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Know Yourself: Awareness — by coach Mike Shady

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 8:00 am
Know Yourself: Awareness — by coach Mike Shady
Mike Shady on the lanes coaching. Photo by Ebonite.
I think one of the greatest challenges in our sport is to truly know yourself physically and mentally while competing. We all can recognize when we are bowling well. The most challenging aspect of the mental game is learning to recognize when your performance is taking a turn for the worse and then developing a system to make the necessary corrections to return to a place of peak performance. The recognition that you are having a performance breakdown is the primary and most crucial step in...