It was not easy to repeat and confirm the result after winning exploits against France, it would be the demonstration that the change in attitude was something relatively stable. Till the end of the match against Scotland the rugby Italian team has always fought and this is certainly a step forward compared to the past. In my opinion there has been no the collective belief, it means to know that your teammates are willing to do the impossible to help you play at your best. Without this belief the team cannot win any game and leave the field domain to the opponents. Italy has committed many mistakes that show the lack of this mentality: the error by Orquera at the beginning of the match, some players arguing with opponents, balls lose for superficiality, no fighting spirit and too shy. In essence, good the players’ pride but to play it is necessary to attack, knowing that you can lose the ball and that is why the ball must be kept tight and every player should know that next to him has a partner ready to help him.
Monthly Archive for February, 2013
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Danilo Gallinari did the “shot of the century”
After the victory of Italy over France rugby, the Italian players have said that Brunel has taught them the meaning of sport, to enter in the field with the desire to win and to achieve this we must dare. Means having the courage to dare to do something that is risky. I want to note that this approach is the basis not only of winning mentality but also motivation. For the reason that human beings are motivated by three needs: competence, socialization and excitement.
The latter, the excitement, is supported by the ability to perform activities perceived as exciting, to know how to take risks (calculated) is the way this need is accomplished. It’s a need that is already present in childhood and the box below shows the main reasons.
Knowing how to take risks
It’s related to be able to move thinking during the activities. For example, in football more and more coaches say that the young players rarely shoot at goal or do a dribbling. Pull the ball into the goal is a situation where it is possible to have wrong execution and to be accused for the other guys to want to play alone. The young player take this risk if he knows that the coach appreciates this kind of behavior, if rewards the daring and not only the correct actions or those that have been previously prepared with the team. From the cognitive point of view, to be able to think and take a risk during the game are two aspects which improve the development of motor intelligence, which is highly developed among athletes.
As we can see, we should not get in national team to dare, just create training situations in which young people should take initiatives to meet the needs of the exercise.
Inter have lostthe last match because it played a bad game against Siena (3-1). The coach, Stramaccioni, was not able or did not want to explain why the team did not show a successful play system but also players did not show to ”have not got hungry of victory “as he himself said. The issue is that Inter in the last 13 games has won 4, drawn 4 and lost 5, so it’s a lot period which does not play effectively. Take the responsibility upon himself is a nice gesture but since three months this situation is negative, and is a long time for a team. Explanations are too general and those who provided convey the image of a coach in difficulty and without ideas. I hope that in his head instead he has clear and specific solutions, Stramaccioni is playing a critical phase of his career, because in these moments or leave the action with winning matches or else he may be caught up in the image of the young good coach but with little leadership on the team. I hope that next to him he has expert people to share this experience and that they can help you to make the best decisions for the future of the team and consequently for him
Jacques Brunel, the new coach of the national rugby team, is teaching Italian players to be audacious and have fun in a sport so tough and physically combative as rugby. Brunel has entered exactly in the deep mind of his boys if an experienced player like Andrea Lo Cicero says, “One who believes in us. He does not want to destroy but to build. Fun. A man that is teaching us what is really the sport.” It would be interesting to know why the previous coaches were not able to get into their mind so deeply, and how the field experiences against strong teams have allowed players to reach a level of awareness that they did not have before and made them ready to follow the approach of this coach. Perhaps the solution lies in the interaction between the coach and the team’s attitude. It is still interesting to note that the Italian rugby got the best results with French coaches, current and George Coste, compared to those overseas, perhaps even in the same European mentality is the secret to talk to the players
Well done. In Britain a few weeks ago was a proposal to promote cycling as a means of public transport. And it is a few days the announcement that the government will fund short this plan. Below is the summary of the article published on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/30/cycle-parking-places-rail-stations
“The government is to unveil what it is billing as the biggest ever one-off investment boost for cyclig infrastructure, totalling £62m, almost half of which will be set aside so cities can bid for money to improve their streets for cyclists. Another element will be a £9m investment to provide almost 20,000 more cycle parking places at rail stations, as part of efforts to persuade people to swap their cars for a more joined-up network of sustainable travel. The entire package will be announced in the Commons by Norman Baker, the junior transport minister with responsibility for cycling. ”This is the biggest ever daily investment in cycling,” Baker told the Times. Baker said he expected cities to send in their bids by summer: “We are keen to get a move on. The intention is to spend it as soon as possible.”
