USTA Mental Skills and Drills Handbook

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Review The USTA Mental Skills and Drills Handbook is a must for the serious tennis coach. --Bob Weinberg, Ph.D. Professor at Miami UniversityThis book is a phenomenal resource that provides practical, easy-to-implement drills and exercises to help coaches optimize their players mental skills development. --Miguel Crespo, Ph.D. International Tennis FederationThe USTA Mental Skills and Drills Handbook is a must read for every serious player, parent, and coach. This book gives them exactly what they have been looking for the best of sport psychology in one place that is well organized, easy to understand, and easy to apply to the court. Coaches will have at their fingertips practical drills to teach confidence, motivation, and relaxation. --Dick Gould, Director of Tennis at Stanford University, 17 National Team Championships Read more From the Back Cover In this ground-breaking new book and CD from the USTA, coaches, parents, and players of all levels of skill will discover critical drills, activities, and on- and off-court coaching strategies to develop the mental-toughness skills which are so critical to the sport of tennis. Covers player commitment and self-regulation, goal setting, motivation, stress management, concentration, imagery, confidence, sportsmanship and character building, and much, much more. This must-have reference is destined to become one of the most important and necessary works in the mental preparation of tennis players. Read more See all Editorial Reviews