The program
40LOVE MINDSET
Individualized mental performance coaching. Fully remote. Month to month.
The gap
Matches are lost between points
Players rarely lose because of their strokes. They lose in the few seconds after the last ball. A bad call. A shank they can't let go of. The moment they realize they are supposed to win this one, and the swing gets short.
That's the gap I work in.
What we build
A language you can use mid-match
Play from even
The score doesn't get to decide who you are or how hard you compete.
Build, don't protect
Up 4-1 isn't a lead to defend. It's a match to keep building.
Visualization
See the match before it starts, so the pressure moments arrive familiar instead of new.
Body language is a weapon
How you carry yourself between points changes the match, for you and for your opponent.
Score changes. Urgency doesn't.
Every month
What's included
- A weekly lesson built around what's actually happening in your matches
- Text access in between
- Calls and FaceTime when something needs more than a text
- Pre-match and pre-tournament preparation
- Tournament weekend support, available between matches
- Match and tournament debriefs
Month to month. No commitment past that.
What changes
Real players, anonymized
Came to me throwing racquets and talking down to himself all match, one mistake costing him games at a time. Now he resets within a point or two and can lose to a stronger player knowing he competed the right way.
Bad calls and opponent behavior used to control him for entire sets. He came back from 1-6 down in a first set and saved six match points.
He found his best energy down a break and lost it the second he was ahead. That energy was coming from threat, which is exactly why it disappeared when the threat did. We replaced it with fuel he owns. His line now is "I can suffer more than they can," and it works at 5-1 up the same as 1-5 down.
Nothing happened between points, so everything from the last one carried straight into the next. Towel, string pats, hat. Three slots, each with a job. The string pats are where the real work lives, because nothing physical is happening there and his head has somewhere to go.
Same competitive fire. Structure to hold it.
Let's talk
Tell me where the mental side is getting in the way.
703-623-5881
coachpat40love@gmail.com
@coachpat40love