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Posted on October 14, 2015 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential, Raising Athletic Royalty, The Tennis Parent's Bible

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John L. Danise,

Executive Director of the Florida High School
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Bestselling Author Frank Giampaolo
Discussing the process of
Raising Athletic Royalty.

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PRESENTS
The Tennis Parent/ Player/ Coaches Maximizing Tennis Potential Seminar

Join Us Live December 13, 2015 in Daytona Beach, Florida for a
Very Special One Day Workshop

Topics Will Include:

  1. Brain Typing & Body Typing Athletes
    2.Organizing Game Plans
    3.Why Life Skills Equals Results
    4. Pre Match Preparation -Morphing into an Athletic Warrior
    5.Primary versus Secondary Strokes
    6.The Mental Component: How to Preset Protocols
    7.The Emotional Component: How to Preset Protocols
    8.Time Management: The 168 Hour Rule
    9. Flexible Skills Training vs Consistent Skills Training
    10.Practice in the Manner You’re Expected to Perform
    11.The Top Tennis Parent Blunders & How to Avoid Them
    12.Parental Match Day Communication
    13.Why it Pays Tenfold to Educate the Parents
  2. Tennis Parent Job Descriptions
  3. Organizing the Athletes Customized Developmental Plan

Important Note from the FHSTCA Conference:

  1. Frank’s Seminar-Tennis Parent/Coaches Workshop is an added bonus for us. It is not included in the HS Coaches Conference but an optional addition to it.
  2. Frank’s seminar is for the parents and coaches of serious HS players. The athlete is encouraged to attend.
  3. To Register Go To:
    maximizetennispotential.com/shop/ and
    select FHSTCA Seminar.
    Space is limited for this intimate classroom event.
  4. Coaches and parents can receive more information regarding the workshop by contacting Frank at FGSA@earthlink.net

 

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Plan for Success

Posted on October 7, 2015 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential, Raising Athletic Royalty, The Tennis Parent's Bible

The following post is an excerpt from The Tennis Parent’s Bible  Thanks for visiting, Frank Giampaolo

 

The Formula for Achieving Results

All too often, competitive parents and athletes have dreams they mistake for goals. The disconnect starts with confusing dreams with goals. A dream is only a goal if it has an organized plan. For example, when I ask naturally talented athletes about their goals, they most often answer with uncontrollable outcome dreams. Such as: being ranked top in the nation, winning the state championship, receiving a NCAA D-1 athletic scholarship or playing pro ball.

These are nice dreams but remember:

“A goal without a deliberate customized developmental plan is actually a dream in disguise.”

Although elite athletes may also have the above dreams, the difference is that they realize their success is a result of quantifiable performance orientated process goals. It isn’t always the most naturally gifted athletes that are successful, it is the athletes with strong work ethics and a plan.

 

 

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Intimidation and Athletics

Posted on October 3, 2015 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

The Second Edition of The Tennis Parent’s Bible is coming soon! The following post is an excerpt from  The Tennis Parent’s Bible.  Thanks for visiting, Frank Giampaolo

 

Frank Giampaolo

Question: My daughter is easily intimidated out of competing. Is this fair?

Frank: Yes, intimidation is fair. At the higher levels, tennis is a game of intimidation. If your daughter has terrific strokes but is an inexperienced emotional competitor, it is your child’s coach’s responsibility to assist them in developing a “thick skin.”

Dealing with gamesmanship should be part of your child’s basic training. The first step in handling gamesmanship is devising customized solutions (protocols) for each form of gamesmanship.  The second step is rehearsing those solutions on the practice court to gain confidence in applying pre-set counter gamesmanship solutions in a real match.

To progress into the higher levels of the game, mental and emotional skill set development is crucial. Parents, if you’re not taking an active role in helping to develop these critical components in your child, please don’t blame your child when tournament after tournament they lose as a result of gamesmanship.

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Losing versus Getting Beat

Posted on September 29, 2015 by in The Tennis Parent's Bible

The following post is an excerpt from THE SECOND EDITION of The Tennis Parent’s Bible– COMING SOON!!!  Thanks for visiting, Frank Giampaolo

 

 

Losing versus Getting Beat

For every 64 talented juniors that enter a six round tournament draw- all 64 have the same outcome goal: “I want to win!” Unfortunately 63 of those players go home losers. Although the nature of the draw format dictates only one champion, not all 63 lose- some of them get beat. There’s a big difference between getting beat and losing a match. Being defeated should be viewed from a new perspective.

