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Comeback kings… Ben Ainslie (left) was disqualified from Race 2 of the Athens Olympics after a very dubious protest by Guillaume Florent (me neither – ed). Ainslie roared back to win gold. The comeback by Australia II (above) from 3-1 down against Dennis Conner in 1983 remains the stuff of legend – Australia II skipper John Bertrand had been a longtime student of sport psychology
Or ‘when we get to this next puff we are going to gybe’. By everyone knowing the intentions early there is no fluster and much more time to think clearly and be ready. 3. What You Say Will Stick Both positive and negative. It’s OK to celebrate little successes or gains. Not in a cheesy or fake way, no high-fives or silly dances that gridiron players do after making a tackle or touchdown. I am not a big rah-rah guy, but a great way to knit up a team so they can move forward is to say ‘boys, that is the best we have sailed in a long time, I will buy the first beers’. It makes people look forward, not back. Forward is positive, back can be negative.
4. Here and Now Join Generation ‘Y’ Think about what is in front of you, not a concern for what has happened or the aftermath of the outcome. Once it’s in the past, well, it’s in the past… gone… done… next!
5. Don’t Hesitate When you overthink something, you hesitate; when you hesitate, you become reactionary, just at the time you want to be proactive. See, when overthinking something, the human brain tends to think of what can go wrong more than what can go right. Rather than looking positively toward the warmth of the sunlight, overthinking makes you look negatively into a dark cave of troubles… you will start hesitating rather than letting it flow like you do when you’re on top of the world. 6. Don’t Mutter to Yourself Not out loud and not in your head. Muttering usually relates to bad things in the past. More negative thoughts, they don’t help you look forward, toward where you want to go. And they bring everyone else around you down. Just don’t do it.
I have used the ‘reset button’ halfway through regattas as big as winning medals at the Olympic Games and as small as local fun regattas. It’s not some witch doctor magic, just logical and effective, at least most of the time!
The goal is to achieve stability while promoting improvement, both individually and as a team. Warning: ‘goals without plans and execution are just wishes’.
Oh, yes, you can hit the same reset button when you get blind- sided, floored, and have to peel yourself off the canvas (note: you only get knocked to the canvas when you don’t see it coming.) You know you’re going to have to pick yourself up to get back on your feet, then put one foot in front of the other until you can, in the words of Muhammad Ali ‘float like a butterfly’. So it’s no longer preventive, but more of a cure… but the six rules still work, to shorten the recovery time.
In fact, I have been taking this medicine myself since back in June when my own America’s Cup world got turned upside down. But there you go, we have all been there. Look forward, not back… it works.
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