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a babe in the woods of bridge: Practice is over - Win Ugly
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A babe in the woods of bridge. Thursday, January 20, 2011. Practice is over - Win Ugly. We can certainly strive for perfection - or try to be perfect - during your training and practice sessions. However, one of the main goals is to accept that we can’t be perfect when we play sports. We are human and will make mistakes. Even the best in the world mess up or goof up from time to time. It doesn’t help to continue to work on or master these skills just before a game or competition. Another blogger is enter...
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a babe in the woods of bridge: March 2012
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A babe in the woods of bridge. Friday, March 23, 2012. Lucky works for me. I was musing some time back on the topic of luck, the fickle mistress of the bridge player: She comes when she pleases. Along of the side of luck. My club game was going along, not very well at all. I had been sitting iddle for a while, and I was waiting for the cards that gave me an opportunity to raise our score. S5 S2 S9 ST. S4 S8 SK C2 (upside down attitude signal as it turned out). For lack of a better plan. I also did that l...
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a babe in the woods of bridge: October 2009
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A babe in the woods of bridge. Saturday, October 24, 2009. Defensive hands. What was your focus? The king of diamond was lead and partner discouraged. What is your continuation? Sunday, October 11, 2009. Before tackling specifics like the ways to identify and improve focus styles, I thought I had better review my improvement plan. Bridge is fascinating because it involves some many different aspects of performance. Here are the components of what I think would be a good performance improvement plan.
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a babe in the woods of bridge: Hello again. It has been a while
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A babe in the woods of bridge. Sunday, February 26, 2012. Hello again. It has been a while. Well it had been a while that I had held a bunch of cards in my hand. Life got a bit complicated and bridge had to take a back seat. But it is like driving a bike, you don't forget. We are back at the club. Not a difficult hand, but not a hand I can talk to my partner about so I had to find a place to vent a little, What better place than here. Here are the cards and the bidding:. The plays goes as follow:. Return...
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a babe in the woods of bridge: April 2012
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A babe in the woods of bridge. Monday, April 9, 2012. Nothing to fear but fear itself. Rosevelt said at his inaugural speech). It is well understood that anxiety is a big undermining factor in performance. A few of my posts touch on the topic. But anxiety itself must be better understood to have a chance to counter its negative effects. One of the things that can lead us out of The Zone. A state that results from demands being placed on someone such that he or she must find coping mechanism. At the other...
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a babe in the woods of bridge: September 2010
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A babe in the woods of bridge. Sunday, September 12, 2010. Out of action for a while. I have not updated this blog in ages. For those of you who come back to check on things, the babe is temporarily out of action, as my french teaching endeavours are taking so much of my time. Plan to start again at year end, things will be quieter. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Out of action for a while. Learn French In Sydney forum. He can talk the game he plays. Need a good lawyer, call lewislegal :). Check out his mojo.
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a babe in the woods of bridge: The best advice I have received
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A babe in the woods of bridge. Thursday, March 1, 2012. The best advice I have received. My earlier post brought 2 things to mind: 2 things that were at play on that club game, on the hand I posted in the previous post. In quest my quest to become a better player, I have always welcomed the advice of others, especially if the others have demonstrated serious performance skills. The first one was given earlier in my bridge life. It made sense then, but nowhere like it does today. For every hand you play, ...
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a babe in the woods of bridge: Lucky works for me
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A babe in the woods of bridge. Friday, March 23, 2012. Lucky works for me. I was musing some time back on the topic of luck, the fickle mistress of the bridge player: She comes when she pleases. Along of the side of luck. My club game was going along, not very well at all. I had been sitting iddle for a while, and I was waiting for the cards that gave me an opportunity to raise our score. S5 S2 S9 ST. S4 S8 SK C2 (upside down attitude signal as it turned out). For lack of a better plan. Lucky works for me.
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a babe in the woods of bridge: April 2010
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A babe in the woods of bridge. Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Arousal - too much or too little. As discussed in previous posts, our arousal (excitement) level has a direct impact on our performance. Performance does increase as arousal increases up to a certain point, then it begins to decrease somewhat dramatically. Http:/ ababe-in-the-woods-of-bridge.blogspot.com/2009/04/dealing-with-arousal.html. Successful execution of a complex task also demands unconscious and automatic thoughts about action. In the same...
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a babe in the woods of bridge: August 2009
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A babe in the woods of bridge. Thursday, August 13, 2009. More on the "Zone". You cannot make yourself enter the "zone" Best you can do is set the scene. This includes hard work, both technical and mental training, pre and post-game routines, and passion (for the game). Http:/ austega.com/education/articles/flow.htm. He identifies the following nine components as accompanying an experience of flow:. A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness,. The merging of action and awareness. Distorted sense of time,.
