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The Future of Tennis is Mental (eBook)
A Guide to Getting Started w/ Mental Training
by Complete Performance
Table of Contents
Ch. 1: The Final Frontier......................... 2
Ch. 2: Mental Training 101.................... 4
Ch. 3: The Mind........................................... 8
Ch. 4: The Body.......................................... 12
Ch. 5 The Stroke........................................ 15
Ch. 6: Complete Performance........ 17
Ch. 7: The CP Portal................................ 19
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The Future of Tennis is Mental (eBook)
A Guide to Getting Started w/ Mental Training
by Complete Performance
Chapter 1
The Final Frontier
This eBook was written to state the obvious, that the future of tennis is mental. But more importantly, it was written to show the not so obvious. That the only sustainable solution to the full spectrum of “problems” that all juniors struggle with, is to equip and empower the athlete with the know-how and means to take full ownership over their own mind. Take a second and let that settle in, because there’s really no way around this. Until an athlete has the means to master and expand their own mind, any other solution to the endless stream of challenges will be little more than a bandaid. 
Ask yourself, when’s the last time your child’s seen a significant and lasting transformation in attitude, perspective, responsibility, emotional control, mental focus, composure, or confidence? Are the lack of these not at the root of every struggle, every plateau, and every inconsistent performance? Isn’t the development of these critical traits a large part of why they’re even playing tennis in the first place?
The “inner success” that us parents want for our children, the inner success that youth sports is supposed to facilitate, is relatively non-existent in junior tennis. Up until this point there’s been essentially no resources for junior athletes to learn about, and more importantly, practice expanding their mental game. And the high-performance mentality of “more is better” more often than not leaves the athlete on over-drive, feeling burnt-out, behind, and not good enough. So, unfortunately, for many juniors, tennis has become a vehicle for stress, anxiety, insecurity, doubt, and worry. But exploring the final frontier of mental training isn’t just the solution to our short-term tennis problems. In fact, once an athlete begins to gain mastery over their mind, it’s actually just the beginning. The beginning of a tennis game, and a life, happening on their terms. The beginning of a journey of self-discovery and creative exploration that has no limit. 
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Mental training puts the athlete in the driver seat of their life. It puts the ball in their court, and the match in their hands. It shows them that THEY, and they alone are responsible for their thoughts, emotions, and choices. And even more importantly it helps them realize this responsibility is not a burden, but the ultimate privilege. It means they can actively create the tennis game, and life of their dreams, instead of being tossed around and influenced by external circumstances. 
Mental training is the final frontier, yes. But the real question is, is it just another way to gain a competitive edge, or is it more than that? 
Can mental training truly help an individual create a foundation of mental wellbeing that helps them on and beyond the court? Can it create the mental dexterity, emotional resilience, and physical presence to not just endure the challenges of tennis and life, but also to thrive in an ever-increasingly complex world?

The answer is it absolutely can. But we’re not here to say that mental training is the end all be all. We’re here to make the “mental game” something more than just a problem every junior struggles with. Our vision of the future of tennis includes a new breed of athletes where the mental game is a strength. 
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A Guide to Getting Started w/ Mental Training
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Chapter 2
Mental Training 101
Now, before we get all excited about “inner success” and these “intangibles” everyone loves talking about, it’s important to ground ourselves in what mental training is truly trying to accomplish. Because, on the surface, every athlete’s internal struggle is unique and personal, and this makes the “mental game” appear complicated. But what we know for sure, what science has clarified without a doubt, is that no matter what the internal struggle is, the root cause, what perpetuates the mental, emotional, and physical patterns on the surface, is a lack of Mind/Body Connection.
The Mind/Body Connection IS the fundamental source of the problems AND possibilities that we experience on the surface. The source of the inner conflict we hope to solve AND the inner success we hope to gain. And so, at the core, Mental Training has a single intention, and that’s to reestablish and strengthen the Mind/Body Connection.
