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Summary: a very dull read
Review: This book is very out-dated and not too insightful. Each time I picked it up I started to fall asleep. What I really wanted was help on my mental game. What you get here is pompous psychobabble.
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Summary: Can help both calm and vexatious people alike!
Review: This book is very well written and easy to read. The author uses intelligent wording/language and teaches through interesting stories. If you are a player who is easily frustrated you should read this book to help you calm your mind when you play tennis. Even a player who is normally quiet should use this book as a tool to stay even more focused. Don't be thrown off my the author's 'laiser faire' attitude towards winning tennis games; the real kick is in the last couple chapters when he talks about why it's important to win. Great book, I will read it again.
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Summary: Get book to get to know the inside of the game.
Review: This book was excellent but was sometimes hard to follow. It presents very good points on how your body can do all things it's just your mind that sometimes holds you back. It teaches you to just play and don't analize everything. I reccomend this book but to read it you must try to understand with a fully open mind or you will be confused
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Summary: not only for tennis...
Review: this book was recommended to me by an acting teacher a few years ago. when it is applied to acting it was one of the most helpful and relevant books i've read. any activity or sport could be substituted for tennis. excellent advice to help you get out of your own way. well worth the read!
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Summary: The best book you could ever get.
Review: This book will give you back your inate will to win and overcome. Most importantly , you'll value the playing a lot more than the winning. This book not only helped my tennis but also improved the quality of my life.
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Summary: Zen Tennis
Review: This is a great book on the "zen of tennis". Provides great insight into the mental part of the game (concentration and focus - not strategy). A must for all serious tennis players and a good idea for anyone who participates in any competitive activity.
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Summary: Absolutely awesome and based on experience!
Review: This is a great book. It taught me a lot as a tournament player and as a person in general. Right now, my coach is also using some of the techniques suggested by the book. The Inner Game of Tennis is a book every tennis player who wants to perform better should read.
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Summary: The Zen book of tennis
Review: This is a truly unique book. It turned Timothy Gallwey's life around. He became a highly prised consultant on the foundation of his "Inner Game" nirvana. He has written a dozen of books on the "Inner Game" of whatever you want. And, I think his message got diluted.But, his first book is extraordinary. It changed the way people approached their lives. The author is an excellent tennis player, and his knowledge and love for the game also come through big time in this book. This is obviously an element that is missing in all his other books. If you are a tennis player, you will really enjoy this book.
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Summary: This is the Source. This is the Force.
Review: This is a truly unique book. It turned Timothy Gallwey's life around. He became a highly prised consultant on the foundation of his "Inner Game" nirvana. He has written a dozen of books on the "Inner Game" of whatever you want. And, I think his message got diluted. But, his first book is extraordinary. It changed the way people approached their lives. The author is an excellent tennis player, and his knowledge and love for the game also come through big time in this book. This is obviously an element that is missing in all his other books. If you are a tennis player, you will really enjoy this book.
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Summary: I can't believe I'm the first person to review this book
Review: This is one of the pioneering books that brought about the field known as sports psychology. A great self-help book, in my opinion, because it has an action plan you can follow. Basically, it will help you achieve total self-confidence if you don't already have it. The author talks about each person having a self1 and a self2. The former is your conscious ego and the latter is your potential. Self-confidence comes when we suppress self1 and allow the excellence in self2 to come out. We should trust ourselves to do what we want to do because everything we need is in self2. It is when we allow self1 to judge, we doubt ourselves. An important concept in getting rid of self1 is the art of being able to focus. If we focus on the here and now, this place and time, self2 will have a better chance to perform. How many times have we start to wonder about our cat or our past mistakes or day-dream how nice it is for something to happen when what we should be doing is to focus on the task at hand. In a way, self1 and self2 are similar to the conscious and subconscious mind. Whichever way you choose to believe is not what's important. What is important is that by conceptualizing this way, the complexity is reduced, and results can be produced quickly. How else can humans conceptualize confidence? Confidence without doubt, is nothing. Just like you cannot have hot without cold or fast without slow. Lastly, we should cherish competition and our opponents. Our opponents are not our enemies but can be viewed as obstacles that allow us to grow and become better at what we do. Humans love to accomplish great things because they like to test their limits. Although this is fine, those who set out to overcome an obstacle should find out if the result they get is what they really want before they go about trying to overcome the obstacle.
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