Tennis Confidence Video 2: Fear of Failure
March 3, 2009 by PatrickCohn
In my tennis confidence video series, you’ll learn about the top mental game reasons players under perform in matches compared to their performance in practice. This is the number one reason athletes contact me to help improve their mental game of tennis!
In Tennis Confidence Video number two, you learn how fear of failure prevents you or your players from performing freely and confidently in matches.
If you missed Tennis Confidence Video 1, check out why the academy mindset can hold you back in matches.
Watch tennis confidence video two below and be sure to leave you comments at the bottom of the page!
Please leave your comments about my tennis confidence videos below:
You mention “try to”… try to stay focus on one point at a to time…. As a coach i have used ever cliche there is, the issue is how to do it. How do you teach a player to focus on one point at a time? you can tell them until youre blue in the face but until they own the skill its just not happening. so any techniques on focusing on one point at a time?
Alex: Very astute on your part. If I had the time to do half hour videos then I could address how to focus on one point at a time because I don’t have a simple answer.
But you are right; a player must know how to focus on one point at a time. The most important part is to be present on the current shot and not think in the past or future. To do this, the player must know what to focus on in the present AND be able to refocus when not in the present.
I’ll work this into my new mental game program for tennis players.
Patrick Cohn
I have an important tournament it is starting in 2 days and i think that i have a pressure .. because my coach and all said that i play good but i feel that something is not good .. something is wrong with me .. this year i had some stupid matches and i have fear that i will play stupid again and it’s important for me to win this tournament . PLS respond me give me an advice . THANK YOU DANIEL
And i cannot relax my body my mindset is at tennis always .at my matches , at my tournament .
Sorry, I think I was too late to respond to your mental game question. Be on the look out for my Jue newsletter, sports insights magazine: http://www.peaksports.com/free_newsletter.php
Patrick Cohn
Hello,I’m again Daniel .. and i want to ask you something .
SO , I play very good at training all my shots are very good , but when I finish the training i loose all my confidence and i think that i play stupid .. or i remember my stupid matches , so i have a stupid period but now i play really good and i have some good results , but i don’t know why i loose my confidence when i finish the training or the match actually when i play good . Please give me a reason , or something to help me. Thank You Very Much ,DANIEL