5 Mental Skills for Sports and Performance
Building confidence, developing extreme focus, getting that “never-give-up” attitude, becoming aggressive when you need to….these are all mental skills you can learn just like physical skills.
What factors predict burnout in sports coaches? Exploring the role of personal and situational stressors.
Coaching is widely regarded as a stressful position to hold (Robbins et al., 2015; Olusoga et al., 2009) meaning within the field of coaching, practitioners are susceptible to burnout, a psychological syndrome leading to various unwanted issues such as anxiety, depression, insomnia, and fatigue (Maslach, 1982).
A Different Way to Develop Our Learners’ Skills: A constraints led approach
An Article by Doug Cooper
2024 Canoe-Kayak Polo World Championships footage
A range of videos from the 2024 ICF Canoe Polo World Championships in China.
The Female Athlete Podcast
The Female Athlete Podcast focuses on topics around the female body and sport and exercise which have originally gone under the radar. The podcasts tackle everything from the menstrual cycle and how it affects everyday women to how it impacts on sporting performance – including issues such as contraception, bone health and female physiology. Presented by three curious young women: journalist Lucy Lomax, Dr Georgie Bruinvels and Dr Jess Piasecki.
The Art of Freestyle
A Manual of Freestyle Kayaking, White Water Playboating and Rodeo by Eric Brymer, Loel Collins and Tom Hughes