Maintain the Level of Your Confidence What effects do game-ending mistakes have on your confidence? For most young athletes, losing is difficult, but making a costly mistake late in a game can hurt their confidence, especially if it leads to a loss. For example, a QB may become frustrated after throw a pick 6, which … Read More
Stay Focused on Performing Your Best Misses, wobbles, falls, errors and slips: What do these have in common? The common thread is that these missteps, mishaps and mistakes are a part of all sports. No matter how hard you try to avoid them, mistakes will happen during competitions. Even the best athletes in the world are … Read More
Coping with Mistakes Do you (or your athletes) get caught up in mistakes, leading to more mental errors on the football field? Most athletes swill dwell on mistakes because of their high expectations about performance. The think making a mistake is unacceptable and they tend to get stuck on the mistake and can’t move on. … Read More