Having imprecise shots 🎯 in your practice (whatever they may be)? Great!! How so “great”, are you kidding??! No, these fails and imprecisions are good for development. They can be your little coaches voicing to you what you need to adjust the next time.

--> And while you keep in touch with us, please think about it: Besides the tweaks you can make in your trainings to have them become more “Deliberate Practices” How can you find ways to Practice more efficiently? In other words, how can you fire more often. And what will you learn from each shot?

PS. We leave a catchy little quote inside (from Ice Hockey player Wayne Gretzky - expect an IQ soon on another one from him) for you to keep it on the back of your mind when you’re feeling you are about to retract your attempts or your moves 😉 Just click play.

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It’s common sense that Obstacles 🕸️ block, or impair, one’s level of performance. But what if some obstacles can propel better learning + great developments in your performance?  

This can certainly be true, and there’s Science to back it up, as well as real case reports in favor of that.

This is based on the CLA (Constraints Led Approach) and we learned about it from THIS GUY & from *THIS PODCAST* (reference of this PotW!)

See, the main logic: by inserting some tweaks on a certain task a player has to perform (i.e. a drill in his sport modality practice), or on any exercise a student on a Physical Education Class, the player/student will start to be more stimulated, more encourage to find new solutions, which in turn, will make him/her develop new resources and skills!

But please, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Go on listen to this Pod and visit ‘ The Perception Action Podcast ’ to dive deeper on this topic (*good for Coaches*).

What about this to E-W-S, huh?

Please share with us: what are some obstacles/constraints that you once thought to be harmful for your practice or development, and that you now know it made a positive impact?

--- Scientific Articles with Overview about CLA  (.2.)---

The 5 Part Series On Constraints-Led from Rob Gray

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Giving your best 🚅 is super appreciated by Teammates, Coaches, and Society in general. But does this really mean? And what does one's best involve? Is it static? Is it malleable?

On this co-produced IQ episode, we dive in the intricacies of what it means to give our best in the activities we partake. In sports or otherwise. We pay attention to some issues connected with this big topic (that can touch on so many important elements to take in consideration!).

I know there's much more to talk about what was mentioned here, and for that we recommend you to keep listening to EWS content, to visit our website ewsport.eu for exclusive content; and more importantly, to engage with us! Let us know if you think we left something out. If not finding anything, share us your thoughts or experiences (easy and anonymous HERE)

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Quote: "Always do your best. Your 'best' is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

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 EWS Expert talk, w/ Dr. Tim Pineau ☯️ - Researcher and Clinical Psychotherapist; co-creator of the Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement program (MSPE); Author, and Sports Consultant.

 We went over things like how Mindfulness principles can be applied to student-athletes lives; talked about ways on how to be at ease, and even grow professionally and personally, from difficult emotions; talked about appropriate times to be in auto-pilot mode, and, on the flip side, some hindrances that it can bring; the type of self-criticism that functions as an impairing element to performance; and touched on another topics and curious facts.  

 All in all, this is a colleague of mine that I love by his stance of having integrative views and treating the athlete or coach as a person in his/her whole with needs and wishes that go beyond the sports realm, and that is clearly manifested in his work, also continuously integrating Mindfulness in all the team elements that he gets in touch with.

 Tim also has a Podcast in collaboration with lead Researcher on the field, Keith Kauffman, called Mindful Sport Performance Podcast. You can see more about their WORK and PROGRAM by clicking the words.

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Quotes:

“Athletes who get caught in that trap are just more likely to make that mistake; what they are doing is that they are priming themselves (by punishment) to go down an anxiety hole.”

 “You can be the strongest, the fastest, the one with most endurance (...) but if your mind is not capable of letting your body do that, you’re never gonna perform to your full potential (on being mentally sound).”

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• Resume and Guest Intro > (02:00) ;

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 Assuming something upfront from Behavior X is rash. ⁉️ Inquiring and Exploring is wise.  Want to know more about your internal processes? As a coach / parent, want to get closer to your athlete / child and ‘efficiently work’ to help him? The best road I know to get there is the one with QUESTIONS.

 It might seem trivial, but this episode is essential to E-W-S! Questions may very well be the main ingredients for a healthy relationship, for spurring athletic development, for respect and empathy.

 So, do you have something to ask yourself? Someone in the team? Us, at EWS? Be at ease, and express yourself.

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 Which moments in Sports get you the chills? ⬜ I get emotional with moments of Fair Play. And it’s about this essential Principle filled with great values that we get on a ramble for this PotW. 

