The mental game

A LATRINIDAD official is seeking higher incentives for athletes in the municipality.

Councilor Guiller Galwan recently filed a proposal revising the sports incentive ordinance of the municipality stating the incentives seeks to serve as motivation and for athletes to excel in their own sport.

Winners in events who garnered gold, silver or bronze medals including their respective coaches who were endorsed to represent the Municipality of La Trinidad in the provincial, regional and national competitions are given monetary incentives.

The proposed measure added athletes participating in any sports competition should TRAINING for a particular sport involves weeks, months, or years of physical conditioning and “if you can mentally convince yourself that you can tackle a task, whether it’s a game or cleaning up a room, you can accomplish it physically”.

Basically, just as important as the physical is the mental aspect of training.

Preparing for a competition is the best illustrations where one must condition his/her mind to help the individual overcome the challenges of training as well as their aimed conquest of the competitions ahead.

Conditioning the mind is training the mind to be focused on the goal set by the individual, like any other muscle in the body the more you train the mind the sharper it gets. However, how does an athlete prepare himself for mind not have monetary subsidy or cash prices and must be sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, Philippine Olympic Committee, Philippine Sports Commission, National Sports Associations, barangays, Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Department of Education.

The winning athlete together with their coach are entitled to conditioning and training? Preparing the mind for competitions according to sports psychologists is a combination of disciplines, from “zen” to techniques of mental conditioning to include the academic knowhow and experience as an athlete.

Mind conditioning includes introspection and intuition as well as how the individual understands the sport. They should be motivated; to enable the athlete to discover within himself his desire and passion to be able to create in him his emotional energies for his sport which will help them raise their frustration tolerance as well as their patience as they go along facing the challenges that will develop their self-confidence. Having the focus is also essential; it is Sports Psychology claim the incentive within 60 days from receipt of medals and are asked submit requirements to the office of the municipal sports coordinator for the approval of the cash incentives.

During the public hearing, it was bared the revised cash incentives for individual event in the national level are P7,000 for gold medalist from 4,000; P5,000 for silver from P2,000 and P3,000 for bronze from P1,500.

For winning athletes in the international level, they are set to receive P10,000 from P8,000 for gold medalists, P7,000 from P5,000 for silver medalists, and P5,000 from P3,000 for bronze.

An athlete winning in the regional level will get P1,500 for gold medalist, P1,200 for silver and P1,000 for bronze.

Winning teams in the national stage are expected to receive P15,000 from P5,000 for gold; P2,500 to P10,000, and P7,000 from P2,000 for bronze. In the international level, winners will receive P25,000 from P8,000 for gold; P20,000 from P5,000 for silver and P15,000 from P4,000 for bronze.

An amount of P1.5 million is being proposed for the effective implementation of the ordinance.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Golden State Warriors don’t expect Draymond Green’s latest dustup with Kevin Durant to become a long-term issue for the two-time defending NBA champions.

Nor do they expect the emotional Green to change after his onegame suspension by the team Tuesday.

Green was suspended one game without pay for conduct detrimental to the team following an altercation a night earlier with Durant, though general manager Bob Myers declined to offer specifics on the AllStar forward’s behavior that was considered going too far. Myers and Steve Kerr collaborated on the decision.

“We just felt like this rose to the level of acting the way we did,” Myers said, noting of Green: “He was professional. He loves to play basketball, which is all you can ask of him.”