Paul McGinley, golfer: “at no time did I ever consider the mechanics of the shot…I was absorbed in the line of the shot. I could see it from start to finish. My only job at that moment was to get the ball on the line I chose. That was the only thing I could control.”
Chen Bin, Ding Ning coach: “Table tennis is not just hitting the ball on the table, you have to return the ball, you have to have the feeling of how the ball is coming toward you, and visualize how your ball will end up on your opponent’s table when you hit it again.
According to Brad Gilbert, tennis coach, in-match thought can be: controlling your breathing, having happy feet and good footwork, reading the name on the ball and singing.
In the video seen by Barcelona players before the Champions League final played in Rome, Pep Guardiola speaks to the players saying that on the field they must be what they do: they are the ball they kick, the field on which they move.
The same happens in shooting, the shooters said: let the clay pigeon goes out, watch it and shoot. These three phases take place in less than one second. The athletes to perform this performance must be totally involved in this game of watching and shooting, otherwise they risk shooting too fast or too slow, thus losing the opportunity to break the clay pigeon.
This approach to performance illustrates the need to be totally involved in what you are doing.These coaches use different words in different sports, but they all express the same concept: be what you do.
In other words, the athletes must be totally involved in their actions. To achieve this goal, they must become the action itself. They do not perform a task but they are the task they perform.
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