Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
Skatergirl was preparing for an away competition.
Double run-throughs. Triple run-throughs. Segmented run-throughs. Skatergirl was doing them all.
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Skatergirl has been having a lot of trouble. Several years ago, she was regional champion at the juvenile level, but she grew a lot and her jumps haven’t been the same ever since.
Before, she was executing double axels with ease, but now she has trouble even rotating.
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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…”
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Fast forward to the end of the year. Qualifying competitions are right around the corner and Skatergirl is freaking out.
She’s been training hard all year*. She had a couple of really good skates at the earlier competitions. (Well, let’s say there were a lot of challenges this year…so the problems might even be worse…)
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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.
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Appreciation is key in a mindset for success.
As you return to the ice, times are tough for everyone. The ice is limited and expensive. It doesn’t take us long to forget that there was no ice a month ago. So easy to drop right back into a mindset of fear and lack which can negatively influence a skater’s performance on the ice.
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