Repetition Under Pressure

You can practice all you want to, but you’re going to have learn that from being in the game. You’re going to have to get in the game and you’re going to have learn that while you’re in the game – and it’s a mindset.

Sooner or later, you’ve got to get to the point where you realize what you’re doing now is not working. So, let’s try something different. And when you get into the top class, it’s how many times have you competed.

One thing we often tell students is that they need to be in every competition that they can ever get in, and they can work on being process-oriented.

At the end of the day, it’s how many times have you done it with a number on under pressure. It’s not how many times have you done it on the practice field. And when you get into master class, you go back to the book where we talk about practice and training ratios.

The higher your class, the less practice you put in, the more training you put in, the more tournaments you shoot. It’s about exposing yourself to the everyday doubt and fear that occurs during competition that’s going to allow you to become that hardened competitor that you can become. It’s all fear.

This is an excerpt from the November 2011 Coaching Hour podcast. You can listen to it and read a written transcript, along with more than 20 years of archived episodes with your Knowledge Vault membership.