 

“Attempting to never make a bad shot stops your athlete’s flow of great shots. Great winners and correct errors come from the same relaxed  free zone.”

 

Let’s look deeper into the cause of the loss:

In my book, being outplayed by someone is getting beat. It is absolutely fine to get beat by someone who is:

  • Executing their best style of play.
  • Performing their best strategies & tactics.
  • Working harder.
  • Controlling the mega points.
  • Choosing to utilize the rituals they’ve developed.

 

In the above situation, the opponent may actually deserved the victory. On the other side of getting beat, is losing. It is much more painful to lose a match when:

  • Your child is more talented but their opponent is a harder worker.
  • Your child chooses not to employ their best style of play or falls into their opponent’s style of play.
  • Your child makes too many reckless, unforced errors.
  • Your child is too passive to compete at crunch time.
  • Your child doesn’t bother to spot and attack the opponent’s weaknesses.

Making your opponent beat you while applying your best style of play is actually a win-win situation. It’s what I call a mental and emotional commitment. When your player is confident and committed to playing their patterns and tactics, they often beat even the top seeds. But even if they don’t win the match, they’ll have no regrets. They will have attempted their best systems and that is all that can be expected.

Parents, please promote that learning to win or lose by confidently playing their best style of play is learning to ‘fail’ correctly.

 

“There is a difference between missing the actual shot the moment demands and missing random, reckless shots.”

 

“Parents and coaches must acknowledge that by taking the risk to compete, your child will likely lose in almost every high level tennis tournament. Parents must reinforce that losing the correct way, playing the game systems they have been trained, is their best shot at beating the best players.”

 

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Player/Parent Harmony

Posted on September 28, 2015 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

The following post is an excerpt from Second Edition of The Tennis Parent’s Bible- coming soon!  Thanks for visiting, Frank Giampaolo

Parent Player Harmony

 

“Extraordinarily successful athletes have parents that have mastered their managerial role.”

 

One of the most important duties of a parent is to instill harmony along the journey. Through a parent’s unconditional love and support, the ultimate outcome of the athletic journey should be to create a well-balanced, world class adult and family harmony.

 

Behaviors that Foster Parent-Player Harmony:

  • Leave notes under their pillow reminding them how proud you are of their efforts.
  • After a loss, give your child time and space.
  • On a daily basis, be effort orientate versus outcome orientated.
  • Understand the parents’ job descriptions.
  • Abide by the tennis parent match day guidelines.
  • Execute a deliberate, customized developmental plan.
  • Put visions and goals in writing to keep the team on the same page.
  • Remember that your actions speak louder than your words.

 

“A parent should hold the athlete accountable for poor behavior. Instilling manors and good sportsmanship is part of the balanced approach.”

 

Parent Entourage Synergy

The player, parent and coach synergy is the foundation of raising athletic royalty. Just as the player-parent relationship lasts a life time, so do the positive life lessons taught by a quality tennis coach.

 

“Choose wisely as you assemble your child’s team. Your cast of coaches and trainers will shape and define your child.”

 

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Negative Parental Behaviors to Avoid

Posted on September 20, 2015 by in Tennis Parent Education, The Tennis Parent's Bible

The following post is an excerpt from The Tennis Parent’s Bible.  Thanks for visiting, Frank GiampaoloThe Tennis Parent's Bible by Frank Giampaolo

Negative Parental Behaviors to Avoid

Listed below are common negative behaviors of an athlete’s parent.

Problem Tennis Parent Attributes:

  • Unrealistic assessment of their child’s level.
  • Unrealistic expectations.
  • Over emphasizing winning and rankings.
  • Coaching their children without coaching credentials.
  • Coddling and pampering the child too much.
  • Pushing the children into playing tennis.
  • Frequently discusses the financial burden of tennis in front of the athlete.
  • Assisting the coach in coaching during their child’s lessons.
  • Placing their needs and motives above their child.
  • Allowing their mood to mirror their child’s outcome.
  • Refusing to allow the athlete to make any decisions.
  • Neglecting to apply the periodization training method.
  • Becoming negative or violent when success is not achieved.
  • Unrealistic scheduling.
  • Critiquing and or blaming the coach after their child’s loss.
  • Failing to follow a deliberate customized developmental plan.
  • Expecting their part time coach to handle all the child’s full time needs.
  • Criticizing the child’s performance and skills in front of the child.
  • Neglecting to observe new coaches in action before hiring them.
  • Unaware of the importance of brain typing or body typing in their child’s development.
  • Living vicariously through their child’s success

If you’re not sure whether your tennis parenting attitude is positive or a bit too negative simply ask your athlete. They’ll have a pretty darn good clue.

