With all the money parents spend at tennis clubs and kids spend in lessons, shouldn't there be some sort of "board of directors" organization made up of customers, management, and tennis teachers to get the most out of everyone's experience? In this episode, we introduce and explore the concept of such an organization.

The mental game of tennis is really the emotional/mental game of tennis because of how much emotions effect us. But a support group, starting at an early age, might just a player get control of their emotions and make court time a little easier.

The ATP, USTA, and WTA need to establish a national testing plan for kids to provide them with transparent feedback and a path forward to try to achieve their potential. In this episode, we explore why we need it and what that plan could look like.

Is protein really THE profound dietary difference we are all in need of or yet another trend that all people, including tennis players need to reconsider?

The conclusion is clear - tennis coaches and clubs, the people who serve the players and students, need to start asking a better more informed question of their clientele if tennis is to once again scale to the status it once held in amateur sport.

What are the limits of the coach/student relationship and when do they appear? It's never really when you want and we aren't prepared enough to respond. In this episode, we start to take a look at the coach/student relationship.

Could burnout come from not communicating a clear path for the player? Recreational, tournaments, tennis team, college, even professional? Are all players aware of these paths? How could it help prevent burnout? In this episode, we consider communicating these paths to players early and often in the hopes of avoiding burnout.

Zero gravity thinkers can make amazing contributions to the way we participate in life. They shun convention and seek the illusive adjacent possible. But they are largely unknown in the field of tennis. In this episode we consider the contributions of a zero gravity thinker to our game.

Can the tennis club offer nutrition messaging that counters the proliferation of food products, help people get healthier, and build goodwill that gets 'em coming back?

We are often unaware of the effects of diet and lifestyle on our health. But the world of the tennis club could present us with a very real possibility of providing a place that both educates and enforces a “code of conduct” around healthy eating. In this episode, we explore how nutrition and the tennis club could come together to help.

If you are a tennis pro, are you hearing about "things that were said" about what you taught? Does it feel a bit like sabotage? Maybe it's just another pro trying to prove their value and make their mark with the student. What if you are a student and you hear or see a "snicker" from another student? What if the other people even say something that "sounds" harsh or uncouth about your movement, shot selection, technique, or general outcome of your efforts? Are they trying to sabotage you...

Nutrition classes could be an amazing compliment to a tennis club's offerings and they don't have to break the bank while trying to build the bottom line. In this episode, we take a closer look at how the nutrition class can benefit both the club and its customers.

Time to look at nutrition from a different direction! It's undeniable that people get tired of being preached to about diet. So, today we take a look at why people wouldn't want to change - they don't feel the effects of their nutritional choices!

A certified stringer has a lot of professional playing insights that can help you think about your equipment or get your game going. In this episode, we speak with highly experienced professional stringer, teacher, and parent coach of a D1 college player, Mark Campanile.

Ever talk to yourself on the court - in a game, lesson, or practice? If you don't, you possess an extraordinary amount of self-control congratulations! But for the rest of us who are toyed with emotional and mental torment, we need to figure out what is going on and how we work to a more positive place. That's why we're talking today about self-talk!

Are coaches unknowingly diverting or shutting down a student's cognitive runway by projecting their emotional and mental impressions of how the students feel about a drill or a lesson? In this episode, we find out.

Doesn't everyone want the coach who kicks it on the court? When you do find one, they're inspiring and sometimes humbling. But they're not easy to find because our standards have sunk. Instead of expecting student excellence, we're willing to deal with apathy and convenience. The results are the creation of idols of indifference - people afraid to push themselves and others in favor of the consistency of a paycheck.

What happens when our emotions cause our education to crater? In this episode we take a look at the powerful cloak of invincibility that can plague our learning.

What happens if you can't control or regulate your emotional arousal states - feeling too excited or not feeling much of anything? Can everyone play better by recognizing and regulating their own emotional arousal states? In this episode, we take a look at the power and danger of emotional arousal states.

How come the dairy industry, big pharma, and over-the-counter medicine, can successfully sell us "health and happiness" but tennis, a healthy sport seems to struggle selling health and happiness and to retain existing players and find new ones? Instead of focusing on preventing players from leaving, we think tennis should focus on bringing others back. In this episode, we kick around the idea of "bringing back" the 30+ year old players instead of stopping the 15+ year olds from leaving.

We see physical rigidity in new tennis players all the time but are we able to appreciate their perspective and in turn handle it with care? In this episode we consider what emotions and thoughts feed into emotional rigidity that lead to physical rigidity and eventually overwhelm and a decision to peace out from tennis.

If you're eager to build your kids interest in tennis right from the start, take a listen to how coach Sully approached it with his own daughter at a recent afternoon on the court.

Are you familiar and on the look out for your child's or student's "thinking face"? It's an external indicator or secret signal a fully engaged student is sending out when they are trying to learn a new concept or work on a particular part of a concept that you or your coach is teaching. Such a signal is the point at which you should fall silent and let them mentally stew. But are you?

What can tennis do to provide counter-messaging around all the "food products" messaging that engulfs our everyday lives? In this episode, we explore the nutrition message, its effects on people and players, and what we can do to send a proper "signal" to people seeking a positive alternative.