Week 1
What Is Self-Awareness?
Learn why self-awareness is the foundation for every emotional skill.
Learn the emotional game
Teaching Academy
One Emotional Skill Per Month. Master It, Earn The Badge, Build Your Card.
The Teaching Academy is how competitive players become fluent in the emotional game — one proven skill at a time.
- One skill per month — practiced until it's yours
- Weekly lessons that build on each other
- Demonstrate fluency → earn your badge → it lands on your Bingo Card
This month in the Teaching Academy
The skill before every other skill
Self-Awareness
Learn to recognize your emotional patterns before they begin controlling your behavior, performance, and decision-making.
This month's roadmap
Four Weeks. One Foundation.
Each week builds on the last — from understanding what self-awareness is to making it a daily standard.
Week 2
Self-Awareness on the Tennis Journey
See how emotions show up in practice, competition, pressure, and development.
Week 3
Self-Awareness in the Environment
Understand how parents, coaches, teammates, and the tennis atmosphere shape what players feel.
Week 4
Self-Awareness as a Standard
Learn how to notice, name, and respond in emotionally intelligent ways.
Start Here
This Month's FBTL Tools
Everything You Need. All Connected.
Six tools. One connected system. Each one designed to work inside your actual tennis week.
Daily Check-In
Build the habit of noticing your state — every single day.
Open Tool
Emotion Racket
Locate what you feel before it takes over your game or your day.
Open Tool
Pep Talk
Name it before it owns you. Your inner voice, structured and clear.
Open Tool
Player's Box
Help parents and coaches recognize emotional states from the sidelines.
Open Tool
Character Trait
Honesty — tell the truth about where you are, without judgment.
Open Tool
Profile Page
Track your baseline, check-ins, reflections, and progress all in one place.
Open Tool
Year one schedule
Twelve Badges. One Foundation Year.
Each month you don't just learn a skill — you earn it. Complete the month, take the retest, and the badge is yours. Your Bingo Card is the proof.
Foundation Series
November
Self-Awareness
What is happening inside me?
December
The Tennis Journey
Where am I in the larger story?
January
The Environment
What surrounds me and shapes my experience?
February
The Role Model Standard
How am I showing up?
Core Emotions Series
March
Frustration
When reality does not match expectation.
April
Fear / Anxiety
When the future gets loud.
May
Perspective
Seeing more than the last match.
June
Pressure
When the moment starts to feel bigger than the point.
July
Doubt / Belief
The battle between what you know and what you fear.
August
Anger
The emotion that wants control.
September
Confidence
Not a mood, but a relationship with yourself.
October
Flow
The sweet spot of tennis and life.
The bigger FBTL pathway
Where This Takes You: Building the Ideal Player
Year One is the foundation. Years Two through Four are where the Ideal Player takes shape — skill by skill, badge by badge, year by year.
4Years
48Months
27+Skills
Character traits and internal habits that define how a player shows up — in practice, competition, and life.
AccountabilityResilienceDisciplineComposureCourageGratitudeReflection
Take everything inside the lines. These skills live in match mode, in the big moments, and in the everyday grind of tournament life.
Match ModeInner VoiceMomentumLosing WellWinning WellTournament LifeAdversityPurpose
Emotional mastery becomes leadership. This year is about how you influence those around you and what kind of tennis life you choose to build.
Emotional LeadershipMentorshipCommunicationConflictServiceLegacyCultureThe FBTL Life
The goal is not to rush through the curriculum. The goal is to grow through it.
The Bingo Card keeps the score.