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Observation is an important ability to learn or improve our sports skills.
Today I want to propose to observe the routines before the beginning of an action of four champions. The routines serve to put us in the best condition to perform the next action. It is a way to empty our minds of what we have done up to that moment and to enter in a mental bubble, as Federica Pellegrini calls it, which allows us to be focused only on what we are going to do.
There’s not much more to say. Observe them, they are different, and then write down what your routine is.
In these days, at home, you can perform mental repetition exercises of your routine, dedicate 10 minutes every day to repeat your routine.
Video:
Cristiano Ronaldo e Jonny Wilkinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlBTed9vZLA
Yelena Isinbayeva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N_Jduavgpw
Phil Mickelson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAY5tvlLIbQ
Maria Sharapova https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4hnxzmARxM
Watch videos of other athletes’ performances to learn how they face races, difficult moments, style of play or anything else that may interest. Watch videos driven by a specific target and not by fans.
In this way you develop the ability to stay focused because guided by the goal to observe, it means:
“Examine, consider carefully, even with the help of appropriate tools, in order to know better, to realize something, to detect the details, or to make judgments and considerations of various kinds … Sometimes refers more to the attention of the mind than to that of the eye … to look carefully at something or people, either simply out of curiosity, or with the critical intention, to notice flaws, to catch others foul.”(Vocabolario della Lingua Italiana, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1989, vol. 3° p. 588).
They left in a heartbeat Renato, Corrado, John, Bob e ora Gianni, it’s terrible.
May the earth be gentle on you.
Social distance is a cause of anxiety not always easy to manage. This is the case of Serena Williams, she said:
“Now I’ve been social distancing for actually a really long time, for probably two weeks now, and every little thing makes me crazy. And by anxiety I mean I’m just on edge. Any time anyone sneezes around me or coughs I get crazy. I don’t hang out with anyone, and when I say anyone I mean my daughter.
“She coughed, I got angry and gave her a side-eye. I gave her that ‘angry Serena’ and then I got sad. I was like: ‘Is she OK? Is there something wrong with my daughter? Is there anything I can do?’ I just don’t know what to do, so instead of being relaxed I’m really under a ton of stress.”
It is an example of how difficult is to maintain a constructive self-talk and producing greater confidence on us and reducing irrational fear. Although she is one of the most successful athletes in the history of sport, it is possible to feel intense anxiety. Also in this case it’s about playing a game, virtual, not so much against an enemy invisible to us outside, the virus, but the internal one that can dominate us psychologically.
Anxiety must not dominate us otherwise we will not only live the discomfort caused by social distance but we will also live the distance from our positive and confident parts in the future. We have to struggle to give a constructive meaning to our days.
