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Why Do Athletes Balk Right Before Executing Their Back Handspring?

What if balking isn't a confidence problem at all? Discover why athletes hesitate before skills they can physically perform and how understanding the nervous system changes everything about coaching mental performance.

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Mental Performance

Why Stoicism is Integral to High-Performing Individuals - and The Coach Lain Method

Stoicism isn’t about becoming emotionless—it’s about learning how to feel without being controlled by what you feel. In The Coach Lain Method, we teach athletes to stop fighting fear and start understanding it, because confidence isn’t built by avoiding discomfort… it’s built by learning how to respond to it.

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Mental Performance

Why Your Athlete's Confidence Isn't Lost — It's Leaking (And What to Do About It)

Your athlete didn't lose their confidence. It leaked — through one of six very specific patterns I call the Pits of Performance. The difference between athletes who stay stuck and don't isn't talent — it starts by knowing which pit you're in!

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Mental Performance

What if you're not actually afraid?

What if what you’ve been calling “fear” isn’t actually fear at all? Aversia introduces a new way to understand your internal responses—not as something to eliminate, but as something to observe, study, and work with.

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Mental Performance

Jul 24, 202613

Why Do Athletes Balk Right Before Executing Their Back Handspring?

What if balking isn't a confidence problem at all? Discover why athletes hesitate before skills they can physically perform and how understanding the nervous system changes everything about coaching mental performance.

Building a Culture People WANT to Be Apart Of

Before labeling someone as unmotivated or difficult, it’s worth asking a better question: do they truly feel aligned with the culture they’re in? This post breaks down how strong All-Star programs create clarity, connection, and belonging—so buy-in doesn’t have to be forced.

Why Stoicism is Integral to High-Performing Individuals - and The Coach Lain Method

Stoicism isn’t about becoming emotionless—it’s about learning how to feel without being controlled by what you feel. In The Coach Lain Method, we teach athletes to stop fighting fear and start understanding it, because confidence isn’t built by avoiding discomfort… it’s built by learning how to respond to it.

Why Your Athlete's Confidence Isn't Lost — It's Leaking (And What to Do About It)

Your athlete didn't lose their confidence. It leaked — through one of six very specific patterns I call the Pits of Performance. The difference between athletes who stay stuck and don't isn't talent — it starts by knowing which pit you're in!

What if you're not actually afraid?

What if what you’ve been calling “fear” isn’t actually fear at all? Aversia introduces a new way to understand your internal responses—not as something to eliminate, but as something to observe, study, and work with.

How to Outperform the Fear of Doing a Back Handspring: A Comprehensive Guide

Most people have been told that fear is something to overcome. Push through it. Silence it. Conquer it. But if fear is biologically hardwired into every human nervous system — and it is — then the idea of "conquering" it was always a myth.

5 Things You're Doing Wrong in Your Back Handspring — And How to Fix Them

I LOVE breaking down the back handspring! As the sport's most coveted skill, it's one that that holds the most potential for simple things to be overlooked, thereby causing athletes who seek to "get" it (or refine it) the most frustration.

5 Simple Steps to Take When You Get Frustrated with Your Back Handspring

You've been practicing for weeks — months — maybe even years — and you still don't have your back handspring. The pressure is coming from every direction: parents, coaches, teammates, and the loudest critic of all, yourself. Everyone seems to be wondering what's taking so long and why you can't seem to get this "simple" skill. (I'd love to see them try it.)

Bend vs. Sit: An argument for Back Handspring Technique

Over the years, I have learned that there are many ways in which basic back handspring technique is taught. There are 5 essential steps to the back handspring approach. However, there is one very specific difference in the way coaches will teach the initial or starting position.

Mental Performance Coaching - Not Just for Athletes

I have spent the past eleven years studying psychology, body language, emotional intelligence, neuroscience, trauma, and fear. And throughout all of my studies, I've landed on one universal truth - everyone, no matter their race, color, creed, gender, or station, experiences fear and trauma.

Every Leader Can Destroy Culture. Here’s a Simple Way to Prevent It

“As leaders, we have no right to take our leftovers to people,” said Garry Ridge. Leftovers. It’s the perfect word for that negative energy we sometimes carry as leaders from one interaction to the next. The frustrating conversation that still echoes in our head when we show up to our next meeting. The disappointing news we haven’t quite processed. The rough morning we haven’t shaken off.

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Culture

Apr 13, 202620

Building a Culture People WANT to Be Apart Of

Before labeling someone as unmotivated or difficult, it’s worth asking a better question: do they truly feel aligned with the culture they’re in? This post breaks down how strong All-Star programs create clarity, connection, and belonging—so buy-in doesn’t have to be forced.

