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The Extra Inch (Spurs Podcast)

Bonus Episode: Sports Psych x Spurs - Motivation, Confidence & Booing

The Extra Inch (Spurs Podcast)

The Extra Inch

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Windy speaks to Alex Stoyel, our 'resident' sports psychologist. We cover questions from our wonderful xSubs. ---------- You've been listening to The Extra Inch, a Spurs podcast. Production by Nathan A Clark (Twitter @NathanAClark). Music by David Lindmer (https://www.instagram.com/davidlindmer). Artwork by Trayton Miller (https://www.traytonrmiller.com/). Go get your merch at https://www.theextrainch.co.uk Email us at podcast@theextrainch.co.uk Become an xSub: https://www.patreon.com/theextrainch Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/theextrainch Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheExtraInch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheExtraInch/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theextrainch #Spurs #COYS #THFC The Extra Inch is a Tottenham podcast brought to you by Windy, Bardi and Nathan A Clark.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

React in a positive way. We need positivity for the second love.

0:04.2

Productivity belief.

0:06.4

Positiveity belief. Positiveity belief. Positiveity believe. Has a activity to be believe.

0:10.8

For the ability to believe. My name's Wendy and I am joined by a man who some of you will know,

0:29.5

but I'm going to get him to introduce himself properly. It is our, as I'm calling him now,

0:34.2

resident sports psychologist, is Alex Stoil. Hello, Alex.

0:42.8

Hello, Wendy. Thanks for having me back. Lovely to have you. You've done several podcasts with us now. They've all been fascinating. Our patrons love you. Whenever I say that Alex is coming

0:48.6

online, I get bombarded with the questions, which is wonderful. We've got some fantastic questions

0:52.5

today. But for anyone,

0:58.4

any regular listeners of the extra inch you don't subscribe to the Patreon, if you wouldn't mind just giving a bit of background of yourself. And it might be interested to hear a bit

1:03.0

about your PhD, given situation with Arsenal right now. Yeah, so I'm working, work as a sports

1:10.8

psychologist. I'm currently, well, so I'm a sports psychologist

1:14.2

in training while I finish my doctorate, which I'm doing at the University of Portsmouth.

1:19.3

And I'm looking specifically at kind of choking under pressure or, you know, in football parlance,

1:25.8

more commonly referred to you perhaps as bottling.

1:29.4

Yeah, so that's what I study.

1:32.9

And then I work with a few different organisations.

1:36.0

I work with England swimming and a few other bits and pieces.

1:40.4

And I see kind of individual clients as well.

1:43.5

And then I guess the other reason why I'm here

1:46.7

is I'm also a Spurs fan, Spurs season ticket holder, at least for now. Yeah, so that's, that's, that's, that's, those are my

1:57.2

credentials. And excellent credentials they are.

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