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Accelerating Growth

Posted on September 20, 2015 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential, The Tennis Parent's Bible

The following post is an excerpt from The Tennis Parent’s Bible.  Thanks for visiting, Frank GiampaoloFrank Giampaolo

Question: Why is it hard for some athletes to make changes?

 

Frank: Let’s take another look into personality profiles. People with a sensate judging (SJ) dominate brain type are actually wired to be safe. In their mind, being safe provides a sense of security. For them conformity is comfortable. Standardization is key. To these SJ personalities, change is uncertain and therefore feared.

Others personality types, especially intuitive perceivers (NP), are wired to trust their natural inquisitive instincts and be more risk takers. These NP personalities are future oriented and boldly see the world as something to conquer. It’s in their DNA (nature.)  These inborn characteristics are called genetic predisposition.

A person’s ultimate belief system is a result of both their genetic predisposition (nature) and their life experiences (nurture) -such as upbringing, surroundings and parental views. Humans naturally protect their beliefs, some way more than others.

When confronted by different ideas or opinions a chemical reaction triggers a response. To the SJ personalities, this new idea may be viewed as a threat because it hasn’t been analyzed yet, so avoiding it is often normal.

When new techniques are presented to these folks they are often uncomfortable simply because the information is different. The new method clashes with the old comfortable method so the new method is disregarded as wrong.

 

“Sometimes the new way is actually the right way…but it feels wrong to the SJ athlete coach and/or parent.”

 

In seeking change, consider your athlete’s brain type and body type.  For example, asking a fine motor skilled dominant body type player to change their foot work, core balance and stability is going to be much more difficult than asking a gross motor skilled dominant player to do the same task.

 

“Motivate your athlete to accept change.  Although change can be difficult, by refusing to change and grow … you will likely be left behind.”

 

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Benefits of Opponent Profiling

Posted on September 16, 2015 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

The following post is an excerpt from the NEW Second Edition of The Tennis Parent’s Bible- Coming Soon!  Thanks for visiting, Frank Giampaolo

Frank Giampaolo

 

Opponent Profiling

At the advanced levels, every player has efficient strokes. In tournament competition what often separates the champion from the field is their mental and emotional skill sets. This includes paying attention to why points are won and lost. They manage the score, their strategies and their performance anxieties as well as their focus control. Winners enjoy adapting to the ever changing challenges of closing out sets and matches. Winners maintain their poise under stress because they are one step ahead of the opponent by opponent profiling. I encourage both the parents and the coaches to begin to develop each athlete’s mental and emotional “muscles” at an early stage.

 

“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.”

 

Opponent profiling is essentially paying attention to the opponent’s patterns and tactics and applying the appropriate counter tactics.

Benefits of Opponent Profiling:

  • Controlling the tipping points and energy of the match.
  • Shutting down the opponents preferred play. Forcing them to shift to their less comfortable patterns at crunch time.
  • Gaining the critical mental/ emotional edge in tiebreakers.
  • Inflating their own confidence while systematically deflating the opponents.
  • Intimidating the opponent by out-thinking them-staying on top of their preferred patterns.

Just as I urged players earlier in this mental chapter to design and rehearse their “Top 7” patterns (2 ball shot sequence), I also have high hopes that your athletes will progress one step further and apply the art of spotting the opponents favorite shot sequences.

Identifying the Opponent’s “Top 7” Categories:

  • Top serving pattern to the deuce side.
  • Top serving pattern on the ad side.
  • Favorite return pattern and position versus a big first serve.
  • Favorite pattern and position versus a weaker second serve.
  • Favorite rally pattern.
  • Favorite short ball option.
  • Favorite approach shot pattern.

“Forcing talented opponents out of their comfort zone requires your athlete to identify and systematically shut down the opponent’s favorite strategies and tactics.”

