You Don’t Need a Coach Standing Over You

A coach yelling corrections makes a player who patches one swing and loses it by next lesson. Owning the diagnosis yourself is what makes improvement durable and portable.

The dependency on a coach

External correction produces temporary fixes. The moment the coach is gone, so is the fix, because the player never built the ability to see and correct.

Own the diagnosis

Film one swing, compare to the correct end-state, find your bottleneck, fix it. Do it every session and you can correct on demand, anywhere.

Sources

Ethos, player agency: ethos-fp:agency

Ethos first-principles method: ethos-diag:method

First Principles of Tennis, learn to see: ethos-fp:seeing

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