The best case scenario is that we are expert coaches, or moving towards becoming an expert coach at a speedy rate. One of the earmarks of...

June 14, 2016 Rock Solid Coaching Philosophy Principles Are you lost when it comes to having your own coaching philosophy? Do you have...

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell,...

Gotcha! You Do! “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” George S. Patton Styrling and I have very similar...

Transition Tennis Balls: Great Tools for the Right Job May, 2016 To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. ~ Mark Twain Wayne...

May 17, 2016 Online Tennis Instruction: Understanding The Easy Info Curse Some tennis coaches hate online tennis instruction. Many tennis...

The Sandboxes of Isolation, Cooperation or Collaboration There is a difference between cooperation and collaboration, and that difference...

Part of what sets the tone for a team program is when the coach proves themselves to be a life long learner. Players often respond better...

#highschooltennis #strategictennis April 30, 2016 Transforming Match Play Decision Making New data suggests that players and coaches...

The important content is often neglected, and the less important content is consumed in mass quantities. Today, Styrling Strother and I,...

Waking The Giant High School tennis is the sleeping giant of player development in the U.S. We know that a small fraction of high school...

Our brains are wired for interaction, to belong, to be a part of community. We are built for touch, intimacy, friendship, to know and be...

Social media is exactly that, a medium for interacting with society on a whole. There are many potentials that come from the use of...

Yesterday I was on court for a first lesson with a new client. He like many people are wired for anger. For quite a few out there, they...

I’m taking things a bit slower for longer than I thought I would. I try not to write too much during the holidays, because I want to save...

Your balance is governed largely by your cerebellum, and yet, there are people whose cerebellum are not functioning even to 5% efficiency...

There is an interesting catch-22 when it comes to gratitude. Recent research out of Stanford University shows great gains in positive...

One of the most foolhardy (but, short term gratifying) decisions that I ever made was to allow my friend who tuned street rods (muscle...

There is some recent research that shows a connection between Vitamin D3 and sleep. Vitamin D supplements have been a big part of my...

Last night I taught a class on 5 Principles For Brain Plasticity, using the acronym BRAIN. The talk was for the National Collegiate...