The Door Hold | The Quiet Edge

This is Step 1 only. The Game Switch belongs to your athlete. This tool is the hold around it.

When they reach the door and an extra-prep sentence forms, you do not finish it. Nothing, or one line that leaves the marker in their hands.

Cohn, P. (University of Virginia). A short, same-every-time sequence tells the body the event has started. It only works as a signal if it is theirs, and if it actually ends.

1. What not to say

All five sound like love. All five keep the door open a little longer, right when they need it closed.

One more swing!
Remember what we talked about!
Did you stretch?
Go through your routine!
Take your breath. Look up. Tap it. (their marker, from the tunnel)

2. What you say instead

Try one of these. You do not need all three. Or say nothing at all.

Or write yours

3. Sit with this one

You do not need to answer it out loud right now.

Next time you catch that sentence forming at the door, who, if anyone besides you, is going to notice you held it?

If you want to name it

4. If it is worth talking through

If there is a partner or a spouse helping raise this athlete, that is a real conversation: what each of you does in that last minute. You will not always hold it the same way.

Or take it to the coach. They are watching that fence line too.

What you might take there

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