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Frank Giampaolo: Single Day Showdown Tennis Tournament

Posted on June 13, 2017 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

Frank Giampaolo

Frank Giampaolo  

Single Day Showdown Tennis Tournament

Saturday, June 17, 2017, 9:00 a.m., Mount Vernon Ohio

Mount Vernon Nazarene University’s Ramser Tennis Courts

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City of Mount Vernon’s Memorial Park Tennis Courts

 

The Kokosing Valley Community Tennis Association, a member organization of the USTA, is hosting a Single Day Showdown tennis tournament in honor of former Mount Vernon, Ohio resident Frank Giampaolo, an award winning coach, popular international speaker, and sports researcher.

The event will consist of singles competition for boys and girls in the following age categories:

  • 8s red ball
  • 10s orange ball
  • 4s
  • 16s
  • 18s

There is a limit of 8 players per age division, and players may only play in one division. It will be a one-hour timed compass draw. If entries are full, each participant will get three rounds of a one-hour timed match. This is a USTA sanctioned event and registration can be completed on Tennislink (Tournament ID#: 850157917). The registration deadline is June 14th, 2017.  The entry fee for the event is $33. You do not have to be a USTA member to enter to tournament. The tournament link will prompt you to create a login account if you are not a USTA member.

Participation fee includes competition, t-shirt, 2 tennis eBooks by Frank, and dinner at the awards banquet. Frank will speak on topics that interests players, parents, and coaches.  Family members and coaches are welcome to attend the banquet at the cost of $15 per person, payable at the door.

The 18s, 16s and 14s age divisions will be played at Mount Vernon Nazarene University’s Ramser Tennis Courts, which are located on Newark Road.  All other age divisions will play at the Memorial Park Tennis Courts, which are located on Mount Vernon Avenue.

The awards banquet will be a buffet at Pierce Hall on the campus of Kenyon College.  This site is in Gambier, which is a 5 minute drive from Mount Vernon.  The address is 201 College Park Street.

Please see the other side of this flyer for more information about Frank.

 

Frank Giampaolo

Frank is an instructional writer for ITF (International Tennis Federation) Coaching & Sports Science Review, UK Tennis magazine, the USPTA, Tennis Magazine and Tennis View Magazine.

Frank is the bestselling author of Championship Tennis (Human Kinetics Publishing), Raising Athletic Royalty, The Tennis Parent’s Bible (volume I & II) and The Mental Emotional Workbook Series (How to Attract a College Scholarship, International Player Evaluation, Match Chart Collection, Match Day Preparation and Blunders and Cures). His television appearances include The NBC Today Show, OCN-World Team Tennis, Fox Sports, Tennis Canada and Tennis Australia.

Frank founded The Tennis Parents Workshops in 1998, conducting workshops across the United States, Mexico, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Spain. Frank’s commitment to coaching excellence helped develop approximately 100 National Champions, hundreds of NCAA athletes, numerous NCAA All-Americans and several professional athletes. His innovative approach has made him a worldwide leader in athletic-parental education. Frank is currently the Vice Chair of the USTA/SCTA Coaches Commission.

This July, Frank will be the featured speaker at the Professional Tennis Registry’s Great Britain Wimbledon Conference in London, England.

Training Blunder

Posted on June 9, 2017 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential, The Second Edition of The Tennis Parent's Bible

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Believing Weekly Lessons are Enough

I teach two families from Los Angeles. Both families come for 2 hours of private lessons each week. That’s where the similarities end.

The parents hold opposing views on how to raise a tennis champion. The Johnsons believe that they need to make their 12 year old Kelli 100 percent self-sufficient. Mrs. Johnson says “It’s up to her to do it, I can’t force her.” As a result, Kelly hits about two hours a week.

Mr. Asari believes that no one gets famous all by themselves. He and his son spend approximately 15 hours on the ball machine, playing practice sets, serving baskets, going for runs, hitting the gym and watching tennis on TV.  They both get the same 2 hours’ worth of weekly lesson. The critical factor in the formula is not the lesson, but what the parents choose to do weekly around that lesson.

 

The parents who see it as their responsibility to actively stay engaged consistently have higher ranked children, all the trophies and all the college scholarship offers.

Competitive Focus

Posted on May 22, 2017 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

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 QUESTION: My child’s mind wanders off in matches, how can we fix that?

Frank: Lapses in concentration are so very common.

Focus is a key mental/emotional skill set. Without it, even the most gifted ball strikers are usually early round losers. Focus requires the athlete to understand that their mind is like a muscle that needs to be continually tightened and toned. Remember from the previous section, an un-toned brain can easily slip back and forth between its under-arousal state of mind, to its optimal emotional conduct state of mind to it’s over arousal state of mind.

Let’s look once again into the thought process of these three different “head spaces.”

  • In the under-arousal state, the athlete often begins to detach and slip into past or future thought scenarios. After the mind wanders off, athletes often report that they choked.
  • In the ideal performance state, the athlete stays deeply entrenched in their calm, happy, confident script of patterns. This mental, emotional state of readiness lasts throughout the match. The athlete often reports that they’re in the zone.
  • In the over-arousal state of mind, the athlete slips into the over hitting, rushing, and reckless style of play. The athlete often reports that they were trying to play better than they actually needed and simply panicked.

The initial key to solving this issue is to ask the athlete to begin to notice where their thoughts are at certain stages of the match. (This is best done through match play video analysis.)

Remember, triggers are used to get an athlete back into their script of patterns. Triggers are both verbal and physical.  Triggers serve the athlete in two very positive ways: it inflates their energy while deflating their opponent’s energy and by sending the message that they’re in it … to win it.

