Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
It’s competition day. You know you are prepared. You have been running clean programs in practice and you feel ready to skate your best.
The announcer calls your name. You turn towards center ice. Your last thought before you take the ice is “I hope I don’t fall.”
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We all have thoughts that come out of nowhere to attack us when we least expect it.
In skating it often comes in the form of self-doubts. Take for example, a jump you fall on over and over again. Skaters can build mountains of self-doubting thoughts around this.
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Do you currently mentally prepare for competition? If not, you should have a warm-up routine that includes your mental prep…
By using a pre-competition routine, you can feel focused and prepared to succeed!
Your mental preparation is crucial for your best performance and involves more than just visualizing a successful performance.
All successful elite athletes know that preparation and a strong mental game are key for a great competitive performance. In Figure Skating, there are few competitions relative to other sports. A skater may participate in approximately 3-7 competitions all year, spread across a seven-month period depending upon their skating level.
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“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
–Coach John Wooden
Back to School: When you see competitions as a learning experience you create a win-win situation. Even at the highest levels, your perspective is different, more optimistic, than when you only focus on winning or placement.
You have to master two important mental skills in figure skating: Confidence and Trust.
Do you define these as the same mental abilities? Many skaters don’t understand the difference between these two mental abilities…
Confidence is the belief in your ability to execute your skills…
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