Episode #87 Season 25: Shaun Boyce & Justin Yeo

In this episode, Shaun and talks to world renowned tennis coach, Justin Yeo, Australian in Puerto Rico, who offers 10 Tips in 10 Minutes about the FIVE ELEMENTS of Tennis. Have a listen and let us know what you think!

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With that said, let's get started with 10 minutes of tennis.

Today is 10 minutes of tennis with World Renowned Tennis Coach Justin Yeo, Australian in Puerto Rico.

These are our 10 tips in 10 minutes.

And Justin, jumping right in, we have our five elements of tennis to try to drag out 10

tips.

And I would say only 10 tips because they're probably about a million here.

So we've got physical, mental, tactical, technical, and emotional.

So we're going to try to grab a couple from each somewhere around there.

But let's start with physical.

Okay, go!

Perfect.

So, Juniors, just be sure to try to do anything you can to develop your flirty face.

Alright?

So that's baseball, volleyball, basketball, soccer, football, gymnastics, cheerleading, anything

that can create your athletic face and give you a diversity of muscle groups with athletic

face.

Really critical because it helps with debt concession and helps with just the movement patterns

of everything that do with tennis, soccer as well.

All of these things are really critical to develop your athletic face.

As an adult, really one of the best things you can do is learn to make sure you still have

an athletic face.

Alright?

So, yeah, sort of two tips between junior and adult.

But the other thing with the Juniors these days, the earlier they learned to maintain their

body health, meaning nutrition, hydration, recovery, stretching, all of these things are

so independent and so important for their career as they get into their 20s because that

is the number one component that shuts down a career and allows up and down rankings and

consistently are playing a full year of tournaments.

So the sooner they learn, the physical is the absolute component, the better.

There you go.

Mental is next.

What are some mental things to think about?

Again, there could be a million.

Let's do what's going to happen if you try to narrow it down.

Real quick for juniors, learn to be independent.

Soon as possible.

Everything you can.

Do anything.

Do whatever it is that makes you feel independent.

Watching a cat, morn alone.

Anything that these days, cleaning the dishwasher, cleaning it out and putting it back in.

Carry your own tennis bag.

How's that one?

Carry your own tennis bag.

Manage your own tennis bag.

Manage your food for the day.

Manage anything and everything possible.

How to make sure you're out the door and in the door and getting everything around.

Time scheduled.

Time management.

Everything possible.

Your tournament schedule.

You manage it.

Anything independent with anything at whatever age, the sooner you do that, the stronger mentally,

you're going to be on the tennis court and you'll see it reflect.

It will be there.

It won't be on a tennis court, but everything you do mentally will reflect on the tennis

court independently.

Do the stuff.

Don't let your parents do it.

You do it.

And watch what happens.

And for adults, what do you think mentally?

Adults is a real quick one.

Improved your routine before you get to the court.

Before you train.

Before you play.

Before you do everything.

Make sure you have a decent mental routine.

Once you find that, don't let it come out.

Once you find the winning routine, stay in that routine.

So nobody affects that.

So if it's an hour and a half before the game, no phone, and you won and you felt good and

you felt everything good, then you stick to that pattern.

Because if it goes down to a half an hour before the game and your match changes, you're

like, well, there you go.

I didn't give myself an hour and a half to get in the zone before I play.

It's hard to mark his heart's gig about this because it's what you eat.

It's how you prepare.

It's how you drive to your match.

What are you doing there?

Are you downloading the tennis tips that we have on the Atlanta tennis podcast to get

yourself ready on Thursday morning before you drive?

Right.

So those things mentally get you in the space.

That's good.

Now we move to technical.

So technically, what are we talking about?

Well, so again, everyone's talking about technique, technique, technique because it makes

you gain the fission.

You're in a better position.

You can support more.

Important.

There's all these things about technique.

After 37 years of learning this game, teaching every level from a 2-5 to a 5.5 to pro-level

to junior development, I would say, number one thing for anyone that playing this game,

learn to feel the ball with your hands.

They definitely need to feel the ball with their hands to be able to be able to hit defense,

offense, change it up, variation, coming forward, staying back.

Down the loo.

Flick it back.

All of these things are all to do with your hands.

And the second one is learn what elasticity means.

I can hear so many people like, "I'm not loose or I'm supposed to be loose.

What's supposed to be loose?

Where's the tension supposed to be?

