Archive for June, 2007

The Steve Blass Syndrome

June 24th, 2007

Steve Blass was a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates who helped them win the World Series in 1971 and was an All Star in 1972. Then suddenly, he lost his ability to pitch and it never returned. What happened to Blass isn’t an anomaly. Other elite athletes have experienced the same loss of […]

Visualize This!

June 24th, 2007

Specialty sports vision facilities are helping athletes train skills that many believed were “untrainable”; skills like anticipation, field vision, timing, sport intelligence, game tempo, reaction speed, focus and concentration.
- Brian Stammer, Editor of SportsVision Magazine
Here is their June 13 PRLog.org press release:
Montreal, Canada – June 13, 2007: When the inaugural issue of SportsVision Magazine rolled […]

Pedestal Syndrome and Rugby

June 23rd, 2007

Jeffrey Bond, former head of the Sport Psychology Department at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, has coined a term for the reckless behavior by many professional athletes: pedestal syndrome. In an issue of The Sporting Mind, Bond describes pedestal syndrome in detail. His article starts on page 6 of this PDF.
In […]