The reason the Mind/Body Connection is so important is because this determines your state of being. And any thought you have, any choice you make, and any action you take, will ALL come from this place. In short, your state of being determines the quality of your actions.
Think of the Mind/Body Connection as a spectrum. On one side, when the mind and body are disconnected, you have a State of Stress. If you’re in a state of Stress, your thoughts, actions, and choices will perfectly mirror that. There’s nothing you can “do” differently, because all your action is flowing from that state of being, and tainted with stressful energy. The only logical solution is to return to the source of the issue, reestablish the mind/body connection, and shift your state of being to the other side of the spectrum. When the mind and body are firmly established, you have a state of Presence. And thoughts, actions, and choices arising from a state of Presence are going to be infinitely greater than their counterparts arising out of stress.
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Stress can be better understood as a state of being where The Mind is continually fixated on problems, leaving the body in a tense and rigid state of survival. In the short term, this looks like low performance level, slow improvement, and being weighed down by excessive mental activity and undesirable fear-based emotions. In the long term, as stress accumulates, the consequences multiply. The main danger of stress, is that it IS very stressful. It’s a cycle that feeds itself. And so, the vicious cycle of stress will continue and the problems on the surface will perpetuate, until that individual makes it a priority to reestablish a healthy Mind/Body Connection.

Presence on the other hand, creates a sense of freedom, fluidity, and flow. There’s one thing every athlete agrees with. We play best when we “feel free.” No mindset, game plan, or strategy will ever outweigh the feeling of being free. Free to be yourself. Free to think. Free to choose. Free to play. Shifting to a state of Presence is the process of embracing this freedom, and taking ownership over yourself. Ownership not because you have to, but because you want to. 
Shifting into Presence means you’re learning to handle the steering wheel of your life. 
Imagine that you’re driving a car. When you’re in a state of presence, you are the driver. You’re aware of your surroundings and your body responds naturally, steering, accelerating, and braking. Driving is a seamless and effortless process. When you’re in a state of stress, your mind and body are disconnected, the mind becomes the passenger yelling at the driver (the body) instructing it what to do. We’ve all experienced this scenario in real life, and to say the least, nothing good comes from it.
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A Guide to Getting Started w/ Mental Training
by Complete Performance
The Mind/Body Connection is at the center of the only two things an athlete is trying to do, improve and perform. And if you think about it, any problem an athlete has on the surface of their game will also fall into one of those two buckets, slow-improvement or under-performance. And so, instead of attempting to fix or solve these surface level problems, we simply address the underlying lack of Mind/Body Connection. Because it’s ONLY this fundamental shift from Stress to Presence that will facilitate the natural processes of improvement and performance.
Let’s simplify these two objectives.

Improvement is nothing more than information coming through your attention (mind) into your muscle memory (body).

Performance is nothing more than what is in your muscle memory (body), flowing back out through your attention (mind).

Yes, this is an oversimplification but the fact remains if the mind and body are NOT connected BOTH improvement and performance are severely stunted. The good news is both of these processes are natural. In a State of Presence, the mind and body are connected, and improvement and performance happen organically. 
Facilitating this flow between the mind and body, establishing and strengthening the mind/body connection, is at the core of what it means to be an athlete. And so, this is truly what the inner game, mental training, and exploring the final frontier is all about. 
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The Mind/Body Connection is best thought of as a single process that can be approached from three different angles.
The first angle, or the Mind’s “role” in reestablishing the Mind/Body Connection, is about cultivating present moment awareness. By letting go of unnecessary judgments, assumptions, and analyzation, we take the mind out of the past and future and bring it back into connection with the body, in the present moment. Being able to rest in this state of awareness is the foundation for ease, mental dexterity, emotional resilience, and intuitive thinking.
The second angle, or the Body’s “role” in reestablishing the Mind/Body Connection, is about cultivating conscious movement. By focusing our attention on the sensation of our physical movement with greater and greater intensity, we put more of our “mind” into our “doings,” strengthening the mind/body connection. Being more mindful of your body results in a greater potential for stability, power, and control in your athletic movement.
