John Wooden. Arguably the most influential coach in sports history. The majority of people have heard his name because he became the winningest college coach in NCAA [...]
Nerves happen! You can’t really get away from nerves. We all have them. The initial butterflies and increase in heart rate is a way of your body preparing for what’s about to happen. [...]
My recent relocation to the East Coast for a JD/PhD Program in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Forensics has been an interesting experience. Many great life changes have occurred [...]
Tennis is not like any other game. It’s you against an opponent but mainly you against yourself and the game doesn’t really stop. There’s not a lot of time to sort through what [...]
What does playing out of your mind mean? You compete at 100%, leaving everything on the court and focus on playing out of your mind versus focusing on the thoughts going through your head. [...]
This question has haunted us in our daily lives since kindergarten when our teachers asked us to draw pictures of what we want to be in the future. I am sure our answers fell all over the [...]
The monotony of every day life sometimes feels like the real world application of running on a treadmill: working hard but getting nowhere. It is often very difficult to recognize our own [...]
About one year ago, I wrote about how stress impacts our bodies. In the short term, we may feel anxious, nauseas, even suffer from headaches and sweaty palms. In the long term, stress can be a [...]
I was watching the US Open yesterday and the commentators were talking about the important of ‘good’ arrogance to successful tennis players. Lots of undefined language in that [...]
I got my first professional book review in Inside Tennis Magazine and it’s pretty good. It’s entitled Cleere Vision: From Here to There (left, bottom, page 39). I also have an ad on [...]
