http://www.podiumsportsjournal.com/2010/05/22/the-inner-game-a-different-approach-to-skill-development/ For the Best in Mental Training for Athletes, Coaches, & Sport Performance Specialists Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:07:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.podiumsportsjournal.com/2010/05/22/the-inner-game-a-different-approach-to-skill-development/#comment-2656 Simon Hartley Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:35:15 +0000 http://www.podiumsportsjournal.com/?p=2106#comment-2656 You and I are on the same page!! You and I are on the same page!!

]]> http://www.podiumsportsjournal.com/2010/05/22/the-inner-game-a-different-approach-to-skill-development/#comment-248 Dan Peterson Sun, 23 May 2010 03:48:33 +0000 http://www.podiumsportsjournal.com/?p=2106#comment-248 Excellent thoughts, Brian! So, so true and proven by research that when we focus on the individual steps of a skill, we lose the sub-conscious automaticity that motor skills require. We were just discussing this at a Little League game today. Our boys will hit anything and everything at a batting cage, but when told to only swing at strikes in a game and with the added pressure of public embarrassment, they begin to doubt their initial reactions. Excellent thoughts, Brian! So, so true and proven by research that when we focus on the individual steps of a skill, we lose the sub-conscious automaticity that motor skills require. We were just discussing this at a Little League game today. Our boys will hit anything and everything at a batting cage, but when told to only swing at strikes in a game and with the added pressure of public embarrassment, they begin to doubt their initial reactions.

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