{"podcast":{"title":"Insider's Playbook:  Smart Strategies for Competitive Senior Tennis Players Over 50","slug":"insider-s-playbook-smart-strategies-for-competitive-senior-tennis-players-over-50-7487951","podcast_index_feed_id":7487951,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/aFDkn5JG.rss","website_url":"https://mike-tennis.com/playbook","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/4bf732e4-2eb8-4a9b-8be5-10d929c13cba/logos/49620cd4-ae27-4753-bcc4-5a8f9f293e2c.png","author":"Mike Rogers - Founder of Senior Tennis Unpacked","episode_count":50,"summary":"If you’re over 50 and still driven by competition, Insider’s Playbook is built for you. This podcast goes beyond generic tennis advice and into the strategic, physical, and mental edge senior players need to compete longer and win more matches. Hosted by senior tennis tournament competitor Mike Rogers, and founder os SeniorTennisUnpacked.com , each episode features elite coaches, national champions, and performance experts sharing real strategies to help you move smarter, train efficiently, stay injury-resistant, and out-think opponents who rely on youth alone. Subscribe now and step inside the playbook that top senior players use to keep raising their game.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-09T04:17:02.640971+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/insider-s-playbook-smart-strategies-for-competitive-senior-tennis-players-over-50-7487951"},"episode":{"title":"Why 'Watch the Ball' Is the Worst Advice in Senior Tennis I Richard Brice","slug":"why-watch-the-ball-is-the-worst-advice-in-senior-tennis-i-richard-brice","published_at":"2026-06-16T12:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/insider-s-playbook-smart-strategies-for-competitive-senior-tennis-players-over-50-7487951/why-watch-the-ball-is-the-worst-advice-in-senior-tennis-i-richard-brice","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/insider-s-playbook-smart-strategies-for-competitive-senior-tennis-players-over-50-7487951","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/13800e14ecba7a0439ea625102f56c2eec9ef60045ffcd40fbd45fcce402bb2f/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIwZDI1YjcyMi0wYTYyLTQ5OTMtYjY3YS1kNDIzNGJhYzBhZjEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI0YmY3MzJlNC0yZWI4LTRhOWItOGJlNS0xMGQ5MjljMTNjYmEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2ODY3Y2VhODhmNjcyZTZiZWJjZTJjYmIiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEyZjAzNTIxZWQ1M2M2OWVjOTg3ODQ0L2luc2lkZXJzLXBsYXlib29rLWNvbXBvc2VyLTIwMjYtNi0xNF9fMjEtMzgtNTgubXAzIn0=.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/13800e14ecba7a0439ea625102f56c2eec9ef60045ffcd40fbd45fcce402bb2f/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIwZDI1YjcyMi0wYTYyLTQ5OTMtYjY3YS1kNDIzNGJhYzBhZjEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI0YmY3MzJlNC0yZWI4LTRhOWItOGJlNS0xMGQ5MjljMTNjYmEiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2ODY3Y2VhODhmNjcyZTZiZWJjZTJjYmIiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEyZjAzNTIxZWQ1M2M2OWVjOTg3ODQ0L2luc2lkZXJzLXBsYXlib29rLWNvbXBvc2VyLTIwMjYtNi0xNF9fMjEtMzgtNTgubXAzIn0=.mp3","summary":"7 Day Free Trail - https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081/about Senior Tennis Unpacked Community You've spent years fixing your forehand, tweaking your footwork, and drilling your backhand — and you're still making the same mistakes. Richard Brice, vision and brain-based training specialist, makes an uncomfortable case: the problem was never your strokes. The problem is your visual system is declining, you're \"hit and admiring\" instead of recovering, and you're wiring your brain to look at bright screens four to five hours a day — then wondering why you can't judge a 60-mph ball. We get into why watching the ball at contact is the last thing you should worry about, why your T-Rex forehand is a spacing problem not a technique problem, and what a string with a few beads on it can do for your game that no amount of drilling ever will. Key Takeaways: · Recovery beats vision every time. \"Hit and admire\" — watching your ball instead of resetting — is the #1 performance killer, and it throws everything that comes after it off. · Late prep, bad spacing, and mis-timed swings are all vision problems. Those aren't technique issues — they're almost entirely driven by how well your visual system is functioning. · Watching the ball at contact is the icing, not the cake. Djokovic has won more than anyone alive while already looking down the other end on half his forehands — fix the underlying problems first. · Screen time is wrecking your visual system. Four to five hours a day on phones and TVs trains your eyes for up-close bright screens, not for reading a tennis ball — ten minutes of distance gazing a day is the counter. · The Brock String is the one tool worth owning. A string with a few beads on it tests and trains whether your brain is fusing both eyes together — the…","meta_description":"7 Day Free Trail - https://www.skool.com/senior-tennis-unpacked-8081/about Senior Tennis Unpacked Community You've spent years fixing your forehand, tweak…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1480,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/insider-s-playbook-smart-strategies-for-competitive-senior-tennis-players-over-50-7487951/episodes/why-watch-the-ball-is-the-worst-advice-in-senior-tennis-i-richard-brice/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/insider-s-playbook-smart-strategies-for-competitive-senior-tennis-players-over-50-7487951/why-watch-the-ball-is-the-worst-advice-in-senior-tennis-i-richard-brice.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}