 No particular reference to a post, just sharing 4 touching episodes representative of Fair Play. 

 With these, and by sharing some thoughts about it, EWS hopes to raise awareness for what matters most across Sports, and what should be embodied and taken to other areas of life.

 Because what would be of one’s genuine love to play and to win, without having fair competition and Fair Play measures. Without Fair Play where would be the dignity in the play of the game?

 This was indeed a special episode to produce and to share with you. So...

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 What gets in front of you as an obstacle to your best/fluid performance? 🎏 Whatever it is, it almost certainly spurs from thoughts (about the past or the future) or unproductive states of mind. How can you around it? Is it really AROUND the thoughts?

 We are not providing a stellar technique that will be the solution to all those problems that might get an athlete in suboptimal levels. Still, we dive in on a ramble recalling the goodies of bringing oneself back to the present moment.

 For that, on this IQ, Gonçalo decided to bring some wisdom retrieved from a speech given by acclaimed Actor Jim Carrey. Also, Gonçalo uses this episode to call into attention the importance of considering Psychotherapy as an option, and its benefits.

 Then, which path will you choose at each moment? How can you go about it in order to + Efficiently Work your Sports Practice?

 QUOTE:

“If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.”

--- Jim's Speech Highlights ---

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• Introduction > (00:40)

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 Introducing the OPTIMAL Model (for E-W-S?) 🙌 with leading Researchers Gabriele Wulf & Rebecca Lewthwaite. 👩‍🔬 Tune in to get to know the 3 elements that constitute this solid scientific model which can assist athletes or any other person in their performance and learning processes.

 On this extended conversation we dive into some motivational variables for you to get to know what might impair your training moments, and which ones can you tweak so that you get more “in the zone”.

 All the topics covered touch on psychological and physiological aspects that relate to actual focus and movement while performing.

 Overall, we talk about scientific creative experiences that showed specific conditions for better performance results; we talk about the important role of one’s expectancies prior to a sporting competition event; The degrees of autonomy and control one senses while performing a task; And still during tasks, we talk about where our focus should be, how, and why.

 For me, I would go for one more hour with these guests hearing their stories and scientific experiments, so you can count with that and some other cool facts, as these women combine +200 scientific papers published!

 NOTE: I’m sorry by the audio quality on my part - the original microphone recording wasn’t saved, unfortunately. I made my best to edit and improve it in post-production; and I’ll make sure it won’t happen again.

Quotes:

“When people are early on the learning of a skill, like ‘what am I supposed to do here? - I need to do a form like this and my elbow be like that..’ - that’s a ‘Description issue’. Once you’ve figure out the sequence of events that should happen, and you shut that other part off, you might be closer to a better external focus to achieve.”

“We don’t think there is a place where Internal Focus is beneficial (in performance or learning moments). (...) When you get your mind cleared, where is just one thought, not multiple points in space.”

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  Timestamps:

•  Resume and Intro > (01:17)

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 Big improvements can come 📐 from small processes in training.  Deliberately doing certain activity and know what to look for in that is the way to go. But it only sustains if:  1. It’s a smart move ;  2. You stick to it (but keep flexible in reviewing it!) ;  3. Believe you can improve.

 And you, athlete, despite difficulties by the pandemic, what are some 1% s that you can focus on and implement some strategic processes?

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 What can we learn from bad performances? 🤢 In moments where one is frustrated or dismissive of what he/she is producing on the field, the competition continues. So focus and efforts must be redirected appropriately.

 You already know, as an athlete, or as a person in any other work or activity, that you cannot be always at your best. In your A-game, right? How much easier would that be?! If this was possible and easy to attain, EWS and Sport Psychologists wouldn’t exist.

 So, on this PotW, with ideas retrieved from the glorious “Sport Psych Show” Podcast, where the Host Psychologist Dan Abrahams, in an Interview with Dr. Duncan Simpson , we share a collaborative and hopeful approach that coaches can have to their athletes (and athletes to themselves!) in order for them to be well-adjusted and so that their athleticism and Mental Game are promoted.

 What about you? In tough / challenging moments, what do you usually do? Can you point out a negative thought that keeps going inside your head and affects your performance? Moreover, can you tell a behavior you go for in these kinds of moments? Feel free to share with us, or bring up the conversation among your team, as that can be a crucial step to Efficiently-Work-Sports 😉 

-- You can check here that full interview.

-- Duncan's IMG Academy

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