When it comes to teaching athletes mental skills, self-awareness must be among the first priorities for coaches. Moreover, to teach self-awareness you must have a baseline. Athletes must know where they are to know where they need to go. Therefore, coaches must start the teaching process with a self-awareness test. Before I talk about the […]
One of the most misunderstood mental failures in sports is the act of choking. There is nothing more pitiful than an athlete who is a superstar 99% of the time, but then chokes under pressure 1% of the time. Unfortunately, that 1% represents those critical moments that will define the athlete’s legacy. From the outside […]
Some athletes will only review video when they do something well. These athletes will only review the video of their mistakes if a coach deliberately sits them down and plays the video directly for them. Moreover, these same athletes struggle learning to learn from their mistakes. If you know an athlete like this then what […]