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1. How To Break Bad Habits
In this week's newsletter, I want to discuss a crucial aspect of motorsport performance: breaking bad habits. As a coach, my primary goal is to help you identify and overcome habits that hold you back on track.
My Coaching Process for Breaking Bad Habits
- Identifying the Bad Habit: this may sound obvious, but it's often overlooked. Our first step is to pinpoint the specific issue that's affecting your performance.
- Breaking the Habit into Smaller Components: Once we've identified the problem, we need to break it down into smaller, more manageable parts to focus on and address. We need to think about each action we take that leads up into the result and the why behind each action - but we need to do this in a simplified manner so that you we aren't overthinking things on track.
- Identify The Process: Once we break things down we need to identify where the unwanted result begins. We need to form a process of which smaller tasks we want to focus on fixing first and not trying to fix everything all at once.
- Iterate: Overcoming bad habits takes time. The first weekend after I start working with a customer all I want to hear is, "I got it right once or twice, and man when I did it felt amazing!" We're not going to go out there and consistently crush it right away. We'll build consistency around the learning over time and as we build consistency we move onto to the next part of the process we identified earlier.
Example: Addressing Overslowing Corner Entries
Let's say we're working on overcoming the habit of over-slowing corner entries. We first need to ask ourselves some questions:
- What types of corners is it happening in?
- Does the driver/rider even know this is happening or what their goals are for a corner? (Is this a knowledge or an execution problem?)
- How is our braking technique (and we would break this down even further to look at each point of the braking zone)
- What vehicle are they in and how do we maximize speed in that vehicle?
- Where are their eyes looking?
- How is their ability to have dexterity in their feet on the brake pedal?
This isn't an exhaustive list, but as you can see there are a lot of variables we need to consider. Typically, there isn't just one issue there are quite a few. A good coach has the ability to keep pulling at the thread until they can arrive at where the root issue starts.
From there it's time to put together an action list that focuses on one small change at a time. For example, many drivers I've working with on this process have started from a similar first step: delaying initial throttle application. (Not everyone has the same first step).
So, the next time you want to work on breaking a bad habit try and reduce the issue down to where the root causes lie. From there, try and figure out which one you should focus on first and have hyper-focus with changes on that one specific area.
2. How To Use Your Tools To Prepare Before a Race/Track Day Weekend
This week's Blayze call is from Blayze coach, Colin Mullan. He walks us through what proper preparation ahead of a track weekend looks like.
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3. Jordan Taylor on Preparation For First NASCAR Start
