How To Become A Confident Hockey Player - (3 Tips!)

Young players struggle with confidence and their ability to leverage it in hockey. This video is a unique approach to gaining confidence by increasing the amount of times you fail. As we fail and make mistakes, our fear of failure starts to diminish. When your fear starts to fade, you become more confident to try and excel in certain areas.
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[@nbettsy9966]

I know I’m really late to the party here, but I’ve been struggling with my confidence after making the jump from u15 major to u18 major. I’ve been too afraid to make mistakes with the puck and I have turned the puck over far too many times. I really needed to see this. Thank you for making this.

[@UnknownDog7]

Same here. I’m afraid of skating the puck up the ice, thinking it will get picked off. BUT, I’m just going to do it. I’m not going to think about me failing. And maybe I’ll dump and chase.

[@nbettsy9966]

@@UnknownDog7 I’ve been dump and chasing a ton and it’s helped get some zone time which helps a lot. I still need to skate the puck into the zone more but it’s getting better

[@SuperTopher01]

Thank you. Just watched this with my 10 year old daughter. New Subscriber. What are your feelings about playing on more than one team?

[@Leafsfanforever]

Me and My sledge hockey team are getting ready for our playoffs. To get to the finals we gotta get past a team who always beat up. They don’t beat us by much so I know we got a chance. It’s our first time in the playoffs ( since I’ve been on the team) and we just found out a week ago so lots of emotions going on. To add to that my coach might have me on wing for some of the game. I play on d and rarely play any other position so im really focusing on where I gotta be on wing

[@hockeydude9931]

I've heard that the threshold for failure is about 85/15 meaning that as long as you're successful 85 percent of the time, you are likely to improve from your failures. Lower success rates than 85 percent , people start to encounter the law of diminishing returns for the rewards of failure. Per Andrew Huberman.

[@hockeypsychology]

Very interesting. I love the concept of that. I just caution that people don't use that as a statistic or theory to end up not trying anything because it will count against this hypothetical count of succeeding 85% of the time. Thanks for sharing!

[@hockeydude9931]

@@hockeypsychology I don't think it's necessary to caution people to behave rationally. That's a polarizing thought process and healthy minds don't exaggerate choices in that manner. My point was just not to sensationalize the power of fear. But to your point, fear is a far superior motivator as compared to anything else. Certainly doesn't hurt to just behave within the margins most of the time rationally however.

[@creeper4960]

I’m not sure if you already have made a video or Instagram post about this, but using the body to shield the puck from defenders is a really key concept, would love to see a video about it.

[@hockeypsychology]

I will work on it!

[@creeper4960]

@@hockeypsychology Thank you! Love your videos and analysis, really great stuff

[@classicplaylists8052]

Confidence, or lack thereof, is huge!

[@keenandowling4998]

Good stuff. Thanks

[@harmagician1]

Great advice! I like it.

[@user-cg6oc3jn5k]

thx that was good

[@vincentcaudo-engelmann9057]

Don’t get mad for losing. Practice. Don’t dwell on missing a pass or making a bad pass. Practice. Honestly, every game is a practice for the next.

[@TonyHockey]

👌

[@hockeypsychology]

Thanks for watching!