Episode #13 Season 24: Shaun Boyce & Justin Yeo

In this episode of 10 Minutes of Tennis, Shaun talks to world-renowned tennis coach, Justin Yeo, Australian in Puerto Rico. We discuss the FIVE elements of tennis: Technical, Tactical, Mental, Physical, and Emotional.

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Hey, good morning. This is Shaun with GoTennis! Atlanta.

And as always, Justin noticed in my May the Courts be with you, shirt.

And we want to say good morning to Justin Yeo, world renowned tennis coach,

Ozzy in Puerto Rico. And we today are going to talk about the five elements of tennis.

And so I'm going to say, Justin, what are the five elements of tennis and why is this interesting?

Yeah, I mean, again, like we broke down every week, we've got better and better breaking things down

and making people think about things, which is what we're here for 10 minutes.

The five elements are, you know, conditioning, which is either physical, mental, emotional,

technical, tactical. And they all go hand in hand to make a tennis player.

When we're talking about a guy that when you're getting in a day where you're in the zone,

all five will work and well for you.

Sometimes one's not working and you have to figure it out.

And that's why it's really easy and good thing to practice with the five.

I find sometimes when people are practicing, they challenge themselves that they put enough

intensity so the five don't really get affected. You're really just working a technique or

a certain tactic for the day. You know, it was interesting. You know, I just talked about it before,

but you know, 90% is really mentally and emotionally. We've heard this all the time. 90% of the games

between there is. And between your ears can actually control the emotions. So they go sort of hand in hand

and you have to learn to control and manage those. You manage them. It makes it easier than to

on your body and on your technique and on your tactics as well. It makes you think more clearly about

all of them. So mentally, emotionally, you know, you can also argue the point that if you're

technique yourself, you're off. But at the same time, the game is the game. So you're going to try to

survive on whatever you survive. Every player has a few physical constraints. We've talked about, you know,

jogging their chair by says, jogging their jogging. If you're watching here and there, usually does have

tape on the leg or he has something going on. And if he's got a little physical thing that he's

mental and emotional, it's got to make sure he's making up for his physical constraint. And, you know,

jogging or it's same thing. He always says, you know, on the worst day the champions still find a way

to win. You know, and that's again, mentally and emotionally as far as I'm concerned. So we've been

talking about juniors to amateur players. Junior development, I say, coaches are listening right now,

they're in massive academies. I would literally try to always and all Matt, all drills or coaching sessions

or academy sessions, you're trying to use all the elements. You're trying to always temper them. You're

trying to challenge them. You're always trying to make it harder on them because as they get all

done after they get to the best leagues, that's when they're going to need them the most. A violent

mental made a very good statement back in the days. He said, "Juniors was his best year and the

easiest year because once you play 18 or 18 and 16 and 14 and 12, you're only playing two age groups."

He said, "It was fantastic." He said, "Once I got in the goal over 18, I was playing 30 and unders."

So he's like, "I had 18 years gap, but it's two years gap." You know, so, you know, it's a very big

deal as a junior to, you know, capitalize and challenge them for as much as possible in them.

Now I can jump in. If I can jump in with a question about that academy to say all five, we do a lot of

work high level academies just down to beginners, down to club players, and we say, "Okay, today we're

going to work really work on the technique of the forehand." Is there a way as a coach that I can add

in a little mental aspect to that or a little emotional aspect? Is there a way that I can start

adding? Maybe I can't work all five at the same time all the time. But then I add in some other element

whether it's score keeping to add pressure or are there other examples of say, "Hey, we're going to

work on technique and we're going to do windshield wipers. You got to go out. It's going to be physical

conditioning." And this and this, you're keeping score. You got to keep track intellectually.

And I'm going to yell at you and make you upset. Okay, what should we put all those things together?

Yeah, I mean, you can challenge your kids to think of positive-guy affirmations. They may be a very

negative kid. And so every time they hit a crappy shot, you've got to give me a positive word.