Majority of the pros, the strength and the activation engagement is in the shoulder, not

in the arm."

And so that can help people who are trying to learn elasticity because they sometimes

get everything loose and now they can't actually generate the kinetic chain.

So so important, just to really understand what is elasticity.

What is a soft grip tension?

How do I make a soft grip tension?

So elasticity and learning hands.

I see so many people robotic with technique that they don't have the variation.

They don't have all the stuff in technique.

So hands are important that we talk about learning to spin.

The control of spin is extremely important and getting better.

But I want to also define elasticity a little bit.

Be able to say it isn't just the stretchiness of your body.

It's the ability to recover from being stretched.

It's the elasticity.

I can be elastic and come back to my original shape.

And that keeps me from getting injured and keeps me on the court more often, correct?

100%.

But that's still a little bit to do with flexibility versus elasticity.

Because elasticity is really during motion, during the stroke of the ball.

Because when you're actually moving, you're not necessarily elastic because everybody

joint, every muscle is moving.

But when you're striking through the ball is where a lot of people are too stiff and

their hands tend to actually help them.

Even though they might be pretty good with their hands.

But they don't have elasticity.

They haven't got feel to speak more looseness.

Correct.

Correct.

Yep.

Got it.

Next.

Tactical.

Are we thinking how smart am I?

Are we thinking my tennis IQ here?

Yeah.

Well, I can see you to say, your Americans should be the best at tennis more than anybody in

the world because everything on TV, every sport, everything you do is tactical.

Have you watched the biggest sports basketball, football, soccer, baseball, all of the sports

that you guys watch?

It's all tactical.

Every single thing, right?

The baseball, I did it this, right?

Football that reading what call of the plan is a play.

Basketball, they stop bringing everybody in.

They're going to change it up and you see this massive change in four points.

Still tactical.

So start thinking about when you're on the court training, practice, everything should be

very specific around tactical, not just hitting balls, not just getting to one particular

part of the court.

If you're going to go cross-coids, it's good.

So hit the angle, hit the death, hit the lube, hit the side, like change the cross-coids,

give yourself money and then make sure that once you see one, two, three or four, you

should be hitting, treat that online.

Once you get used to changing direction, but tactical, so important, so important, every

single training session, every coach, if you're listening right now, you should be developing

in your lesson plan a tactical opponent, a portion in your actual lesson plan because

that is how it's going to improve.

Your hands should feel and your tactics.

And your tactics are different from mine because of different skill sets, just like the

teams.

Right.

Right.

So, again, that's why my last tip on the tactical thing is game style, right.

Your tactics in your training sessions and in your game plans for your game plans for

the match, you can be designed around your game style.

Who you are?

Player A, player B, stick to that, try not to be something else.

I mean, that's where players come on well.

You know, they try to play play C and they just know that player.

Yeah.

Makes sense.

So, emotional.

Do we have another 10 minutes for this one?

Well, I don't know.

People we got to.

That one we could go on forever.

But it is something that's very easy to understand is that you have your own emotion.

You have your own mental thoughts.

You are the person on the inside.

So learn who that person is, journalize.

Biggest tip I can give a junior, a female, a male, anybody.

Even if you're a tour player that's trying to make the top 100, the more you're riding

down and understanding who you are emotionally, the more you'll start to control your thoughts,

your perspective on the thought.

Then when you control that, you think more attacking.

You think more externally versus internally.

So learn who you are and try to figure out your best systems emotionally because prime

example.

He was a racquet breaker.

He was crazy when he first came out on the tour and what became from that was he learned

himself and never pushed himself to that boundary.

So that's why a lot of people used to say, man, what's wrong with Feder?

He won't come out of his skin because he learned not to push the boundary to get to that adrenaline,

not to get to that point.

So he would always stay the whisperer.

Always stay dead.

And his whole match was like, well, I win or lose, but this is where I'm going to be.

Because if not, there is a good chance I'll be winning and losing because I don't know how

to control my emotions.

So he found a way to be the whisperer.

It wasn't born in me.

He found his way to do it.

So that would be my key tip to emotions is learn who you are.

And that's pretty much the biggest tip I can give anyone.

Know thai self.

I remember a movie, something about that.

Justin Yeo.

10 tips in 10 minutes.

I think we made it today.

Maybe we didn't.

All right.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

We'll see you next week.

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