Thoughts of the week: ▫️Keep grinding and good things will happen. ▫️Have the difficult conversations. ▫️Time is finite. Appreciate those around you. ▫️Bet on yourself.

“A bird sitting on a tree branch is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not in the branch, but in its own ability to fly.”

Processes toward any goal/endeavor take time to deliver results, and often involve discomfort, adversity, and changes to one’s lifestyle. Accepting this (or not) is up to you, but understand that your decision will have a direct correlation on achieving the aforementioned goal.

NFL Combine / 40yd dash season offers a friendly reminder that if you’re coaching wall drills and you / your athletes are displaying primarily vertical action through the knee & trunk while you label it “acceleration,” you may need to go back to the drawing board, bubs.

Overcoming adversity and challenge will leave you in a better place than you were when you got started.

Pretty wild to me that the ATP Tour does not allow chest-worn athlete monitoring devices (ie HR monitors) to be worn during match play, yet $100k watches and wrist-worn devices are no issue. This rule feels outdated, and changing it would positively impact Sport Science.

To continue: If the argument against chest-worn devices is that it can provide information to coaches, how is this any different from recently implemented rules legalizing coaching? “Hey (Player), your HR is really elevated after that 20 shot rally - go to the towel.” 🙄 No 💩

It is extremely difficult (if not impossible) to replicate game and match physiological data in practice, so gaining this information could be invaluable to the growth of sport science in tennis and hopefully provide coaches with some universally agreed upon means of training.

The reality: All other professional sports allow the use of such technology during competition. Tennis needs to get out of the Stone Ages. This data will help the growth of sport science and play a role in player safety. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

So ATP Tour a player can play a match wearing a bright red G-Shock (which serves ZERO purpose), but chest-worn HR monitors are where you draw the line. Makes sense 👍🏼🤬 #GrowtheGame