How To Use Sports Visualization in Hockey with Jamie McKinven
Channel: Mental Toughness Trainer
Date: 2012-12-27

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Sports Visualization Part 4
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This is Part 4 of a series from an interview with Jamie McKinven, who is the author of the book, "So You Want Your Kid To Play Pro Hockey?"

In this video Jamie will share to us how he used sports visualization as an effective tool in improving his actual game performance.

Before the game, we would always get there two hours before and you had a bit of a down time to do something to help motivate yourself. 

I used to take my sticks up to a dark corner in the arena and look over that blank sheet of ice and I would put on some music that motivated me.  

I would sit there and I would focus on that ice surface and I would play the game out that I was about to play in my mind. 

I would go through every situation that I would possibly find myself in the hockey game and play it out.  I would sit there for half an hour.  

Then as I was visualizing the situations, the end game situations that were going to occur, I was always succeeding in every one of these situations.  I was coming out on top.  I was victorious in everything I was doing.  

So that when game time came around, I had already played the game. 

I had already played it out in my mind, so every time I got in a situation, I knew exactly how it was going to turn out, because I had already played it out in mind.  

I think it gave me a little bit of a quicker reaction to everything I was doing.  It might have been just a split second play, but I really did feel it benefited me."

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