Creating the Practice you Love

Creating the Practice you Love

Lately I have been approached by more and more skaters who struggle with practice consistency and nerves. This is where your practices fluctuate from day to day or even practice to practice, creating unpredictability that can cause a lot of frustration especially...
The Benefits of the Off-Season

The Benefits of the Off-Season

Hard work, determination, focus, drive….these are all qualities that define an elite athlete. However, there is another equally, if not more important quality, that often gets overlooked. That quality is: LOVE FOR THE SPORT!Love for the sport was what...
How to “Shut Up” your Inner Critic!

How to “Shut Up” your Inner Critic!

The “inner critic” or “negative voice” is a serious controller of behaviour, whether you are aware of it or not. It is continuously placing judgement about who you are, what you do, where you are going and why. So how do you...
What’s in a Name? Performance Training versus Mental Training

What’s in a Name? Performance Training versus Mental Training

You wouldn’t wait until you had an injury before investing in dry land training, so why wait until there is a performance problem to start training your brain? Unfortunately not everyone recognizes the importance of training the mind like they do the body. Performance...