School aged youth break through wood with bare hands

School Teacher Charlie Jackson talks about Tom's Confidence building work at Moorland School in Clitheroe, Lancs

I'd heard a BBC Radio interview of Tom Bushnell talking about how he builds confidence and motivation within people. I also watched a video clip of Tom working firsthand with a Scottish football team AFC Brightons. When I saw his board breaking methods with the footballers I thought "The kids at Moorlands school will love this"!!! I spoke with the Head (Mr Paul Smith at the time) and showed him the video. He too thought the same, we must get Tom in to go through his seminar with our pupils. So we hired Tom and his services for the day.

He came up to the school and taught the pupils and teachers his unique motivational techniques, one of which was to get them to write a goal on a piece of pine wood and then show them how to break through the wood with their bare hands! As a metaphor for whats possible. The kids absolutely loved it!

We also hired Tom to speak at our Prize giving that evening and speak before the parents. One of our female pupils volunteered to go up on stage with Tom and demonstrate what they had been learning. By now she knew how to motivate herself very quickly and she broke through her second piece of wood for that day, to show to all the parents her newly acquired confidence. It was a great evening.

In summary what Tom Bushnell taught to my kids that day was brilliant. It challenged the kids, it was ground breaking (well at least wood breaking). It was fun and enjoyable for them. He introduced a whole new area of teaching methods, that had never been taught, that could be used in any area of the students life whether academically or personally. It was a real confidence booster for them. They learnt some really great transferable skills that they can use in every area of their lives, which I believe will help them achieve even more. I would strongly recommend Tom to any school or club; and with a new set of pupils here at Moorlands we would definitely like to hire him again.

Mr Charlie Jackson: Head Football Teacher Moorlands School, Clitheroe, Lancs.

Charlie also runs the Matrix Soccer Academy and is the technical skills coach at Blackburn Rovers FC Academy.

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Charlie Jackson can also be contacted for more information and a verbal testimonial about Tom Bushnell's Confidence Building Seminar for Schools at:

Mr. Charlie Jackson
Moorland School
Ribblesdale Avenue
Clitheroe,
Lancashire
BB7 2JA

or call 01200 423833 and ask for Mr Charlie Jackson

or email him directly at charliejacksonfc@hotmail.co.uk

A school pupils testiomonial about how his confidence increased DRAMATICALLY after working with Tom

Before Tom came to Aldershot Juniors, I was playing well but I wasn't ever at my best, at least not consistently and that was in matches and at training,and it was really starting to tick me off. to be honest. And it wasn't just with footy it was school and mates etc... Then I did ONE Confidence Building session with Tom and EVERYTHING CHANGED!! I started playing wicked, bossing the back three, scoring goals for my other team and just everything started going amazing and right, thank you so much Tom... it was wicked!!

Jake Jacobs

p.s. My school are second in basketball in the whole of England and you helped my confidence with that as well !!!

Jake attends:

Bohunt School in Liphook, Hampshire.

He also represents the Under 15's Red Team at Aldershot Town Football Club.

The Daily Telegraph's Henry Winter interviews (Sports Psychologist) Tom Bushnell & Marcus Gayle

The Daily Telegraph's Henry Winter interviews (Football Psychologist) Tom Bushnell and AFC Wimbledon reserve team Manager Marcus Gayle about mental toughness in Football.

Click here to read the article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/henrywinter/4060338/Former-Wimbledon-striker-Marcus-Gayle-uses-mind-games-as-a-manager.html

BBC Radio 5 Live interview Tom Bushnell The (UK Confidence Coach)

BBC 5 Live Radio interview Tom Bushnell, Marcus Gayle & Richard Worrell about Football Motivation, Psychology in Sport & Confidence Building. Interviewed by Aasmah Mir, with Rowan Bridge.

How to motivate Footballers

BBC Radio 5Live filmed football confidence coach Tom Bushnell demonstrating a motivation technique to help Football Teams win soccer matches. The team is AFC Wimbledon reserves coached and led by Marcus Gayle a former Premier League player for Wimbledon FC. Watch how quickly the players go from neutral to absolute confidence and certainty in lightning quick time. After doing this they won 4-1.

Click here for the original BBC link

BBC Radio London interview The UK's Number One (Confidence Coach) Tom Bushnell & Marcus Gayle

BBC Radio London interview The UK's Number One (Confidence Coach) Tom Bushnell & Marcus Gayle about some unique Confidence Building methods being used at AFC Wimbledon. It involves getting the players to smash through pieces of wood with their bare hands to get them motivated and full of confidence before they go out onto the Football pitch. For more info go to www.TomBushnell.com and or call +44 (0)7976 221052.

Since doing the board break Wimbledon AFC reserves results sequence is as follows WWDW.

Building Confidence

Tom is now a featured Expert on Four Four Two's WeekendWonders Website http://weekendwonders.co.uk/gaffers/experts/tombushnell/positivethinking.aspx,

SKY SPORTS NEWS UK (CONFIDENCE COACH)

Sky Sports News filmed Tom Bushnell The UK's (Confidence Coach) working with Marcus Gayle and his reserve squad of AFC Wimbledon footballers. Sky's camera's came and filmed Tom teaching the footballers how to build their self confidence by doing a wood chopping board breaking exercise with their bare hands. Marcus Gayle the Manager is a big believer in Sports Psychology, Football Confidence, Motivation and mental preparation for matches. Marcus himself having had a successful career as a player in the Premiership for many years as a Wimbledon FC player and representing Jamaica in the World Cup Finals in France 98, knows the importance of self belief.

UK (Confidence Coach) helps out UK Basketball Team

UK Confidence Coach Tom Bushnell helps out UK Basketball Team Hull Wasps back to winning matches. Listen as Tom talks with one of the owners of the Basketball Team Hull Wasps. Hear how using the emotional triad helped restore confidence to the Team.

