Pete Jacobson – Winning Youth Coaching

February 27, 2017

The 4 Cornerstones Of Championship Culture – Part 4 Of 8- Creating Mentally Tough Athletes

The best aren’t born that way. They work harder and practice more to master their craft.’ – Jon Gordon

The 4 Cornerstones of Championship Culture – WYC is excited to partner with Upward Sports to kick off 2017 with an exciting new way for your to raise your coaching game for you and your coaches!

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3rd Cornerstone – Creating Mentally Tough Athletes

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This week we learn from Pete Jacobson, founder of Win Smarter and long time wrestling coach in New York

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Pete has his teams focus on 3 things to create a culture of mentally tough athletes:

1 – Focus on the process not the outcome

2 – Embrace failure as a necessary step towards success

3 – For the kids to embrace #’s 1 and 2 – you need to embrace and live these as their coach

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Do these 3 steps and you will create fearless athletes who are not afraid of failure. Their mental approach will be to embrace and get excited for challenges instead of fearing them.

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Our special thanks to our corporate partner for this series – Upward Sports- check them out at upward.org!

February 27, 2017

WYC 108 – Championship Culture Part 4 – Pete Jacobson talks Wrestling, Process over Outcome, and Embracing Failure

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Pete Jacobson has been a varsity wrestling coach for 15 years. Coaching is a passion and a labor of love for him. It’s essentially been his “other” full time job for the last decade and half. Now with the many years of experience under his belt; dozens and dozens of books on coaching theory, sports psychology, performance nutrition, team building and motivation read and on his bookshelf; thousands of dollars worth of clinics, seminars and classes attended and PLENTY of trial and error, he is able to answer a lot more of these questions, so he has started a blog and resources called Win Smarter.

Website: winsmarter.com

Website with free WYC offer: winsmarter.com/wyc/

Twitter: @PJacobsonEmont

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Quote

‘The best aren’t born that way. They work harder and practice more to master their craft.’ – Jon Gordon

Cringe Moment

Pete and his head coach butted heads a lot during Pete’s early years- Pete was like a typical young man who thinks they know it all

Teaching Skills

Incorporate fun competitions as much as possible
Group based competitions helps create great culture, and keep mixing up the groups

Self-confidence and peak mental performance

Pete recently observed 2 NFL coaches’ reactions to their kickers missing game-winning field goals in overtime of a game. One coach said ‘he is a professional and has to make that kick.’ The other coach said ‘he made a bunch of kicks that even put us in the position to win the game. He’ll make a bunch more for us and we love him.’ Which coach would instill more confidence in his kicker going forward?
3 pillars Pete’s teams focus on:

1 – Focus on process over outcome

2 – Embrace failure as a necessary step towards success

3 – For the kids to embrace #s 1 and 2 – you need to embrace these as their coach

Free E-book on mental toughness

Just go to winsmarter.com/wyc/

Caz McCaslin’s Coaching Tips

Developing a player’s mental capacity
Winning requires: Resiliency, concentration, and a willingness to embrace the grind

Championship Culture

Defining core values: TAAO

Teamwork

Attitude

Accountability

One More

Before the season begins they do 2 things:

1 – Off-site team building ropes course

2 – Team community service project

In season:
- Buddy week – Pair up kids that don’t know each other that well (ideally they have the same lunch) – then at end of week they have a contest to see who knows their buddy best
- Coach Appreciation dinner – They assign groups and each group comes up with a skit to ‘make fun’ of the coaches. Make sure you define what is appropriate. 🙂

Favorite coaching book/quote

Quote: ‘The best aren’t born that way. They work harder and practice more to master their craft.’ – Jon Gordon
Book: The Energy Bus, The Hard Hat, Training Camp, and You win in the locker room first – All by Jon Gordon
Book: The Carolina Way by Dean Smith
Book: A Wrestling Life by Dan Gable
Book: How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
Book: The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

Win Smarter

Blog to help coaches up their game
Email Pete at [email protected]
Website: winsmarter.com
Website with free WYC offer: winsmarter.com/wyc/

Parting Advice

You know a lot but you could learn much more. Go talk to as many other experienced coaches as you can.

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Today’s Sponsors

Established in 1995, Upward Sports is the world’s largest Christian youth sports provider. Approximately 100,000 leaders and coaches deliver Upward Sports programming to half a million young athletes around the country.

Upward Sports promotes the discovery of Jesus through sports, by providing a fun, encouraging environment in which young athletes can learn technical skills and a love of the game. We use sports like basketball, volleyball, soccer and flag football to help young athletes develop mentally, athletically, spiritually, and socially. We are about the whole athlete—that’s our 360 Progression.

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