The Science of Elite Performance: The World Awaits

Book excerpt: Never before in the world of sports have coaches been privy to a method or style of practice that has handed them the reins to develop the best athletes in the world. One sport and one technique provide the necessary channels to follow addressing the very existence of a formula attributed to elite sporting success.The sport of tennis was used along with its collective technique in the forehand groundstroke, as the gateway to deliver to the coach and athlete a blueprint that encapsulates the requirements and demands vital in achieving a “top 10” ranking. A blueprint of the science and education, as one, is presented. The featured literature reviews, reiterated yet stylistically shaped with a multi-premise: to teach both the coach and athlete how to develop and achieve optimal performance success, synonymous with a “top 10” ranking, and to accommodate the academic: a guide on how to build, structure and freely evolve the literature review, serving as their own unique learning structures. Introducing the ground-breaking sports coaching phenomenon: the Optimal Performance Theory, and The V by Dr. B © – handing you what the sporting world has been awaiting: the formula behind optimal performance success.