Tennis Rockers

Claude and Sully

Are you ready to re-imagine and reconstruct the way you realize not just the game of tennis but all the other ways you compete in life? Tennis Rockers pull together beliefs, concepts, ideas, people, and values from a cross-section of multi-disciplinary fields for the purpose of doing things a little different. Tennis Rockers don't just want to change the game, they want to help people think about changing how they see and live their lives. Coach Claude and coach Sully cordially invite you to put the pedal to the metal and join an unconventional conversation on tennis and life. Nothing good comes from standing still.

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What Is The Right Kind Of Parental Involvement?

Parental involvement is really important to your child's game and the future of your familial relationship - tennis can be something that you always talk about as everyone ages. And tennis parents play a very important role in the development of their children. All emotional, financial, and mental support these parents provide as their child works their way through the game is very serious. These parents have the experience, perspective, resources, and tools that no one coach or mentor can ever ...

Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 11

Seeking Solutions To The Commentator Problem

How can you spot and work with the internal commentator that a student might have? How can you be more self-aware as the student and send the right signals to your coach so they can be better for you? In this episode, we continue to take apart the internal commentator to figure out how to work with it instead of against it. Here is what we have so far: Slow down your transfer of personal data - you, not your student is skilled in tennis techniques, movement, strategy - they process slower Narrow...

Jan 17, 2021•47 min•Ep. 10

The Internal Commentator Takeover - When a Coach Projects Their Skill Level On Their Student

We've kicked around the idea of the commentator in previous episodes - the idea that we all have this running dialogue going on inside that is a mix of emotions and thoughts about our lives and what we are engaged at in the moment. While the commentator can help us make decisions and steer us away from things that aren't good for us, it can become a bit of an invisible barrier to our growth and personal development both in the sport of tennis and in our outside lives. The internal commentator ca...

Jan 15, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 9

Turn Off The Commentator?

How many people actually watch a tennis match or the replay of one with the sound off? Probably not enough. The sound - commentators and commercials alike - could be unknowingly preventing your brain from properly observing, analyzing, digesting, and coming up with a plan to propel the acquisition of your tennis forward. In this episode, we break into the subject of the good and bad of the external (broadcaster or tennis pro/coach!) and internal (ourselves) commentator and the effect that it has...

Jan 11, 2021•46 min•Ep. 8

What Do You Need To Be A Pro?

In this episode we go in-depth to discover what a pro needs in order to love what they do and give their best to whoever they are teaching. It's not always what you think. Yes, for those who are just starting out, it can be the hardware (the racquets, cart, and cones) or the acknowledgement of their past achievements. But for those tennis pros in it for the long game, it's more about the software. In this episode we talk tennis pro software - what it takes for our resident pro to be good to go: ...

Jan 09, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 7

Court Etiquette Ain't Cutting It...

Do you ever walk onto a court at your assigned time only to find people still playing? Maybe cleaning up a ton of balls that will take 5 or more minutes of your time? How about a bunch of trash or the razor sharp lid from the ball container left behind on the court where your young child could accidentally pick it up? What about people walking onto your court 5 minutes early while you're still playing? It's like arriving in your hotel room only to find the previous guest packing things up, with ...

Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 6

Let's Take The Concept of Vision Deeper ~ We Add Nicknames and Personas

Music students learning to play an instrument emulate the player (a persona) they want to be (a vision) all the time. It helps them ditch some, if not all, of their sense of self-consciousness to focus on the lesson and connect with the teacher and what they want to achieve. Music students come to their lessons with a will to know and the teacher (similar to the coach) must create an atmosphere that encourages students to struggle. With each new piece of music a student brings to a teacher, the ...

Jan 01, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 5

Working With Vision: Balancing The Will To Conquer Against The Will To Know

In our previous episode, we introduced the concept of vision to the tennis lesson. You know. You see the vision of yourself as having the one-handed backhand of a Justine Henin or Roger Federer. It's a mental picture that eggs you on to be better at your tennis than you were the day before. When you come to a tennis lesson with such a vision, what stands in the way of executing it and how will you work towards achieving it? In this episode, we address another invisible barrier to the acquisition...

Dec 30, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 4

Tennis Needs Vision Classes

What are you doing to discover your vision for the type of person you want to play like? Does your tennis coach talk vision with you? Does your tennis facility offer classes in vision? You know, a vision of someone who is great at what they do (i.e. a pro tennis player) that you believe in your heart you could play like? To serve or return like them? To execute a play just like them? Maybe to just move as gracefully as them? Maybe more students need to come to their coaches (like aspiring musici...

Dec 28, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 3

Fun Is Not Getting Good Quickly ~ Joy Lies In The Struggle

Instead of looking at the average tennis lesson as fun, maybe we should see it as a struggle. Seeing the joy in the struggle is likely to help perfectionist players take some pressure off their interaction in the sport. If you don't struggle a little with your lesson or your game, are you really having fun and enjoying yourself? Are you really building the grit or tenacity you need for the competition of life? In this episode we begin our emotional journey of tennis. We see the pressure that we ...

Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 2

Time For Tennis To Take A New Turn

Join us on the start of our unconventional journey to change the way we think about the game of tennis. rockerstennis@gmail.com www.tennisrockers.com

Dec 20, 2020•52 min•Ep. 1

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