Avery Parker's DISC Profile

Like all DISC Styles, your style has certain traits that can work for you, or might hold you back, depending on how you manage them. Examples from your profile are listed below. Keep in mind that a strength “over-done” can become a weakness.

Working For You	Could Hold You Back
Determined: At their best, Avery competes with a steady and determined energy throughout the match.	Determined: Avery’s determination sometimes creates excessive tension that gets in the way of making their best swing.
Logical Thinking: Avery’s logical thinking style helps them think through their strategy and shot selection decisions.	Logical Thinking: Avery’s logical thinking style can sometimes lead to over-thinking and getting in the way of making their best swing.
Competitive: Avery views tennis as an ongoing competitive challenge and often thinks about improving their game.	Competitive: Avery’s competitive instincts are to “try harder,” when they are playing poorly, which can hurt more than it helps.

Tennis Temperament Tendencies

Blended Tennis Temperament Style

Avery’s tennis temperament style is a blend of competitive and determined tendencies from the Dominance side of their DISC style, combined with the more relaxed and patient tendencies from the Steady side. They are motivated by the competitive aspects of tennis, and ongoing desire to make steady improvement in their game.

Steady & Determined Nature

At their best, Avery plays with a steady and determined energy throughout the match. At other times, especially if they are playing poorly, their competitive instincts often lead to “trying harder,” which often hurts more than it helps. By being aware of this tendency, they can use deep breathing to “gear down” a bit and get into a more relaxed mindset for turning their game around.

Turning Frustration Back Into Positive Energy

While Avery is not as prone to deep and sustained anger as the ultra-competitive and intense style players, they can become quite frustrated with their game and create negative mental energy. They can help stay closer to their emotional best regardless of how they are playing by using short positive self-talk phrases as a strategy for quickly turning frustration back into positive energy.

Pre-Match Tendencies

Values Good Preparation

Avery is a logical and task-oriented thinker. They instinctively understand that good pre-match preparation is a logical step towards getting the match off to a good start. They can reinforce this mindset by developing a quality warm-up routine, and using it on a consistent basis from match to match.

Get A Feel For Managing Tension

Determined style players like Avery need to get a good feel for managing body tension before they step onto the court for the first point. “Rehearsing” some actual shots they’ll face during the match – like serving at 30-40 or returning a big first serve – will help simulate on the court pressure and give them a good feel for managing tension while they are warming up. This will also prepare them to play shots with the same between-point routine and thought processes they’ll use on the court.

Begin The Match Settled & Focused

Avery is usually best prepared for a good start when they are in their normal competitive mindset, yet ready to begin the match settled and focused. Allowing adequate time to warm up at an unhurried pace will help them be at their best right from the start of the match.

Tendencies When Playing Points

Determined Mindset During the point

Avery is usually quite determined as they are getting ready to play the point. While their determination is normally a strength, it can sometimes go overboard and lead to feeling “tight” and trying to force good shots. Incorporating deep breathing into their between-point routine, will help reduce tension and promote good tempo and freedom of motion with their swing.

Logical Thinking Style

With Avery’s logical thinking style, they strive to have a good understanding of what they are doing with their swing and how it affects ball flight. Sometimes they get into a flow and their swing just seems to happen with little mental effort. At other times, they over-think what they are doing and get in the way of making their best swing.

See The Shot & Trust My Swing

The good shots come easiest for Avery when they play with a “see the shot and trust my swing” mindset as opposed to trying to mentally program their swing in the middle of a point. Practicing their visualization skills and keeping their swing thoughts simple and feel-oriented are key strategies for helping free Avery up to make their best swing. This also applies to their serve and net game.

Match Strategy Tendencies

Balanced Match Strategy Style

Avery’s overall match strategy style is one of balance. The bolder traits from the Dominance side of their DISC style, are balanced to some degree by the more conservative traits from the Steady side. Their shot selection decisions tend to show more balance than players who lean towards either a very bold or very conservative approach.

Situational Decision Maker

At their best, Avery uses their balanced style to make shot selection choices situationally – aggressive when the odds are in their favor, and more conservative to protect their score when faced with high risk/low percentage shots. Many of the game's most consistent champions have used this same balanced style to great advantage.

Be Fully Committed To The Shot

Avery’s commitment to the shot is usually strong when they feel they have made a smart shot selection choice. They can reinforce this strength of their DISC style by developing a game plan and making certain strategy decisions before the match. For example, by deciding which patterns they’ll rely on at key scores — like a high-percentage first serve at 30-40 instead of going for an ace — as part of their game plan, they’ll likely be fully committed to these shots as they are playing them during the match.

Determined And Steady

Avery combines determination with a steady temperament, which makes them a tough opponent to wear down. They tend to compete hard without getting pulled into an opponent's gamesmanship. Their main watch-out is sticking with a losing game plan too long; using the changeover to decide on one change keeps their persistence working for them. In doubles, they are usually a dependable partner who holds up their side of the court.

Approach To Game Improvement

Challenge Oriented

Avery views tennis as an ongoing competitive challenge, and often thinks about improving their game and playing at a higher level. They can create a clear sense of direction for improving their game, by setting a few challenging and meaningful goals for their game, and developing specific action steps towards accomplishing them.

Practice Like You’re Playing

Also, from a game improvement standpoint, Avery can reinforce their competitive tendencies by spending part of their practice time using drills and games that simulate in-match competitive situations. The more their practice time feels like actually playing tennis, the more likely it will produce improvement on the court.