October Tip Of The Month: Ball Control

Hello, I'm Paul S. Palmer Director, Sports Motivation Clinic and I have a new tip for you.

If you are in a sport that involves manipulating an object, I can really help your game. Of all the many facets of sports performance training, ball control is the easiest to focus in on and maybe the easiest to fix. Why would ball control be the easiest to fix?, Because it's the focal point of everything you do and the perfect starting point to direct your mental exercises. If there is a ball, there is a THE POINT OF CONTACT.

As I have taught for years, there is a difference between the work you do in practice, film study and conditioning the body and what you work on off the field with your mental exercises. The former uses your conscience mind to learn and develop your game skills with the hope it all comes together when it counts. When you work on the mental part of your game you assume you have the developed the skills to perform and focuse on the only important thing, the object itself. (Now you know the most important secret in mental conditioning.)

In ball control sports, you are not graded on style. No matter how goofy you might look, if you make the ball do exactly what you want it to, nobody will care. It's a matter of letting the automatic part of the mind direct the show. It will make all the necessary changes and corrections in your body, if it knows exactly what to do, and it will do that without you having to consciously think about it. You are putting the mind on automatic pilot so to speak, instead of trying to direct everything from your conscious mind. Confused? That's where I come in. I have lots of examples of the difference between automatic performance and a thought through performance. All athletes need to reach the point where they trust the automatic part of the mind to play the game. Helping you perfect this is what I do best.

Even one session at the Sports Motivation Clinic will be the best investment you ever made in improving your sports performance. A private 1 1/2 hour session including a practice CD is only $250.00. You pay that much for your shoes!

And that's only a small sample of I what I can fix.

Sports Motivation Clinic

9748 S. Roberts Road

Palos Hills, IL. 60445

708-233-1111 Hours by appointment