Improve Your Tennis 500% Overnight (not clickbait)

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If I told you it was possible for your tennis game to improve 500% overnight, you'd probably laugh and call me crazy. But Ed Tseng, the peak performance expert who has helped improve my mental game, has seen it happen. Here's how it's possible...
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[cldavis]

This is the truth. When a doubles partner or even ourselves coach us with an instruction like, "C'mon play better, don't miss!" the brain cannot find an action to perform that instruction or feedback. When we say, " Hit deeper, or pick your aim point", the brain can actually perform that function, and adjust if it didn't work.

[Naomi-grfm]

"As soon as our thinking changes, our feelings change." 💯
I had one match in particular in college where I applied this with success. I totally bombed the first set feeling tight, being negative, and berating myself for playing poorly. I was taking a class called Personal Empowerment at the time that reminded me of this concept and I told my self at the changeover before the second set that I wouldn't react to any errors and only cheered the points I won. Got into the zone and started playing SIGNIFICANTLY better. Came back and won the second set and the tiebreaker.
There's definitely times where I was on the losing end where I played a better player, but it's still valuable to actively practice through adversity no matter the outcome.

I actually have a quote I keep hung on my door that says "As you think, So shall you be, " which I adopted in college. Can apply it not only on the court, but in every part of your life. We can't control what happens to us or what others do, but we do have control of how we react.

[Dulakx]

My favorite advice is: Just think on something you can do good. Like low forehand. Focus on this. You stop thinking about bad stuff and thinking about your strength gives you good feelings.

[aiyka_music]

The moment I stopped thinking of tennis as a game of hitting winners and playing flashily to a game of hitting quality shots and forcing errors and aiming for consistency changed my game for the better! And thanks to essential tennis for that!

[pranavsreedhar]

I still have no idea how I missed this video on notifications when it came Ian... this is probably the most universally helpful video you have published that helps across ages and contributes the process to every field. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!

[asbestomolesto]

It happens to me that when I approach a match without thinking about winning it (because of a very strong or difficult opponent), when I approach that match as a good opportunity to learn something, to try something different, almost as it is a "training" session... well, I feel very relaxed and very often not only I win that match, but I win it without consuming all my energy and finishing totally exhausted...

[snipaboy]

6 minutes in and this in my humble opinion is the best video I've seen on your channel...it's everything I say to people I do sessions on court with and more. Thanks a lot!

[Wben]

Only watched first 6 minutes, have to go and do something, but all I keep thinking about is the importance of gratitude. A grateful heart is God's great motivator. If I just realize each day how lucky I am just even to be alive, what a start that is. I was always and can still be so hard on myself on the court. Bottom line is if I am just grateful for being able to physically play tennis, take in the beautiful or not beautiful day. Look at my mistakes as clues to what I am doing wrong, so that I can get better. Be kind and enjoy the company of whoever I am playing with, regardless of the level of competitiveness. Grateful I live in a country where there are tennis courts everywhere, where we have free time to play. Basicly gratitude is the key to happiness in life. Grateful for what I have, not focusing on what I don't. Peace and serenity are inside jobs, nothing outside of us can give us those things.

[tennislearning]

If your ever lazy to do something, just begin the task and once its done you will be proud of yourself, I have put this in practice lots of times and all it does is motivate me to continue training and follow my dreams. To reach the top you have to continue working hard no matter the circumstances.

[VPB]

Thank you very much. Like he said, everyone has the same problems, even those who you "know" are going to beat you in the court and who you pre-consider mental tough! Everyone is nervous. You can start a match thinking of how much "better" is your opponent, or how you "need" to improve to win. Once you start the match with that though, your simply fighting two opponents... I think this video is very, very helpful for everyone. I've been a lawyer for more than 20 year, and I say to my internees that i´m still very nervous each time I enter a court room. I play the part and I became "one" with the court once the trial starts. Its a "process", not a rational controllable thought. 
I had a match last week where I played with my practice partner for a tournament. I lost the first set 1-6, and I was losing the second set 0-3, when I woke up and started to focus on me instead of him. I came around too late and lost 4-6, but I can remember the exact moment where I thought that I would just play. After the match, we were talking and he confessed that at 5-4 he was very nervous and afraid I would turn the game around, but I just wanted to do it to much and I lost it. Lesson I hope I can mentally process and learn, with the help of this insight.

[PlazaMoon]

I've played really well in some matches where I expected to lose. My opponent might have been higher rated or had a reputation etc. Anyway, what happened was, I didn't put pressure on myself or load the situation with expectation, or that my tennis deserved a win. I fell into a loose state and regarded the match as a kind of practice. I already had an internal conversation where I convinced myself that if I lost, there would be no real consequence. I'm not saying this attitude will always get a victory, but if you take the fear of losing out of the equation, you play better.

[senorzed]

This was a great video again! I really love when you touch on subjects that you can't find anywhere else; Mental toughness and sometimes even certain tactics are talked very little, doesn't matter whether it's online or local coaches; Please keep making videos on the Mental side and also maybe talk a little on certain less talked tactics like how to read your opponent and what they're gonna do and how to break down their strategies during the match ♥ Appreciate you a lot Ian 😉

[daroemer]

A+ for identifying the problem (duh) and for elaborating on the why. D for not giving any advice on what to do instead. "Just do it" and "don't focus on things that make you play bad" doesn't quite hack it.

[Primeaux]

Love it :) That's really great advice!

During playing, I took on this perspective about just giving space for new thoughts to arrive and to not focus on my negative thinking.

Beforehand I often judged myself for mistakes and bad shots and became tighter like Ed shared.

The last few times, I focused more and more on the next shot/paint and its more enjoyable to play and I don't lose unnecessary points because I'm still in my head judging my performance.

Thank you, Ian and Ed!

[dandalee]

I noticed that when I play practice matches with a friend, I play so much better because I welcome the challenge of working on something for match play. When I can capture that feeling during an actual match, things seem to work out pretty well. It's when we focus so much on the outcome that things fall apart. It's incredibly difficult maintaining focus on the present point.

[rikh]

MEP is the master of this, mental toughness in spades and knows his own game to a tee.

[ChristineSutherland]

Need to add a bit more. Knee-jerk "feelings" precede those unhelpful thoughts and are conditioned or learned on an unconscious level. If you extinguish the conditioned response through disruption of the reconsolidation phase of the conditioned response (classical conditioning theory), you can quickly eliminate the feeling and there is then nothing to kick off the negative behaviour - you automatically get the space to perceive other options and make better decisions. If people want a free resource to achieve that, happy to provide it.

[tiesthijsthejs]

Aaaah now I get it. Just need to rewatch this video daily for 7 years. All it takes is about 2555 days of doing this simple thing is telling myself all the static in my mind is just normal and to just keep going.
(Sorry for the hint of sarcasm - it’s because Ed sounds like a salesman (500% overnight) and Ian casually dropping he’s been practicing this for several years instead, in order to progress. But honestly though, this mantra sounds like a great addition to mindfulness practices.)

[yoshikay]

Not gon lie. The mental portion has gotten the best of me. So much so, I actually reduced the amount of matches I played.

[mollywilde]

I’m just going to keep it simple and say… this video is really really helpful!