Mental performance coaching · teen athletes and their families · every sport
Their Mind Already DoesEverything a Champion’s Does
It feels. It focuses. It talks to them. It pictures what’s coming. Nobody taught them to use it on purpose, so most of the time it’s using them. Mental Grit teaches competitive teen athletes to use their own minds, and teaches their parents their real role in that.
You Know This Athlete
The sport changes. What you are watching doesn’t. These are the behaviors that tell you the mind is running the athlete, instead of the athlete running the mind. Turn each one over.
What families tell us it looks like after
Calm, confident, and consistent when it counts.
An athlete who handles it themselves. And a parent who knows exactly what to do, what to say, and when.
What We Do
We are not here to fix problems. We are here to optimize potential. Five capabilities every athlete already has, trained on purpose, and a parallel track for the parent.
Emotional Response
Using the emotions of competition rather than letting the emotions use them.
Focus & Attention
Moving out of distraction and refocusing on what right looks like for an elite athlete.
Self-Talk
Talk to yourself rather than listen to yourself. Negative to neutral, not negative to positive.
Visualization & Imagery
The competition starts in the mind before the athlete ever steps into the arena.
High-Performance Routine
A real system to get both the body and the mind ready to compete at the highest levels.
Performance Parenting
We teach you what we are teaching them and, more importantly, your role in supporting it. Your own toolbox, individualized to your athlete.
Who Are You Here For?
Three doors. Pick the one that sounds like you.
Parents
My athlete is better than their results show
You have invested years and real money. The one thing nobody has touched is the thing between the ears, and you can feel it from the stands.
Start here →Athletes
I know I’m better than this
You do the work in practice. Then it counts and your own head gets in the way. That is a skill nobody taught you, not a flaw.
Start here →Coaches & Clubs
I want this for my whole program
Workshops, partnerships and a team-wide system, for any sport. Hundreds of teams so far. Yours can be next.
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Meet the coach
The Coach I Needed and Didn’t Have
I quit more than one sport as a kid because my own head beat me before anyone else could. Years later I found performance psychology, and my life became more productive, more enjoyable and more successful, in sport and well beyond it.
For more than a decade I have specialized in one thing: teen athletes and their families. Hundreds of teams. Thousands of athletes and parents. Athletes and families across the United States and around the world, from Bangkok to Europe.
What It Adds Up To
A decade-plus of this work, in every sport, on more than one continent. The numbers say how much. The case studies show what it looks like for one athlete and one family, in their own words.
On Instagram
Daily Work, in Public
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