TheDfT announcement comes amid mounting pressure on the government to build on the momentum brought by Bradley Wiggins’s Tour de France win and more cycling success at London 2012 to boost the tiny numbers of Britons who use bikes as their main transport. Just over 2% of people do this, placing the country lower than all but a handful of EU nations such as Bulgaria, Malta and Cyprus.
Baker is among people due to give evidence to an inquiry into boosting cycling set up by the all-party cycling group of MPs and peers. The inquiry is likely to call for more wholesale and ambitious investment in cycling. While the new money is welcome critics point out is amounts to the cost of about two miles of new motorway.
The train station scheme, which will increase the number of designated bike parking spots nationally from 50,000 to 70,000, will cost £9m, of which £7.5m comes from the Department for Transport (DfT) and the rest from rail companies.
«The intention is to join up different modes of transport, so people have a sustainable choice from when they leave their door to wherever they finish up. Part of that is to make sure people can cycle to the station and leave their bike there,» Baker told the Guardian.
«What I’ve observed, all around the country, is the moment you put in new bike spaces they get filled up immediately. There’s clearly the demand.» An expansion to secure bike parking at stations has long been demanded by campaigners as a way to help people travelling longer distances use a bike rather than a car as part of their journey…
Baker said there was considerable top-level support for cycling in government.
He said: «There have been expressions of interest in cycling from both the prime minister and deputy prime minister. There is a recognition of a value of cycling at the very top. I wouldn’t tell you that if it wasn’t true. Certainly, when I’ve put forward schemes for funding they have been funded. People across government recognise the value of cycling.»
However, Baker said he did not agree with witnesses to the all-party inquiry who have called for a concerted, centralised effort to build safe, segregated cycle infrastructure, rather than the current system in which DfT money is passed to councils to spend…
And while he said the government was ambitious about cycling, Baker said campaigners calling for Dutch-style levels – where around a third of journeys are made by bike – were unrealistic. “If we reached Dutch levels I’d be ecstatic, but I can’t see us getting there,” he said.
«I went to Leiden railway station and there were, I think, 13,000 bikes there that morning, which is just a different world from all other European countries. The Dutch have been fantastically successful. It is by and large flatter in Holland than it is in the UK, which is certainly an advantage, and it’s more compact, so there are differences.»
“Exposed to dreams” is the film in which the climber Simone Moro (http://www.simonemoro.com) talks about his experience in the Himalaya as a rescue helicopter pilot in the high altitude and the Everest expedition in the spring 2012, with great amazement to the overcrowding of commercial expeditions on the same track. “Who is like climbing as adventure seeking places to live their dreams. Because, as Walter Bonatti said, the adventure goes before dreamed of. And it is this dream that still survives the Ulysses man: an interior research . But expressed in action in the wild. Where are the natural difficulties – cold, danger, loneliness and so on – to determine success or failure. ”
The film is by Alessandro Filippini and Marianna Zanatta ITALY – 24 ‘- 2012. Production: 25 fps – Endrio Gobbo. Italian. Also starring Mario Curnis the mountaineer.
Watch the trailer on: http://play.montagna.tv/media/
Start to be more positive towards ourselves and more convinced to provide a good performance is based on the effective start showing some simple behaviors but can pass a performance from negative to positive.
These simple actions are:
- After a mistake take a deep breath and immediately imagine what must be done at that time.
- When you are too worried about the competition that you have to start, you have to imagine a positive past performance and let you feel the feelings you have while doing this exercise.
- During the warm-up you need to find the right feeling with the ball, the racket or the sail, you must feel that this tool is our own.
- During the warm-up must also be aware that the body is preparing for the competition and get pleasure from the sensations that tell that you are preparing well.
- You have to mentally imagine, for example if your sport is running, to feel the legs moving as you expect it to be or in case you feel too rigid insist in the warm-up to dissolve the useless muscle tensions . In relation to other sports it needs to identify what are the best exercises that tell you are ready, and devote yourself to feel the feelings for you right before the sport event.
These are just some examples of what it can do for an athlete to learn to drive himself to get in the best state of mind before and during the race.
