Here ist another video from our skoaching-factory (thx to Lars Hipp for the wonderful sketching)! This time again about focusing on the ball and the effects of hitting the ball. Have fun and some new ideas!
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Skoaching „Traffic lights“
The next video is online! Another skoaching-video about Inner Coaching! We go on with the „Traffic Light Drill“! Red or green, hard or easy to hit….. Have fun and if you need more informations and videos, follow us on twitter oder facebook!
Here you find the german description of the drill.
Spacer 2
You remember the inner coaching drill „spacer 1“?
There you played rallies with your partner from the baseline. Every time your ball crosses the net, you shout the distance to the net. Rename loud (!) the ball distance at 50 cm intervals. Thus the player reaches the „concentration on the essentials“ and the non-essential, such as thinking about the impact technique is hidden!
This drill is also for children on all field sizes, with the corresponding balls. The distance of the ball to the net can be specified with three possible „dimensions“:
- just over the net: mouse
- mean distance: Tiger
- high over the net: giraffe or elephant or dinosaur or …..
This is fun and has the same „trick the mind effect“ as in spacer 1 for older players.
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If your ball flies after your hit over the net, then name the distance to the net to within 10 cm. Stay consistent!
This exercise contains all the elements of an inner coaching drill:
- more external focus (distance to net)
- Focusing on the essentials
- internal feedback (loud naming the distance)
„Every little helps, or sucks“
This graphic shows a very interesting point of the complexity of tennis! (Thanks to FeelTennis.net for this). It shows, that little changes in the timing of a tennis stroke may change your whole game.
Thinking back to studies about „Choking under pressure“, we „know“, that using the prefrontal cortex and thinking about the process of a stroke will slow the execution of your move and may lead to a discrepancy to the optimal hit. It is then nearly impossible, to hit the ball like you would do without thinking! I remember a study, that shows clear temporal lags!
Skoaching „Hopp-Hit“
It is online! Our first skoaching-video about Inner Coaching! We start with the famous hopp-hit-drill! May be, you know it as the „1-2-drill“ or the „bounce-hit-drill“. Have fun and if you need more informations and videos, follow us on twitter oder facebook!
Be like water…
„Let your moves follow the river.“ (Frercks Hartwig, Coach)
Control your mind
„When you manage to overcome your own mind, you overcome myriad concerns, rise above all things, and are free. When you are overcome by your own mind, you are burdened by myriad concerns, subordinate to things, unable to rise above. Mind your mind; guard it resolutely. Since it is the mind that confuses the mind, don’t let your mind give in to your mind.” Suzuki Shosan (1579-1655)
Koan für Coaches
„Ein Gelehrter kam zu Tao-hsin und fragte „Was ist deine Lehre?“ Tao-hsin sagte „Nicht sprechen.“
Kreativität und Lehrbuch-Regeln
Erinnern Sie sich noch an Björn Borg, den innovativsten und auch zu seiner Zeit erfolgreichsten Tennisspieler aus Schweden, „Erfinder“ der beidhändigen Rückhand, des Topspins und des defensiven Spiels von der Grundlinie? Dieses Zitat von ihm stammt aus einer Zeit, in der das rigide Techniktraining und wie wir es heute nennen, der „methodische Traditionalismus“ vorrangig den Lern- und Trainingsalltag von Tennisspieler_innen jeder Spielstärke bestimmt haben.
(Der Beitrag ist aus der Präsentation zum Workshop „Inner Coaching im Tennistraining“)