improve the level of concentration, as well as sports performance.
Through the FEEDBACK technique in this MENTAL COACHING session on the court, the objective is to help the tennis player to focus more and better on the task and on what he has to do.
For that, what we do is help you orient your attention focus so that your decisions can be more conscious and with greater intention.

• Mental routine when point won:
  Celebrate every point earned.
  Self motivation.
  Body language of force (closed fist).
  Strong body attitude.

• Mental routine in between points:
  Return to the “base” area.
  Motivating self-talk.
  Concentration technique.
  Focus on the strings look of the racket.
  Return to the new game point.

• Routine when point lost:
  Return immediately to the “base” area.
  Symbolically clean the lost spot with the towel.
  Motivating thinking and / or self-talk.
  Return to the playing area with a strong body attitude.

We have the collaboration of Axel Herberg Amoros (currently National Ranking # 190), to find out what makes the player fail and what his limiting thoughts are. At the beginning, the player practices the serve in training with his coach and / or with his Mental Coach.

Later, the steps that have been taken during the Mental Coaching session (in the room) were:

• Observation of the player’s pre-serve routine.
• Open questions that facilitate awareness of the player’s negative thoughts.
• Identification of the first limiting words that the player identifies
• Awareness of thoughts.
• 2 negative thoughts become conscious: “Don’t fail” and “don’t gamble so much.”
• Identification of body attitude and associated emotion and negative verbalization associated with the failure.
• A new post-failure negative thought is identified: “How can I miss this ball?”
• Identification of another associated emotion “THE RAGE” in the pre-serve routine (the player’s laughter reveals the recognition of his post-failure emotion).

A new simulation of the pre-serve routine is carried out, raising awareness and reducing the negative thoughts that limit your concentration. At the end, the new pre-serve routine is applied on the court, repetition and integration.

… from THE BODY first, then THE EMOTIONS, and finally THE RATIONAL PART (mind, thoughts).

In this case, in this tennis video, we propose a MENTAL COACHING job on the court to improve attention and concentration and accustom the mind to maintain focus for longer, very specific repetition tasks are carried out, giving a single instruction “focus in the legs ”(in this case of specific work) … from the corporal conscience.

Then, by prolonging the exercise, it allows you to observe several elements:

• How do you adapt when you start to get tired?
• What part of the body and / or movement loses quality and control?
• What is your level of resilience?
• What body attitude begins to appear?
• What emotional management do you do?
• Finally, after this specific work, there is an additional work of Personal Mental Coaching with the tennis player so that he can answer these questions to become aware of what his management mechanisms are in the face of effort and the specific attentional focus.

… create habits and resources in the boys and girls that they will acquire before the adolescent period in order to have a greater capacity for self-management and decision-making.

During this tennis video, you will discover an introductory session to the annual Mental Coaching program created by TENNIS MENTAL COACHING (TMC).

It is designed for teenagers from 8 to 12 years of base tennis. The TMC KIDS program is made up of several modules so that children can:

• Experiencing experiential group dynamics in a safe environment.
• Help them express their emotions.
• Improve your difficulties and enhance your skills.
• Decision-making learning.
• In addition, group work helps, through play and playful dynamics, to become more aware of themselves, to promote greater autonomy.

This introductory module (Module 1) aims to CREATE THE LINK between colleagues to:

• Weave ties between them.
• Contribute to building trust.
• Development of values.
• It encourages help, co-motivation, being a team, …

Group work helps to discover my difficulties, reflected in others and thus feel that “I do not live it alone or alone, but that other adolescents are also suffering: this is what we call UNIVERSALITY.

At LOS MONTEROS RACKET CLUB (Marbella), counting on the sensitivity & collaboration of Mane MUNOZ TORRES as Sport Manager, we have been able to offer an introduction to MENTAL COACHING through a group session focused on EMOTIONS.

Of course, emotional management is one of the fundamental mental pillars of any tennis player. In this group session of young adolescent tennis players, we have launched a work of AWARENESS of what they feel and help them express it.

EMOTIONS are one of the 3 CENTERS (Emotions – Body – Mind) that must be worked on in MENTAL COACHING.

… manage anger and frustration after an unforced error, to teach them to lower their stress or anxiety level before or during a competition, to create routines to manage their level activation, learn to stay focused, define mental match strategies … etc, to improve their performance in competition.

One of the topics covered in this video is the ATTENTIONAL FOCUS.

“It is one of the main difficulties faced by young tennis players due to current social habits.

In a society where there is a great dispersion due to the multiple stimuli that cause a great continuous dispersion such as social networks, continuous use of the mobile, continuous news, … etc “.

“It is a problem of this generation, and more than before.”

“Attentional focus work is an important issue to improve the performance of a young tennis player” – Miguel Tomé

Finally, you will be able to discover more ABOUT ME (on this link)

lack of attention and concentration, frustration, lack of motivation and pressure.

“It is difficult to get the attention and concentration of a player and more difficult to achieve it for a long period of time“

“The pressure they have is from an early age, from the moment they start competing, from a young age”

“I have always considered that tennis has to be divided into 3 main parts: the hand, the legs and the head. The head is the most forgotten part of these three, especially at very early ages; high competition has been studied more for a long time but at the basic levels, the mental part is the great forgotten one “

“The main sources of stress that a player can have is winning or losing, is to satisfy their parents, their coach, manage frustration“

At the end, “The figure of the MENTAL COACH  is very important to give us guidelines/routines, to face the different situations before, during and after a match” – Miki Viadas