Sports Psychology Coach Doron

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Sports Psychology Coach Doron
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Agenda

• Who I am
• Introduction to Sports Psychology
• Role of a Sports Psychology Coach
• Give you tips on specific mental skills such as
  confidence, dealing with pressure and routines
• Homefun ?

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My Name

• Coach Doron
• Coach D
• Sports Psychology Coach

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Education

• University degrees in
• Psychology
• Graduate Diploma in Sports administration
• Masters in Sports Psychology
• Studied extensively the characteristics of peak
  performance or flow

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Experience

• Two businesses Flow in Sports
  (www.flowinsports.com) TSPA (Tennis and Sports
  Psychology Academy) www.tspa.ca
• Both are related to sports psychology
• Work with professional athletes of all kinds of
  different sports
• Concordia University Stingers Football teams,
  recreational hockey referees sports psychology
  coach

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Introduction

• We often hear that the game is 90 mental or more
• Often more so the higher up the performance (from
  recreation ? city ? provincials ? national ?
  international or professional
• Unfortunately, at the lower level, athletes
  either do not know how to improve their mental
  skills or spend little or no time working on the
  mental part of their game

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Introduction

• Unfortunately, it is often viewed as something
  necessary for the weak-minded competitor who has
  issues. The reality is that the mental game of
  sports affects every athlete, no matter what
  their strengths or weaknesses may be.
• Physical vs psychological
• Physical (how fast, tall, muscle etc.).
• Psychological (confidence, attitude, mental
  imagery, self-talk, routines, goal setting etc.).
  

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Definitions

• Psychology The study of human and animal
  behavior. Also considered the study of the mind.
• Sports psychology It is the principles of
  psychology used in a sport setting.
• Through sport psychology, an athlete can gain the
  mental edge, mental toughness or improve
  their mental skills.
• Confidence a belief in yourself self-talk
  internal dialogue with yourself motivation an
  action towards a goal etc.

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Sports Psychology at LLHS

• Last year pilot project in developing a course in
  sports psychology
• Went well and expanded
• Now part of all sports concentration
• Sports psychology coach follows all sports
  concentrations on and off the field

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Goal of Sports Psychology Coaches

• Teach athletes techniques that are commonly used
  in sport psychology such as mental imagery,
  relaxation, goal setting, building confidence,
  learning to focus, create a positive self-talk
  and regulating energy levels and becoming more
  optimistic.
• Through learning and practicing these techniques,
  an athlete or person has the ability to reach
  their potential, achieve peak performance or what
  is called flow.

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My Role within the team as a Sports Psychology
Coach

• Help the team perform better via the way you
  think
• Give periodic workshops such as this one to the
  team
• Specific workshops within units of the team
• Help you one-on one in improving your mental
  skills
• Help you become more positive
• My job is to help you create, recreate and
  maintain peak performance
• Get you working on your mental skills. Therefore,
  expect you to write down whatever is asked of you
  and or do any other work

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One-on-One Consulting

• Open Door policy
• Meet me whenever is convenient for you
• Office for now is room C317 (digital classroom)
• Flag me down before, during or after practice, a
  game, in the hallways and tell me that you want
  to meet with me. Call the school or send me an
  email ldoron_at_flowinsports.com
• You dont even have to have a reason i.e. I just
  want to improve but I dont know how.
• Fee can charge up to 100 per hour but
• Free of charge to LLHS Panthers ?

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Confidence Performance

• Relationship between confidence and performance?

Dependant variable?
Optimal performance
Independant variable?
What will the graph look like?
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Performance
What happens as confidence increases?
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Overconfident!
0
50
100
What is this called?
Confidence
Yesterdays incident humbled you
Get it?
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Messing Up - Procedures

• 1st step Recognize it
• 2nd step learn from it
• 3rd step forget about it
• Use the word next time next time we should do
  this next time we should do that. Talk it over
  on the bench do not assign blame on the field!

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Focus
The ability to be in the present (not in the
past, not in the future but thinking right here,
right now.
Focus on things that are in your control
Examples Dealing with pressure, referees,
opponent, reacting to foul play, laying blame,
fans

• In
• Pressure
• Reacting to foul play
• Laying blame

• Out
• Referees
• Opponent
• Fans

Every second that you think of things that are
out of your control, you are wasting valuable
mental strength!
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Routines

• Extremely powerful mechanism related to peak
  performance
• Must high five (or low five) when leaving /
  entering game with substitution.
• Getting up when opponent scores a TD.

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Homefun

• Get sports psychology binder bring every time
  you see me.
• Pen
• Positive attitude ?
• Handout that I gave you asks you to list your
  personal and team goals.
• What does it mean to be a Panther?
• Career highlights, highlights this year and your
  lowlight.
• Mentally, your and the teams strong point(s)
  weak point(s) and suggestions
• Complete this for the next time I see you

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Positive Video

• Click here