Sporting Success

Success in sport starts with winning the MIND game. What separates champions from the rest is their attitude, confidence, focus, determination, resolve, dedication, passion and power of self belief, all attributes of the mind. 

The 4 minute Mile 'barrier'

On 6th May 1954 Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile.

Just 46 days later on June 21 in Turku, Finland, Bannister's record was broken by his rival John Landy of Australia, with a time of 3 min 57.9 s

On August 7, at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, B.C., Bannister competed against Landy for the first time in a race billed as "The Miracle Mile". Bannister won in 3 min 58.8 s.

Within just 12 months over 200 athletes had broken the 4 minute mile barrier. 

The benefits of sports 'Mind' Coaching

A lesson from England vs Germany on 4th July 1990, World Cup Semi-final, Turin

England didn't win because first Stuart Pearce and then Chris Waddle displayed a tragic gift for misery.

In Pearce's case it was bad luck. Bodo Illgner, the German goalkeeper, dived the wrong way. He didn't save the ball. The ball, which hit his flailing leg, saved him. With Waddle you could say that it was bad aim, except that would suggest that he took aim. He didn't. After a Brett Lee-style run-up, he belted his shot in the general direction of the goal. 'I thought, if [Illgner] does get anything on it,' explained Waddle, 'it will still go in.' Illgner never got the chance because the ball went in the general direction of the stadium roof.

Waddle FOCUSED on the keeper, not the goal, you get what you focus on.