Watch the video regarding the presentation of the psychologist of the English national football team. It’s important this public presentation because it serves to explain how the psychologist is on staff and work on specific objectives and not generic. No coincidence that this communication style comes from the Anglo-Saxon country, which are known to be pragmatic in their choices and where nobody would say do not need it because “we are not crazy” and just say that it’s no useful. We need to learn in this, by the British to support our beliefs without hiding behind our Italic presumption.
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The England manager Roy Hodgson has confirmed he will use a sports psychologist in the lead-up to the World Cup – naming Dr Steve Peters as the man who will help prepare his players for the challenges in Brazil.
Peters, who has worked closely with Liverpool and has a long-standing relationship with the England captain Steven Gerrard, will be involved with Hodgson’s squad and the manager is pleased to have him on board.
“It is not just any psychologist,” he said. “It is Dr Steve Peters, who is a very famous man in that area. He has a great CV of working in different sports and has been doing some work with Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers so Steve knows him well.
“It is something we have spoken about for some time but we wanted to get the right man – luckily Brendan let me talk to Steve and he has accepted our invitations so we are happy with that.”
Peters has also worked successfully with the Great Britain cycling team and the five-times world snooker champion Ronnie O’Sullivan.
(From Guardian)
Matteo Manassero, 20 years old golf champion, has clear ideas about some of the mental aspects in which instead most of the young, too talented, shows the wrong attitude. Perhaps it is a champion thanks to this way of living golf.
The points are these:
Errors: “Can I afford to waste a week … I have to remind to myself more often: if I play bad for a month, it’s not the last of my life. Life I still all in front of me.”
Fun: “I vary the shots, completing a lap without making mistakes. It’s nice when I shot and the ball goes straight, when I walk and conclude the putt.”
Attitude of the golfer: “Looking at the expressions, attitudes before under pressure shots: the top player is unflappable, always. Besides observing the elegance and the pace of technical movements, the perfect balance of the swing.”
(Interview published today in the Italian newspaper laRepubblica)
Talent alone is not enough, to become expert are also needed 10,000 hours of practice, not only in sports but in any other field of application. This idea is increasingly spreading from the BBC and newspapers. In reality, the issue is more complex than as disclosed. Meanwhile, it is necessary that these hours are distributed in a long period of time. Talking about young people (as in the case of sports and musicians) are also needed at least 10 years. Since the beginning the young will spend a reduced time of about 300 hours a year, that for young of 15/16 years become 600/700 hours, 900 at 18/19 years and 1,200 in subsequent years, and so until the end of the career. The distribution in the long term of time spent on an activity is essential, otherwise the training or any other form of learning activity would be merely neurotic and alienating. In addition to becoming experts are needed excellent teachers and not just the application. No one learns alone and excellence is achieved with only high-level teachers, in terms of ability to guide young people and keep their motivation high. Family i another key component in the career, providing not only financial but also emotional support. We know well that there are parents particularly harmfuls and oppressives, the fact remains that a stable social environment is a factor that athletes become adults, recognize that it was important for them. Finally it must be said that 10 years may not be enough, for example be member of U.S. Olympic team needs 12/13 years since they started to practice their sport. In other words, we adults must never forget that the commitment of a young person is a long-term process. Therefore, to think about having a champion at home when a boy/girl is at the beginning of adolescence is only used to determine unnecessary illusions that almost certainly will collapse by reality, resulting in a negative impact on the confidence of the young in his/her skills.
Joby Ogwyn isn’t summiting Mount Everest for the view from the top—he’d rather take it in on his way down. The 39-year-old plans to jump off the world’s highest peak and soar to the ground in a nylon wing-suit come May. “This is something I dreamed about as a little kid,” he says. ”Everything I’ve done for the last 20 years has been practice for this and now the technology has made flight possible.” He added: “Everest is the ultimate, it’s the pinnacle, the biggest stage in the world. I can’t think of anywhere better to make the ultimate mega-jump of all time. I’ve done most of the things I wanted to do and this is the blasting cap at the end.” Within the rarified worlds of both mountain climbing and extreme skydiving Ogwyn, 39, is already a legend. If anyone can jump safely off a mountain he can. In 2008 he climbed Everest in just nine and a half hours when it usually takes a least three days. He has practiced by flying his wingsuit around the Matterhorn, and jumped off the Eiger three times in one day. Fine tuning of the suit is happening at Perris airfield in California before he sets out for the Himalayas.
