Love this stuff! I found you two weeks ago and now I'm obsessed with you being obsessed with tennis! My game has changed in the last two weeks and it's because of this material and training my visual system that I learned from you Richard! In a match last week I was able to hold back my nerves, up my mental toughness, and beat someone I wanted to thanks to positive self talk and focus. Happy day!
Great video. It's funny that for most occasions in life you are congratulated for your great memory. However, for tennis shots you want to have a short memory and concentrate on the present. I find that when I make mistakes a million thoughts about errors uncontrollably fill my mind and I play faster and faster with lack of focus and strategy. Your videos along with "The Inner Game of Tennis" are helping me with this problem. Thanks for your explanations and help.
Very, very good - this is simplified but NOT oversimplified as no one would get it. Great explanation. 2 points: 1. Focus IS the visual even if not straightway. 2. Great point saying that concentration goes with tiredness (see Leiylah and Novak in US final - they both played at 60% of their capabilities with unusual multiple UE). Also, I have a practical solution for the focus - I call it "playing happy" (PH). Note - if you like something - let say a book you will read in no time (focus), if you don't you will struggle on the first page. I developed the PH concept about 20 years ago but took me another 10 years to figure how to bring someone on the tennis court to the PH state. Explanations "how" would take me, however, a small size book. Cheers!
@@TennisHacker I gave just one minor example. The "truth" is way, WAY more complicated. I am writing a book on this subject now but I can't foresee the end as the beloved Mr. Cowid disturbed everything.
@@TennisHacker , I'm a 71 year old beginner playing in a group in which most began playing before their teens. My laundry list is far too long, but looking through all the vids you've published, I can see myself staying busy far into the future...
Not gonna lie this feels very pseudoscience-y. Is there any evidence of energy efficiency in the visual system (which seems poorly defined to begin with) affecting focus? Peer reviewed literature supporting this idea? Saying "it's just how the brain works" is a pretty bold claim. Tbh I love your tennis technique videos, and this is a big miss from where I'm sitting.
I appreciate your thoughts. I've been studying various different areas of science for the last 19 years, so I'm massively oversimplifying things to make the info usable for tennis players. My comments in this video are based on my understand / interpretation of research in different areas AND anecdotal evidence from the people I've worked with doing concussion rehab (and tennis training). There is a lot of research on the impact of the various different things I talk about on focus . As with all neuro research they generally aren't doing it on tennis players, because it's not something that would get funding, so there has to be a little inference. Here are a few papers talking about the concepts: VESTIBULAE (BALANCE) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28238393/ VISION pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31274260/ EXERCISE pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30120283/ In terms of the energy utilization, I'd have to dig into my archives to try and find the relevant info. If you want to chat in depth about this stuff, I'd be happy to. Cheers - Richard
@@TennisHacker All of those studies are particular to children with ADHD who are known to struggle with these sorts of tasks, and I'd say some of your statements go waaaay further than any conclusion I see in those studies. Simplifying for the audience is one thing but I think we're beyond that in this case. I suppose I just don't like reductive explanations for the brain. "This is close to that in the brain, so doing this helps that!" is just a little much for me, personally. I suppose if you are a PhD in neuroscience or similar? However, I think that it's often the hobbyist science-informed but non-expert reader that will over-extrapolate findings and make bolder claims than an expert, because the expert is aware of how poorly understood the subject is (in particular if the subject is the human brain). Just my opinion rooted in my own personal neurological problems!! Anyway I really do enjoy your videos. I absolutely love the footwork content and I have learned so much from your channel. Cheers!
@@TennisHacker Thanks for the great info! I'm fine with you breaking it down into laymen's terms even though I am a bit of a body geek myself. One day, I'm sure we will find neuromuscular connections we cannot even imagine now. But it's good to have supporters who question and keep you on your toes. Getting a ton of value from your channel. Much appreciated.
@ItMaker5000XL I know, that's why i clarified things before posting them. The vast majority if neuro research comes from lesion studies and research into specific disease states. It doesn't make it inapplicable though. But I do understand your reservations to people making claims online. In respect to the "it close to in the brain", that is just neuro anatomy and is in every text book. The frontal eye fields are in the frontal lobe and some areas like DLFPC are part of eye movement control. Here is a review which gives more info web.njit.edu/~alvarez/NE/05%20Pierrot-Deseilligny.pdf I'm not a PHd and certainly don't claim to know everything about the brain (no-one does, it's an evolving science). But I have worked with hundreds of people using applied neuro science. I used to work in pain and concussion rehab, but now I use the info to help tennis players. And what I can say without doubt is that vision training consistently improves people's ability to focus. I genuinely appreciate your comments, so please don't think I'm being argumentative. I just want to off inspiration to people who struggle with things on court and give them hope that there are ways to improve. Glad you enjoy the other video though :-) Richard
@@the1tfactor Thanks, glad you are enjoying the videos and seeing benefit. The body is amazing and they are only just beginning to unravel how the brain works, so I'm sure they will figure out some more cool stuff :-)