Marcus Gayle & Tom Bushnell: Confidence in Football

Marcus Gayle in his Playing days With a number of Football Clubs

Former Wimbledon Premiership Footballer (Marcus Gayle) and Confidence Coach Tom Bushnell will be interviewed on BBC Radio London 94.9FM at 8.15pm 13th Nov about Confidence in Football.

Golf (Confidence Coach)

Tom Bushnell The Golf Confidence Coach talks with Alex Bishop a future PGA tour Golfer about Confidence in Golf. Tom worked with Alex on his game when he was experiencing a lack of Confidence. Alex hired Tom to help turn his game around. Tom used a variety of methods to help improve Alex's performance which included breathing techniques, enhanced visualization methods and positive anchoring to name but a few. Listen to what Alex had to say about the Golf Motivation Coaching methods he used with Tom and the type of results that followed.

UK (Football Motivator) part 2

Tom Bushnell the Football Motivator talks with Goal scorer John Grant of League 2 Aldershot Town Football Club; 9 days after he coached John using some motivation and visualization techniques. Listen below to hear how John has got back into the first team and is playing very well and setting up goals again. John says he is feeling really focused, and he played the full 90 mins of Aldershots mid week 1-0 victory over Port Vale.

BBC Radio 5 Live's Victoria Derbyshire talks with Tom Bushnell about (Confidence Coaching)

BBC Radio Five Live's Victoria Derbyshire talks with Tom Bushnell about Confidence Coaching.
She asks Tom about how and what he does as a Confidence Coach, the types of clients he works with and what sort of results they gain after working with him. Tom answers by talking about the type of mental training work he does with professional footballers, football teams,schools, businesses, youth groups and golfers. He discuss the psychological model he uses which is called "The Emotional Triad" to help inject supreme levels of Confidence into his clients. The Football teams Tom has worked with have been from the Coca Cola Championship and the Blue Square Premier. He just recently started working with a new League 2 player.

John Grant of Aldershot Town FC talks about the Motivation work he did with Tom Bushnell.

Striker John Grant of League 2 Club Aldershot Town FC talks about how the Motivation work he did recently with Tom Bushnell helped him feel uplifted and get his desire back for Football, and it left him feeling full of Fire...Click the video to listen to John talking with Tom.

A (Confidence Coaching) session for Teenagers and School Pupils

Confident Teenagers

Tom

Thank you so much for visiting us and sharing your time with us. All the boys enjoyed the board break and will have fantastic memories that will fill them with the confidence needed to grow into the potential they have. You have an infectious ability to make all feel charged and ready to face anything.

Thanks again

Simon Martin

Romford LDS Stake Youth Camp Director Aug 2006

To contact Simon Martin directly click here

Testimonial: From a LDS Youth Group Leader

"In one night only, Tom Bushnell led a mixed group of young men and women to a feverish-pitch where they felt ready and able to smash through ¾ inch pine boards, much to their amazement! This is an high-adrenalin, high octane session with lots of personal surprises along the way. A great session and lots of fun!"

Gary L. Mann

Head of a local youth group

Crawley, West Sussex.

If you play Golf this could be of interest to you...

Some pictures of Alex Bishop hitting some Confident Golf shots.

The following is a testimonial from one of my Golfing clients Alex Bishop. Alex currently attends The University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and is reading Applied Golf Management Studies BA.

His course is run in co-ordance with the PGA european centre of excellence at the natinal training academy at the Belfry and Alex will obtain professional status either during or at the end of his degree.




http://www.undergraduate.bham.ac.uk/coursefinder/education/app-golf-management.shtml

Working with Tom was all about increasing my confidence and self belief within my golf game. I was already a confident golfer and had no doubt in my own ability but there were areas of my game which were lacking. I went through a stage of fatting chip shots around the greens and catching the ground before the ball which meant I was struggling to get the ball up and down when I missed the greens. This had a detrimental effect on my confidence in that area of my game and I began to feel very nervous and tense whenever I missed the green. Tom helped me to rebuild my confidence I once had in my short game before it went downhill using various techniques including breathing rhythms, visualisation, self talk and anchoring my positive shots which I could draw on in any situation. I began to feel as if I was able to hit any chip shot close or in the hole and I could transfer that work into my long game. I now have the belief that I can hit every green, every fairway or hole every putt. My handicap began to fall and is continuing to do so as I progress to turning professional in the future.

Jimmy Quinn Manager of Cambridge United Football Club Post Match Testimonial

"He's a Sports Psychologist....It was brilliant wasn't it.... it was Great"! - Jimmy Quinn Manager Cambridge United Football Club, BBC Radio Cambridge 27th Jan 2007

Practise makes Perfect.....Or does it???

The other night I was coaching an under 16's Football (Soccer) Team. After the session my colleague Chris and I started discussing the dynamics of coaching. The topic of practise came up, and the quote "Practise makes Perfect" was discussed. I'd also heard of the phrase "Perfect practise makes perfect". Chris added another development to this theme and said "practise doesn't necessarily make perfect" but "practise does make permanent".

This got me thinking...If we want to get good at anything then we need to practise. Repetition is the mother of all skill. I agree with what my friend Chris said to me on Monday night that practise does in fact make permanent...and I also agree with what I had heard a friend of mine (Spencer Plummer) many a years ago tell me that "Perfect practise makes perfect".

I think it is a combination of the both. In our own lives if we practise things they will be become permanent. And if we practise those things as perfectly as possible those disciplines and attributes that we are cultivating and developing will be made permanent more perfectly.

I would sum it up in this way:

"Practise makes Permanent" + "Perfect Practise makes Perfect" = "Permanent Perfection"

Get Practising!