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by Ted Garratt (Author) "Nowadays nearly every sportsperson mentions some aspects of sports psychology in an interview ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 186 pages
  • Publisher: Crown House Publishing (April 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1899836268
  • ISBN-13: 978-1899836260
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Rapport, Spring 2000

"So what if you had a concise book that gives you lots of practical tips, so that you could read a page or two and then go and try them out? If you are the sporting type, this book is designed for you It will provide you with a valuable guide to improving performance."


Judith E. Pearson, Anchor Point, Summer 1999

"Sporting Excellence is for sports people at all levels of skill. It is also excellent reading for coaches and NLP practitioners who advise on athletic performance. It is a book that adroitly combines sports psychology with NLP, examining the mental and emotional patterns that contribute to sporting achievement. [...] Sporting Excellencce is written in a crisp style with refreshing brevity. [...] (It) certainly fills a unique niche and makes for a nice marriage of NLP with sports psychology. For this Garratt deserves commendation. His book makes a contribution to expanding ways in which NLP reaches into nearly all aspects of human endeavor."
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1.0 out of 5 stars As inspiring as a footballer's haircut!, 16 Sep 2003
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Having a particular interest in the use of hypnosis and NLP to aid sporting performance I looked forward to this book with interest. Unfortunately I was sorely disappointed. This volume professes to be about NLP applications yet the references to NLP were so superficial as to be almost useless. I very much doubt if the new-comer to NLP would understand sufficiently the purpose of the NLP techniques as presented and certainly would not be able to effectively apply them through the instruction provided. Those with existing NLP experience are likely to find the coverage so shallow that they will find nothing new.

The exercises outlined in the chapter are hopelessly vague. They are worded along the lines of "Try visualising a successful performance", "Think of new beliefs that would be of use to you" or "Practice feeling positive". The whole essence of NLP is that it breaks down the structure of subjective experience and presents it to others in step by step learnable fashion, thereby allowing the transference of skills and abilities. The presentation of the exercises in this book does not do this in any way, shape or form. The reader might find himself asking "I can't visualise, how do I do it?", "How do I change my belief systems?", "How do I practice feeling positive?" Such crucial questions are unanswered and that is a shame as NLP should teach people HOW to do things, not just tell them to do it and assume that they know how. If they knew how they would be unlikely to be reading the book.

Whilst NLP cansometimes be presented in an overly complex manner, this book presents it in such a simplistic manner that all its content and power are stripped away. The quotations from sports 'celebrities' are wooly platitudes and of little value even as snippets of conversation. This whole book is a waste of money. On a final point Crown House Publishing need to get their act together with type-setting and proof-reading. The quality of these in several of their books I have read is rather poor which is a shame because (with the exception of Sporting Excellence), their publications are usually excellent.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a useful, practical easy to use book, 19 Mar 1999
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I particularly like the quotes from the famous sportspeople. In addition I thought that the book was very user friendly and well structured.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Ultimately a little disappointing, 12 Jun 2001
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The author attempts to dispense with all the dry theory and psychological claptrap which mar so many such books, and concentrate on concrete practical exercises for improvement.

While this is indeed a very noble aim, it doesn't really come off as it goes too far in the other direction away from theory, and just becomes not much more than a list of exercises without much background at all. Exercises are worthless if those performing them do not understand what it is they are trying to achieve through them or why they are doing it.

Terminology is often used without explanation, or else is not explained until much later in the book. There is also plenty of padding out with statements of the obvious.

Whilst early on this book promised much by dispensing with impenetrable psychobabble, in the end it did not deliver as hoped.

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