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Body Language Screams for Everyone To See

30 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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Short YouTube monologue (Fortitude 365) about body language and mental toughness in sports. The speaker emphasizes that negative body language (head down) signals immaturity and a lack of mental toughness, and describes using a "toughness sheet" to teach players that mindset must change to improve play. The excerpt frames toughness as resilience to mistakes (missed shots, fumbles, missed free throws).

Body language screams. It screams for everybody to see head down this. And in most cases, it's an immaturity thing. But the second part of it is a little lack of toughness, mental toughness, that I'm not getting broken down because I missed a couple shots or I fumbled a ball or I missed a free throw. I don't care. I'm tough.
I didn't think I had to teach them this, but I pulled out the toughness sheet and we read what toughness is. And so my point to him is how we think has to change. If you want how you're playing to change.