https://www.onlinetennisschool.com/categories/inspiration/Recent content in Inspiration on Online Tennis SchoolHugo -- gohugo.ioWed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://www.onlinetennisschool.com/articles/tennis-life-at-the-extremes/Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://www.onlinetennisschool.com/articles/tennis-life-at-the-extremes/Take a short journey through imagination. Go back to a time you felt an extreme emotion - anger, frustration, fear at something small and sudden. How did you feel? Did you want to lash out? Did you do something you regret, or almost do something you never normally would? That emotion sat outside your normal range.https://www.onlinetennisschool.com/articles/the-art-of-competition/Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://www.onlinetennisschool.com/articles/the-art-of-competition/Being a great competitor is very much like creating a painting or writing a beautiful song. Mastery inside the rules - then invention Look at great artists - Dalí, da Vinci, Escher. They were incredibly well versed in the rigid confines of their medium. They were also able to break those confines; Escher could make dimensions almost contradict mathematical norms.https://www.onlinetennisschool.com/articles/meet-matthew-biondi/Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://www.onlinetennisschool.com/articles/meet-matthew-biondi/I had the chance to pick the brain of Matthew Biondi - 11-time Olympic medalist in swimming, Hall of Famer. We talked about competing at that level and what separated him from his peers. I distilled the conversation (while trying not to be completely starstruck) into six points. They transfer cleanly to tennis.https://www.onlinetennisschool.com/articles/why-do-i-love-tennis/Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://www.onlinetennisschool.com/articles/why-do-i-love-tennis/Why do I love tennis? Or sport in general? This is the best description I can give. Chess pieces and human stories I believe this: “Anybody can move a chess piece, but only a select handful can move their pieces in the symphony of offensive, defensive, and neutralizing positions that would lead to becoming a grandmaster.