A coach explains why she sometimes encouraged her athletes to scream and have emotional outbursts during training. Early in her career, she found that letting frustration out helped her reset mentally and refocus when she was losing control.
There's the athlete who's, like, freaking out. They're smashing the racket. They're, you know, they're already there. You know what? Sometimes the act of doing that, that's what they need to do to get back on time, right? For example, arena, there are times where just out of nowhere, she'll just scream, right? She'll get real emotional because she needs to have that release. And sometimes we'll get her to do that on purpose. We can. We can. Like Anton I, the other coach, we see that and we're like, we got to do something to, like, get her frustrated almost, or just let her let it out, you know, like, these were the early years where she was like, didn't really have good control over emotions. You know, I didn't understand them well enough. It's like, all right, she's an emotional person. You can't. You're not going to make that stop. That be ridiculous. It's not going to work, right? So for her, actually, that yelling and screaming and sometimes smashing a racket, that's like, okay, now we're ready. This is good. We get excited about emotional reason. Now she's back. Yeah, exactly. It's like a boom. Okay, now I'm ready to go. Just get it out of you. Get out of your head. Get out of your. Whatever funk that you're in, and just, like, you reset, ready to go.
