Sports coaching in Provence Cote d'Azur

THE OBJECTIVES (3 focuses)

Technique Optimisation, Tactical Effectiveness:
Identifying and optimising strong points, improving “weak” points,
A competitor’s development is built as much on his strong points as his weak points.
Personalising development according to: character, physical and mental qualities
Separation (upper and lower body)
Management of geometry in time
Relaxation, timing)

Mental control:
Resistance to stress, anxiety relief, refocusing, concentration), developing motivation, visualising the future.
Learning to take responsibility for choices
Developing autonomy
Development of the personality
Stimulation of concentration

Physical development
Feeling then understanding the way the body works to achieve the correct balance
Work on suppleness, muscular strength, balance, agility and coordination
Evaluating muscular and energy capacities
Assessing weight and physical condition
Testing cardio-respiratory adaptation to effort

Evolutions-Sports-Concept aims to train competitors on a solid foundation and assist struggling sportspeople who have lost their ability to adapt to rediscover their motivation.

Evolutions-Sports-Concept is a training method inspired by different research techniques used by the sporting elite and young sportspeople, also suitable for amateur competitors.
Tested on the ground for more than twenty years, the Evolutions-Sports Concept method enables the optimisation of technique, tactics, physical development and mental control.
It is aimed at adults and young people (children/teenagers), coaches, physical trainers, instructors, sports amateurs, clubs, associations, etc.
For junior and adult athletes wishing to take part in national and international competitions with support and coaching from professionals trained in the Evolutions-Sports Concept method.
Evolutions-Sports Concept has enabled some high level competitors and young sporting hopefuls to find the correct balance in order to optimise their objectives.

EVOLUTIONS-SPORTS CONCEPT is committed to teaching athletes to listen to their bodies more, because the body is a perfect machine with matchless precision.
Managing their emotions, enhancing their self-image, optimising their ability to concentrate, listening to their bodies, making physical progress, developing a dynamic technique of movement, and improving their response to sensations, all help athletes to reach the best of their ability.

When athletes are guided in this personal work they feel more serene, calmer and determined. As they learn to "break their chains", their inhibitions disappear along with the pressure of results. They have more energy, suppleness, strength, coordination, imagination, concentration and self-knowledge.

They can anticipate destructive and disruptive incidents which are usually the result of negative judgements, very often paralysing them in the exact movement of the action performed.
They gain time, efficiency and peace of mind. Our only opponents are ourselves!
The techniques of EVOLUTIONS-SPORTS CONCEPT are designed to help make sport and daily life more enjoyable, with more relaxation, less stress, memory development, greater imagination, and much more clarity."

The world of sport has to contend with continuous change: athletes face many choices and quick decisions have to be made.
Each athlete is alone as they strive to reach their goals, motivate themselves and overcome their inhibitions.

It is management of the emotions and mind that distinguishes a top athlete from a talented sports player.

Concentration is a decisive factor in sport. Take the example of our eyes: when they are open they make us curious, and when they are closed they stimulate our subconscious.

How can we concentrate on what is important to us?
And why do we make mistakes when we are too sure of ourselves, or when we are too anxious to do well ?

Sports careers are shorter and shorter, the constraints are ever greater, the pressure is enormous and athletes have to face it alone. What resources do they have for reducing this pressure ?

We know that the muscle structure is transformed in a month, the tendon and ligament structure in 60 days, the bone structure in 90 days, and the mental system in 21 days.
So why do we want to exceed our own physical and psychological limits ?

Why do so many young and adult athletes, pursuing mental, physical, strategic and dietary performance levels that are always restrictive, abandon their favourite sport ?

A tennis player’s anxiety can go as far as to make him ill.
Stress (released as adrenaline) exists and cannot be avoided, it accompanies the player’s entrance into the sport and can be positive and sometimes negative.
The fear of loosing or winning, being in the lead, projection into the future, the surprise of playing well and all at once the feeling of no longer being able to achieve, a player not giving 100%, umpiring errors, such situations provoke negative emotions which affect the concentration of some players.
Technique, tactical and physical training alone are not enough to improve performance, mental control is essential for a top level tennis player.

Being mentally prepared for sport enables the tennis player to tackle a tournament by allowing the challenge to unsettle him as little as possible. It develops :

MENTAL CONTROL

Mental state is one of the keys which opens or closes the door of success in sport.
“To have a poor mental state” is an expression which indicates a weak player incapable of controlling himself.
On the other hand, “to have a good mental state” indicates a tennis player who is able to take his mind off his fears of loosing, winning, etc.
When faced with an opponent a competitor who does not have a developed state of concentration, free from any harmful thoughts is sure to lose, because he cannot be receptive. As a result he will be physically, technically and tactically behind.
Anticipation is the key to winning, with a developed concentration the tennis player can feel the tactical intentions of his opponent before they are even played.
Brain activity gives off a powerful electric discharge. This is what your opponent sends you a thousandth of a second before playing, because the play needs to be thought through and carried out.
This form of thought or intention carrying the electric charge is noticed through calm mental control, that is how the exceptional concentration of great champions (like B. Borg, A. Prost, M. Schumacher, T. Woods, R. Federer) who are able to read their opponents mental state like an open book, can be understood and admired…

TECHNIQUE, TACTICAL AND PHYSICAL CONTROL

“So that your personality is reflected in your technique, tactics and physical development”, this teaching used in tennis means that the student must develop technique, tactical and physical control until he manages to assert his personality.

Our method does not separate out the common elements.
Tennis consists of: technique, tactics, energy and relaxation

Effectiveness is not only the technical manifestation of this relaxation; training involves increasing and reinforcing it.
“Relaxation” requires flexibility of the body and mind; we must be open, not only externally, but also internally.
The necessary form of play varies according to the manner of being.

The player who plays with a “good relaxation” technique seeks to dominate his opponent through technical and energetic superiority and not destroy him at any cost.
Observations carried out on a great number of champions allow us to understand this more clearly, at the same time as progressing in tennis by increasing “relaxation” a calmness of spirit is acquired, which gives the player a complete technical, tactical and physical state enabling him to be more skilful and powerful in competition.

TIMING

Most of the time, timing is synonymous with speed and precision of execution, it combines with notions of distance and synchronisation and if movement is accurate, the speed is correct. This does not mean that specific work on technique gives the right timing. Work on technique is a constraint of thought about the body, necessary and inevitable when starting to practice a sport.

On the contrary, work on timing is a freeing of the voluntary system of thoughts acting on the body, thus enabling it to express its own rhythm. A technique can be thought, planned and calculated, but its timing will never be correct. Even if it seems very fast, in effect it is very slow because the space of time necessary for those types of functions irreparably put the body out of time. An action or technique which is thought about is out of time. Natural movement is quicker, since the decision time is absent. Since natural timing is quickest, it is therefore useless to model and work techniques for increasingly fast actions. The more you try to be fast, the more the natural, correct timing is extended.
In fact, timing is not worked, it appears.
It is therefore a means of assessment. As a means of assessment, it acts on two levels: the absence of timing is considered in the training,
its presence indicates the application of the training. Internal and external timing reveal the technical and mental level of the player. The slower this timing, the more it comes from a high technical and physical level.