Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
“That’s it,” Skatergirl said. “There’s no way that I’m ever going to get my stupid double axel. I quit.”
Skatergirl slumped into the passenger seat of her car and put her head in her hands. She wanted to scream. She wanted to cry. She wanted to run away and never set foot in an ice rink again. Continue reading “Skatergirl and the Double Axel”
Two weeks earlier, Skatergirl secured a spot for herself at Nationals by placing fourth at the championship series. Initially, she’d been super excited that she’d made it through, but now with the competition coming up in two weeks, she was in full preparation mode.
For the past several weeks, Skatergirl had been on fire during practice.
Her jumps were crisp. Her run-throughs were clean. She was even hitting all the rotations in her spins, which was something her coaches had been nagging her about recently.
Life was good. Everything was going great.
However, today Skatergirl was falling apart.
Continue reading “Skatergirl and the Upcoming Competition”
The pandemic turning competitive sports upside down, scheduled competitions have been cancelled at the last minute. If we are lucky, the in person competitions have been modified to virtual competitions.
All of this leaves many athletes feeling like, “what’s the point?”
I trained so hard and “all that has gone to waste…”
Continue reading “How to Move Past the Season that Didn’t End”
If you have tried, but not found a solution to your sports performance problems, you might be suffering from repetitive sports performance problems.
How do you know if an athlete suffers from repetitive sports problems?
It’s time to dig deeper when an athlete:
Continue reading “Overcome Poor Performance, Blocks, Fears and Slumps”
Mental skills training helps athletes to both develop skills and perform up to their potential. Usually most athletes seek mental skills training when there is a mis-match between what they know they are capable of and what they are doing on the ice. Continue reading “Why am I afraid to do skills that I used to be able to do?”
Today, Skatergirl had a bad day at practice.
Nothing went right. She couldn’t land her double axel. She couldn’t rotate her triple salchow.
Continue reading “Stop Negative Thoughts Before They Stop You”