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This newsletter comes in two languages: English and Slovenian. You'll learn new tennis mental tips, find out solutions to common tennis challenges in the Q&A section and be the first to know what's new on the TennisMindGame.com website.

Ta newsletter bo izhajal v dveh jezikih: anglescini in slovenscini. V njem bodo povezave do novosti na TennisMindGame spletni strani, ker bo vecina v obeh jezikih.

Za slovensko verzijo se pomakni navzdol po emailu!

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Thanks for all the feedback on the tennis videos!

You actually gave me some good ideas, like adding the slow motion, so I will do that for certain clips.

I am almost finished with taping the videos, so now it's the editing time...

I'll try to finish everything by the end of March so stay in touch...

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1. What's new?
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a) 4 Mistakes

If you miss a shot, you might start wondering what you did wrong. There could be hundreds of reasons, beginning with ball judgment, movement to the ball, etc. But here is a much better way to improve.

There Are Only 4 Mistakes In Tennis

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2. Q&A
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(I have replied in the text of this message so Q and A part are combined together...)

Q&A:
Hello Tomaz,

Q: Here my first question:

Tennis is a technical game so I focused more and more on the technical aspects.

A: What does this mean - that tennis is a technical game? I think tennis is a playing game. A technical sport is for example ice skating where you get points for performin technique correctly.

In tennis you get point for PLAYING better. It doesn't matter at all HOW you do it - whether technically correctly or not.

So maybe your whole dilemma starts here...

Q: During a practice session, we play 20 minutes groundstrokes and 40 minutes or more games.

I got used to set goals before each session, for example focus on the forehand preparation, on the checkmark position for the serve etc...

For each stroke I set a goal, means a total of approx. 5 goals and try to think about also during the games.

Seems that I got used to it, as it does not have a real negative impact if I play with my regular partners.

There is an evolution in my game and this method seems to work in a training session. However, in the match, when I am playing another opponent, I experience difficulties to stop thinking about these training goals, as it affects my game negatively. Shall I restrict the thinking to the technical aspects to the grounstrokes during the warm up, means stop thinking about technique during training games, exactly how it should be during the match?

A: First, how long have you been playing / or doing this? How long have you been focusing on for example forehand preparation? Few days, few weeks, few months?

What do you think would happen if you didn't think? Do you think your forehand would start looking like a beginners? ;)

And when do you think is the right time to stop thinking about technique?

I am asking you questions mostly because I am challenging your beliefs and what you think (or what you have been TOLD) about tennis technique.

Please don't take this confrontational in any way.

Q: Do you consider to visualise to stand in the correct position for the forehand to be useful during training games/a match, or do you advise to think the minimum?

A: I would advise you to focus only on the ball flight in practice for a few days or weeks. How do you want the ball to fly over - low, fast, high, spin, no spin, deep, short, ...

And not how you will actually do it (under the ball, racquet back, point your shoulder forward, ...).

See what happens.

When you start trusting the process, you will not think in a match too.

Because in the match, you need to focus only on playing - where and what kind of the shot you are going to play. And you have about 0.5 seconds to decide...

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That's it for this week, I'll keep working on beginner videos and tips and I'll talk to you in 2 weeks.

Best regards,

Tomaz

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Zivjo!

Se vedno delam na videih za zacetnike (angleskih), upam da bom koncal konec marca.

Sicer pa imam za vas 1 nov clanek in pa Q&A, tokrat v slovenscini...

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1. Kaj je novega?
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a) Vabim vas da si preberete clanek na angleskem delu mesecnika in sicer, ali so v tenisu res samo 4 napake...

4 Napake V Tenisu...

b) Ne spreglejte tudi Q & A v angleskem delu...

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2. Vprasanja in odgovori
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Vprasanje:
V skupini otrok, ki sem jo dobil pred letom in pol je tudi moj 10 letni sin. Obozuje nogomet, je talentiran, rad trenira in tudi sam trenira, ce je potrebno.

Problem nastane na tekmah in na tekmovanjih. Vse tisto kar naredi na treningu zelo dobro, dribling, mocan sut, preigravanje... na tekmah izgine ali pa se pojavi v bolj bledem izdanju.

