How To Lose Your Mind

The inner game of shooting may not mean what you
think it does. One thing it is not for sure is positive
thinking. In fact, while it involves internal processes
its not really thinking at all.

Yesterday was the last day of that Peak Performance
seminar in Ft. Lauderdale when at acritical point the
trainer David Wood from British Columbia point wrote
the following on his white board:

"OPPOTUNITY"

The spelling mistake wasn't intentional, but David
used it to great advantage when he pointedout what
many of our minds were doing. We were focusing
on the missing "R".

And by doing so we were missing the whole point.
We were missing the opportunity right in front of
our eyes.

That's the kind of thing the conscious mind will do
for you. You see, it has one main job, and that is to
protect you. It does that by always paying
attention to what is wrong. It's always looking for
danger so it can help you survive. Danger, Will
Robinson.

When you're shooting though you don't want to
survive. You want to win. On the court
everything is risk, and you don't want to be
thinking about all the ways you could fail. The
mind isn't of much use to you there.

One of the keys to successful shooting is in
learning how to quiet the conscious mind, and
Coach Tom Nordland does a great job of this
in his Swish Method of Shooting.

Learn how he does it at:

http://www.deandelker.com/shish.html

Shoot for the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Stan Kellner the king of basketball
cybernetics is coming out with his Ultimate
Shooter DVD in a couple of weeks. Be patient,
and you'll be able to learn every trick in the
book for developing a true shooters mind.

Copyright, Delker Enterprises, Inc. 2006