Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
Competition is 100% mental.
This means, your success in competition is 100% based on how you execute your mental game.
Stop looking at your scores or the execution of your skills as the measure of your success.
Instead, focus on your mental game.
You’re an athlete.
You have goals.
You know where you are.
You know where you want to be.
And, you have a rough idea of how you are going to get there.
You’re laser focused on your goals.
Nothing else matters.
You’re at a competition, waiting to get onto the ice for practice ice.
The group ahead of you is finishing up.
On the far side of the rink, you hear a coach shouting.
Tearing into their skater because they weren’t able to land their jumps during the session.
Skatergirl is getting ready for a big competition.
A competition that will determine whether she goes to nationals or not.
She wants to do well.
She doesn’t want to mess up.
So, when she arrives at the competition she tries extra hard.
Unfortunately, “trying to hard” makes all the difference.
Instead of performing like she does in practice, Skatergirl’s short and long programs are splatfests.
She’s a human zamboni
She’s on the ice more than she’s on her feet.
By the time she’s done, the ice is smoother than after an ice resurface.
Congratulations!
It’s your birthday again, which means you’re one year closer to aging out.
Unfortunately, you don’t have the skills to compete at your current level, let alone the next level up.
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You head to the rink. Today, you’re going to learn how to do a double salchow.
You’ve watched countless YouTube videos of people doing double salchows. You’ve taught yourself how to do a double rotation off the ice. It doesn’t matter that you’ve never set foot on the ice before, you’re ready to land a double salchow.
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