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How to help your athletes avoid choking under high pressure situations.

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.. so keep your athlete's self-confidence high through fun, implicit learning practices that prepare them for performing under pressure. 👍🏽
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Remember, performers who are self-conscious and have low self-competence are more likely to choke under pressure..
Here is a great example of David Beckham performing well under pressure during England vs Greece 2001 ⚽️ youtu.be/t0GESlaVNdE
3. It helps them to perform the skill with a quiet mind when under pressure. 🤔
2. It helps them to deal with external and internal information that potentially could be distracting.
1. It helps the performer to regulate their emotions and physiological responses to pressure (such as sweating or shaking) 😰
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Encouraging your athletes to optimise their pre-performance routine is a great way to prevent choking. 👍🏽 Here are 3 reasons why..
Is the Haka the greatest pre-performance routine ever invented? youtube.com/watch?v=yiKFYTFJ…
They can then develop their own coping strategies, such as focusing on a secondary task like counting to 100 in 3's in their head.
Encourage your athletes to practice under pressure - this will help them become immune against the negative impact that stress can cause.
Practice makes perfect? Or practice makes permanent?
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Analogy learning ✅ Secondary task ✅ Errorless learning ✅ 3 great ways for you to create fun, unique implicit learning environments!
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Plus, it allows you to provide the athlete with considerably more info but in a much more manageable chunk AND in a shorter period of time.
And as a performer, they can acquire the correct movement without any explicit knowledge of how they are producing the skill.
This allows you as a coach to instruct the athlete implicitly without referring to instructions.
'Reaching your hand into the cookie jar 🍪 whilst holding a cup of tea in your left ☕️'
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For example, if you are trying to teach an athlete how to shoot in Basketball you could introduce the analogy of...
Put the power into the athlete's hands through analogy learning. 🔮
..listing farm animal names 🐷 this distracts the athlete from the first task, allowing them to gain the skill implicitly.
Another great way to enhance implicit learning is through secondary task. During the learning of a task, introduce something else such as..
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