29/09/2026
This concepts cannot be deeply installed in a player unless the player is genuinely crazy to learn, understand, apply, and own them.
The process is:
Conscious Understanding → Correct Repetition → Subconscious Ownership → Automatic Performance
What are the qualities that, once they become “owned” by a player’s subconscious, can rapidly boost performance?
1. Physical Strength
This is the most common and fundamental quality. Almost every serious young athlete eventually develops a good level of physical strength.
2nd Racket Preparation
This is far more complex and subtle. Understanding it is one thing; bringing it into conscious awareness and then training the player until it becomes subconsciously “owned” is a completely different challenge.
I see racket preparation almost like taming a wild horse—developing complete control over the racket head position, preparation, flow, swing angle, and the body posture that supports it.
Understanding the natural body posture and swing angle that best support the demands of the court—its height, length, dimensions, and spatial requirements—is extremely important.
The racket-head swing shadow, when observed in detail, consists of extremely fast micro-movements. Without focused attention, the human eye normally cannot capture these movements accurately. During a match, a player certainly cannot consciously analyse them in real time.
Therefore, our objective is to bring the correct racket flow, swing angle, and body posture into the player’s conscious understanding first, and then, through precise repetition, store them at the subconscious level.
Once this quality becomes subconscious, the player no longer needs to consciously think about every movement. The body begins to produce the correct response naturally and automatically.
These are some of the common underlying movement qualities that can be observed, in different forms, in great players such as Jahangir Khan, Jansher Khan, Ali Farag, Mostafa Asal, Paul Coll, and others.
Psychological pressure and fear also play an important role. They do not remain only in the mind; they can affect subconscious physical components such as posture, racket preparation, movement, timing, stability, and force management—ultimately influencing performance and results.
