US OPEN TENNIS

Tennis players use visualization on a daily basis when getting ready for the serve, whilst doing their preliminary routines they are visualizing in their minds where they are going to place the serve. This can be very powerful and should not be overlooked as a help to your serving practice. As an experiment, the Boston Celtic Basketball team split into two sections. One section spent the time practicing their free-throw shots from the line, the other half sat on the bench and in their mind visualized doing the free-throws. They all then took a quantity of free-throws and those who had sat and visualized out scored those who has actually practiced. Imagery is best described as a method of using all the senses to create or re-create an experience in the mind. Imagery can be used to encourage you to see your successful performances - either in a re-run of previous events or successfully performing a new task. It helps you to focus on the key points that contribute to those successes and …

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