Excel in Your Favorite Sport

The 9 secrets above are terrific techniques by which you can hone your athletic abilities to perfection. They are simple and require no special equipment—anyone aiming to be ace in sports can do them.

Ace athletes train constantly to always improve themselves

Aside from the regular heavy workouts, strict diets, and health habits that we all know about, ace sportsmanship is not all about training and techniques. It is a lifestyle of doing everything in consonance with your goal of ace sportsmanship.
If you decide on starting your trek to ace athletics after reading this book, keep at it and never stop to look back. Go look for a worthy trainer and go with him for life. Have a one-track mind - never to stop mid-way and rethink what you are doing. Just do it, without desiring to win or fearing to lose. By the way, by being ace, there is nothing to lose.

You cannot train yourself, or train alone, and come out champion. You cannot also have amateur coaches train you to be champion. You have to feed from the experiences of those who had been there before, saw real tough actions, and really made it to the top. They may be likened to a lighthouse that points out what is right and what is wrong, separating fact from myth.

athlete in you. You must strive to be the best you can be so that what you produce later in others will be the same as, if not better than, you. Hence, you must train for life. You must increase your level of excellence so as not to compromise the quality of the athletes you will train.

The last foundational component of ace sportsmanship philosophy is that the athlete believes he is an asset to the team and the sport as a whole. He intently believes that there are potentials in him waiting to be drawn out through training. His potentials are like the seeds of a fruit covered by husks and skin that must be peeled off. The thick, ugly husks make it look like no edible fruit can be found inside it. You have to pull off fiber after fiber and peel off the skin until the very fruit, which is the real essence of it all, finally appears. Inside the fruit are seeds that have the potential to reproduce bountiful harvests.

Ace athletes excel because they work very hard to find meaning in life. Thus, they have the head-on drive to conquer their weaknesses, pains, and desires in life. Athletic players just want to win and get the medal.

Athletes should learn how to let their minds and bodies just flow with the present situation in a game, after a good training. Such freedom from the desire to win or fear to lose will give his whole person leeway to compose rather than compete.

Any sport that needs special hand and swinging abilities like throwing darts, ping pong, baseball or softball, boxing, boat rowing, basketball, etc. can benefit from this.
3. Pendulum target

Stand erect and relaxed in a quiet place. Try to focus on a single, stationary object, like a leaf, a pebble, or a dot on the wall. As you focus on the object, try to move your eyesight to your extreme left without moving your eyeballs. Then move your eyesight to your extreme right, then to your extreme top, then to your extreme bottom. Then, try to “throw” your eyesight in every direction, at the same time still seeing your center object, all without moving your eyeballs. Do this for long periods several times a day. You can do this anywhere you are, even while commuting. At first, you may find it hard to maintain and at the same time separate your visions. But with practice, you will be able to reflect everything as a clear lake. Thus, in competition, you will have both a photographic mind and a natural yet accurate surveillance system monitoring everything in front of you. How can you miss being an ace athlete with that edge over the others?