18 August 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Improve the Coach-Athlete Relationship? Update on The Mental Edge from David I hope that you’re well and that you have had a good week. As a valued subscriber and reader of The Mental Edge, I’d like to let you know about small change to …
21 July 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Improve The Skills of Team Captains What you can learn from great captains? What makes a great captain? Who has been a great captain in their sports? We’ll all have different opinions, I’m sure. Three captains that stand out to me over the years …
14 July 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge Do you leave leadership skills to chance? Do you leave leadership skills to chance? In a previous life before supporting athletes, parents, coaches and teams I worked in the travel industry, for the most part in corporate or business travel. In 2003, after being with a …
Sports Coach Psychology Tips: 3 Cognitive Sports Training Drills To Help Your Athletes Is cognitive overload an issue for your athletes? If you perform at a high level in your sport, you’ll be well aware of the time and effort it has taken you to learn your craft. If you’re a coach you’ll also be …
Sports Coach Psychology Tips: How to Stay Calm as a Coach in Big Matches Is coaching big games similar to riding a rollercoaster? If you watch the World Cup as it gets to the latter stages you’ll likely hear the coaches and managers talk a lot about dealing with pressure, about having confidence and belief …
Courtesy of https://historyofsoccer.info Soccer Psychology Tips: Why You Should Recognise The Power of Your Words Do you ever consider how powerful your use of words are? The 2022 Soccer or Football World Cup in Qatar is beginning very soon, I’m looking forward to it and I’m also very interested in seeing which players thrive under …
Sports Coach Psychology Tips: Helping Confident Coaches Progress Being open to never stopping learning is a skill a lot of confident sport coaches can benefit from developing In this video I share with you suggestions to keep on evolving and getting better as a sport coach with a coach development resource designed to help move …
Coaching Psychology Tips: How Coaches Can Help Athletes Deal with Mistakes Mistakes are part and parcel of sport but… Mistimed tackles, poor passes, missed shots, dropped catches, wayward drives and unforced errors can be hugely frustrating for both coaches and athletes. Sport and the nature of competition means that emotions often run high, throw in …
What Did You Learn From Last Year? I want to make next year my best yet Sometimes no matter how much time and effort you put in. How hard you train or practice. Or how much you prepare for matches or events; it just doesn’t come together on the day. You struggle to get into …
Football Psychology Tips: 5 Coaching Tips to Develop Mentally Tough Footballers Is your communication helping or hindering your team? In lots of clubs and teams, from the management team, the coaching staff down to the players, you often find many people getting caught up in behaviours associated with Mental Sensitivity. When this happens, individually players …