Archive for the ‘Sports Psychology/Mental Toughness’ Category
After immigrating to the U.S.A. in the early 1980s as a political refugee, I was looking for a way to make a living from my sports-science know-how. So I was looking at publications on various aspects of sports training and p.e., among them martial arts’ magazines. Especially in those martial arts’ magazines, I noticed a […]
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Tags: Flexibility, front-back splits, high kicks, martial arts, monkey mind, sports science, sports training, straddle splits, Thomas Kurz
What Is the Best Fighting Art?
Do you do martial arts or combat sports? Do you have an answer to the eternal question: What is the best fighting art? If you do, read my new self-defense tip and post your answer as a comment to it at real-self-defense.com/self-defense-tip-124-what-is-the-best-fighting-art/
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Apart from the internal focus in this demo, I also don’t like the short grip–which is great for twirling but not for power with accuracy at a long distance.
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Tags: combat sports, external focus, fighting, internal focus, martial arts, mental training, nunchaku, sports psychology, Sports Technique, Thomas Kurz, Tom Kurz
Squat jump is both an exercise for improving jumping ability and a test of it. You can see it used as a test in a contest between a dancer and a weightlifter in the video posted at stadion.com/confidence-and-jumping-ability-dancer-vs-weightlifter/ After viewing the video answer this question: What instructions would you give the dancer so that she […]
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Tags: dancer, jumping ability, self-confidence, sports psychology, squat jump, weightlifter
“Your Self-Confidence and Your Performance,” by prof. Artur Poczwardowski is posted at http://www.stadion.com/sports-psychology/. This four-part article explains what self-confidence is, what can happen if you are over-confident or not confident enough, and how to develop, maintain, and in the case of an athlete who lost self-confidence, how to restore it to an optimal level. The […]
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This tip continues the subject of tip number 54. In that tip a movie shows self-defense without weapons and with weapons, as well as conditioning drills for self-defense.
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Tags: combat conditioning, fudoshin, immovable mind, imperturbable mind, mental toughness, physical conditioning, self-defense, Thomas Kurz