 

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Special JOHAN KRIEK TENNIS WORKSHOP

Posted on September 9, 2015 by in Raising Athletic Royalty, Tennis Parent Education, The Tennis Parent's Bible

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Frank is teaming up with 2-Time Grand Slam Champ Johan Kriek for a Special East Coast

Appearance in Charlotte, North Carolina.

This is a combination Tennis Parents Summit &

High Performance Mental-Emotional Workshop for Serious Athletes.

Enrollment is limited and there’s only a dozen spots left. See the below info for details!

The Team at Frank Giampaolo books

THE TENNIS PARENT’S WORKSHOP:
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 2015
Parents, Players and Primary Coaches Welcome!TOPIC: CUSTOMIZED EVALUATION
PACKAGE
SESSION # 1
9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

  • Navigating Your Entourage
  • Identifying Brain Types & Body Types
  • Organizing Game Plans
  • Customized Match Day Preparation
  • Opponent Profiling
  • Developing Secondary Strokes
  • Between Point/Change-Over Rituals
  • Handling Gamesmanship & Hardships
  • Organizing their Weekly Planner
  • Developing & Rehearsing their
  • Top 7 Patterns
  • Tactics Vs. Styles of Play
TOPIC: THE ROLE OF THE TENNIS PARENT
SESSION # 2
1:30 – 12:00 P.M.
  • Why Educating Parents Matters
  • The Essential Job Descriptions of a Tennis Parent
  • Tennis Parent Blunders & Cures
  • Parental Match Day Sabotage
  • Why Positive Synergy between the Athletes, Coaches and Parents Accelerates
COST
Players and Coaches are Free
JKTA Members, Palisades Members and CITC Members – $100 for one parent $150 for two
JKTA Guest- $200 per person or $250 for family of threeLunch is not included

SPECIAL GIFTS: 2 FREE Additional eBooks:
How to Attract a College Athletic Scholarship

RSVP
CALL: Daga at (704)488-2314
Email: info@johankriektennis.com

VENUE:
Charlotte Indoor Tennis Club
8401 Sharon Lakes Dr.
Charlotte, NC. 28210

SPEAKER: Frank Giampaolo
Frank is a veteran high performance tennis coach and bestselling author. His book The Tennis Parent’s Bible is being used by ITF Coaches, academy directors, parents and coaches worldwide. Championship Tennis with publisher Human Kinetics reached bestselling status. Frank’s innovative approach to tennis parent’s education has found great success nationally and internationally. Contact: FGSA@earthlink.net

JOHAN KRIEK Contact Information
Johan Kriek Tennis Academy: johankriektennis.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/JohanKriekTennis

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The SECOND Edition Coming Soon!

Posted on September 6, 2015 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

The following post is an excerpt from The Tennis Parent’s Bible.  Thanks for visiting, Frank Giampaolo

Question: Should parents be discouraged or encouraged to watch practice?

 

Frank: I encourage the parents to be involved in the learning process. There’s so much “GOOD” that comes from positive entourage synergy. However, there are two situations in which I will speak privately with the parents and explain to them that their presence during the practice session may be stunting the growth they seek.

The first situation is if the child has told me that their efforts are constantly being overly criticized by their parents or if the parents are so outcome driven, the athlete feels immense added pressure to perform perfectly or else. Athletes and their parents should seek excellence …not perfection.

 

“Stress and fear are not optimal learning environments. Maximizing potential comes with the freedom of making mistakes.”

 

Players need to experiment and try things “their own way.” Junior athletes have often confided in me that when their primary tennis parent is in attendance, they’re later bombarded for hours with a laundry list of additional failures that need to be fixed. The player begins to feel hopeless – believing that they will never be good enough.

The second situation in which a parental discussion is in order involves overly protective, mildly obsessed parents. In today’s world, they are commonly called “Helicopter” parents. The nickname comes from their neurotic hovering on and around the court every session as they attempt to dominate the coach-athlete relationship. (If you suspect that you or your spouse may be a bit of a helicopter parent, the next question is for you.)

Parents, if your child feels additional stress from your presents, it’s in everyone’s best interest to take the time to get educated in the process of raising athletic royalty. If you’re interested, I have a detailed book on the topic actually called: Raising Athletic Royalty: Insights to Inspire for a Lifetime. It’s everything you didn’t even know…you needed to know.

 

 

 

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