Article Contents
- 1. Teaching and the psychological sport
- 1.1. Giving suggestions
- 1.2. Physique language
- 1.3. Pondering is inevitable
- 1.4. Channeling ardour
- 1.5. Fury into potential
- 2. The athlete perspective
- 2.1. Creating a sport IQ
- 2.2. Pre-shot routine system
- 2.3. The psychological sport at work
- 2.4. Controlling feelings
- 2.5. The zone
- 3. Ultimate ideas
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What’s sport psychology? On this article, I’d like to debate bowling’s psychological sport from a number of totally different views. It’s not nearly easy instruments {that a} bowler should apply. The important thing to understanding sport psychology is being conscious and all the time current.
In different phrases, no matter you say, no matter you do, your physique language and verbal/non-verbal communication is all sport psychology. All of them have an effect on the way you carry out, whether or not you’re a coach or a participant. Sport psychology is about whether or not to let issues have an effect on you or not. It’s about studying to regulate your feelings, studying to regulate your conduct. This begins with understanding each. The purpose is to make use of these to your benefit as an alternative of your drawback. As Coach Ernesto Avila stated in his latest article, you wish to ensure that your biggest enemy shouldn’t be between your ears.
For the aim of this text, I’d like to speak concerning the psychological sport from the standpoint of a coach, as a result of this types the muse of how a participant learns all the pieces concerning the sport. We’ll additionally speak concerning the participant’s perspective, together with the educational course of and the pre-shot routine.
Teaching and the psychological sport
The extra expertise you get as a coach, the extra you begin to concentrate to your individual conduct and communication. Or a minimum of it’s best to. There are a number of key areas to watch out of: giving suggestions, physique language, thought course of, and recognizing ardour.
Giving suggestions
As a coach, the factor to pay essentially the most consideration to is self-confidence. In all teaching conditions, I wish to enhance the bowler’s self-confidence. You do that by offering:
- essentially the most optimistic suggestions; and
- the least destructive suggestions.
Through the years, I needed to study to regulate the destructive suggestions and study to not give it if it could do extra hurt than good. Now, I attempt …
