by Zac Elkin | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
A mother with a cricket-mad son recently asked me for help. Her boy had been selected to play for the year above. It was a gigantic moment. Not only was he going to be playing with the older boys at his school, but it was also his first ever hard-ball cricket match....
by Zac Elkin | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Mental resilience in sport refers to the athlete’s ability to keep attempting to put their best foot forward in the face of chaos and adversity. Rafael Nadal is an athlete who embodies mental resilience in sport perfectly. Watch him when he’s down. No matter how dire...
by Zac Elkin | Jan 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
In my final year of school, I captained the Western Province U19A cricket team. In the build-up to the Coca Cola Khaya Majola Cricket Week, one of the players in the team (who would later go onto represent The Proteas) came up to the coach and I for help and said his...
by Zac Elkin | Dec 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Pressure in sport is the mental and emotional stress or tension that athletes experience in pursuit of peak performance and results. At the highest level of sport, pressure is often what makes or breaks athletes and teams. Some players and teams don’t just deal with...
by Zac Elkin | Dec 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
I recently had coffee with a highly respected businessman. He had enjoyed endured a 25-year career at the core of a global corporation that had an average annual turnover of £50 billion and employed over 170’000 people throughout the world. Drained by the daily grind...
by Zac Elkin | Dec 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
In 2022 Brendon McCullum (Baz) became the head coach of England’s struggling Test Match cricket team. With this change in coach came a drastic shift in playing style. McCullum challenged England to play Test Match cricket like it had never been played before. He drove...
