Attention and concentration: Winning the Moment: An Ultimate Player’s Guide to the Present Moment by Sara Svoboda
“Win the moment in front of your face.”
Joe Schmidt, former Irish national men’s rugby coach, repeatedly delivered this message to his players. Win the moment in front of your face. Simple, right? Ultimate, like rugby, is made up of thousands of actions over the course of a game. A clutch intercept on defense, a pre-planned pull-play... compound positive actions with positive actions and sure, winning the moment is easy!
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But what about when the momentum shifts and errors start compounding? Maybe you drop a simple pass in front of a big crowd, or you turf a pass to a wide open receiver when you had all the time in the world to throw a nice pass. How easy is it to win the moment now? Winning the moment in front of you isn’t about amassing clutch play with clutch play, playing a perfect game of ultimate or never conceding […]
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