Practice schedules are tight. Youth wrestling coaches must get a lot done with little time and resources. As a result, assigning young wrestlers homework may be the best way to get them to develop their mental skills with the least amount of disruption to the normal practice routine. Specifically, there are 5 mental skills youth […]
One of the things I always say is that youth sports reveals character in children, it doesn’t build character. It’s up to parents and coaches to build character using youth sports as the classroom. With this intention in mind, there are three character traits in particular I think good coaches consistently use youth sports as […]
A winning mindset starts with prioritizing process over outcomes. However, parents and coaches often make the mistake of over emphasizing outcomes with rewards and punishments. In addition, parents and coaches also tend to inadvertently show more love when athletes have winning outcomes and show little to no emotion when athletes are winning with process. There […]