And yes, there’s a third angle. The mind and body do not operate independently, they are a continuous ongoing process, and being able to navigating this balance in real time is the true art of performance. For a tennis player, the mind/body connection in action, is their stroke. The third and final angle. The strength of one’s stroke is proportional to the strength of one’s mind/body connection. Meaning the most important aspects of the stroke, the ones most difficult to develop (being fluid, precise, consistent, natural, and effortless), are largely a consequence of how present one is WHILE performing their stroke.
The following three chapters will expand on each of these three angles and clarify what it looks like to shift from Stress to Presence. But let’s be clear about something, Mind Body Stroke is not some magic system or secret formula, it’s actually the exact opposite of that. It’s the obvious approach to the previously confusing and uncharted territory of mental training. It’s an antidote to stress, a facilitator of presence, and a way out of mental confusion, emotional turbulence, and physical tension. It’s a vehicle to explore The Final Frontier.
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by Complete Performance
Chapter 3
The Mind
There’s no doubt that the mind is a vast space of untapped potential. Even the top neuro-scientists in the world admit that we only understand a small fraction of the intricate complexities of the human brain, despite the countless pages written on the topic. With so much to be explored, it’s natural that the high performers in the world have started to make more and more of an effort to understand the mind and how it relates to performance. The prospect of exploring the mind can be daunting for a PhD student, let alone a junior tennis player. So, where to begin? We’ll begin by breaking down the mind in a simple way that’s relevant to a junior tennis player.  
In exploring this topic, there seems to be two distinct categories that emerge, two modes of thinking, or two ways the mind operates so to speak. In psychology, this delineation is between the left, analytical, logical side of the brain vs. the right, creative, intuitive side of the brain. 
Similarly, in Zen, they talk about the thinking mind vs. the observing mind and they teach methods of how to move out of stressful over-analyzation into a more mindful presence, the state of mind conducive to “flow.” In the classic sports psychology book, “The Inner Game of Tennis,” W. Timothy Gallwey explains this delineation brilliantly. He calls it Self 1, the conscious part of your mind vs. Self 2, the subconscious part of your mind. He explains that Self 1 is often judgmental and critical and gets in the way of the relaxed flowing state of Self 2 in performances on the court. Here at CP, we also delineate two distinct modes of the mind, two different categories of mental activity that’s common for all junior tennis players. We call it,
The Troubleshooter
vs.
The Pathfinder
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A Guide to Getting Started w/ Mental Training
by Complete Performance
The Troubleshooter is the thinking part of the mind. It’s the analytical side of the brain. The Troubleshooter is always looking for what’s wrong, it’s trying to identify problems. In order to do its job, The Troubleshooter, by design, is very critical and judgmental. The Troubleshooter spends 100% of its time either in the past or in the future. It analyzes the past, particularly the trouble of the past, in order to logically predict the future. Specifically, it’s trying to anticipate potential trouble in the future. The Troubleshooter can operate many years in the past/future or it can operate just a few seconds in the past/future. On a basic level, it’s simply looking at problems in the past or looking for problems in the future. It’s always in correction mode. It’s always asking what needs to be fixed. This is the nature of a lot of the instruction on the court. It’s also the nature of a lot of the tennis discussion off the court. However, it’s not a bad thing in and of itself. In fact, the Troubleshooter is a superpower in its own right, it has the ability to learn from the past. The problem occurs when the athlete gets stuck being The Troubleshooter with no understanding on how to switch modes. And being stuck as The Troubleshooter means being stuck in a state of stress. 
