There was a significant moment in my career in which I realized my own feel for the skeleton track and the pressures and the timing of it was better than any other kind of feedback. I was training for a World Cup race in Nagano, Japan and it was the first time I had ever [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Excellence’
78. Self-Awareness, Part 4.
Posted in Self-awareness, tagged Excellence, perspective on January 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
77. Kyle Shewfelt – Part 3
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence on January 6, 2011 |
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 [...]
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 |
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 [...]
64. Self-Awareness, Part 3.
Posted in Self-awareness, tagged Excellence, perspective on September 20, 2010 |
As I tweeted the other day (@sportatitsbest), I’ve only just started Andre Agassi’s autobiography Open, and I’ve already found a reference to what I believe is an extremely key skill that all athletes need to develop if they want to reach the top. Of course I’m talking about today’s topic, self-awareness. Here’s the quote: “Butterflies [...]
63. Patrick Anderson – Part 2
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence, perspective on September 13, 2010 |
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 [...]
60. Beckie Scott, Part 2
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Excellence, Sportsmanship on August 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is part two of a series of four short videos of Beckie Scott, Olympic champion cross-country skier. In this segment Beckie talks about how she felt knowing there was a significant issue in her sport with doping and how she chose to deal with it and ultimately overcome it. If you have any comments [...]
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.
58. Kyle Shewfelt, Part 1
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Excellence on August 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If you’re going to have a discussion about success, about being your best or about being the World’s best, as Kyle Shewfelt was in the sport of gymnastics, you need to talk about passion or a love for what it is you’re doing. You can talk about hard work and many will refer to the [...]
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