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Lately I’ve been talking a lot about ‘routines’ and my Beating the Tennis Demons System ™. When I train athletes and coaches on my system I talk about pre-performance routines [...]

You’ve probably heard me say that practice and competition take a different mindset. Practice is where you…practice! You make mistakes. You think analytically. You enhance physical [...]

Last week I talked about how music can help you become a better tennis player and athlete. I talked about how music elicits emotion, how music distracts and the affect of arousal/energy on [...]

On Saturday Roger defeated Stan Wawrinka in the ATP World Tour finals. At age 33 Roger had won 17 major grand slam titles spent 302 weeks at #1 but this Autumn where he’s “saving [...]

What does rock solid confidence mean? True self-confidence – is a realistic (being realistic is very important and it’s not about someone else’s realistic expectations but [...]

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 [...]

P. ¿Cuál es la cosa más útil que puedo darle a mis jugadores para mantenerlos fuera de su cabeza, que mantengan la concentración y estén listos para jugar? R Todos los jugadores deben tener tres [...]

I wrote this article for Tennis Pro Magazine so it’s geared toward tennis but since these are the basic 3’s for any performer decided that I would use this as information for my blog [...]

Congrats Bartoli on winning Wimbledon. Did you see the Lisicki/Bartoli match? It was a difficult match to watch. Clearly they both played well enough to be there but as I heard Martina say [...]