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Gentlemen, what is going on? Gentlemen, what is going on?

Welcome to episode 181, 181 of the Dad Edge Podcast. I'm Larry Hagner. I am your host and founder of the

Good Dad Project slash the Dad Edge podcast now.

And today's show, if you have a youth athlete,

whether it's football, whether it's a daughter in dance,

whether it's wrestling, baseball, soccer, martial arts, whatever it is, whatever it is.

So many of us are so curious about the psychology behind a youth athlete.

So today's show, I've got something for you guys today that I've never released before I've never done this before and

I'm going to give you some background but if you're a coach of youth athletics

or if you're a parent of a youth athlete, this is a episode that you are definitely

going to want to listen to. Reason being is because, I mean let's face it, we can make or break the the mental game of our of our youth athletes and what I mean by

that is sometimes when we think we are supporting our youth athletes by cheering them on, you know, or maybe even

sort of like heckling, but maybe in a positive standpoint, you know, heckling for like, hey, you can do it, you can, you can do it.

You can do it!

You know, we try to be positive in the stands, but what we don't realize is that actually puts undue pressure on our kids when they're trying to perform,

even though we have the best intentions. I've been a coach for my boys sports now for gosh man for the

past six years I've coached just about everything except for hockey and that's

because I can't skate.

It was kind of cool though like my oldest did hockey for a while

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