Overcoming Frustration

[LC3]

When you’re grinding through a match full of rattled shots—knowing you can shoot better but just flubbing that last bit of execution today—and it feels like you’ve worked so hard for so little progress, it’s easy to get frustrated. Especially when you start getting exhausted because you’re expecting the rest of the match to be the same kind of grind.

How do you deal with that and get past the frustration?

 

[WobblyStroke]

Breathe. Return to the present moment and get out of your head. Focus only on ther current shot. The shots that came before don't matter. Future projections of continued struggle are a waste of time and energy also. So return to the present moment...the only one you can affect. It becomes easier the more u do it.

You can also check out mental game books like "The Inner Game of Tennis" or "Pleasure of Small Motions". Lot of useful tidbits in those.