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The Definition of Insanity

Published Nov. 26th, 2018

About a 7 minute read

A Parent came up to me the other day and asked me, “How much more does my son have to do to improve his tennis game?” I responded, “what are you being told to do?”

She said, “They just tell me to stay patient and keep doing more of the same… and we even added a private lesson each week to work more on his forehand technique!”

I asked her how that was working and she said, “it's not working very well.”

I looked in her eyes… and I could see the same frustration I felt many years earlier. I also could sense she was looking for “real” answers and not just wanting opinions and speculation!

If you keep doing MORE of the SAME training you will keep getting MORE of the SAME results.

I told her, “telling someone to doing more of the same things is the easy “go to” answer that’s given, when the solution isn’t known!"

Most everyone knows there are problems with the traditional player development model! The system that always tells us to do more of the same things even though it doesn’t work well!

Everyone has a perspective and are willing to share their opinions. It’s easy to identify the problems, everyone is quick to tell you all the things that are wrong. What’s hard is to find the real solutions, solutions that are proven to actually work! But only a few know what things really work!

If you’re not getting results you want, change what you're doing!

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. This is what the traditional tennis model does. When we follow the traditional advice to do more of the same things, we keep getting more of the same results..results we don’t want!

What exactly are those results we are getting that we don’t want? Well, two of the more common results that I can think of off the top of my head are slow improvement and inconsistent results.

How much do you think you have to pay to get your kid to consistently bend their knees or move their feet? How many swings must your child do to finally nail down their forehand technique?

If you’re following the traditional player development system’s advice, you’re going to pay a boatload of money to get all those swings down perfect. And then it’s not a shoo-in that it will actually work. That’s why it’s a failing model!

Don’t get me wrong, there’re are many good coaches out there that mean well and work really hard to get your kid to improve their tennis. However, they have a near impossible job because they don’t have enough time to teach all those technical aspects of tennis, in just a few short lessons.

So, what can you do? Well, more lessons, more swings, more tournaments… more of the same stuff isn’t the answer. So what is?

One thing I found that works is getting the kid more prepared for lessons.That way the lessons can be more efficient and MORE can be accomplished in each lesson, no matter if it’s a private or group situation.

When the player is more prepared for the lesson the coach can do more and do a better job of what they are good at (and what you’re paying them to do). When all of this happens the coach is free to actually coach your player!

Here’s something that you can start with that worked for me!

You can start by taking the important information your son or daughter is learning in their lessons, and have them practice doing MORE of these things off-the-court in between lessons.

That way, when your son or daughter goes to their next lesson, they’re MORE prepared to successfully execute what the coach is telling them, in their drills on-the-court, in practice.

Now, because they are MORE prepared for their lessons, the lessons can be more efficient. And because the lessons are MORE efficient, there is MORE improvement for the player and better performance results!

And what Parent (or Coach) wouldn’t want MORE of this!

I’ll give you some cool things your kid can do off-the-court, in between their lessons, in another blog!

Until next time,

Tim

Complete Performance by Mattek (CP) is a company founded by Tim and his two sons that is dedicated to the training and development of junior athletes. CP is leading the tennis industry in helping young players overcome mental barriers, execute at a high level consistently, and develop as a player as well as a person. To find out more click here.

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