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How FBTL works FINAL

  How FBTL Works A Quick Overview We've never had more awareness or resources available regarding emotional health and well-being, yet society and the sports world still struggle to improve. Why? FBTL takes a proactive approach. Traditionally, sports psychology, coaching, therapy, and even broader psychological treatments address problems after they arise. While reactive methods are essential, FBTL seeks to prevent issues from happening in the first place. How do I anticipate these issues? Because I intimately know the tennis world and competitors' emotional challenges. Preventative care isn't new—it's already revolutionizing modern medicine. Now, we apply this proactive mindset to something more nuanced: the emotional landscape of competitive tennis. We dedicate considerable time to shot selection; now, let's invest equally in Thought Selection. Our Focus How FBTL Works A Quick Overview Despite growing awareness and unprecedented access to resources around emotio...

Content Creation File

Six Levels of Video Content Needed Within Site 1) Important Video Introducing FBTL and How It Works..  Pat Mac, Myself, others, on the serious side 2) Series of  explainer videos to introduce each section within the Program, their purpose and how it will help you on and off the court..   3) Shorter sharper entertaining videos within each section profiling a different topic  For Example.. Within the Emotion Racket, a 45 second-minute video on dealing with frustration from Conor Casey..  4) Development of Channels within site for each section (Teaching Academy, Emotion Racket, Daily Routines, Character and Spirituality, etc   for once weekly content additions for each with a noted content creator heading each channel... i.e.  Conor Casey's Emotion Racket update Off site:  5)  Series of Reels and Internet ready content, IG, Facebook Tik Tok, Youtube, blanket the internet with sharp eye-catching content... Gunning for the VIRAL clip  Re...

FBTL/UTR Seminar Events

  Five hour FBTL/UTR Event... Two different versions.. 6- 8 or more courts 15-20 players and their parents 12:00 Meet and Greet.   Play professionally produced 2-3 minute Video produced by Rex with all our content creators of what FBTL is all about and how using the program will help you... not just performance enhancing but life enhancing too Address players first... Today is a competition day. FBTL has an array of resources to assist you in best preparing and managing yourself on competition days... Show video explaining how following sections work: Power of Daily Routines: Preparing you emotionally for your day ahead The Emotion Racket: Identifying how you feel and taking steps to manage/regulate/sustain Pep Talk Series: Troubleshooting. Every imaginable tennis situation and how to best cope. Using these regularly will consistently put you in the best possible mindset to compete your best.. (Notice I say Compete and not play) Only so much we can control. You will ...

SWOT for FBTL

STRENGTHS 1) Grasp of material... Lived it, Wrote about it, Teach it everyday, Know how to communicate it 2) My standing in tennis community.  3) My Contacts in tennis community 4) Massive untapped market. Players/Parents will go to great lengths for athletic dreams 5) Vision.. Program/App/Content/Delivery.. 6) Revenue. Instant. App Store, Double click, Apple Pay, You're on your way. FBTL, a years program, all for the cost of a private lesson .. In APP advertising, Merch, Mentor Services.. All sorts of revenue opportunities within site 7) Tennis is hot again. 600,000 USTA leagues players, 800,000 UTR players. 154 tennis federations worldwide...Juniors/Adults/Global. Numbers very promising. Tennis Market robust and healthy, constant infusion of new players/families to competitive tennis annually 8) Strong tag line: Performance Enhancing as well as Life enhancing... By using this program, You will achieve a competitive advantage over your peers..not just in tennis, but in life 9) Dev...

What You Can Do To Improve Tennis' Environment

  Improving environments are common in society today. Schools have anti-bullying campaigns, smoking in public has been eliminated (remember when planes had smoking sections? Yuk!!), corporal punishment at school and home is now seriously frowned upon, over-the-top Coaching behavior like Woody Hayes and Bobby Knight is no longer tolerated, and the noise pollution of leaf blowers is on a tight leash, with the clank of Pickleball hopefully not far behind. So, it should come as little surprise that tennis has made strides to improve its environment. Parents must be on their best behavior; the consequences for poor line calling have risen dramatically. Competition formats have eased, with more team events to foster community while shortening matches to enhance players’ overall experience. As a tennis lifer, I'm constantly hearing about improving the overall competitive tennis environment. I've compiled a short list of things I think every player could do themselves to improve the ...

APP Page 4: Profile Page w Gamification

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  Profile Page   Personal Stats Dashboard : IMPORTANT:   one of the primary ideas behind the site is mapping out the 50 or so strongest character attributes that I've identified among the healthiest and most successful tennis professionals ... Those are the topics I will be showcasing in the teaching academy   For example the section I have here on understanding the competitive tennis environment My thinking was to have a progress tracker so for example, when a person goes through all the material for the Environment, at the end, after they take the Retest they can be rewarded a badge or icon that would be displayed on their Profile Page in a clever way...  For Example, In the theme of a Boy Scout collecting merit badges, a Bingo Card. a footblaa player w stickers on helmets.. or some kind of Mannequin where the goal is to build the Ideal Player... So once the person goes through all the material I will present in The Teaching Academy (there will be close ...

What The Experts Say

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Summarizing Current Scholarship On The Stress of the Tennis Environment Adolescent Athletes experience a great number of stressors during competitions and otherwise, including constant social evaluation and criticism, family and peer influences, and unrelenting academic commitments. One stress and coping model found that a stressor's appraisal consists of numerous judgments regarding its threat or challenge to the athlete, its potential benefit or harm and the athlete's perceived control. This, in turn, influences the choice of which coping strategy to select. Under the unrelenting stress of competition, athletes have been found to use various coping strategies to manage said stress. The three most common are... 1) A problem-focused strategy: involving directly addressing the source of stress to nullify it (opponent is serving bombs, we try guessing or changing returning positions or returning styles (block instead of swing) 2) An emotion-focused strategy:...