Articles

Using R.A.S in Sport (particularly cricket)

Peter January 12, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

What is the awareness of how much “beyond technique” work can be done to enhance the quality of sensual data input by sportspersons to enable them to fine-tune their skills execution? Here is a 3-part article I wrote on using the R.A.S for increasing quality ...

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Perception v Reality

Peter January 6, 2010 2 comments Uncategorised

This is a topic I always get around to when unpacking for players how they might understand the need for quality sensual data in order for their brain to “best process” elements of technique. One of the openers is “How many ways are there of ...

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Don’t Think of a Black Cat

Peter December 15, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

On Sunday I met a couple who I haven’t seen hardly since we were all part of a small ante-natal class well over 25 years ago! It was great to catch up on a lot of stuff especially what and where our children are at ...

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Mastery II

Peter December 14, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

Having finished reading Mastery by George Leonard, here as promised earlier in the blog, are some reflections:- Through his expertise, discoveries and learnings in aikido Leonard draws a path, a route towards Mastery, that embodies virtually all my values and beliefs. Little wonder then that ...

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Clean Transformations

Peter December 14, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

A young student I usually see in a sporting context is part way through his ‘scholarship’ year, and is falling victim to the usual pressures….”because I want to go to X school and/or Y school I really need to get good marks in these scholarship ...

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What happens when you do X…..? (using Clean Language)

Peter November 26, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

A young cricketer I have been coaching for some considerable time has had issues with his batting – not so much technical, because I and other coaches have all coached the technical side of his game and he can play every shot in the book ...

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Left Brain / Right Brain? Which way to go?

Peter November 16, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

I’m working with a young right handed cricketer at the moment, who was quite uncomfortable when holding the bat. I asked him to try batting left-handed and suddenly he looked and felt much more natural. There are two current members of the England team (Jimmy ...

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The 4 Cartesian Questions (NLP) – pre-match team talk

Peter November 15, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

I’ve been examining the 4 Cartesian Questions in the sporting context and indeed illustrated them in a pre-match talk for the rugby team I coach, a couple of weeks ago. For a side of average age around 21-22 with few ‘old heads’ in there, the ...

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Mastery

Peter November 8, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

Just started reading Mastery by George Leonard. I think it might well be a book I’ll read in a couple of days and already echoes lots of things I have both said and thought – but expressed far more succinctly and eloquently by George Leonard ...

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Reframing the ‘critical’ voice

Peter November 8, 2009 Post Comment Uncategorised

Some 9-10 days ago I did a 2 hour session with a couple of young cricketers. These were guys I had coached many times before.Technically I know their levels of expertise relative to their elite-aspirant status – and there is nothing technically to hold them ...

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