Young Player Pack.

Module Outcomes

1. Define motivation.
2. Disassemble your motivation.
3. Shape your motivation.
4. Train your motivation for competition.
5. Learn how to switch on motivation when you need it - Motivation pump.
6. Have an action plan for motivation preparation.
7. Identify your personal goals and rewards.
8. Know how to put your game face on!
9. Develop a Winning Zone Mindset

Module Contents

Motivation Core Knowledge

Level 1 Motivation

1. Why Motivation is mental skill number
2. Motivation Myths and concepts
3. How do you know if someone is motivated?
4. Motivation Defined for sport.
5. Count down preparation

Summary of key topics in motivation

Level 2 Motivation - Advanced

Shaping your motivation. Motivation is a skill and can be learned.

1. Definition and explanation of skill.
2. Motor skill
3. Subskill Chaining
4. Basic skill Shaping
5. Rewards and reinforcement
6. Disassembling motivation.

Motivation Core Training

Level 1 Motivation - Basic

• Goals and rewards
• Exercise M1 Goals and Rewards.
• Exercise M2 Work required.

Level 2 Motivation - Advanced

• Motivation Exercise M 3 - Shaping motivation - Mode words
• Motivation Exercise M 4 – Motivation pump
• Game Face
• Enhancement activities

Motivation Breakdown – Troubleshooting

• Freezing or "Jamming up"
• Flat battery syndrome
• Too hard
• Confusion
• Re-motivation after major breakdown.

Winning Zone Motivation and Winning Zone Mindset

Module Outcomes

1. Understand the concept of Confidence.
2. Be able to train confidence.
3. Understand skill acquisition.
4. Learn how experts train their confidence.
5. Learn to build your skill set.
6. Build your own training diary.

Module Contents

Confidence Core Knowledge

Topic 1: What is Confidence?

a) Common myths

b) What is confidence?

c) Definition of confidence

Topic 2: Confidence building through essential background knowledge

a) Principle of Skill Acquisition

b) Principle of Behavioural Chaining

Topic 3. How the experts practise.

Topic 4. How to be like the Pro’s

An expert example – “The Right Stuff”

Confidence Core Training.

Part 1.The Fun, Ugh and Cruise Zones

Mental events during skill acquisition.

Part 2. Disciplined practise

1. Individual skills

2. Individual skills in different conditions

3. Disciplined Practise – Building the skill

4. Assessment – Your practise style

Part 3. Building your skill set

1. Practise in real life – Building your own training plan

2. How to Build your Skill set.

- Why you should do this

- Basic skill set construction

Part 4. The SAC training diary.

- Alert!

- The Pro’s do it

- Advanced skill set construction

- Do the Professionals do this?

Winning Zone confidence and the Winning Zone mindset

Module 3 Outcomes

1. Understand the concept of Concentration.
2. Understand the parts of the brain which create your sports skills
3. Understand how to focus on the essential cues in your sport.
4. Learn about concentration cue thoughts in your mind.
5. Learn how to train your concentration focus during play.

Module Contents

Zog and Thog:

Prehistoric pioneers in concentration.

Concentration Core Knowledge

Topic 1: The sporting brain.

Topic 2: How your brain organises your sports skills.

a) You have two brains

b) How the cortex and cerebellum create and control your skills.

Topic 3. Learning Task Relevant Focus

Why didn’t the dinosaur eat Zog?

· Identifying Task Relevant Focus Points (TRF’s)

· Automatic TRF – Ayrton Senna in motor racing.

Topic 4. How concentration produces sport skills

Topic 5. Perfect concentration: Concentration Cue Thoughts (CCT’s)

Concentration cue thoughts (CCT’s)

Topic 6: Type A concentration.

i) The Concentration Circle – Type A or not Type A?

ii) Three different Concentration Circles for each stage of the SAC

iii) Moving through time

iv) Type A concentration creates correct skills.

v) The Contents of your Attention in the SAC.

CONCENTRATION CORE TRAINING

Concentration Exercise 1: Type A TRF identification.

1) Identify the relevant TRF points

2) Practice identifying and using the TRF points during practice and

competition performance

Your personal Type A TRF identification sheet

Concentration Exercise 2: Type A CCT development.

Your personal Type A CCT development sheet

TRF’s and CCT’s during progress in the SAC

Module 4 Outcomes

1. Understand emotion control.
2. Translate common buzz words like “Flow”.
3. Learn how to maintain emotion control during play.
4. Train your emotion control for competition.
5. Learn how to stay in the Control Zone during play.
6. Collect data on your positive emotional set when playing
7. Learn how to cope with choking and yips
8. Learn how to neutralise pre-competition anxiety.
9. Have a plan for pre-competition preparation.

Module Contents

The Concept of Self Control

Flow and the Winning Zone Mindset

Control Core Knowledge

1. The Problem with Flow
2. The control Zone
3. What the control Zone looks like
4. Choke point: Choking and Yips

The four Choke and Yips syndromes

Control Core Training

1. The “Chill Skill”

Control core exercise 1: Deep Diaphragm “Belly” Breathing

2. The “Safety Zone” skill

Control core exercise 2: The Safety Zone.

3. Linking skill

Control core exercise 3: Linking Chill skill and Safety Zone.

4. Emotion Control Database

Control Core exercise 4: Emotion Control Database

5. Choking and Yips

Control Core exercise 5: Yips and Choking.

6. Pre-Competition Anxiety

Control Core exercise 6: Pre-Competition Preparation.

Control Core exercise 7: Pre-Game Plan, Focus and Control.