ICE Mental Game Coaching

For Best Results; Take Charge of Your Training (Part 1)

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.

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How Deal With Setbacks: Growing Skaters

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.

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Dealing With Mistakes Can Save Your Season

My mind was still hung up on last year but my body was in this year; I didn't have my head over my feet. In a sport like skating, on ice, that's just not going to work. In the 2016 World Figure Skating Championships, about a year ago, Gracie Gold, a favorite for the title, struggled and missed the podium. Instead of pausing to take what could be learned and putting the rest in the past, she went down the rabbit hole of self doubt (see previous article and video interview here). Continue reading “Dealing With Mistakes Can Save Your Season”

Why a Growth Mindset is Key for a Strong Mental Game

Does your mindset keep you in a cage?

A strong mental game requires a mindset of Learning and Growth.

The top performers in any profession understand that:

Mistakes, challenges and “impossibilities” are opportunities for learning and innovation.
They keep the big picture in mind. It is not about achieving the goal, it is about the journey.
They never get “it” done, that there will always be a new adventure waiting.
They are always capable of change or improvement and new ways of looking at things.
They can take any criticism, failure or weakness and make it work for them.

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How to Deal With Mistakes in Sports

If you are reading this, you want to improve fast.

Make your practice sessions work for you by doing what elite athletes and musical prodigies do. Continue reading “How to Deal With Mistakes in Sports”

Use Mental Game Strategies For Training

In a perfect world skaters would be able to train year round with no interruption, improving every week. No injuries, no equipment problems, no losing ice to hockey teams.

Unfortunately, occasional interruptions in training happen, but skaters can use effective Mental Game Strategies to keep on improving despite the lack of actual physical practice on the ice.

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