The first sign that an athlete is stuck as The Troubleshooter usually shows up in performances in tournaments. If the athlete is getting hung up on past points, worried about the next point, over-thinking, over-critical, or over-trying, it’s because they’re stuck being The Troubleshooter. They’re getting too wrapped up in overanalyzing, an attempt to try and “control” their performance, making it increasingly more difficult to relax and allow their game to flow naturally. When the mind is solely fixated on “problems,” the brain enters survival (fight or flight) mode. This burdens the athlete with disruptive emotions like fear, worry, and doubt and creates tightness in the body, resulting in forceful performances on one end of the spectrum, or timid performances on the other end. 
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A Guide to Getting Started w/ Mental Training
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The Troubleshooter is definitely not the mode to be stuck in when it’s time to perform. It takes some mastery of the mind to use this mode sparingly, only when a true adjustment or course correction is needed. However, when an athlete is not equipped properly what happens more often than not is they get stuck. And getting stuck as The Troubleshooter will lead to underperforming in tournaments, and slow improvement in training. In the short term, it manifests as anxiety, tightness, frustration, over-thinking. In the long term, it leads to low self-esteem, insecurity, and burn out. So, what’s this other way? What’s this other mode that an athlete can learn to operate from? We call it The Pathfinder. 
The Pathfinder is the intuitive and creative side of the brain. It’s the observing part of the mind. The Pathfinder takes in the environment and looks for a solution. It identifies the way forward by consciously choosing the best next step. In order to do its job, The Pathfinder is very aware and very observant. It spends 100% of its time in the present moment. The past just melts away and the future is getting created one moment at a time. 
The Pathfinder is smooth, composed, and effortless. It finds a flow and moves naturally. In this mode, obstacles are not seen as problems but as pathways. It doesn’t get hung up on a problem but instead embraces the situation totally. In doing this, The Pathfinder remains flexible and adaptable to what the situation requires.
The Pathfinder is in discovery mode rather than critique mode. It sees what’s possible, rather than what might go wrong. This frees up the player from doubt and worry allowing them to stay in their creative flow. The Pathfinder is obviously more conducive to performance. The player gets in the moment without overthinking, just playing. It’s way more enjoyable for everyone involved. The performances skyrocket when an athlete learns how to become The Pathfinder.
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A Guide to Getting Started w/ Mental Training
by Complete Performance
Where The Troubleshooter looks for problems to solve, obscuring the path forward, The Pathfinder sees the possibility in each problem, illuminating the path forward.
So how do you move from The Troubleshooter to The Pathfinder? How do you gain mastery over this immense capability? The short answer is mental training. Learning to be The Pathfinder is the role the mind plays in reestablishing the mind/body connection, and shifting into Presence. This starts with learning how to relax. When you’re stuck thinking and analyzing all the time, the brain becomes stressed and quite literally loses its ability to be fluid and flow with the moment. Once you calm down, you can regain an awareness of what mode you’re in, and with that, the conscious control to choose your mode. You’re capable of remaining as The Pathfinder, and using The Troubleshooter when needed. This is practicing Presence, or learning to stay in the present moment. Something that is not learned intellectually, but learned directly through experience. These are things that must be practiced. You have to find a way to get out of Troubleshooting without Troubleshooting! You have to find a path and that takes some exploring and an open mind. 
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A Guide to Getting Started w/ Mental Training
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Chapter 4
The Body
When discussing athletic performance, you can’t talk about the mind without mentioning the body. It’s impossible to separate the two, they’re highly connected. There needs to be a strong mind/body connection for high level performance on the court. The mind and the body are two sides of a single coin. You don’t have one without the other. And just as the mind is a vast space of untapped potential, the body is an equally complex piece of hardware, with much to be explored. Millions and millions of functions are occurring in the body simultaneously. It would be an endless endeavor to breakdown all the miraculous intricacies that happen when performing an activity like hitting a tennis ball. So, let’s break it down in a simple way that’s relevant to a junior tennis player.
Simply put, the functions of your body can generally be put into two categories.
