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Reviewing Brian Handwerks' Article: Success and Risk in Extreme Sports

October 31, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments certain-kind-of-person, coach, coaching, coming-back-for-more, competition, counseling, dangerous, dangerous-pursuits, drive, exercise-psychology, extreme-sports, fear, health-psychology, mental-conditioning, mental-game, mental-makeup, mental-skills, mental-technique, mental-tools, mental-toughness, mental-training, mind, peak-performance, performance, risk, risk-of, risks, serious-injury, sport-performance, sport-psychologist, sport-psychology, sport-psychology-articles, sport-psychology-techniques, sport-psychology-training, sports-performance, sports-psychologist, sports-psychology, sports-psychology-articles, sports-psychology-techniques, sports-psychology-training, sports-skills, thrill

Yesterday four men were gored during the running of bulls in Pamplona, Spain. But if you think the risk of

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Fear and Anxiety

September 22, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments anxiety, coach, coaching, competition, counseling, exercise-psychology, fear, health-psychology, mental-conditioning, mental-game, mental-skills, mental-technique, mental-tools, mental-toughness, mental-training, mind, peak-performance, performance, sport-performance, sport-psychologist, sport-psychology, sport-psychology-articles, sport-psychology-techniques, sport-psychology-training, sports-performance, sports-psychologist, sports-psychology, sports-psychology-articles, sports-psychology-techniques, sports-psychology-training, sports-skills

Fear; we’ve all felt it. When face-to-face with a mountain lion, or riding in the peloton, fear elicits the “fight