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Overcoming a Tough Competitor: Self Handicapping

February 11, 2008
By Stephen Walker, Ph.D.
Overcoming a Tough Competitor: Self Handicapping

By Larry Lauer, PhD, CC-AASP Michigan Youth Sports Institute Named one of the NSAPE Top 100 coaching educators of 2007 For a number of years I have worked with athletes as a coach and mental performance consultant. Self-confidence is usually the reason why athletes first contact me. They have hit the bottom so to...
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Pedestal Syndrome and Rugby

June 23, 2007
By Stephen Walker, Ph.D.
Pedestal Syndrome and Rugby

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...
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