Mental Toughness, Taekwondo
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Mental Approach of the Fight Week in Taekwondo
After years of hearing media-trained, agent-influenced sports champions mouth index card platitudes in interviews, it is refreshing to hear Triple World Taekwondo Champion Bianca Walkden’s takes on competition, living, and winning.
Credit also to SportsEdTV Live’s genuinely talented host, Arthur Buedo, who guides our Taekwondo Queen Walkden through a tour of her fight preparations, reviews, habits, nerves, and tactics, an easy-to-hear conversation of interest to all athletes.
Then, hear it from one of the sports' current super champions.
Bianca Walkden is a regular SportsEdTV Taekwondo contributor, a triple World champion, twice European champion, and twice World Grand Prix Final champion in her division. In 2017 she became the first practitioner ever to win all 4 Grand Prix events in her division in a single season.
She represented Great Britain at the 2016 Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal, and joined the national team when she was 15. Currently ranked #1 in the world, she has qualified for the Tokyo Olympic games, having the most ranking points of any athlete in all divisions."
Sporting the wide-ranging confidence of a champion, she shares candid and insightful views of a superb competitor on topics that are equally helpful to athletes who aspire to excellence in other sports.
Responding to Buedo’s steering, Walkden:
Speaks to ramping up intensity between and before the next competition—“let's say if it was like a month from each competition and straightaway you would, you would recover, you would rest a few days and to start again because coming back straight after competition is very difficult to get back into training. You feel like because you've done that, all that training, and all that peak to the top, you've got to do it all again and start all over again. So it is really important to recover. Refresh your mind so then you can start again.”
Talks of relying on fundamentals during competition stress—“ New things take time, and you have to practice and practice to make it automatic. Because when you are in a stressful environment, sort of like a pressure situation, you're not going to rely on the new stuff that you've done.”
Called to offer all athletes a champion’s advisory—"I think the biggest thing is never compare yourself to anyone else. No matter how much you want to be like someone or you wish you did this, just concentrate on yourself. So, never compare yourself to anyone else. Just be the best version of yourself. That's the most important thing. It's about you. Comfortable with yourself. Never compare yourself to anyone else, and just work hard for what you want. If you put the work in, you'll go forward, and you'll achieve what you want to achieve.”
After a second listen to Triple Taekwondo Champion Bianca Walkden, there’s much she says that echoes the fundamentals of SportsEdTV’s Learn to Win technology.
Winning is more often the byproduct of the joy of competition, she and we assert.
