An excerpt from Golf Tough by Dan Abrahams. * My world is the psychology of golf. It’s thinking, it’s feeling, it’s focus. It’s laying down the right performance processes to help you manage your golfing attitude on and off the course. It’s forming the mini behaviours that elicit success under…
Category: Sport Psychology
Mindfulness in Sport – Exercises
The things we talk about in this book are all aimed at helping us to perform better. Mindfulness is one of the tools we can use to do this. We have alluded elsewhere that there are different forms of mindfulness, and different therapies and schools of thought that tend to…
Football Psychology
An excerpt from Coaching Psychological Skills in Youth Football: Developing The 5Cs The psychological influence of the coach Reflecting back on the training sessions from the Under-10 and Under-11 age groups, coaches may be able to contrast the psychological and social qualities that are apparent in one group compared to…
Golf Psychology | Your First Controller
From Golf Tough by Dan Abrahams You are in charge. You are the director. You get to dictate. You are in control. When I say this I’m not talking about the golf swing. I don’t think anyone can ever have complete control of their swing. I don’t think anyone ever…
Sport Psychology Books
Bennion Kearny publishes sport psychology books for athletes, coaches, sport psychologists and officials, from complete beginners to experienced practitioners. They are written by leading sport psychologists, including Dan Abrahams, Dr Martin Turner, Dr Jamie Barker, Dr Matt Slater and Dr Paul McCarthy, and between them they cover football, golf, cricket,…
Gareth Southgate – A New England Culture for the Three Lions
Taken from Principle 4 - A Leader's Landscape | The Future Coach by Tom Bates It’s a wet, grey spring day and the rain has just begun to fall. But as I walk into the National Football Centre, I can’t help but feel inspired by the surroundings. The rain glistens…
The Future Coach (Continued) Specific Actions for Managing Players
From the top soccer Book: * Telecommunications progressed from telegraph to telephone, from copper wires to fiber-optics, from analog to digital, from wireless to satellite. I believe the industry will change more in the next five to 10 years than it has in the last 50. Mary Barra, Chairman and…
The Future Coach (Continued) Leadership and Management in Soccer
From the top soccer Book: * The fourth and final teaching style that was identified, unequivocally, as the most effective was labelled authoritative. Layard and Dunn found that the central components of an effective learning environment was one where the teacher had complete control with a clear demonstration of warmth.…
The Future Coach Principle 1: The Relationship Coach
Read Chapter 1 - The Relationship Coach - from The Future Coach, by Tom Bates here... * I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou * Seeing the world through the…
Soccer Psychology – Developing Mindset for Improved Performance
Soccer Psychology is a means of developing a player's mindset to improve performance. We all agree that it matters not how naturally talented a player is, if they cannot focus, motivate themselves, deal with failure, deal with success(!), and show composure. I’m not blind to the obvious fact that physicality,…