Spencer Wood, President of Icebox Athletics, gave a brilliant presentation about mental toughness to our team and staff in October. He provides a tremendous amount of wisdom and discernment for coaches and players. Here are some of his thoughts on:
Mistake Management
- You can tell a lot about a players emotional arousal level by how they react to mistakes.
- Train your athletes on how to react to mistakes.
- Great athletes aren’t great because they are perfect. They are great because they have the perfect reaction to their mistakes.
- Screaming after a miss is the ego saying I usually make that. However it reveals a level of frustration to our opponents.
- The external reaction of screaming is nothing compared to what is going on under the surface.
Take out the trash:
- With every single mistake made on the court, take out the trash.
- Remove the mistake from the mind of the athlete.
- There has to be a cognitive process to remove the mistake from the mind. Otherwise it remains with players, erodes confidence and kills clutch consistency.
Two step process:
- Take out the trash (erase the mistake from the mind like burning a photograph.)
- Visualize the correct image.
When you see an image in our mind, whether it is real or imagined, you have a great chance of reciprocating that image.
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