Tennis Score Keeper

Scientists have long known that positive Self-Talk improves player performance . There has been a lot of research done on this. Scientists also know that a player cannot dual task. A player cannot think of two things at the same time. See where this is going?! Put the research together and you get that Scoring in tennis interferes with player performance. First, Here are some research examples: Study: The costs of changing an intended action: movement planning, but not execution, interferes with verbal working memory. Results: Keeping a fact in working memory interferes with athletic planning. (Dr. Schack wrote me that izzers is a real life application of his research.) Study: You can do it! Scientists find urging yourself on in the second person is the key to sporting success    Results: Positive self talk contributes to athletic success. Using the third person is better. The summary:   The latest research shows that player performance is improved th...

Easily accessible, interactive information is normal to your students. Your new tennis students, the ones eager to learn tennis in order to get exercise, make friends, and win matches were born about 2007. They have an AI personal assistant (their iphone). They broadcast on TikTok. Their orthodontist sends them a robo-call to remind them of appointments. Entering your tennis court and having to focus on memorizing the score instead of playing and planning will seem uncomfortable to them, like watching a frizzy-hair, slow-moving 80s movie. Your students want to focus on winning matches, not rehearsing the score for 2 to 3 hours and living through ugly score arguments. Offer your students the izzers Tennis Scorekeeper , give them the option. Tell them to be prepared to use izzers as a memory peg. They may be up against a player who demands they recite the whole game to defend the score. As Dan Travis said, calling out the score clearly , at least three seconds before every point be...

Coaches Styling Strother and Dan Travis are two of the smartest tennis coaches around. They actually understand junior tennis, live their life around the events, are bringing up their own children in the sport and have written clearly about what they call, and I totally agree is, the biggest problem in junior tennis: Nobody is clear on what the score is. In Coach Strother's brilliant article  How to Solve the Cheating Problem in Tennis he is practical, clear and empathetic on what happens at Junior Events when the correct score is not always known and not always clearly called out and confirmed (which is sadly almost always the case)  parents are frustrated and angry  kids are demotivated  the outcome of the match is not clear. Who won?  focus is replaced by wondering if the score is correct  lack of confirmation of the correct score reduces planning. Coach Strother brilliantly summed it up: " Without the Score, there is no Competition ". St...