Ne skrivam, takrat tudi jaz vcasih reagiram jezno. Skusal sem mu pomagati z lastnimi iskusnjami o dvigovanju samozavesti vendar je drzalo kratko.

Kako mu lahko pomagam in kako naj se jaz vedem ob takih situacijah?

Odgovor:
Poskusimo najprej razumeti otrosko psiho, potem pa gremo na resitve...

Otroci NUJNO potrebujejo starsevsko ljubezen. Za njih je to zivljenjskega pomena. Brez starsev so tako rekoc nebogljeni in po njihovem obsojeni na smrt. Sicer o tem ne razmisljajo, je pa to prisotno v njihovi psihi.

Vsako odtegovanje ljubezni in pozornosti starsa je za njih grozen signal. Zato bodo otroci:

1. Naredili VSE, da jih imajo starsi radi (sele okrog pubertete se temu lahko uprejo in tvegajo dejanja, s katerimi ne bodo dobili ljubezni svojih starsev)

2. Se izogibali dejanj, s katerimi povzrocijo, da jim starsi odtegnejo ljubezen.

Torej, vas sin ve - zavestno ali podzavestno - da vas razocara, kadar mu ne uspe dribling ali sut na gol ali podobno. Ve tudi, da tudi priblizno ni tako dober kot vi.

Kadar se mu ponudi priloznost - ko dobi zogo - je razprt med dvema odlocitvama: naj gre in dribla in sutira na gol in vse ostalo kar naj bi bilo pravilno za dobrega nogometasa

ALI

naj tega ne pocne, ker s tem vedno tvega, da mu ne bo uspelo in potem vas bo razocaral in dobil manj ljubezni, kar je zanj smrtno resnega pomena. Seveda se sin zaveda, da vas na tekmi mnogo bolj razocara kot na treningu.

Zato takrat ko ima zogo okleva, nima jasnega cilja in seveda oba veva, kaksne so posledice se posebej pri sportih z zogo. Z eno besedo - neuspeh.

Za dobro igro v kakrsnem koli sportu je potrebna 100% koncentracija brez dvomov in strahov.

Se en primer v iz tenisa - igralec dobi kratko zogo s katero lahko zakljuci tocko. Po eni strani ve, da je pravilno da napade, po drugi pa ve, da ce zgresi, bo zapravil priloznost. Zato okleva in seveda zdaj res zgresi skoraj vedno.

Problem lezi v prepricanju, da je zapravil priloznost in da tega ne bi smel storiti. Kar je seveda nemogoce. Nihce se se ni rodil, ki NIKOLI ne bo zapravil priloznosti.

In ker si igralci postavijo nemogoce zahteve (ali jim jih starsi ali trenerji), potem postanejo nervozni ker poskusajo zagotoviti uspeh, hkrati pa cutijo da tega ne morejo.

Torej, kaksen je zakljucek?

Kot prvo morate vi razumeti in preveriti svoja prepricanja o tem, kaj je "zapravljena priloznost", cesa se "ne sme" zgresiti, "kako si lahko to zgresil", "kaj dobri igralci nikoli ne zgresijo" in podobna zgresena prepricanja.

Nic tega ni res. Vsi zgresijo. Razmislite o zgresenih 11m najvecjih svetovnih asov.

Se jaz, ki gledam nogomet 10 minut na leto ;) vem za zgresene 11m Beckhama in podobnih - na najvecjih tekmovanjih.

Ko boste realisticno gledali na vso sportno zadevo, potem tudi ne boste odtegnili ljubezni vasemu sinu, ko bo zgresil. Vedeli boste, da je sport precej zahtevna zadeva, sploh pa za 10 letne otroke, ki ne morejo tako hitro analizirati vseh podatkov in nimajo 20 letnih izkusenj v sportu.

Zato boste sina samo spodbujali in potem ga ne bo vec strah tvegati, sutirati na gol in driblati, tudi ce to pomeni, da bo kdaj zgresil.

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Toliko za ta teden, slisimo se spet cez 14 dni. Lep pozdrav iz Tajske.

Uzivajte v tenisu!

Tomaz Mencinger

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