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Get Your Game Face On! Seminar at the Westchester Table Tennis Center

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I was excited to give the Mental Toughness Training with Rocky Wang at the Westchester Table Tennis Center on March 8th, 2020. This seminar was about building mental toughness by developing players’ customized personal routines between points, the 4 R’s (Reaction, Recovery, Ready and Ritual). Furthermore, this seminar helped players to handle anger, nerves, mistakes, …

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How Do I Implement What I Practice in Tournaments?

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Reframe the situation and treat tournaments as a practice and focus on the actions you want to do (emphasise the process). Have an action focus which means that you concentrate on your improvements rather than the result. For example, your goal can be for your tournament to improve your first forehand loop percentage, or to …

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How Do I Avoid Being Emotional After I Missed a Forehand Smash?

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Whatever you do at the table when you play a table tennis match, you can’t get too emotional after missing a shot because it can cost your match if you don’t recover quickly emotionally. Mistake ritual is a great way to deal with mistakes. Mistake ritual is a physical gesture that you do consistently after …

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How do you get “in the zone” when you are playing an important match?

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As soon as the match starts, when you step up to the table you have to be ready for your match mentally, emotionally and physically. How can you do that? You always have to focus on what you can control such as your pre-performance routines and during game rituals. Pre-performance routines are breathing exercises, imagery …

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