1) What you can consciously control
2) What just happens automatically
Functions that are voluntary, like contracting a muscle, are controlled by what’s called your somatic nervous system. Functions that happen automatically or involuntary, like heart rate and respiratory rate, are controlled by what is called your autonomic nervous system. Countless functions are happening simultaneously and different individuals have different levels of control over these functions. For thousands of years, masters in ancient practices like some eastern martial arts and traditional yoga, have pushed the envelope of what you can control in the body and to what extent. Similarly, modern elite level athletes are constantly expanding the boundaries of what they’re capable of controlling, not just with muscle control and movement, but with subtler functions such as breath and heart rate. In order to expand this capability, one must practice conscious control of the body and essentially move away from automatic activity. At CP, we call it moving from,
The Auto Pilot
to
The Fighter Pilot
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You’re being The Auto Pilot when you’re doing stuff automatically. Your body is literally on autopilot. In this mode, you’re relying heavily on habit and muscle memory. It’s what allows us to brush our teeth without thinking. It also plays a role in hitting a consistent forehand over and over again. Our bodies have an amazing ability to automate things in order to free up bandwidth in our minds. It’s a super powerful and amazing feature of our miraculous bodies. The Auto Pilot is absolutely necessary for us to function. The problem with The Auto Pilot is similar to that of The Troubleshooter. When it’s out of balance, you tend to get stuck in this mode. It’s what you often refer to as “going through the motions.” It’s very easy to get stuck in this mode because our body is always trying to automate things for efficiency. Once you’ve done an activity a couple times, it doesn’t take much thought to do it again. It’s great for everyday things like driving a daily commute, but it’s not great for the constant expansion of your skills in a sport like tennis. And it’s definitely not great in performance when you’re required to spontaneously respond to your opponent in real time. Unfortunately, getting stuck as The Auto Pilot is all too common and if the athlete has no knowledge there’s another way to be and no tools to equip them to be another way, they’ll be faced with limitations. Before we dive into this other way, let’s first address what happens when an athlete gets stuck being The Auto Pilot.
This is a big problem with both on court training and fitness in the gym. The athletes are out there being The Auto Pilot, mainly just going through the motions. It turns into a much lower engagement level than what’s required to compete. Once it’s time to perform, the athlete relies heavily on their autopilot-like tendencies of training but The Auto Pilot only works to a certain extent in actual competition. When the match is going smoothly, it’s great. When there’s a certain absence of challenge it’s smooth and effective. Just like in a real plane, autopilot is a useful tool to lessen the workload of the captain when things are going smooth. However, the captain still needs that ability to take control. This is because a human has to take conscious control when something more complex, challenging, or spontaneous is happening. Which is exactly what happens in a performance. What happens in practice won’t be exactly what happens in a match. It’s more complex, more engagement is required. Conscious control of bodily functions is at a higher demand. If you train as The Auto Pilot all the time, you can’t expect to get the body out of autopilot during a match performance. In performance, you need to flip to another mode and to do this you need to train in another mode. We call that mode The Fighter Pilot.
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The Fighter Pilot has conscious control over the body. Just like when a real fighter pilot takes control of the plane when it’s in a dogfight. There’s no autopilot when it’s time to compete. This is what that athlete does with their own body when they enter Fighter Pilot mode. They take control and actively respond to the unique situation presented to them. They’re not just relying on preprogrammed reactions. The Fighter Pilot is laser focused and has this ability to fight through adversity and raise the intensity level. Essentially the engagement level is much higher compared to The Auto Pilot. Engagement is an umbrella term for being focused, intense, present, and immensely involved in whatever you’re doing. The Fighter Pilot is engaged, which is obviously way more conducive to performance. The athlete gets ultra-present and stays in the moment, always ready to respond. Performances sky rocket when the athlete learns how to be The Fighter Pilot in any given moment.
Where The Auto Pilot moves rigidly, relying on its pre-programmed patterns, The Fighter Pilot moves smoothly, capable of maneuvering at will.
