Do you wish to win extra? Dr. G. discusses why taking your targets and expectations right into a BIG recreation can set you up for choking.
We’ve contacted Dr Alan Goldberg for an interview sooner or later – and can let you already know if he reviews again.
One of many fascinating issues about his web site is the truth that snooker or pool (cuesports) isn’t referred to in his listing of sports activities he’s labored in.
In one among Dr G’s many FREE articles, he writes this about NERVES in sport: ”
Runaway pre-game nervousness can come from lots of totally different sources: how good your opponents are; how massive and aggressive they’re; how essential a contest is; how massive the group is (and who in it’s watching you); whether or not you’ll play nicely as we speak and win; how “excited” your coach might get; how a lot taking part in time you’ll get; the court docket, discipline or area you’re taking part in in — the listing goes on and on.
Whereas there are numerous issues about your competitions that may probably make you nervous, the true explanation for your performance-disrupting nervousness isn’t any of the issues that I’ve simply talked about above. The actual explanation for your out-of-control nerves is you! That’s proper! YOU make YOURSELF nervous!
What I’m saying right here is essential — It’s not what’s occurring round or outdoors of you that makes you nervous. It’s what’s occurring INSIDE that’s the actual explanation for stress!”
Dr. Alan Goldberg, internationally recognized peak efficiency advisor and director of Aggressive Benefit makes a speciality of serving to athletes throughout all sports activities at each degree, bust slumps and overcome efficiency fears and blocks. Dr. G’s web site has FREE of assets together with psychological toughness questionnaires for athletes, coaches, articles on each facet of teaching and parenting in youth sports activities, in addition to a psychological toughness weblog.
On this interview from some time in the past, Star Basketball participant Michael Jordan stated folks thought that as a result of he was Michael Jordan, he didn’t have weaknesses in his recreation. He rightly commented that “Michael Jordan had weaknesses” however he labored exhausting to beat them.