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The Art Of Winning: DELIBERATE customized practice BY FRANK GIAMPAOLO
The Art Of Winning:DELIBERATE customized practice
BY FRANK GIAMPAOLO
What is Mental toughness?
The 3 tiers of match strategy
Assembling game plans Strategies versus the 4
main playing styles Customizing the Top 7
Patterns Positioning to maximize
success
Opponent awareness (Style of play, strengths and weaknesses, Top 7 Pattern and frustration tolerance levels)
Shot selection (Hitting the shot the moment demands)
The mental components relate to the analytical match decisions
What is emotional toughness ?
The emotional components relate to the athlete’s ability to handle competitive anxiety
Controlling anger/ fear/nervousness
Staying unflappable under adversity
Closing out a set/match/tournament
Concentrating for the duration
Playing at peak performance vs weaker players
Overcoming choking or panicking
Successfully handling hardships (Injuries, the elements, bad luck, gamesmanship or an aggravating opposing playing style)
practice in the manner you are expected to perform
secrets of Mental Emotional Training
1. Apply Brain & Body Typing
2. Develop secondary strokes
3. Implement the school methodology
4. Improve pre-match preparation
5. Develop and rehearse between point rituals and change-over rituals
Favorite mental emotional drills
1. Negative scoring
2. Mega point scoring
3. Live ball pattern repetition
4. a, b and c game plan rehearsal
5. “keep away” drills vs “playing catch”
Mental training case study
Deliberate customized training
OLD SCHOOL TRAINING
Results of The 6 week study
Group A (Deliberate Customized practice)
DOMINATED
Group B (Old School Training)
When should mental training begin?
Eric Silberman Sarah fansler
Secrets to GROUP b’s Mental/Emotional Success
1. Shifting focus from perfect form to hitting the shot the moment demands.
2. Spotting, controlling and managing positive & negative Mega Points.
3. Developing each players Top 7 Patterns.
4. identify and counter the opponents top 7 patterns.
5. Staying on script
The art of winning:Top 7 Patterns
1. Favorite deuce side service pattern
2. Favorite Advantage side service pattern
3. Favorite position/shot selection vs a strong first serve
4. Favorite position /shot selection vs a weaker second serve
5. Favorite rally pattern to get the opponent vulnerable
6. Favorite short ball option
7. Favorite net rushing option
Do Pros run their top 7 patterns ?
Rafael Nadal ran the same old boring winning service pattern on the ad side 89% of the time
Vs Ryan Harrison.
Result- rafa won routinely while conserving energy for future
rounds.
Devising/practicing counter tactics
“In any sport, experts don’t simply see where the
action is…
they can see where the action is going to be in the very
near future”
Benefits of counter tactics
Controlling the Tipping points
gaining the critical mental/ emotional edge in tiebreakers
shutting down the opponents preferred play- forces the opponent to shift to their less comfortable B or C patterns at crunch time
Remaining one step ahead of their opposition
Performing with increased confidence because they have a plan
Intimidating the opponent by out-thinking them (staying on top of their preferred patterns)
Recognizing Opponents Top 7 Patterns
1. Favorite deuce side service pattern
2. Favorite Advantage side service pattern
3. Favorite position/shot selection vs a strong first serve
4. Favorite position/shot selection vs a weaker second serve
5. Favorite rally pattern to get the opponent vulnerable
6. Favorite short ball option
7. Favorite net rushing option
“Spectacular performances begin with spectacular preparation”
Deliberate Customized Practice
customize each students individual top 7 patterns
rehearse their top 7 patterns
Learn to identify counter opponents top 7 patterns
