Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
Freeze.
A deer in the headlights, unable to move out of the way of the oncoming truck.
But, the symptoms of freeze aren’t always so blatant. You aren’t always frozen and unable to move.
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Skatergirl is having trouble with her triple flip. For some reason, she’s unable to rotate it fully.
No, the reason is clear. She’s tired, and as a result her body isn’t functioning like she wants it to.
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Skatergirl is struggling with her triple loop. For some reason, she can’t do it consistently anymore.
“Try this,” Skatercoach says. She demonstrates a new entrance that Skatergirl hasn’t ever seen before. Left inside mohawk into change of edge.
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“Ugh. I don’t want to go into the rink today,” Skatergirl says. “I’m sore. I’m tired. I’ll die if Skatercoach makes me do another double run-through today.”
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Everything was going great for Skatergirl. She was rolling through summer competitions, landing new skills and picking up personal bests.
Then, qualifying season came along and ruined it all.
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Everyone makes mistakes, even professionals at the top of their game. Yet, everyone seeks perfection.
But, perfection is a myth. A number that is impossible to achieve.
When we say, “____ jump isn’t perfect,” what we really mean is, “I’m not landing ____ jump 100% of the time.”
In mental game, there is no perfection. Only mastery. And, mastery isn’t perfection, because even masters aren’t perfect.
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