Archive for January, 2008

Soccer and Extroversion

January 11th, 2008

The paragraph below comes from an article appearing on The Seattle Times site. Here’s the link to the article.
Heading the ball is a staple move in soccer, but it comes with a price: possible concussions. As coaches, trainers and doctors debate how to deal with the risk, researchers are drawing closer to understanding who is […]

Self Confidence, Motivation, Focus & Pressure - Athletes vs Entrepreneurs

January 10th, 2008

The following paragraphs come from an article on Coach Dave Rogers.
According to the Journal of Applied Sports Psychology, 2002, mental toughness is having the natural or developed psychological edge that enables you to:
Cope - generally cope better than your opponents with the many demands such as training, lifestyle and head to head competition that are […]

Golf Psychology

January 8th, 2008

Here are some of the opening paragraphs in an interesting article by Grant Dodd that appears on iseekgolf.com
John Crampton must have felt like Osama bin Laden in front of the United States congress. Addressing a group of reluctant, somewhat hostile, NSW State Amateur squad members on the semi-mystical, unexplored subject of sports psychology (a notion […]