#40: Frank Giampaolo – Being a Tennis Parent is Tough!

In this episode you are going to listen to Frank Giampaolo, Frank founded The Tennis Parents Workshops in 1998, conducting workshops across the United States, Mexico, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Spain. He then instituted The Mental/Emotional Tennis Workshops in the spring of 2002. Frank’s has developed 77 National Champions, hundreds of NCAA athletes, numerous NCAA All-Americans and several professional athletes. Frank is currently the Vice Chair of the USTA/SCTA Coaches Commission. In this episode you’ll get to know: – How it is easy to be a Tennis Coach compared to being a Tennis Parent – The do’s & the don’ts of pre- & post match communication with a tennis player – How do you close the gap between performance in practice & matches, How to deal with slumps & How to deal with gamesmanship Enjoy the show! Timestamps: 01:30 Being a Tennis Parent is tough 03:10 Balancing being a coach & a father 04:21 A game of keep away 06:23 Utilizing multiple Tennis Coaches 07:30 Negative scoring 09:15 Creating a Tennis Family Philosophy 11:23 Fixed mindset vs growth mindset 12:57 Do’s & Don’ts of pre & post match communication 15:48 Practice the way you are expected to compete 17:51 Get out of Perfectionism 19:30 Dealing with Gamesmanship 24:05 Dealing with slumps 26:54 How you can benefit from Charting 28:30 The Spiral 32:13 Parents workshop 36:22 Don’t apply your knowledge right away 38:40 Player profiling 42:08 Hardware & Software 43:57 A recipe of disaster 45:16 What you share is what you learn 46:20 Vic Braden 52:37 The whole entourage on thet same page