessary obstacles first, in order build your own system of learning.

Clarify your vision  

If i ask you do the see shape of your forehand motion, i’m pretty sure you can do isn’t it ? but when when the ball comes it’s another story ? Especially with the ball comes with a lot of top spin !

How you want that the ball goes after you hit your forehand ?

To learn through your mistakes.

Start from what happens, There is no perfection but excellence for the human body, because it always changes, in movement. [Perfection vs Excellence]

It never happens that a player won without dropping one point during a tennis match.

Which is excellent but not perfect. The record in the pro circuit is to finish the season by losing only 3 matches.

Your feedback is very important., in order to keep your the intial intention.

If you make a mistake, it happens, just notice (where the ball has landed) and make some adjustement (higher, more right) without making any judgement

The person that you talk the most all along your life is to you. By improving the relation with those self talk, will help you to step up your tennis level dramatically.

Furthermore, you can use this type of intelligence in your everyday’s life to have smoother relationships. It’s calls the emotional intelligence.

Learn with the game

The game offers a multi connection into the brain. It’s the best platform to learn. And the wild teaches us that : if the baby lion doesn’t play during his youth he will die because too weak. Why ? By not playing he won’t able to know how to cooperate with his peers, defend himself or even to hunt. So we need to be humble and learn from the nature.

Invite your qualities

We never start from zero. Tennis is a sport very opened, which many possibilities. You can find and it’s my wish your way to play.

investigated your strength and the how you do to solve a problem, the technical requirement comes.(the way to do).

Based on your qualities that you have learnt from different sports. Then after

Shape your critical thinking

Where i get my repositioning ? Which choice i could do ? Where to play ? It’s by improving the reading of the game and your self critical thinking that you will operate with the most pertinent and effectives choices for you.

Most of players don’t imagine how tennis is technical before they start. They think they can manage the basics and to do some rallies after couple lessons. In somehow it’s possible. But it’s not as easy as badminton or table tennis for instance.

Develop some great routine 

That’s the best case but not everyone is capable to do that. Some learner are very ambitious but not realistic. They improve but they don’t notice it. Simply because, they are already focused to the next step. In tennis, if you don’t feel gratitude you won’t have enough self confident in the future and it might affect your self esteem, your self confident.

Set up the best objective for you

Most of players don’t imagine how tennis is technical before they start. They think they can manage the basics and to do some rallies after couple lessons. In somehow it’s possible. But it’s not as easy as badminton or table tennis for instance.

Set up the right objective. For example, to hit the ball 3 three times in a raw, Visualize it before. Then, be witness from yourself, and accept it is the first step in the process of learning. Use this fail to improve and set up the real objective for the time after. Be proud of your little improvement. You will realize that the technique is the consequence of your attitude.

To sum up,

Tennis is a perfect environnement to discover yourself. At the end, more your competencies increases at tennis more you are likely to become more conscious of your practice, more you are likely to become your own coach.

Question in comment : What is the main obstacle that you meet in a tennis match ?