 

PTR GB Wimbledon Conference 2017

Posted on May 19, 2017 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

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Keynote Speaker Frank Giampaolo

GREAT COACHES

Posted on May 3, 2017 by in Choosing a Professional, Maximizing Tennis Potential

GREAT COACHES…

  • Are Energized & Entertaining
  • Teach Much More Than Fundamentals
  • Are Optimistic & Laugh-Out-Loud Fun
  • Provide Short & Long Term Goals
  • Open the Athlete’s Mind with Praise & Hope
  • Are Knowledgeable about Current Sports Science
  • Touch the Athlete’s Heart with Passionate Story Telling
  • Have a Deep Understanding about Biomechanics
  • Offer a Deliberate, Customized Developmental Plan
  • Inspire Confidence & Love of the Game
  • Are Focused Empathetic Listeners
  • Are Content Being Great Coaches!

 

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Three Tennis Control Dramas

Posted on April 30, 2017 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential, The Second Edition of The Tennis Parent's Bible

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A NEW WAY TO LOOK AT STRATEGY

To understand on-court control dramas, take a minute and think of a tennis match as a control contest. Each player is attempting to pull their opponent into their style of play to gain command of the match.

Three Control Dramas Seen in High-Level Tennis:

1) The Power Contest

2) The Speed Contest

3) The Patience Contest

 

To simplify the process, the goal of competition is to choose the contest your athlete performs best. Then formulate a plan to PULL their opponent out of their own world and into your athlete’s world. Let’s look a little deeper, yet keep it simple:

I have a top 300 WTA player training with me.  We have customized her game plan to hide her weaknesses and expose her strengths. Her body type and brain type play a major role in customizing her success.

Weaknesses

Ann is light in stature. Her opponents are generally much bigger and stronger. We checked off and excluded the “Power Contest” from her A game plan. This is not to say that she might use power as a B or C game plan. Ann also has focus issues. We checked off the “Patience Contest” and excluded it as her A game plan.

Strengths

Ann possesses great speed and anticipatory skills. We chose the “Speed Contest” as her A game plan. Ann is extremely intuitive. She can sense when the opponent is vulnerable and knows “How” and “When” to move in and take away the opponents recovery and decision-making time.

When Ann chooses to play her “Speed Contest”, she most often is able to move the bigger girls enough to force errors. She can also pull the retrievers off the court to open up winning angles. When Ann chooses to get into a “boomball-power” contest with bigger, stronger girls, she loses. When she chooses to out moonball a “World Class” moonballer she loses!

As I mentioned earlier, this section should be a conversation opener with your athlete and their entourage.  Knowing who you are is an important step in formulating your most successful game plans.

 

Wimbledon Conference 2017

Posted on April 23, 2017 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

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Frank’s Upcoming Wimbledon Conference

Posted on April 20, 2017 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

 

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More Performance Anxieties

Posted on April 3, 2017 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

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Evan and Jarrod’s take on choking and panicking.

Choking

Evan: To me, choking stems from having these unwanted contaminants in my head. As soon as I start to think about the ramifications of the outcome, I lose focus and get super tight. I know that if I’m in a match and I’m already thinking of where I’m going for lunch, I’m in trouble. Staying in my present, performance script is my solution.

Jarrod: No one ever beats me. I beat myself. Yeah, I’ve choked 100 times but everyone does. I don’t think that worrying about it solves anything. Who wants to go to Starbucks?

Frank’s Tips: Choking is most often caused by over-thinking about the future (outcomes) instead of staying in the performance state of mind.  Organizing verbal and physical triggers is a great way to stop choking. Applying basic triggers such as, “Let’s go- pump it up” or doing some kangaroo jumps to loosen up muscle tension may be the difference between winning and losing. In my experience, it is best for athletes of every level to apply a simple command (pre-set protocol) to help them refocus on their performance.

 

Panicking

Evan: Panicking is the opposite of choking, right? If choking is over thinking, panicking is under thinking. Sometimes I’m so angry I don’t apply my rituals. I just shut down mentally and emotionally and rush. That’s when I need to take way more time, breathe deeply and relax.

Jarrod: My parents say that in competition, I’m like a race car with no breaks. I’m not sure what that means but … I’ll take it as a compliment.

Frank’s Tip: Panicking stems from not trusting your talent and your training. It is seen by spectators as under-thinking and rushing through the performance. Again, solutions come in the form of triggers. Triggers to help stop panicking include. Saying “Relax, slow down and let’s enjoy the moment.” Physically, walk away. Take a time out. Go to the towel. Customization is the key.

 

More Solutions to Performance Anxieties

Posted on March 20, 2017 by in Maximizing Tennis Potential

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Popular Performance Anxieties

To illustrate how unique personalities operate differently, I’d like to reintroduce you to the twins: Evan and Jarrod. Let’s again call upon the brothers to offer their take on the following top ten performance anxieties. (Following is Solution Number 2)

2. Mental Toughness

Evan: I’m probably more successful than my peers, but not because I’m a better athlete, but because I prepare my psychological responses to game time stress. I think it’s because we make the time to discuss all the emotional scenarios and have pre-set the appropriate protocols.

Jarrod: I don’t care about mental toughness in practice. I’ll save my focus and concentration for the real match. You mean players actually train their concentration and intensity levels? Wimps…

Frank’s Tip: Athletes and coaches often categorize emotional toughness as mental toughness. In my opinion, there is a difference between mental (X’s & O’s of strategy) and emotional (performance anxieties.) It’s important to correctly categorize the cause of the performance inabilities. For instance, is the athlete unaware of the proper strategy to be implemented or is the athlete so nervous and fearful their strategy is un-accessible under stress. Identifying the cause will help define the solution.