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Richard Bryce

Richard Bryce

Neuro Tennis Performance Consultant and founder of Tennis Hacker; specializes in brain-based training and vision optimization for tennis players.

Jul 7, 2026

3:10
Well, how does that show up when we're, we're actually playing shots or results?
3:15
Ev- everything.
3:16
So the first one we talked about last time is gonna be stuff hurts.
3:20
If your feet hurt, if your knees hurt, if your ankles hurt, if you've got tight calves, you've got tight hamstrings, your lower back hurts, your neck hurts, your hip hurts, any of those things are stiff, all those things are gonna be an indication that potentially the balance system might need a little bit of TLC.
3:35
And then we've got the, the performance ramifications that come off that.
3:39
So if someone doesn't move particularly well, that's often the balance system putting the brakes on these systems.
3:45
So it doesn't just give you pain as a protective mechanism, it stops you moving at full speed.

9 MINS LATER

12:25
Mm-hmm.
9:04
Yeah.
9:04
That sort of thing? Absolutely.
9:06
That would be the next one that I would talk about in terms of injuries.
9:10
So with the way that pain works, it's a protective mechanism crest- created on whether your brain thinks you might come into harm or danger.
9:20
So in terms of how our brain thinks about things, our visual system is really important because if we can't see very well, we might fall off a cliff.
9:27
Which s- sounds ridiculous 'cause we're not all falling off, off cliffs, but this is how our brain thinks.
9:33
And if our balance system isn't working, we might fall over and we might horrifically injure ourselves.
11:51
So are there changes that we could make, you know, right away to, to help our body feel safer and, and reduce the chance of getting hurt?

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