The General Psychology Of Tennis (Part 1)
Oct 23, 2010 Uncategorized
Tennis psychology is nothing more than understanding the workings of your opponent’s mind and gauging the effect of your own game on his/her mental viewpoint and also understanding the mental effects resulting from the various external causes on your own mind.
Nevertheless, it is also true that you no one can be a successful psychologist of others without first understanding his own mental processes. So, you have to study the effect on yourself of the same thing occurring under various conditions. This is because you react differently in different moods and under different conditions.
You have to understand the effect on your game of the resulting irritation, pleasure, confusion, or whatever other form your reaction takes. Does it improve your efficiency? If so, go for it, but never offer it to your opponent. Does it deprive you of concentration? If so, either remove the reason, but if that isn’t possible, try to ignore it.
After you have properly assessed your own reaction to conditions, observe your opponents to decide their temperaments. Like temperaments react in a like way, and you can judge people of your own kind by yourself. Opposite characters you have to try to liken with those people, whose reactions you are already familiar with.
A person who can regulate his/her own mental processes has an great chance of reading those of another for the minds works along definite lines of thought and can be studied. One can only regulate one’s own thought processes after studying them very carefully .
The regular, unemotional baseline player is rarely a keen thinker. If he were, he would not stay on the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is usually a pretty clear indication of his/her kind of mind. The stolid, easy-going player, who normally advocates the baseline game, does it because he does not want to activate up his/her slow mind to think out a reliably safe method of getting to the net.
Then there is the other type of baseline player, who would rather remain on the back of the court while directing an attack intended to disrupt up your game. He is a very dangerous player, and a deep, keen thinking antagonist. He achieves his/her results by mixing up his/her length and direction and worrying you with the variance of his/her game. He is a good psychologist.
The first type of tennis player mentioned above merely hits the ball without much thought about what he is actually doing, while the latter always has a solid, thought-out strategy and adheres to it.
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Tennis Psychology (Part 2)
Oct 7, 2010 Uncategorized
The hard-hitting, erratic, net-rushing player is a creature of impulse. There is no real system to his/her attack, no understanding of your game. He will make brilliant coups on the spur of the moment, largely by instinct; but there is no, mental power of consistent thinking. It is an interesting type of character.
The most dangerous player is the one who mixes his/her style from back to fore court under the direction of an ever-active mind. This/her is the player to study and learn from. He is a player with a definite intention. A player who has an answer to every problem you present him in your game. He is the most subtle opponent in the world of tennis. He is from the school of Brookes. Second only to him is the player of slavish determination that sets his/her mind on one plan and adheres to it, bitterly, fiercely battling to the end, with never a thought of changing.
He is the player whose psychology is rather easy to work out, but whose mental standpoint is difficult to upset, for he never permits himself to think about anything except the business at hand. This/her player is your Johnston or your Wilding. I respect the intelligence of Brookes more, but I admire the determination of Johnston.
Pick out your kind from your own mental processes, and then plan your game along the lines best suited to you. When two men are on the same level as regards stroke, strength and equipment, the determining factor in any game is the mental standpoint. Luck, as it is called, is often no more than seizing the psychological advantage of a change of flow in the game, and turning it to your own advantage. People talk a lot about the “shots we have made.” But few people realize the importance of the “shots we have missed.”
The psychology of missing shots is just as vital as that of making them, and at times a miss by an inch is of more value than a return that is killed by your opponent. Let me tell you why. A player drives you far out of court with an angle-shot. You run hard for it, and having reached it, you drive it hard and fast down the side-line, missing it by an inch. Your opponent is surprised and put off his stride, realizing that your shot might just as well have gone in as out. He will expect you to try it again and he will not risk it next time. He will try to play the ball, and may make an error. You have thus taken some of your opponent’s confidence, and increased his/her chance of error, just because of a miss.
If you had just tapped back that ball, and it had been killed, your opponent would have felt increasingly confident of your inability to get the ball out of his/her reach, while you would merely have been winded for no reason.
Let’s just say that you had made that shot down the sideline. It was an apparently impossible get. First it amounts to TWO points, in that it took one away from your opponent that should have been his/her and gave you one that you should never have had. Second it also upsets your opponent, as he thinks that he has thrown away a big chance.
The psychology of a tennis match is fascinating, but easily understood. Both men start with equal chances. Once one player establishes a real lead, his/her confidence goes up, while his/her opponent worries, and his/her mental standpoint becomes poor. The sole objective of the first player is to hold his/her lead, thus holding his/her confidence.
If the second player pulls even or draws ahead, the inevitable reaction is an even more drastic contrast in psychology of the players. First, there is the natural confidence of the leader of the game, but it is coupled with the great stimulus of having turned a seemingly inevitable defeat into a probable victory. The case of the other player is the reverse. He is apt to lose confidence and play worse. The breakdown of his game plan soon follows.
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Modest Retirement Gifts For Golfers
Sep 18, 2010 Uncategorized
There is a commonly-held belief that golf is a pastime and sport of entrepreneurs and businessmen. It also has the reputation of being exclusive and elite and not being accessible to ordinary blue collared workers. However, this is not really true, since modernization and commercialization have brought this so-called elite sport into the realm of normal people.
This is because you don’t need to acquire sophisticated equipment to join in. Unlike big game fishing and polo which need a lot of resources – a boat or a horse respectively, golfers just require a set of golf clubs, which are affordable these days. With this in mind, retirement gifts for golfers and aspiring ones are more easily thought of.
Personally made retirement gifts to personalize golfing equipment is quite simple as you could easily make it personal by embroidering such items as golf club pouches or caddy covers. These can be knitted, if you are a knitter or by any similar craft which may use other materials.
Another idea is to tap into the fashion aspect of golfing which means to focus on the things worn by a golfer. You may even set a new trend in golfing apparel using a lively imagination and an interesting clothing design for your retiree.
Common gifts. The most usual method of buying a retirement gift for golfers is to go to the nearest sports shop and get your retiree one of the things sold there. It may sound a little impersonal to just get the retiree a commercially made gift, but then this may actually prove very useful, if the retiree is still a novice golfer. Maybe you might want to get him a set of golf clubs since it is the basic requirement to be able to play golf.
Moreover, you may find other accessories there that your retiree golfer still needs, but then perhaps you could also contribute your imagination and think about what you can make to enhance the golfing equipment he may already have.
Shop bought golfing equipment is handy too, eg, you could make your retiree feel professional, giving him a set of famous golf clubs, making him look like a pro.
Gags and Jokes The fun part of choosing to give a gag gift instead is the humour these items can invest. It also adds to the lighter side of the golf-playing retiree’s party and his friends will be able to join in with smiles, laughs and jokey comments too.
The gag present should be bought quite carefully as the gag gift may represent a sensitive matter for the retiree, especially if he is still a novice player. Joke present for golfers might be taken badly and discourage their learning if they are disturbed by the idea emphasized by the joke present given to them.
However, to more advanced golf players who are already acquainted with the way golfers think, the gift of a good joke gift on their retirement day would be very funny because they would already know golf not only as a method of relieving their stress and getting some decent exercise but of actually just having a laugh as well.
You should see retirement gifts for golfers as just a simple way to make your golfer friend enjoy life after his career is over.
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