Parents must understand sports psychology and help children develop confidence, stay focused, and enjoy competition. Your young athlete will excel if you help your child:
1. Develop self-confidence
2. Focus on the process instead of outcomes such as scores or wins
3. Embrace a patient
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Developing Your Confidence
Confidence is important for every athlete. However, understanding how you can develop confidence daily is the most relevant approach to boosting your confidence. Athletes must also have a clear understanding about the beliefs, thoughts, and expectations that consistently undermine
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Establishing a Winning Mindset
You might have the most physical talent or the most talented team and great coaching. However, if you do not have a winning mindset to support your physical ability, you simply cannot perform consistently, nor can you perform up to your potential. Follow these mental training tips to help your team
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Parents’ Communication with Sports Kids
Positive communication is the most important skill you can possess as a sports parent. Your communication style influences how much satisfaction your child derives from sports. Supportive communication can help your child develop self-confidence. Negative communication can hinder your children's
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Tips to Find a State of Flow
Flow is similar to a zone state in that you become totally absorbed into what you are doing in the present moment. Time feels altered. Athletes describe flow as a heightened sense of awareness when they compete, the ability to merge with their surroundings, and a lack of
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Helping Athletes Find the Zone
The zone is a states of supreme focus helps athletes perform at their peak when they become totally immersed into their performance. Many athletes who want to reach their peak potential are always in search of secrets to enter a zone state. But the zone is really not that complicated or hard to
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Entering the Zone
Entering the zone may sound Zen-like and magical, but in reality it is very simple. When you become immersed in achieving a goal, such as quick turns, attention is absorbed into the present - the here and now only. You think only about how to execute a turn with precision. Distractions are forbidden
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Two Practice Mindsets
Athletes perform their best under two distinct practice mindsets. The first is skill acquisition or skill mastery, in which athletes master sports skills. Here, coaches help athletes become competent with the technique or the "how to" of execution.
The second type of practice is specificity
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