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What Is Confidence?
“Confidence isn’t about considering you’re higher than everybody else…it’s about believing that you simply’ve ready your self to be the perfect you might be.”
At each occasion, we see a model of cocky Craig. Craig arrives on web site together with his Nike hat on backward, his “ginormous” 8-pack HEAD bag on his shoulders. He struts by means of the clubhouse as he spins a racket on his proper index finger. Cocky Craig goes down in flames first spherical most tournaments as a consequence of his lack of correct preparation.
Confidence permits athletes to belief their ideas and talents. Athletes who’re certain about their model of play, most proficient patterns, and readability of situational options have ready themselves for stress.
Are your athletes properly versed of their most proficient kinds of play, patterns, and on-court strategic options? Sometimes, unconfident athletes concentrate on the doable disaster forward, whereas assured athletes stay up for the problem.
Confidence is constructed on correct preparation. It’s the sensation of figuring out you may have the options
when issues go astray.
PARENTAL COnfidence
“Excessive rankings are achieved and sustained by means of constant weekly progress.”
Mrs. Chen and her son William stroll into their tennis session with one factor on their thoughts – William’s rankings. “How can we get to #3, SCTA?” “Which UTR ought to we play to maximise his factors?” ‘Can we get extra factors from an L -2 in Southern California or a D-2 in El Paso Texas?’ Whereas understanding the present rating course of is essential, the rating based mostly method to enchancment can stunt the expansion of an athlete. It’s like placing the cart earlier than the horse. Sadly, it’s not the cart that’s propelling the journey, it’s the horse. Within the Chen household’s world, the cart is the rankings, and the horse is his personalized developmental plan.
Consequence and rating obsession provides pointless stress that takes a toll on the athlete’s bodily, psychological, and emotional preparation and performances. In actuality, specializing in the outcomes is a distraction to the advance course of. As soon as dad and mom and athletes shift their consideration to constructing expertise, they’ll develop the instruments wanted to get the outcomes they search. And the athlete and the entourage will start to benefit from the journey as a substitute of hoping for future happiness. Actual confidence is gained on the trail of mastery. Below stress, confidence is the #1 reported ability dad and mom and athletes search.
When dad and mom and athletes focus their consideration and vitality much less on the outcomes and extra on the processes, they maximize potential at a faster fee.
