Speaker: Okay, great! Now what we're going to do is, that's nice, we can recall these negative situations, but that's not what we want. We want to focus on confidence. So now what I'm going to ask Erica to do is, to replay and have that situation you imagine that she had been in before, when you have the tough serve, it doesn't work, and how you could respond and look confident and feel confident and show you're confident.
The reason that's important is, if I'm on the other side of the net, and I see her talking to herself bad and I put her head down and she is walking on, I'm loving it. I can't wait, I'm going to spike it right at her. Why? Because she is feeling sorry for herself. So what's a better way to respond both to show something to your opponent, but more importantly that you might feel better about yourself inside, even though you just made this mistake. So give me a little acting, role play here, how you might respond.
Erica: Okay. So I just put it behind you, behind you, still planning, I put it behind you.
Speaker: Okay, good. So what she did, she one, was more positive, she didn't hang her head too much or shoulders a little back. Now one thing I might recommend, some athlete -- Erica may not need this but some athletes need to have a physical release. So it doesn't mean if you don't make a mistake, you might not go, darn, but get rid of it.
Okay, I can do it, and then the only suggestion I have to her is that she did it to hold her chest up a little more, or shoulders back like this is my court, this is my house, I own the house, that was a little fluke and I'm going to play. Now you're sitting watching the video here, you visualize how would you respond to that negative situations he's thought about before, fix it, look confident, act confident, visualize how that might feel for you.
Great! As Erica helped us here, we talked about confidence and how to help maintain that confidence, the key is not just doing it while we see it on a video. The tricky hard part is doing it and practice when you're struggling, do it in the game, but if you do this, some people have already said, fake it till you make it. Even though sometimes we laugh at that, there is some truth to it. You're not sending your opponent a message that you're weak and more importantly, you're probably telling yourself like I'm in control, I can do it.
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