Not all coaches are bad coaches. But sometimes they have bad days and good days. However, if you discover that a coach's negative feedback or behavior is undermining your child's confidence, it's up to you to talk to the coach or help your child (if she's older) talk to the coach.
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Confidence Brings Success
To compete at the top of your game you need to have confidence in your ability to succeed. Having confidence offers you an advantage over your competitors because confident athletes play more relaxed, focused, and aggressive.
Accepting when you do not play well, instead of being hard on yourself,
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Confidence Coaching
As a coach, you must commit to working on confidence as much as helping your players improve their skills or learn a new technique. Most importantly, you want your players to have stable, enduring confidence when challenged by doubt, negative thinking, or lack of immediate success.
When your
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Why Sports Kids Lack Confidence
Most young athletes often lack confidence for three reasons: (1) They do not know how to improve--other than with more practice. This is very common for young athlete. (2) They have a fragile state of confidence; their confidence changes rapidly when they are not successful of lose. (3) They had a
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Team Captains Help Cultivate Confidence
Confidence is a mindset not just for your individual players but for your whole team. A group of confident players supporting each other makes for a very confident team. As a coach, you are not alone in supporting your team's confidence. Team captains act as a liaison between players and coaches, so
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Self-confidence is Key to Success in Sports
You already know how important confidence is for you team's success. When your athletes perform with confidence, they'll cope with mistakes easier and adjust to adversity faster. When you athletes are confidence, they also deal better with anxiety and fear. Confidence influences everything your
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Define What’s Important to Performance
More and more I see athlete who struggle with social approval - they worry about what others think about their performance. As a coach, you want to be aware of this challenge for athletes. Some athletes will lose confidence when others give them negative comments.
You can define what your players
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