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Stephen Bourne

Stephen Bourne

Stephen Bourne is a former professional tennis player and creator of One Minute Tennis, an online coaching platform and YouTube channel using his "Blended Learning" system.

Jan 20, 2026

4:31
oh, my
4:32
God, no, no, no, no, no. That's not me.
4:36
Yeah, everybody's done that.
4:39
Now, I'm going to come back to this word in a moment, but I base a lot of my training and teaching on a word called proprioception, and I'll come back to that in a moment.
4:50
But what you're looking at when you don't like the look of yourself is is your lack of proprioceptive skills.
4:56
I will get back to that.
4:58
So what we've got now is we've taken the position where you look at yourself and think it's horrible and magnified it multiple times because you can now see and we'll do still frames of the significant differences.
9:50
what music she was listening to.
1:25
Why do you think so many players believe it's too late to change, and what's actually getting in their way? That's a great
1:32
question.
1:34
First of all, it's going to be many, many different things for different players.
1:38
And one of the things, I think one of the biggest hurdles we have as we get a little bit older is the fear of failure.
1:47
I think it's one of the biggest areas.
1:49
Martina Navratilova, when she was near the end of her career, which was an amazing career, I mean, she was in the playing high level singles when she was, I think she made Wimbledon final when she was 37 and she was playing Wimbledon level doubles in her early 40s.
2:04
But she lost to Wimbledon final, the last one to Conchita Martinez.

9 MINS LATER

11:04
So what role do you use? Do you use visualization with the players at all in, you know, changing their habits and changing their techniques? A lot of, yeah, visualization

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