Mental Game Skills for Skating Success
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?”
You can save yourself a ton of energy and get back up to speed faster if you take a moment to set some ground rules before you take the ice.
Athletes perform better when they are relaxed and ready in body and mind.
Negative thoughts, worries and self doubts cause tension in your body and distractions in your mind that keep you from performing your best.
Continue reading “Return to the ICE: Set Ground Rules to Handle Negative Thoughts and Self Doubts”
They say that self-confidence is the best outfit you can wear, but Skatergirl feels like hers doesn’t fit anymore.
Her thoughts are no longer in the present. She used to be a good skater.
She thinks of her accomplishments. She won regionals as a Juvenile and went on to qualify for Sectionals as a Novice. One year, she made it all the way to nationals. But then things started falling apart.
The high mountain she was excited to climb seems to be plateauing. Did she already reach her peak?
Continue reading “If I Have Doubts About Skating, Can I Still Be Great?”Skatergirl cringes every time she thinks of her Regional Qualifying Championship Event last year when she fell on 4 of her jumps. What happened? She really doesn’t know but embarrassment and humiliation are the two things she distinctly remembers feeling. It was the worst she ever skated. Thankfully, this season has been going pretty well. It has been a normal one with the expected ups and downs.
Continue reading “How to Stop One Bad Competition From Multiplying”Audio: here
I don’t think you’re ever there. You might never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you’re already there. Can’t get any better. And as players, if you ever have that moment—you should never have that moment. You’re always trying to get better. –Tiger Woods
Continue reading “Help Young Athletes Reach Their Dreams with Healthy Perspective”
Listen to Audio version here.
Congratulations, you competed at Regionals* and qualified for Sectionals. It’s a whole new ball game now!
Wrong. As long as you started the season right, very little needs to change. Continue reading “Get out of Your Own Way in Figure Skating”