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Zennis: An Innovative Approach to Changing Your Mind, Your Play, and Your Entire Tennis Experience
Whether you are new to the game or an experienced player, this book will help you find the keys to your peak performance and get you into the zone. You will master the art of being in the moment, breathing freely, acting spontaneously, and playing clean, unworried shots. By using the insights, exercises, and techniques presented in Zennis , you will make your game more successful, vital, and enjoyable.
Peter Sprang—a professional player and coach who has faced such opponents as Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker—teaches you how to defeat the demons of perfectionism, self-criticism, boredom, and expectations, and gives you the mental tools to conquer the killer on the court—fear. With seven unusual on-court exercises, meditation techniques, and a new way of practicing strokes—the Zen tennis form—this book will prepare you to play tennis like you have never played it before.
Includes information on how to create your own Zen tennis group.
Peter Sprang—a professional player and coach who has faced such opponents as Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker—teaches you how to defeat the demons of perfectionism, self-criticism, boredom, and expectations, and gives you the mental tools to conquer the killer on the court—fear. With seven unusual on-court exercises, meditation techniques, and a new way of practicing strokes—the Zen tennis form—this book will prepare you to play tennis like you have never played it before.
Includes information on how to create your own Zen tennis group.
256 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1998
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May 27, 2015
Having read a few books on the subject and being a recreative player myself(a skeptical one) I can't quite explain how I got into buying an actual copy of this book since it's so full of "mumbo jumbo" expressions/sentences such as "that's the chi energy blocked on your knees".
Don't mean to insult anyone but the majority of tennis players(pros and amateurs) seem to believe in whatever works with them(even if it looks like a stupid superstition) and although I don't aprove the expressions used in this book I understand how "meditation"(or whatever you want to call it) could improve your focus on any given task.
The book provides a few exercises that can improve your relaxation and detachment from the many outcomes of letting your mind and your inner judgements, as well as other outside distractions, interfere with your tennis(many of them will make you look like you've gone cuckoo) but I don't consider it a "must-read" specially if you never read Tim Gallwey's Inner Game of Tennis (which I strongly recommend).
"Mumbo Jumbo" apart it has some interesting analysis of a few pro matches from a previous era but you can have those too on any biography(like Agassi's).
Bottom line:If you're already into the "art of being zen" or meditation of some sort, I say "Go for it!Whatever floats your boat." otherwise "Good luck fighting the urge to produce skeptical eye rolls"
Don't mean to insult anyone but the majority of tennis players(pros and amateurs) seem to believe in whatever works with them(even if it looks like a stupid superstition) and although I don't aprove the expressions used in this book I understand how "meditation"(or whatever you want to call it) could improve your focus on any given task.
The book provides a few exercises that can improve your relaxation and detachment from the many outcomes of letting your mind and your inner judgements, as well as other outside distractions, interfere with your tennis(many of them will make you look like you've gone cuckoo) but I don't consider it a "must-read" specially if you never read Tim Gallwey's Inner Game of Tennis (which I strongly recommend).
"Mumbo Jumbo" apart it has some interesting analysis of a few pro matches from a previous era but you can have those too on any biography(like Agassi's).
Bottom line:If you're already into the "art of being zen" or meditation of some sort, I say "Go for it!Whatever floats your boat." otherwise "Good luck fighting the urge to produce skeptical eye rolls"
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