Say something good right now. And there's just like, "I just want to say that." And it's like,

"No, we can't do it. Come on. Give me a good word or we're not even able." So that they challenge

themselves to change their mental state to stay in the zone or stay more positive. You can give

them different areas of the court to hit with the correct technique. And sometimes as we all know,

if you don't move correctly and don't position your feet, well, it's always harder to hit a certain

part of the target. So there's so many elements that you can challenge them in those five things

on every single aspect. I say golf. I mean, tennis is not golf. So no kids should be standing still

working the strokes. It just doesn't work. It's never going to happen in a game. So it should never

happen on a tennis court. So, you know, you know, you're not talking about this. My Brails

whole system is to get them playing as quick as possible. I agree because they have to be moving.

They have to learn to hit. They have to learn to keep the ball going. They have to learn

attention span. All of those things are so critical. Sometimes which I have to say,

before technique, because you can have the most beautiful technique. But if you don't learn to get

all those other things, your technique breaks down anyway. So, you know, it's a combination of it all

meant, you know, all five of them to really, really make a tennis player. And when we go to an amateur,

have a good look. Are you coach or just analyze yourself? There's so many great apps. There's so

many great things, if there's, have you a girlfriend or your wife sit and chat you on some things that

you think you need in the game and have a good look at your stats? That way you can start to figure

out out of the five. Do I have them all? Which one do I need to work on? You know, did I break down

mentally? Did I win on the forehand and the next point I lost? And then they'll win again and

did I lost. We used to graph out kids to show them that, you know, how many points they can catch

together. That's really, really important to learn how to, you know, another ball and another ball.

But it's your system. You want to break, but it breaks any worth of hold. If you don't hold,

the break wasn't worth anything. There's so many things that an amateur player can become better

in those five elements. Mentally and emotionally, I keep saying, if you're not in the right state

and you're not believing in what you're doing, you're already going to be stiff. So you're going to

be wasting any good. Your technique isn't there. You're not going to be looking at the player and

trying to find a way to break it down because you're too looking about yourself. You know, you know,

I've talked about this too, that internal external internal thinking external thinking internal

thinking is away from the baseline. When you address the board, you should be thinking about what

you've got to do to beat that player. Last week, we talked about A, B and C. You should be thinking

about A, B and C on this point. And then the next point, and if you find a gap, we find something that

hurts them. You never let go. So they figure it out. You know, so, you know, there's a lot in those

five elements that people can learn from junior, so even adventurer. And then as the 10th player becomes

really good, junior wise, you've got to put them in all uncomfortable situations to then help them

to be a jug of inch or a Alparez or a golf or a Williams sister. You know, Serena's story was

wonderful. She was put in a situation where she got no attention, so she created the attention.

You know, if anyone watched the movie, you can see it in a model way. Venus was the highlight,

and Serena was nowhere, and then she was like, I don't like being in the shadows. And look who had

the big career. I mean, pretty simple, you know. I think that cover will fight a little bit.

Is that all you got all five? So, so, name them. Go through them again. One by one. Give me a quick

little explanation. So it's physical. Physical is just your conditioning. You gotta learn to be

conditioned. And, and I mean, Alparez is the enemy of that right now and Jonathan, the Jedi's age,

another ability. Girls, some of them are really fit. I'm not going to compare, but I can just say,

those two guys, especially just ridiculous athletes as far as I'm concerned. And that as well,

but he's got some different styles, game-wise. Those two specifically are pressing.

So physical, technical, technical is very, very important for his efficiency and for

stroke efficiency and being able to make sure you hit certain parts of the board.

Some people just don't have a right technique. So because of that, they're limited in their

strokes and are limited in their tactics. Tactics is the next one. You know, you're going to understand

your tactics. You've got to know your toolbox. If you know your toolbox, you're trying to use

your tools against the other guy's tool. But he's got more tools than you. You gotta find a way to

break down his tools within your tools. If you try to play outside your tools, good luck,

mentally and emotionally. You know, so, there you go. That's all of them. That's all of them.

All right. So, a little wrap up. Good luck mentally and emotionally. There at the end after

you've got toolbox issues. Then you're going to have an intellectual and some emotional problems.

Stay away from the cell phone. It's the worst thing in the world you can do before we match.

There you go. I love it. Great final advice. Justin Yeo, thank you so much. We'll see you next week.

Absolutely. Cheers, mate.

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