national sports development center calgary
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:51:45 -0400 - Posted in williamsport pa mardi gras
The mind man is in the house.
After years of spurning the idea, the Calgary Flames have hired a mental development coach. They didn't need to go far to find him.
Dr. David Paskevich is sports psychology professor in the kinesiology department at the University of Calgary. His task is to help the Flames shed their inconsistent ways by working with the matter between the ears. Welcome to the final frontier.
"If you look at the services the Flames provide the players, they've got a great sportsmed team," Paskevich said after watching the proceedings at prospect development camp. "They've got physiologists. They've got nutritionists. They've got massage therapy. They've got great physiotherapy.
"I think one of the things, when they did their review, was to look at sports psychology or mental skills or mental development. There was maybe a little hole there."
John Phelan of the Queen's School of Business has worked as a mental skills coach for the Ottawa Senators and Vancouver Canucks. Dr. Paul Dennis recently retired after a 20-year career as the player development and mental skills coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
And, yes, the Stanley Cup-champion Chicago Blackhawks have a mental skills coach in James Gary.
"I think it's good," Flames centre Mikael Backlund said of the addition to the staff. "Sometimes, when we lost nine games in a row, sometimes you need someone from outside to talk with the guys.
"This game is a lot up in your brain. It's a lot mental. So I think it's good to get a mental coach helping us. Even when it goes well, I think you can sometimes talk with him and say how you feel and stuff. I think it will be really good for the team."
Through five Olympic Games, Paskevich has worked with the Canadian moguls team and the Canadian gymnastics team. He was on top of the course at Cypress Mountain when Jenn Heil won silver and Alex Bilodeau seized gold at the Vancouver Olympics.
"In terms of my role here, it's really about performance," he said. "We want the athletes to perform at an optimal level on a consistent basis."
As Backlund points out, consistency is vital for a team that lost nine straight in January.
"That's probably the marker of whether I'm having any long-term success," Paskevich said. "It's about consistency, You don't want to have those pendulum swings."
To be clear, Paskevich has no plans to get any of the players to lie down on a couch and analyze their deepest, darkest secrets.
He simply wants to help them play their best, game in and game out.
"Most athletes have doubt," he said. "They have anxieties. The ones with well-development mental skills -- with good emotional management -- are the ones who can deal with that effectively and go out and play well."
And as for the players who can't manage their emotions or cope mentally?
"In a read-and-react game, it's going to take you longer to make decisions," he said. "With your grip on the stick, it's probably going to make you ineffective in terms of that.
"A lot of these athletes have got to this stage because of their physical ability. And now when you get to the top of the pyramid and everyone is so homogeneous in terms of what they can do, the little differences truly make a big diff erence."
Paskevich realizes not every player will buy into the concept of sports psychology.
"There's going to be some who are resistant at first," he said. "And that's OK. In every sport, you're going to have a mixed bag. At the end of the day, you hope players aren't settling for mediocrity, that they want to get better and that they'll use the tools at their disposal."
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