Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
“Ugh. I don’t want to go into the rink today,” Skatergirl says. “I’m sore. I’m tired. I’ll die if Skatercoach makes me do another double run-through today.”
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Everything was going great for Skatergirl. She was rolling through summer competitions, landing new skills and picking up personal bests.
Then, qualifying season came along and ruined it all.
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Everyone makes mistakes, even professionals at the top of their game. Yet, everyone seeks perfection.
But, perfection is a myth. A number that is impossible to achieve.
When we say, “____ jump isn’t perfect,” what we really mean is, “I’m not landing ____ jump 100% of the time.”
In mental game, there is no perfection. Only mastery. And, mastery isn’t perfection, because even masters aren’t perfect.
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Are you a people pleaser? Do you worry that you’ll be forced to quit or lose training time if you don’t perform well?
Thoughts like these are distractions. They pull you away from what you’re supposed to be focusing on, and cause your performance to tank.
How do we deal with these thoughts? The answer is in this article.
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“Come on. You can do this. You have to land this jump if you want to make the podium.”
Skatergirl is skating into her triple salchow. It’s the last element in her program, and she’s tired.
Even though she can do this jump in her sleep, she’s nervous. She’s skated a clean program up to this point, and she doesn’t want to mess up.
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This was it. This was the competition she had been waiting for all season.
Her content was good. The score was within reach. During training, her programs were clean. Short program into long program, long program into short program, double run-throughs, triple run-throughs, no matter what her coach threw at her she couldn’t miss.
But, during the competition she fell apart. When it actually counted, she crumbled under the pressure. Continue reading “How to Stop Choking at Competition”