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Creating Breakthroughs with Athletic Performance and Sports Injury Recovery
With gymnastics and cheer seasons up and running I thought it timely to re-publish this article on understanding mental blocks to tumbling and backward skills.
Stress + More Stress = No Tumbling
When an athlete cant do backward skills or tumble it is not because they don’t want to. It is because their brain won’t let them.
Help I Can’t Tumble! Working Through the Mental Blocks to Tumbling
It is gymnastics season. If you are ready to take serious steps to improve and reach your goals this season, lets get to work.
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PBS interviewed me for this story on the USAG/Larry Nassar abuse scandal. They seem to like my insight on this tragic story.
How the fallout from Larry Nassar's sex abuse has grown
Here's a look at the fallout from the sex abuse case, regarded as the worst in sports history, and what’s happening to the institutions where Na...
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7th overtime in the LSU/A & M game. 72-66.
A & M - LSU all tied at 24 in the 4th quarter.
I asked an athlete I have been working with for a few weeks if anything was different now. She said:
More confident
Less nervous
Doesn’t think about bad stuff nearly as much
Is more positive...
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My daughter is a freshman in HS and wants to quit Varsity Cheer next Fall. She says “It creates so much stress, anxiety, and unnecessary worry “. She had a scary experience when throwing her tuck at practice one day, and now has a mental block . In addition to her cheer stresses she has all the other pressure of being a teen.
I’d like to find out how I can help her work this through.
Hi, Thanks for writing. We get inquiries about mental blocks in cheer all the time. Bad falls and injures are the first place we look. If you are local you can get her in to see me or my associate. Contact me through email. That is the best way to reach me. Also, read the responses I have made below as I answer similar inquiries.