Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
The pandemic turning competitive sports upside down, scheduled competitions have been cancelled at the last minute. If we are lucky, the in person competitions have been modified to virtual competitions.
All of this leaves many athletes feeling like, “what’s the point?”
I trained so hard and “all that has gone to waste…”
Continue reading “How to Move Past the Season that Didn’t End”
If you have tried, but not found a solution to your sports performance problems, you might be suffering from repetitive sports performance problems.
How do you know if an athlete suffers from repetitive sports problems?
It’s time to dig deeper when an athlete:
Continue reading “Overcome Poor Performance, Blocks, Fears and Slumps”
Mental skills training helps athletes to both develop skills and perform up to their potential. Usually most athletes seek mental skills training when there is a mis-match between what they know they are capable of and what they are doing on the ice. Continue reading “Why am I afraid to do skills that I used to be able to do?”
Fast forward to the end of the year. Qualifying competitions are right around the corner and Skatergirl is freaking out.
She’s been training hard all year*. She had a couple of really good skates at the earlier competitions. (Well, let’s say there were a lot of challenges this year…so the problems might even be worse…)
Continue reading “Don’t Mistake Pep Talks for Mental Skills Training”
Skatergirl is at the rink. Again.
But, today is different.
Today, there’s a new skater at the rink.
She’s wearing her club jacket, black leggings and hot pink runners. Her hair is done up in a bun. Her aura is intimidating.
Skatergirl hasn’t ever seen her before, but she can already tell she’s good.
Continue reading “Stop Comparing Yourself to Others”
Today, Skatergirl had a bad day at practice.
Nothing went right. She couldn’t land her double axel. She couldn’t rotate her triple salchow.
Continue reading “Stop Negative Thoughts Before They Stop You”