by Inner Game | Mar 10, 2010 | Inner Game of Skiing, Tim Gallwey
At just about the same time, in 1975, Tim Gallwey, the best-selling author of “The Inner Game of Tennis,” arrived on the ski scene. Gallwey had concluded that the greatest enemy of learning the tennis backhand or serving the ball was a mind cluttered with...
by Inner Game | Feb 28, 2010 | Goals, The Inner Game, Tim Gallwey
Fine’s interest in sports psychology led him to explore Tim Gallwey’s Inner Game concept, and ultimately into a long-time friendship and collaboration with Alexander and Whitmore, co-creators of the GROW model. The three worked together for three years in the early...
by Inner Game | Feb 27, 2010 | fitness, Goals, health, Inner Game, The Inner Game, Tim Gallwey
Inner Sports Tim Gallwey in his best selling book “The Inner Game of Tennis”, showed how visualization can be much more effective than verbal instruction. As a tennis Pro, he became aware that each pupil’s mind seemed to contain two entities. A Self 1 who observed and...
by Inner Game | Feb 27, 2010 | Goals, The Inner Game, Tim Gallwey
Tim Gallwey, a former captain of the Harvard tennis team, wrote a series of books in which he described his findings that performance error resulted primarily from “doubt, tension and lapses of concentration.” We are at our most effective and creative in the moment....
by Inner Game | Feb 27, 2010 | Inner Game of Tennis, The Inner Game, Tim Gallwey
With the conclusion of the tennis Australian Open, the book “The Inner Game of Tennis” comes to mind. It was written back in 1972 by Timothy Gallwey when the mental game was little understood and his approach was considered radical. Now it is commonplace...