So how do you move from The Auto Pilot to The Fighter Pilot? How do you learn to raise the engagement level? The short answer again is mental training. Starting with learning how to raise the intensity and figuring out what that means and what that feels like. Intense but not tense. Intense in a poised way like a fighter pilot. When you’re stuck as The Auto Pilot all the time, naturally your entire engagement level comes down and you lose more and more conscious control of the body. If you learn to direct attention and focus on what you’re doing in the moment, naturally you’ll gain more conscious control and become The Fighter Pilot. Once you learn to flip out of being The Auto Pilot, the practice is now to stay being The Fighter Pilot. This is practicing presence, or learning to stay in the present moment, especially as situations get challenging and intense. These are things that can be practiced. Again, learning them in a book is great step, it’s a vital step, but it doesn’t work until you experience it for yourself. You have to fight your way out of autopilot without using your autopilot tendencies. You have to take control of the controls. 
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Chapter 5
The Stroke
We already talked about the two sides of the coin. The mind and the body. There’s actually a third “side” that appears only when you put the coin in motion and spin it. Motion is what connects the mind to the body.
Conscious movement fuses the mind and body into a single flow, and the ultimate manifestation of this for a tennis player is their stroke. The stronger the mind/body connection, the stronger the stroke. 
If the mind is somewhere else when you hit the ball, you will not hit the ball well. If the mind is fully present and fully engaged when you hit the ball, you will perform much better. The idea is to get the mind and the body fully connected through the stroke.
Just like there’s two modes of the mind and two modes of the body, there’s also two modes of the stroke. Which mode the stroke is in is largely a consequence of what mode the mind and body are operating in. If you’re a Troubleshooting Auto Pilot, you’re going to hit the ball one way. We call that The Robot. And if you’re a Pathfinding Fighter Pilot, you’re going to hit the ball another way. We call that The Astronaut. 
The Robot has all the limitations of The Troubleshooting mind and all the tendencies of The Auto Pilot body. As a result, the player hits the ball a lot like a robot. It’s very mechanical. The Robot is reacting to the environment with preset programming, it’s not responding to the unique situation. It’s not very capable of adapting in real time, especially to situations it’s never experienced before. Consequently, new experiences and new challenges lead to poor performances, especially in tournaments where there are a lot of new experiences and new challenges happening in the environment. The mind and body are just not very connected. The mind is preoccupied with analyzing problems of the past and predicting problems of the future. When the mind isn’t present in this moment, the body has no choice but to lock into autopilot mode. When the mind and body are not together on the same page, this is the opposite of mindful presence or flow state, this is stress. The Robot is definitely not having much fun out on the court and it’s not a very enjoyable situation for people around The Robot.   
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The Astronaut, on the other hand, has all the qualities of The Pathfinding mind and all the capabilities of The Fighter Pilot body. This player gets in a flow when they hit the ball. It’s fluid and natural. The Astronaut is actively responding to the environment. It’s able to adapt, in real time, to whatever the situation demands. The Astronaut is much more dynamic and equipped to tackle new challenges that occur live in a tournament setting, thus performances sky rocket. Above all, the Astronaut is on an adventure. Even if a situation is challenging, it’s exciting. The mind and body are on the same page, doing the same mission. This is presence and it’s a nice feeling. The Astronaut is definitely having fun out there and it’s a pleasurable situation for everyone involved.
The Robot is reactive, restricted, and rigid, unable to respond to challenge in real time. The Astronaut is proactive, loose, and adaptable, free to respond to challenge in real time.
So how do you move from The Robot to The Astronaut? You guessed it, mental training. Training the mind and body together, strengthening the connection between the two. Training a broad awareness and a laser-like focus. Training the ability to flip between awareness and focus and eventually do them both at the same time, at higher and higher levels. Training to be relaxed and training to be intense. Training the ability to flip between the two at will.
Learning to be relaxed and intense at the same time. Kind of like a real astronaut. Relaxed without being lax and intense without being tense. 
Ultimately, training to be present and in the moment every time you hit the ball. These are things that must be practiced, and are learned through direct experience.
