Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
Skatergirl is on the ice warming up her jumps.
Axel. Double Salchow. Double Toeloop. Things are going well until she starts warming up her double Lutz.
Bam. Skatergirl hits the ice hard.
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Skatergirl is overwhelmed. She is working with Visitingcoach, a world famous coach from a far away country. One of the best coaches in the world.
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For the past two weeks Skatergirl has been a happy camper. She was jumping well, and even started to get her triple Lutz in her program segments already!
This week is another story. She’s not sure why, but starting on Monday, she couldn’t land her Lutz, and everyday since, practice went downhill. Not just the Lutz, but everything else too. Now she’s tired and frustrated and really worried that she has a big mental block. Continue reading “Peak Performance: From Distraction to Focus”
Skater girl feels overwhelmed. She’s working on her double axel and there’s too much to think about. She is able to land it every so often, but it’s inconsistent.
In Skatergirl’s last lesson, Skatercoach said, “You’ll land your double axel once you make these corrections.” Continue reading “Stop Overthinking When You Make Too Many Mistakes”
You are working on your loop jump with your coach, but you are having trouble landing it. Your coach gives you the same correction that you’ve been working on for the past few weeks – you need to check your left side on the takeoff, don’t let the left side open up.
You know this is a problem, and you have been working on it, but it’s not easy to do this consistently. You really want to get this jump; you are so close.
Skatergirl is gearing up to jump her 2 Lutz. She likes it. It’s her best jump and she’s usually consistent.
But for a week and a half now, she can’t seem to land it at all. What is happening? This doesn’t usually happen, especially not for so many days consecutively. It’s like Wesley Snipes is in her head telling her she can’t jump.
She is frustrated and confused.
Continue reading “What to do When You “Lose” a Jump”