What to Say on the Car Ride Home After the Game This week, we are following up on a video we shared last week about “The Car Ride Home“. We provide tips on how parents can help kids feel confident after the game… Sports parents often unwittingly make the mistake … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Handle Pressure In youth sports, it’s important for your young athletes to trust their intuition and focus on play. In an interview with Mohammed Almarzouq, 27, from Saudi Arabia, a multi-year American Ninja Warrior competitor and coach at Skyhook Ninja Fitness, we discussed how having a playful attitude … Read Sport Psychology Tip
The Car Ride Home A viral video, “The Ride Home,” by True Sport Pur, generated many interesting comments from college and professional athletes. The video shows–on the car ride home–a dad scolding his child for not working hard enough, and the young boy doesn’t respond, but looks very sad. The … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to be a Successful Sports Parent A parent asks us how parents of successful athletes have been involved in their athletes’ sports experience. The most well-known example is Tiger Woods’ father. Earl Woods started teaching Tiger how to play golf before the age of two years old and coached … Read Sport Psychology Tip
“How to Win Wimbledon in Pajamas” Mary Nhin’s son, Kobe, began competing in tennis a couple of years ago and was winning most of his games… until he hit a cold streak. “He began going into super tiebreakers, a very short determining point system, and he would get very nervous, … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Breaking the Perfectionist Pattern Richard Burke, who has been coaching baseball, football and basketball for the last 12 years, recently told us how he used our Ultimate Sports Parent program to help a perfectionist pitcher. “I had a 10-year-old pitcher playing on an 11-year-old travel team. He was doing really … Read Sport Psychology Tip