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Nick Bollettieri's Mental Efficiency Program for Playing Great Tennis

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This book is very close to useless. Bollettieri is thorough about personal goals in terms of what anyone should strive for but, he spends too much time defining aspects of personality rather than give practical tools for implementing them. I found the writing no more technical than a junior high text with very few insights about mentally preparing yourself for tennis or life. He should have included real-world examples of how he instituted his techniques with some of the world's best players that he's coached (i.e. Becker, Agassi, Courier, Seles, and Pierce). Instead, we are subjected to his general defenitions of aspects of personality and goal setting. These are things available in any self-motivation manual. The one saving grace was small excerpts that speak of his early years and involve interesting anecdotes from his past. But, even these are mildly egotistical in their telling and do very little in terms of helping the reader with their development. Overall, a very slow and mostly useless read.

The forms in the book are probably the best part of it...they give you patterns to follow for planning out goals and evaluating your performance.

I received the book in about 3 days and it was in mint condition. Not much I can say...would buy from this seller again.

This book is very complicated to read and to analize it. I would recomend this book mostli for coaches, parents who want theyr kids to grow up as proffesionals and of course those proffesional athletes that are looking for a breaktrough in theyr proffesional career. Nick describes the usual aspects in life that seperates a person between loosing and winning on and off the court. It describes the most aspects of menthal training. But to work with that book as an individual athlete you would need a coach, a parent, or a close friend, that is helping you and explayning you detailes in that book. even that the book is very complicated it can help you really allot. not only for tennis, but your whole life can change.