Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
In the dictionary, the best definition for the word Confidence in the context of sports performance is:
A feeling of self-assurance arising from one’s appreciation of one’s own abilities or qualities.
Notice that the definition of Confidence has everything to do with you, and nothing to do with what other people think about your abilities. Continue reading “Sports Confidence Begins and Ends With YOU”
You are a competitive athlete and want to get ahead of the competition. You wonder what you can do that is different, that can distinguish you from everyone else.
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”
In Part 1, For Best Results; Take Charge of Your Training, you learned that for effective training leading to maximum improvement in the minimum amount of time, you need to:
That in order to reach your dream, you need to have clear goals, and take charge of your figure skating journey. By sitting in the driver’s seat of your skating journey bus, you know that you are going in the right direction toward your ultimate goal.
Continue reading “How to Take Charge of Your Training (For Best Results Part 2)”
When go out onto the ice to compete, once the gate closes, you are on your own. Your coach and the rest of your team (parents, support coaches, trainers, mental game coach) can help you prepare, but you are the only one that can make the magic happen.
The truth is, whatever your sport, the only person responsible for your success is you. Coaches appropriate to your level may come and go throughout your development, but you (and your parents) are in it for the long run.
Continue reading “For Best Results; Take Charge of Your Training (Part 1)”
Many parents become concerned, even upset when their child stops making progress, or seems to regress in skills. Skaters are frustrated and angry because they can’t seem to land the jump like before, and life can be difficult to say the least.
Before you start questioning your coach’s competence or blaming it on your child’s work ethic, please read this.