A new series "The other 90%" coming soon

Coming Soon to Your Go Blue Michigan Wolverine

In the near future, we at Go Blue Michigan Wolverine will present a series titled “The Other Ninety Percent.” The name of the series is taken from a now famous quote from one of our most honored Americans, Yogi Berra. Yogi, as all know, brought howls when he informed the general public that baseball is 50% physical and 90% mental. The immediate response was to label Yogi as mentally inept, but as the years have passed, the current flavor of judgement is that of realizing just how shrewd this American icon was.

This was Yogi’s way of affirming that the mental side of sports is critical and overlooked, compared to the obvious physical execution that observers routinely witness at sporting events. Even though Yogi was not touted as a world famous psychologist, in the mold of B.F. Skinner or John Watson, he was a successful psychologist and parlayed this personal construction of psychological knowledge into incredible mental toughness and the ability to manage pitchers and game situations at the highest level.

Even if the famous 90% quote had never left Yogi’s lips, he remains a poster child for the mental facet overcoming the physical facet. Yogi was short and dumpy, had at best an average arm, and swung at pitches a foot out of the strike zone. He simply used his assets, mental toughness, and a love of hitting, to offset his deficiencies.

The different parts of the series are:
1- Introduction and how the process of change affects sports teams.
2- Cognitive functions and athletic performance.
3- Teaching and enhancing success,
4-- The final product: Linking the mental with the physical.

Doc4blu is the author of the series. He has studied under one of the nation’s leading authorities regarding learning and cognitive psychology. Doc in his hayday coached in over 500 games at several levels, including a near decade stint in college. He also incorporated, after great study, a very difficult mental toughness and athletic performance program based on the work of the famous Gus Hoefling, guru to the great athletes of the 1970’s and 1980’s, and a world master of marshall arts. Gus was Barwis before Barwis.

Therefore, with the topics of change, success, improvement, and physical and mental conditioning so epidemic to U of M football discussions, we at Go Blue Michigan Wolverine sincerely hope you enjoy these insights into the “other 90%.”

written by Doc4blue and ErocWolverine

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