The inner game of tennis theory states that two opposing mindsets battle for supremacy. A quite tennis mind allows your performance to flow from creativity. However, when your tennis mind is overactive, you force your game.Gallwey sums up his theory the inner game of tennis:
Self One: The “teller” tennis mind filled with self-judgments and criticism. This mindset wants to over-control your performance.
Self Two: The “doer” mindset is the best mindset for peak performance in tennis and happens when you are free and react with your game. This mindset allows you to let it happen.
Gallwey’s goal was to help students stop the attack of self one so self two can be free to hit shots freely. He used an example in “The Inner Game of Tennis.” He would have his students repeat cue words, such as “back-hit” to suspend the trying/analytical mind (self 1) so the creative mind (self 2) could do the job without restrictions.
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