Friday, April 24, 2009

Inner Tennis

Inner Tennis: Playing the Game

Great interview on www.tennis.com with Pete Carroll go there to read the rest of it.

How did you become a disciple of Tim Gallwey’s “The Inner Game of Tennis”?

In graduate school, I was doing sports psychology stuff and the book came across the reading list way back when, and then I had the chance to visit with [Gallwey]. He gave a seminar, then a group from my class had dinner with him, and I was instantly attracted to the perspective, to the point of view that he brought. And I started to incorporate it into my own hoops game—playing basketball, and I was also playing tennis at the time. I was done playing football then. And I just thought there was really something there. It resonated, and I’ve stayed with the information ever since, and it has become part of my life, the philosophy and the background of what he spoke about 30 or 40 years ago.