This is the third and final segment of the interview with Kristina Groves and I’ve been saving the best for last. This post is about taking ownership of your performances. I’ve seen first hand a number of very good, even Word-class (not World-leading) athletes who didn’t get this concept and in my opinion it’s enough [...]
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98. Kristina Groves – Own It.
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence on June 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
88. The Realization of a Dream
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence, The Challenge on April 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Post number 68 on Sport At Its Best was a short video of a speech given by legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden. What I enjoyed most from the video was Wooden’s answer to the question, “who was the best player you ever coached?” because it had very little to do with natural talent and [...]
77. Kyle Shewfelt – Part 3
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence on January 6, 2011 | Comments Off
In the one hour interview that each of these video segments is taken from, there were a number of really key bits of information. This fourth and final segment is no exception. I’m posting it today because it’s very timely with respect to the message I’ll be trying to convey to the skeleton athletes I [...]
75. Michael Jordan and the Fear of Failure
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged perspective, The Challenge on December 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In any contest there is a winner and a loser and almost anyone would tell you that winning is a lot more fun. But in many ways losing is more valuable in the long run as it helps to define us. When we lose in sport, we learn much more about ourselves, our weaknesses, and [...]
74. Beckie Scott – The System
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence, perspective on November 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This is the fourth and final clip of Beckie Scott from the interview I had with her earlier this past summer. In this segment Beckie talks about a coach she once had that told her that no Canadian would ever win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing because they didn’t have a “system” behind them like [...]
69. Kyle Shewfelt – Part 2
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence, The Challenge on October 26, 2010 | Comments Off
This is another segment of my interview with Kyle from earlier this year. You might notice some commonalities between Kyle’s mindset and what other athletes have said previously on this blog. Bonnie Blair, for example, said that if she had an enemy at all in her sport it was the clock or perhaps herself, and [...]
65. Relating To Your Competition or How To Avoid Being Your Own Worst Enemy
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Sportsmanship, The Challenge, Value of Sport on September 28, 2010 | Comments Off
In previous posts I have written about the great sportsmen I was so lucky to have competed against in my skeleton career. Because they were champions in their own right, they knew the value of facing a great competitor in drawing out great performances in themselves (2. Emulating Gregor Staehli). I was very grateful to [...]
63. Patrick Anderson – Part 2
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence, perspective on September 13, 2010 | Comments Off
This is a really interesting part of the interview in which Patrick talks about being a Paralympian and always wondering how he would have measured up in a more mainstream sport. He can’t help but wonder what level he would have achieved had he played able-bodied basketball or hockey and I think that’s probably a [...]
61. Patrick Anderson – Wheelchair Basketball
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence, perspective on August 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I met a guy by the name of Brad Bowden at the Canadian Sport Awards in 2007. People might know him as a member of the Canadian sledge hockey team but at the time he was there representing the 2006 Paralympic Champion sledge hockey team and the World Champion wheelchair basketball team, both of whom [...]
59. Book Review: The Dynamic Path
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence, Value of Sport on August 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Today’s post is a video blog in which I talk about a book I have read recently called The Dynamic Path by James Citrin. If you have any questions or comments we’d love to hear them.
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