Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
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Have you ever lost your momentum and drive? Feel lost and unfocused in practice? Don’t remember why you go to the skating rink every day?
Feeling this loss of motivation can happen for many reasons, but no matter what the reason you can use the steps in this article to pick yourself up again.
Some reasons for loss of motivation: Continue reading “5 Steps to Get Motivated in Figure Skating”
In the champion mindset, you must be alert and pay attention in order to Learn and Grow in your sport and in life.
This learn and grow mindset allows you to make mistakes, to be patient with yourself and to keep things in perspective.
When you know that adversity is part of the process, and that each mistake is an opportunity to learn, you can let go of a lot of your internal struggle and feel more peace.
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Many people make the mistake of thinking that only elite athletes would hire a mental game coach for mental game training.
Whether you want to be an Olympic champion or to be the best darn skater that you can be, mental game training can help.
Or if you want to be the creator of the next world changing device since the iPhone, or have a fun job that makes money, mental game training can help.
The mental game strategies for sports and for life are the same. 30 to 80 year olds pay thousands of dollars to business and life coaches to teach them what they missed.
Continue reading “Mental Game Training is for Life (Mental Game Training is for Life #1)”
For figure skaters, dealing with the disappointment of poor results in a competition event can cause a lot of stress.
This stress can be managed, even eliminated if a parent or a coach is present to gently point out the opportunities for learning and improving instead of compounding the disappointment by adding their own negative opinions about the outcome.
Continue reading “How to Deal With “Unfair” Judging in Figure Skating”
Parenting styles in sports are as varied as the types of athletes in the world. Everyone has heard of, or been around the “nightmare” sports parent. You know, the one with the cringeworthy behavior; like screaming at their child after a competition or game, the child mortified, more about being shamed in public than how they performed.
Continue reading “A Sports Parents Guide to Youth Athlete Success”
If you have been around the sports world long enough, you have read Michael Durant’s famous quote: Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
Continue reading “Hard Work, Talent and the Champion Mindset”