Polo Podcast: Recent Episodes
Kristin Grube
Polo Mental Coach Kristin gives you some insights into mental strategies and techniques to improve your performance and play your best Polo!
An interesting concept, isn't it? Is there some truth in it and if, how can you avoid it?
The most important question to ask! Why? Because if you train the wrong skill, you won't improve! That's why!
It is vital to understand, whether your problem is technical or mental! Why? Just listen!
Some thoughts about why many athletes and teams fail after they have won a important match!
In this episode Mental Trainer Kristin explains what contingency planning means and how it can, help to beat anxiety as part of a proper game preparation.
In this episode Mental Trainer Kristin gives a short introduction into benchmarking in Polo: what is the process, what are the different steps, how can it help you to perform more consistent.
In this episode Polo Mental Trainer Kristin explains the phenomenon of many teams being unable to repeat huge successes and instead fail to perform.
Take the football team Gli Azzuri from Italy: They won spectacularly the Euro Cup in 2021 but didn't even qualify for the World Cup in Qatar. Why is that?
Of course we don't know the exact answer to that, but studies have found out some interesting changes..
In this episode Polo Mental Trainer Kristin gives you some practical advise how to figure out whether you need more technical or mental training. This is important, because training the wrong skill will obviously not better your issues! After this episode you should have a good idea whom to consult: your Polo Trainer or your Mental Coach!
Polo Mental Trainer Kristin explains shortly how to set proper goals and why it is important to have them in the first place.
Polo Mental Trainer Kristin and Polo Coach Rege Ludwig have a chat about technical and mental issues in Polo: Rege explains the issues, he faces most in his clients, while Kristin reports from her daily experience with her clients. Rege also tells us about his new educational programme "Improving Polo Skills", which will be published this summer.