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Chapter 6
Complete Performance
Every single thing we do with our athletes here at CP doubles as a vehicle forward towards their outward goals, and a vehicle inward to establish the mental, emotional, and physical habits that create inner success and wellbeing on and beyond the court.  
We know they’re just kids right now, but we’re watching the next generation begin to reshape our world. And we believe grounded, resilient, adaptable, optimistic, authentic, bold, and present individuals will pave the way forward through what seems to be the most chaotic and complex time in human history. 
A core part of the CP Philosophy is to stay grounded in “why” our children participate in youth sports in the first place. Earning a college scholarship or turning pro are great aspirations and something dozens of our athletes have done and continue to. But the real “why” isn’t outward success, but inward success. Inward success has everything to do with the person you’re becoming in the pursuit of outward success. 
This means consciously cultivating traits like self-awareness, patience, resilience, heart, optimism, gratitude, and respect. Inner success determines our attitude, our state of being, and the impact of our actions. It determines how we feel about ourselves, other people, our process, and the challenges we experience. 
The more inner success we feel we have, the more worthy we feel to pursue our biggest dreams, face our biggest fears, and fully embrace the ups and downs of our unique process. 
Inner success creates a deeper level of purpose and meaning, which serves as the foundation for sustained motivation, ownership, and responsibility. And when we diligently pursue something that’s meaningful to us, we forge the self-trust and self-belief that show up as confidence and composure. We begin to radiate the kind of confidence and composure that allows us to consistently perform at our highest capability. And it’s only when we consistently give these kinds of performances that we gain the sense of “my dream is actually happening, I’m doing it,” which seems to evade most athletes. It’s this elevated sense of self that truly is the pinnacle of inner success. It’s the key to a life without limits. It can open the door to any possibility. And helping aspiring athletes realize this key is already in their possession, is why Complete Performance exists.
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In reality, it’s not hard to see that the degree of outer success is always a perfect reflection of the degree of inner success. So, it’s about making inner success a priority. Staying aware of this priority, allows us as parents to stay out of the rat-race, reduce our own stress around the sport, and make empowered decisions for our child’s unique process. But most importantly, staying grounded in the real “why,” allows us to regain the sheer joy of watching our children discover their passion, explore their potential, and pursue their dreams. That feeling of genuine pride watching our children grow, expand, push their limits, fall down, get up, dust off, evolve, struggle, cry, get angry, calm down, look within, find their power, harness it, transform, break limits, break ceilings, break stereotypes, and break anything else stopping them from becoming their greatest self. This is what makes the journey worth it. And this can only be a reality if the athlete is empowered and equipped to handle the dynamic challenges that come along with the journey. 
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Chapter 7
The CP Portal
After 15 years in the industry working with touring pros, division 1 athletes, and competitive juniors, we’ve learned that typical “instructional teaching” is simply incomplete. Without a means to practice the intangibles, and without a community to support the challenging inner journey, over-instruction simply becomes a tangle of rules in their head, feeding internal conflict and a hidden sense of shame around failing. 
Mental training isn’t just the missing link, it completes the puzzle for an aspiring athlete. And a completed puzzle offers an entirely new picture of what’s actually possible for them.
Mental Training transforms struggles into strengths, and setbacks into comebacks.
It transforms obstacles into opportunities, and mental blocks into mental unlocks.
It transforms their passion into action, and their potential into performance.
And it’s finally here, available for those ready to explore the final frontier.
After 2 full years in the making, Complete Performance is excited to announce the launch of The CP Portal, an online platform for mental training. A first-of-its-kind Virtual Academy, tailored for aspiring juniors, and offering an array of guided exercises that reduce stress, promote personal discovery, encourage bold expression, empower their potential, and offer sustained wellbeing mentally, physically, and athletically. All supported by an engaging community of like-minded athletes and parents.
This is Complete Performance.
This is Mind Body Stroke.
This is the Future of Tennis.
And the Future is Mental.
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