Every Leader Can Destroy Culture. Here’s a Simple Way to Prevent It

“As leaders, we have no right to take our leftovers to people,” said Garry Ridge. Leftovers. It’s the perfect word for that negative energy we sometimes carry as leaders from one interaction to the next. The frustrating conversation that still echoes in our head when we show up to our next meeting. The disappointing news we haven’t quite processed. The rough morning we haven’t shaken off.

Read More →

Mental Performance

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Mental Performance

Jul 24, 202613

Why Do Athletes Balk Right Before Executing Their Back Handspring?

What if balking isn't a confidence problem at all? Discover why athletes hesitate before skills they can physically perform and how understanding the nervous system changes everything about coaching mental performance.

Why Stoicism is Integral to High-Performing Individuals - and The Coach Lain Method

Stoicism isn’t about becoming emotionless—it’s about learning how to feel without being controlled by what you feel. In The Coach Lain Method, we teach athletes to stop fighting fear and start understanding it, because confidence isn’t built by avoiding discomfort… it’s built by learning how to respond to it.

Why Your Athlete's Confidence Isn't Lost — It's Leaking (And What to Do About It)

Your athlete didn't lose their confidence. It leaked — through one of six very specific patterns I call the Pits of Performance. The difference between athletes who stay stuck and don't isn't talent — it starts by knowing which pit you're in!

What if you're not actually afraid?

What if what you’ve been calling “fear” isn’t actually fear at all? Aversia introduces a new way to understand your internal responses—not as something to eliminate, but as something to observe, study, and work with.

Read More →

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Training

Mar 30, 202611

How to Outperform the Fear of Doing a Back Handspring: A Comprehensive Guide

Most people have been told that fear is something to overcome. Push through it. Silence it. Conquer it. But if fear is biologically hardwired into every human nervous system — and it is — then the idea of "conquering" it was always a myth.

5 Things You're Doing Wrong in Your Back Handspring — And How to Fix Them

I LOVE breaking down the back handspring! As the sport's most coveted skill, it's one that that holds the most potential for simple things to be overlooked, thereby causing athletes who seek to "get" it (or refine it) the most frustration.

Bend vs. Sit: An argument for Back Handspring Technique

Over the years, I have learned that there are many ways in which basic back handspring technique is taught. There are 5 essential steps to the back handspring approach. However, there is one very specific difference in the way coaches will teach the initial or starting position.

Mental Performance Coaching - Not Just for Athletes

I have spent the past eleven years studying psychology, body language, emotional intelligence, neuroscience, trauma, and fear. And throughout all of my studies, I've landed on one universal truth - everyone, no matter their race, color, creed, gender, or station, experiences fear and trauma.

Read More →

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Featured

Why Do Athletes Balk Right Before Executing Their Back Handspring?

Why Stoicism is Integral to High-Performing Individuals - and The Coach Lain Method

Why Your Athlete's Confidence Isn't Lost — It's Leaking (And What to Do About It)

What if you're not actually afraid?

All Posts

Why Do Athletes Balk Right Before Executing Their Back Handspring?

Building a Culture People WANT to Be Apart Of

Why Stoicism is Integral to High-Performing Individuals - and The Coach Lain Method

Why Your Athlete's Confidence Isn't Lost — It's Leaking (And What to Do About It)

What if you're not actually afraid?

How to Outperform the Fear of Doing a Back Handspring: A Comprehensive Guide

5 Things You're Doing Wrong in Your Back Handspring — And How to Fix Them

5 Simple Steps to Take When You Get Frustrated with Your Back Handspring

Bend vs. Sit: An argument for Back Handspring Technique

Mental Performance Coaching - Not Just for Athletes

Every Leader Can Destroy Culture. Here’s a Simple Way to Prevent It

Culture

Building a Culture People WANT to Be Apart Of

Every Leader Can Destroy Culture. Here’s a Simple Way to Prevent It

Mental Performance

Why Do Athletes Balk Right Before Executing Their Back Handspring?

Why Stoicism is Integral to High-Performing Individuals - and The Coach Lain Method

Why Your Athlete's Confidence Isn't Lost — It's Leaking (And What to Do About It)

What if you're not actually afraid?

Training

How to Outperform the Fear of Doing a Back Handspring: A Comprehensive Guide

5 Things You're Doing Wrong in Your Back Handspring — And How to Fix Them

Bend vs. Sit: An argument for Back Handspring Technique

Mental Performance Coaching - Not Just for Athletes