EVO BLOG
By Scott Ford
We all compete. Competition is ever-present. We are born into a dualistic world where we learn to play dualistic games so we can participate in dualistic competitions where winning spirals us upward into fields of reward, while losing spirals us downward into fields of despair.
We...
By Scott Ford
EVO Sports co-founder David Meggyesy reminds us that the word “competition” is derived from the Latin word “competere,” which means “to strive together.” Competere does not mean “vincere adversario,” which is Latin for “defeat...
By Scott Ford
The world is coming down from the Olympics. It’s like coming down from an experience of playing in the Zone, where we look back, and think, “Wow! What just happened, and how can we make it happen again?”
I feel the same way after the Tokyo Olympics, where I...
By Scott Ford
The Olympic Creed states: “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."
What does it say about...
By David Meggyesy
Tim Gallwey, Master tennis coach, first coined the term “inner game” in 1974. His book The Inner Game of Tennis broke open the constricted, limited view and awareness of coaches and athletes. Athletes and coaches have always known there is an ‘inner game’...
By Pam Morales Worsham
Motherhood has not stopped Kaitlin Donner from chasing lofty career highs. In fact, since having her son Christopher in 2019, the multi-sport elite athlete and physical therapist has only gained speed. Gleaning over her career milestones, it’s clear that she’s...
By Scott Ford
Every four years, sports competition stops being ordinary and starts being the Olympics. Think about it: for three years in a row, we have sports played at different levels of competition, in different countries worldwide, by large populations of people just like you and me, and...
By Jamie Leno Zimron / LPGA Pro, 6th Dan Aikido
Somatic Psychologist, Corporate Speaker, Peak Performance Trainer
Like music and art, sport is an integral part of our humanity. Every person deserves to happily inhabit their body, and to have equal access to athletic opportunities. Fitness,...
By Jamie Leno Zimron / LPGA Pro, 6th Dan Aikido
Somatic Psychologist, Corporate Speaker, Peak Performance Trainer
Did you know that female athletes in ancient Greece were not allowed to compete in the all-male Olympiad Games – despite the fact that women ran, swam, wrestled, played ball,...
By Jamie Leno Zimron / LPGA Pro, 6th Dan Aikido
Somatic Psychologist, Corporate Speaker, Peak Performance Trainer
President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963. Yet right now in 2021, women still make roughly 75-80% of men’s wages. That percentage is far lower for non-white and...
by Jamie Leno Zimron, The Golf Sensei®
LPGA Pro, 6th Degree Aikido Black Belt, Somatic Psychologist, Corporate Speaker & Trainer
I’ll never forget a wonderful round of golf with 2 scratch players. One was a ‘young-gun’ mini-tour player of medium-build, the other a...
By Nuno Matos, Ph.D.
Master Integral Coach
- Mindset is not the one and most important performance asset -
We all know that an athlete’s mindset is highly important, but I hear and read a lot from mental coaches, athletes and the like, recommending that athletes strengthen their...
