Female Speaker: Alright Kevin, we talked on the phone, you mentioned that you wanted to talk about some ways of helping you with your rugby performance.
Kevin: Yeah.
Female Speaker: So why don't you tell me a little bit more about whatever you think I would need to know to understand what is it that you want do, where you're coming from. But before we start, let me just for one moment, explain just a couple of things to you.
Obviously, you asked me some things about sports psychology and that is what I do, but I am a Licensed Psychologist and so there are some rules that I'm bound by that I really will like to just go with briefly. One of them is that would you and I talk is confidential, so let's suppose that you're a coach wanted to know something I cannot tell them unless you very specifically agree that I can say and what is it that I can talk about.
Kevin: Okay.
Female Speaker: Because it's both an ethical and a legal issue, that by law some instances where confidentiality is not respected so if I thought that someone is a danger to themselves or a danger to others, what are the instances of child-related abuse. Those things by law I would have to make confidentialities. So that's just one set off.
The other ones since we have talked on the phone, you've already noticed that I have an accent, so sometimes I may even ask you to repeat something and maybe more often than that, you may not get exactly what I've said because I mispronounced something. So I know I do this, so feel free to just ask me what was that and I'll try to repeat it. I was brought up in Spain so that's why I have an accent.
Finally, the last little piece is that, I just want to give you a brief idea of how I work and to me to be good performer in sport you always need physical skills, you need to train those. You need technical skills, you also need psychological skills. To me those are exactly that skills the same way that you train strength and flexibility I think you can train concentration and you can train a way of managing your emotions. So I see those as trainable skills. By that I mean you have to train them.
So what's more important is not so much would you and I talk about here but probably what you do in between the times we talk. I'm very likely to ask you to practice certain things, but we'll decide those things jointly, obviously I'm not going to just tell you, okay do this. We're going to figure out -- this is a joint venture. So I have one piece of expertise but you are the expert on you. So it's going to work jointly or I don't think we've looked at, I definitely would not play rugby for you so it's going to be something that we're going to decide together.
Obviously, being an athlete is the piece that we're going to start talking about that I may ask you about other parts that don't have necessarily to the world of sport, because I think that if the rest of the person something is kind of off, sometimes the athlete doesn't do very well. So just so that you kind of know where I'm coming from after this brief introduction. Well you do now tell me about whatever you think is important is relevant and then maybe I'll ask you specific things.
Kevin: Well, I came to you because at this point, I've been playing rugby for about, let's say, 10-12 years, beginning in college...
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