More Than An Athlete
Blinded by Winning
– Dennis Chighisola Shaun Goodsell, MA President and CEO of Mental Edge As the winter sports kick-off I am preparing for the many questions I will field as teams and individual athletes seek to chase their ideal success. Athletes, coaches and parents will invest enormous resources of time, energy and money to climb that ladder…
Read MoreReacting to Adversity
Like a lot of adult members, I wear many hats. For sure, I’ve always been into hockey nearly 24/7; that (and any use of video) is what I love, and that’s what I love to immerse myself in. At the same time, I’m a businessman. And, whether I like it or not, I can’t keep…
Read MoreBeing A Good Hockey Teammate
I don’t know about you but, that stuff really meant something to me. I don’t think I’ve ever coached a team — youth to college — whereby players didn’t at least somewhat pay more attention to teammates they knew well, and less to those they didn’t know so well. That, at least to me, is…
Read MoreReality Check
The following piece was so moving that I couldn’t go without publishing it again for my newer members. But, where? Then, before turning things over to the star blogger, Jeff Chick, I thought I’d tell my own quick story… You see, although Jeff resided in Texas when he wrote this piece, he calls Whitman, MA…
Read MoreGuiding a 4-year Old Hockey Player
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Read MoreWhy Some Kids Try Harder
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Read MoreHelicopter Studies Muddy the Youth Hockey Waters
If this doesn’t help me start making my case, I guess nothing will… For, an article written by Julie Lythcott-Haims and entitled “Helicoptered kids are sputtering out” left the Dallas News on August 5, 2015, and seemingly selected parts of it ended up on a sports related site only three days later as “Helicopter Parents…
Read MoreNeurology 101 for Hockey
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Read MoreSo You Think Your Genes Determine Your Fate In Sports? – Part 2
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Read MoreA Brief History of Studying Genes
As sort of a background to our study on genes, I thought members would be helped to discover how new that study is. As quoted in Wikipedia: “In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all genetic material of an organism. It consists of DNA. The genome includes both the genes and…
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